Lenard D. Moore had a poem published recently in The News & Observer. The title of the poems is "At The State Fair".
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/11/2406545/at-the-state-fair.html
Brendan Slater sent this:
Press Release: Yet To Be Named Free Press
Founding Editor: Brendan Slater, brendan@yettobenamedfreepress.org
Anthology Editor: Alan Summers, alan@yettobenamedfreepress.org Brendan Slater, Yet To Be Named Free Press
Submissions: subs@yettobeneamedfreepress.org
www.yettobenamedfreepress.org
YTBNFP is an indie publisher utilising POD to get fresh, exciting, experimental, quality short-verse out into the market place without all the overheads of a traditional publishing business, in fact we are not a business we are a co-operative and non-profit making, our authors, editors and artists get equal shares of any profits, we also plan to set up a trust fund for poets who are hard up and cannot afford books or their gas bills, etc. This will take some time setting up as short-verse is a niche market, we don't expect to get rich from this, if we wanted that we'd be publishing 50 shades of my Vicar's wife's knickers, or something less tasteful.
Our first title released in August is Four Virtual Haiku Poets (http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/four-virtual-haiku-poets.html), an anthology of the work of Scott Terrill, Brendan Slater, Colin Stewart Jones and Michael Goglia, edited by Alan Summers and Brendan Slater. It's available through Amazon at $7.50, £5.00 and €6.00.
Our second title also released in August is In Bed With Kerouac (http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/in-bed-with-kerouac.html), a mixed genre book by Brendan Slater, available through Amazon at $7.50, £5.00 and €6.00.
Our third title has just been released, Does Fish-God Know, a collection of gendai haiku by Alan Summers. More information to come in a separate press release @ http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/does-fish-god-know.html
We are also accepting submission for an anthology called c.2.2. Where only pen names will be published. Please visit this address for guidelines: http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/call-for-subs-anthology-c22.html
Selected poems from our first three titles can be read here: http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/selected-poems.html
Please stop by and take a look, maybe you'll like what you see, maybe you'll want to get involved, we're always open to fresh ideas to take short-verse to new and exciting places.
--- Brendan Slater, Yet To Be Named Free Press
Howard Lee Kilby sent this:
The 17th haiku conference in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas is moving forward steadily. Haiku Hot Springs will be held at the Arlington Hotel, Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, 2012 from 9 am - 5 pm both days. There is a conference rate of $84 plus tax for those who wish to attend: www.arlingtonhotel.com use HAIKU as the code word and if there are any problems in making a reservation call 501-767-6096 also for information. Here are some of the poets attending as of this moment: Charles Trumbull, Santa Fe, NM, Sonia Coman and her husband Eduard from New York, NY, Dr. Jianqing (John) Zheng of Itta Bena, MS, Susan Delphine Delaney, M.D., Plano, TX, Christine Spindel, Memphis, TN, Celia Stuart-Powles, Tulsa, OK, Gordon Bradford, Bella Vista, AR, Vic Fleming, Little Rock, AR, R. Paul Tucker, M.D., Hot Springs, AR, Carlos Colón, Shreveport, LA, and other poets.
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas is the first land set aside by congress long before the national park system was established. It was set aside in 1832 by congress for the benefit of future citizens to enjoy the healing waters of the Valley of the Vapors. This is also the city where a young seven-year-old fatherless boy began elementary school after moving here with his mother. He grew up and became first the governor of Arkansas and then president of the United States. Bill Clinton played jazz in Hot Springs in the 50's and early 60's while still in high school.
For information please contact Howard Lee Kilby, Arkansas Haiku Society at hkilby@hotmail.com please use Haiku Conference in the subject line to telephone 501-767-6096. Mahalo.
ayaz daryl nielsen sent this:
bear creek haiku now has a blog site
http://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/
ayaz daryl nielsen, editor of bear creek haiku, has two collections of poetry recently released, 'Concentric Penumbras of the Heart' and 'haiku tumbleweeds still tumbling'
And finally, something for you to consider:
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Sunday updates
A new issue of Lynx is available. You can find Lynx at:
http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/272hmpg.html
Scott Owens writes:
Great news! Something Knows the Moment has been named 1 of 5 finalists for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Thanks for ordering, reading, and supporting Something Knows the Moment.
Charlotte Digregorio recently posed this question:
Does haiku keep you sane?
Read what a number of poets had to say here.
Scott Metz had this to say about Roadrunner:
R'r 12.1 is now up on the website.
It feature three sections of new poetry (glass wombs, a collage of scissors, and not quite ice cream), an interview with john martone by Jack Galmitz, an article on the one-line poetry of Grant Hackett (also by Jack Galmitz), and Scorpion Prize 25 by Bob Perelman.
The submission deadline for 12.2 is August 1st, 2012.
thanks,
Scott Metz
R'r Blog
Roberta Beary was recently featured on Basho's Road:
http://bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com/roberta-beary-timeline/roberta-beary/haiku/
Pris Campbell was recenlty featured on The Outlaw Poetry Network:
http://outlawpoetry.com/2012/05/10/pris-campbell-leave-your-hat-on-night-wind/
Charlotte Digregorio passed this along:
If you can make it, The Cradle of American Haiku Festival in Mineral Point, WI, Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22 is a jam-packed weekend of learning and fun! This is the third time the Festival is being offered. Please read the information below:
Gayle Bull invites HSA members to The Cradle of American Haiku 3, a festival in Mineral Point, WI, Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22. The Cradle Festivals celebrate the importance of the Midwest in the development of English language Haiku. The first Cradle Festival honored Raymond Roseliep of Dubuque, IA, one of the best early American haiku poets. The second Cradle honored Robert Spiess of Madison, WI, one of the best early poets and editors of English language haiku journals.
This year's Cradle Festival will honor the development of “American Haiku Journal," the first publication devoted exclusively to English haiku. It was founded in Platteville, WI. Don Eulert, one of its founders, will be among honored guests and presenters.
The three days will feature readings, presentations, food and fun. Some of the presenters and panelists are Charles Trumbull, Jerome Cushman, Gayle Bull, Marjorie Buettner, Charlotte Digregorio, Francine Banwarth, Melissa Allen, Bill Pauly, Aubrie Cox, Mike Montreuil and Lidia Rozmus.
The fee for the three-day festival is $45. This will include all presentations, workshops, readings and the reception and Saturday night picnic.
We encourage pre-registration to make it easier to determine the amount of food and facilities needed.
Throughout the Festival, there will be coffee, tea, iced tea, water and goodies on the front porch of Foundry Books for those who just want to sit, relax, talk and write. We look forward to seeing you at the Festival.
Check mineralpoint.com for accommodations. If you have any questions, please contact Gayle Bull at info@foundrybooks.com. She will be happy to send you a registration form.
The Cradle Schedule
Friday, July 20
3 to 7 p.m.–Registration (Foundry Books)
7 – 8 p.m.– Opening Reception and Welcome
8 p.m. – until closing–Open Reading
Saturday, July 21
8 a.m.– Registration (Foundry Books) and Farmers Market at Water Tower Park. (A lot of good inspiration for haiku came from the latter last summer.)
9 a.m.– Welcome
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.– Charlie Trumbull: “Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by African-American Poets.”
From the earliest years that haiku has been written in the U.S., African-American poets have been among the foremost experimenters in the genre. The result has been, for the most part, a tradition of haiku writing that runs parallel to what we might call the haiku mainstream. This presentation will trace the history of “black haiku” in America, from the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s and 30s, to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 70s, to today’s “blues haiku” of Sonia Sanchez and the jazz haiku of Kalamu ya Salaam.
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.–America Haiku Panel – Don Eulert, who founded “American Haiku” with the late Jim Bull, Gayle Bull, and Charlie Trumbull. Jerome Cushman will moderate the panel.
11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.– Lunch on your own
1- 2 p.m.– Marjorie Buettner – “There is a Season.” A Memorial Reading, 2011. (First presented at Haiku North America conference, Seattle).
“Whatever circles comes from the center. We circle what we love.” — Rumi.
The memorial reading will have a combination of power point presentation, music and a memorial flyer. It will be an hour-long presentation reviewing the lives and haiku of 22 poets who have died in the past couple of years.
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.– Breakout Sessions
2:30 – 4 p.m.– Charlotte Digregorio, “Polish Your Haiku for Publication.” This workshop will include lecture, analysis of great haiku, and critique of participants’ work. Participants will receive training on the finer points of writing haiku to ensure that their submissions are first-rate. Handouts will include samples of haiku, along with an extensive bibliography and list of resource tools for haikuists to take their writing to publication level. Highly recommended for beginning and intermediate haikuists.
2:30 – 4 p.m. Aubrie Cox — “Why Did My Teachers Lie to Me? Teaching Haiku in and out of the Classroom.” Teaching haiku can be both challenging and rewarding. We will discuss the fundamentals, benefits, and possibilities of teaching how to read and write contemporary English language haiku in classes, workshops, and on a one-on-one basis.
2:30 – 5:30 p.m. Lidia Rozmus — “One brush stroke: sumi-e and traditional haiga” workshop. There will be two back-to-back sessions with each session lasting 1.5 hours. (Limit 10 per session).
4 – 5:30 p.m.– Haiku Workshop. Francine Banwarth, Melissa Allen, Bill Pauly, Charlie Trumbull, and Jerome Cushman. This is a critique session. Bring your haiku or just come and listen to some top poets and editors talk about haiku.
4– 5:30 p.m. Mike Montreuil, Haibun Editor, “One Hundred Gourds – Tell Me a Story”: Writing Haibun. The first half of this 90-minute workshop will present two Japanese Masters of haibun, Basho, the originator of the form, and Issa. A short discussion will follow on why haibun lost its appeal until its resurgence in the late 20th century.
We will also look at a longer haibun from Robert Spiess, who was one of the first writers of English North-American haibun.
Next, modern and shorter haibun: work by Roberta Beary and Jeff Winke. Finally, very short haibun by Larry Kimmel.
The last half of the workshop will focus on writing haibun. Attendees will be asked to either complete a haibun from a partially completed text that Mike will supply or write a haibun using their own ideas. Mike will ask those attending the workshop to rework them and then email them to him, if they wish, so they may be considered for a future issue of “A Hundred Gourds.”
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.– Free time
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.– Midwest Picnic
7:30 – 8:30 p.m.– Open Reading
9- until closing– Public Reading at Wine Bar.
Sunday, July 22
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.– Ginko
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Melissa Allen – “Become A Motorcycle: Understanding and Writing Gendai Haiku.” In Japanese, gendai means modern. When applied to haiku, this word signifies that a poem has moved away from traditional haiku poetics, whether in subject matter, structure, or language use. Bring a gendai haiku you have written, if you have one. Please feel free to attend if you don’t, and attend even if you know little or nothing about gendai. We will briefly discuss the nature of gendai and read some well-known examples, such as the motorcycle haiku by Kaneko Tohta, quoted in the workshop’s title. Next, we will discuss our own haiku, and in the process, try to better understand what is meant by gendai.
Noon–until the end. Lunch, ginko readings, and closing remarks at the Gray Dog Deli.
Norman Darlington sent this update:
Darlington Richards are pleased to announce the launch of the Little Book of Yotsumonos.
Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy
John Carley’s recently-designed four-verse renku format is represented by 60 poems, wherein Carley collaborates with such well-known haikai poets as Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole MacRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor, together with an introduction to the form.
“I have always been impressed by John Carley’s knowledge of Japanese linked verse… It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root.” —Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).
“the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original… I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves.” —Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.
Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy
Norman & Moira
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com/
Ramesh Anand has a new book of poems entitled Newborn Smiles, Cyberwit.net Press, 2012. Newborn Smiles is a 72 pages anthology that contains 100 high quality published haiku and 30 published free verses. Preface is done by Patricia Prime and Kala Ramesh.
He would like to distribute his author’s copy for free excluding the postal charges. Those interested can contact him at rameshsvce@yahoo.com
Newborn Smiles
Copyright 2012 Ramesh Anand
Published by Cyberwit.net Press
Allahabad, India
ISBN: 978-8182532786
Excerpts from Preface Section:
Kala Ramesh
A haiku from this collection has been in my mind ever since I read it.
winter deepens
... lungi shivering on
the beggar's face
Lungi is a piece of cloth that is worn / tied around the waist [something like a sarong], by men. In a hot humid country like India, something that is loosely wrapped around the waist is a more practical way of handling this scorching heat. Since a poor man’s wardrobe would be limited, what he wears in winter might be the same lungi that would have kept him cool in summer too.
Here I clearly see a poor man, in extreme cold weather, hunched and huddled-up, The impact this image creates is note worthy. The poem is rewarding if readers know a bit about lungi, else it could easily pass off as a pedestrian attempt.
Patricia Prime
The main themes of Anand’s haiku concentrate on the seasons, flowers, the weather, and the poet’s family. Anand’s double allegiances to both his Indian background and the world of European haiku emerge through particular motifs. Here, for example, we have references to the monsoon, the mosque, elephants and the wallah, alongside haiku that refer to the more traditional themes of the natural world: spring’s end, winter twilight, autumn dawn, maple leaves and cloud pause.
In a haiku climate which is choc-a-bloc with innovative work, this collection assumes the need for haiku to move the human heart, to confront the everyday, but not to be imprisoned by them, and to hearten the reader to continue his or her own journey through the reading and writing of haiku. And throughout, the image recur, both natural and of the heart, out of which Anand invites his readers to make a journey with him.
Read more about Newborn Smiles on Scribd.
A new issue of Rusty Truck is online:
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
My pal, Susan Nelson Myers, and I continue to work on The Frugal Poet cookbook/anthology. For those of you who have not submitted, guidelines are located on this page:
http://www.frugalpoet.com/p/call-for-submissions.html
The Frugal Poets will have the honor of cooking for a good friend and poet who will be traveling through our state next month. We look forward to entertaining our guest. :)
http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/272hmpg.html
Scott Owens writes:
Great news! Something Knows the Moment has been named 1 of 5 finalists for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Thanks for ordering, reading, and supporting Something Knows the Moment.
Charlotte Digregorio recently posed this question:
Does haiku keep you sane?
Read what a number of poets had to say here.
Scott Metz had this to say about Roadrunner:
R'r 12.1 is now up on the website.
It feature three sections of new poetry (glass wombs, a collage of scissors, and not quite ice cream), an interview with john martone by Jack Galmitz, an article on the one-line poetry of Grant Hackett (also by Jack Galmitz), and Scorpion Prize 25 by Bob Perelman.
The submission deadline for 12.2 is August 1st, 2012.
thanks,
Scott Metz
R'r Blog
Roberta Beary was recently featured on Basho's Road:
http://bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com/roberta-beary-timeline/roberta-beary/haiku/
Pris Campbell was recenlty featured on The Outlaw Poetry Network:
http://outlawpoetry.com/2012/05/10/pris-campbell-leave-your-hat-on-night-wind/
Charlotte Digregorio passed this along:
The Cradle of American Haiku Festival in Wisconsin Open to the Public
If you can make it, The Cradle of American Haiku Festival in Mineral Point, WI, Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22 is a jam-packed weekend of learning and fun! This is the third time the Festival is being offered. Please read the information below:
Gayle Bull invites HSA members to The Cradle of American Haiku 3, a festival in Mineral Point, WI, Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22. The Cradle Festivals celebrate the importance of the Midwest in the development of English language Haiku. The first Cradle Festival honored Raymond Roseliep of Dubuque, IA, one of the best early American haiku poets. The second Cradle honored Robert Spiess of Madison, WI, one of the best early poets and editors of English language haiku journals.
This year's Cradle Festival will honor the development of “American Haiku Journal," the first publication devoted exclusively to English haiku. It was founded in Platteville, WI. Don Eulert, one of its founders, will be among honored guests and presenters.
The three days will feature readings, presentations, food and fun. Some of the presenters and panelists are Charles Trumbull, Jerome Cushman, Gayle Bull, Marjorie Buettner, Charlotte Digregorio, Francine Banwarth, Melissa Allen, Bill Pauly, Aubrie Cox, Mike Montreuil and Lidia Rozmus.
The fee for the three-day festival is $45. This will include all presentations, workshops, readings and the reception and Saturday night picnic.
We encourage pre-registration to make it easier to determine the amount of food and facilities needed.
Throughout the Festival, there will be coffee, tea, iced tea, water and goodies on the front porch of Foundry Books for those who just want to sit, relax, talk and write. We look forward to seeing you at the Festival.
Check mineralpoint.com for accommodations. If you have any questions, please contact Gayle Bull at info@foundrybooks.com. She will be happy to send you a registration form.
The Cradle Schedule
Friday, July 20
3 to 7 p.m.–Registration (Foundry Books)
7 – 8 p.m.– Opening Reception and Welcome
8 p.m. – until closing–Open Reading
Saturday, July 21
8 a.m.– Registration (Foundry Books) and Farmers Market at Water Tower Park. (A lot of good inspiration for haiku came from the latter last summer.)
9 a.m.– Welcome
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.– Charlie Trumbull: “Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by African-American Poets.”
From the earliest years that haiku has been written in the U.S., African-American poets have been among the foremost experimenters in the genre. The result has been, for the most part, a tradition of haiku writing that runs parallel to what we might call the haiku mainstream. This presentation will trace the history of “black haiku” in America, from the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s and 30s, to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 70s, to today’s “blues haiku” of Sonia Sanchez and the jazz haiku of Kalamu ya Salaam.
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.–America Haiku Panel – Don Eulert, who founded “American Haiku” with the late Jim Bull, Gayle Bull, and Charlie Trumbull. Jerome Cushman will moderate the panel.
11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.– Lunch on your own
1- 2 p.m.– Marjorie Buettner – “There is a Season.” A Memorial Reading, 2011. (First presented at Haiku North America conference, Seattle).
“Whatever circles comes from the center. We circle what we love.” — Rumi.
The memorial reading will have a combination of power point presentation, music and a memorial flyer. It will be an hour-long presentation reviewing the lives and haiku of 22 poets who have died in the past couple of years.
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.– Breakout Sessions
2:30 – 4 p.m.– Charlotte Digregorio, “Polish Your Haiku for Publication.” This workshop will include lecture, analysis of great haiku, and critique of participants’ work. Participants will receive training on the finer points of writing haiku to ensure that their submissions are first-rate. Handouts will include samples of haiku, along with an extensive bibliography and list of resource tools for haikuists to take their writing to publication level. Highly recommended for beginning and intermediate haikuists.
2:30 – 4 p.m. Aubrie Cox — “Why Did My Teachers Lie to Me? Teaching Haiku in and out of the Classroom.” Teaching haiku can be both challenging and rewarding. We will discuss the fundamentals, benefits, and possibilities of teaching how to read and write contemporary English language haiku in classes, workshops, and on a one-on-one basis.
2:30 – 5:30 p.m. Lidia Rozmus — “One brush stroke: sumi-e and traditional haiga” workshop. There will be two back-to-back sessions with each session lasting 1.5 hours. (Limit 10 per session).
4 – 5:30 p.m.– Haiku Workshop. Francine Banwarth, Melissa Allen, Bill Pauly, Charlie Trumbull, and Jerome Cushman. This is a critique session. Bring your haiku or just come and listen to some top poets and editors talk about haiku.
4– 5:30 p.m. Mike Montreuil, Haibun Editor, “One Hundred Gourds – Tell Me a Story”: Writing Haibun. The first half of this 90-minute workshop will present two Japanese Masters of haibun, Basho, the originator of the form, and Issa. A short discussion will follow on why haibun lost its appeal until its resurgence in the late 20th century.
We will also look at a longer haibun from Robert Spiess, who was one of the first writers of English North-American haibun.
Next, modern and shorter haibun: work by Roberta Beary and Jeff Winke. Finally, very short haibun by Larry Kimmel.
The last half of the workshop will focus on writing haibun. Attendees will be asked to either complete a haibun from a partially completed text that Mike will supply or write a haibun using their own ideas. Mike will ask those attending the workshop to rework them and then email them to him, if they wish, so they may be considered for a future issue of “A Hundred Gourds.”
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.– Free time
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.– Midwest Picnic
7:30 – 8:30 p.m.– Open Reading
9- until closing– Public Reading at Wine Bar.
Sunday, July 22
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.– Ginko
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Melissa Allen – “Become A Motorcycle: Understanding and Writing Gendai Haiku.” In Japanese, gendai means modern. When applied to haiku, this word signifies that a poem has moved away from traditional haiku poetics, whether in subject matter, structure, or language use. Bring a gendai haiku you have written, if you have one. Please feel free to attend if you don’t, and attend even if you know little or nothing about gendai. We will briefly discuss the nature of gendai and read some well-known examples, such as the motorcycle haiku by Kaneko Tohta, quoted in the workshop’s title. Next, we will discuss our own haiku, and in the process, try to better understand what is meant by gendai.
Noon–until the end. Lunch, ginko readings, and closing remarks at the Gray Dog Deli.
Norman Darlington sent this update:
Darlington Richards are pleased to announce the launch of the Little Book of Yotsumonos.
Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy
John Carley’s recently-designed four-verse renku format is represented by 60 poems, wherein Carley collaborates with such well-known haikai poets as Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole MacRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor, together with an introduction to the form.
“I have always been impressed by John Carley’s knowledge of Japanese linked verse… It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root.” —Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).
“the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original… I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves.” —Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.
Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy
Norman & Moira
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com/
Ramesh Anand has a new book of poems entitled Newborn Smiles, Cyberwit.net Press, 2012. Newborn Smiles is a 72 pages anthology that contains 100 high quality published haiku and 30 published free verses. Preface is done by Patricia Prime and Kala Ramesh.
He would like to distribute his author’s copy for free excluding the postal charges. Those interested can contact him at rameshsvce@yahoo.com
Newborn Smiles
Copyright 2012 Ramesh Anand
Published by Cyberwit.net Press
Allahabad, India
ISBN: 978-8182532786
Excerpts from Preface Section:
Kala Ramesh
A haiku from this collection has been in my mind ever since I read it.
winter deepens
... lungi shivering on
the beggar's face
Lungi is a piece of cloth that is worn / tied around the waist [something like a sarong], by men. In a hot humid country like India, something that is loosely wrapped around the waist is a more practical way of handling this scorching heat. Since a poor man’s wardrobe would be limited, what he wears in winter might be the same lungi that would have kept him cool in summer too.
Here I clearly see a poor man, in extreme cold weather, hunched and huddled-up, The impact this image creates is note worthy. The poem is rewarding if readers know a bit about lungi, else it could easily pass off as a pedestrian attempt.
Patricia Prime
The main themes of Anand’s haiku concentrate on the seasons, flowers, the weather, and the poet’s family. Anand’s double allegiances to both his Indian background and the world of European haiku emerge through particular motifs. Here, for example, we have references to the monsoon, the mosque, elephants and the wallah, alongside haiku that refer to the more traditional themes of the natural world: spring’s end, winter twilight, autumn dawn, maple leaves and cloud pause.
In a haiku climate which is choc-a-bloc with innovative work, this collection assumes the need for haiku to move the human heart, to confront the everyday, but not to be imprisoned by them, and to hearten the reader to continue his or her own journey through the reading and writing of haiku. And throughout, the image recur, both natural and of the heart, out of which Anand invites his readers to make a journey with him.
Read more about Newborn Smiles on Scribd.
A new issue of Rusty Truck is online:
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
My pal, Susan Nelson Myers, and I continue to work on The Frugal Poet cookbook/anthology. For those of you who have not submitted, guidelines are located on this page:
http://www.frugalpoet.com/p/call-for-submissions.html
The Frugal Poets will have the honor of cooking for a good friend and poet who will be traveling through our state next month. We look forward to entertaining our guest. :)
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday updates
In the Days Of the Pinkest Shades Of Clover
We climbed the lookout tower,
hugged a branch of the Mulberry Tree,
ate purple berries,
sat barefoot stringing beads
on a blanket in the yard
under watchful nose of Mrs. Ross’s
maid, then dripped chocolaty
pudding pops, cooled our-
selves in the water from the hose
or the wading pool,
where Michael leaned to swim—
knit together, purled to a daisy chain,
living our days in the pinkest shades of clover—
so that later roaming the hills
near the Cabin next to Spring River,
we clambered over
sloping limestone rocks and
small, blue cedars, and we knew
why Mummy said, “One can, all can”
is the only fair way, among siblings.
Scott Owens has a new book of poems entitled For One Who Knows How to Own Land. Scott writes:
Future Cycle Press has just released my new book of poems, For One Who Knows How to Own Land. These 98 pages of poetry focus on the experience of growing up in the disappearing rural South. They include some of my favorite oldest poems as well as a lot of new ones. I am including a brief description of the book as well as comments from Ron Rash, Tim Peeler, John Lane, and below. You can order copies from me or on Amazon. There will be a book launch on March 20 at 6:00 at Taste Full Beans in Hickory, NC, and on March 23 at 7:00 at City Lights Books in Sylva, NC. I hope you can attend one of those events.
For One Who Knows How to Own Land
Copyright 2012 Scott Owens
Published by FutureCycle Press
Mineral Bluff, Georgia
ISBN: 978-0-9839985-3-2
I grew up in two worlds: my father’s parents’ world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother’s parents’ world of dirt roads, livestock, growing our own food, and endless woods. That second world was undeniably harder than the first. The work was dirtier, and there was more of it. The homes had fewer luxuries: no cable, no AC, never more than one bathroom. Even death was different. In town, death was a polished event that took place elsewhere, hospitals, nursing homes, slaughter houses, funeral parlors. On the farm, animals were killed every week, and most people died at home, and their bodies stayed there until they were buried.
Somehow, however, that second world still seemed much more alive, much more real and vital. Despite that vitality, I was aware that most people knew almost nothing about that second world. It was then, and is increasingly now, an undiscovered country where life and death exist side by side with a natural intensity missing from the artificial world of the city.
This book, dedicated to my grandfather (one who knew how to own land), is a record of my undiscovered country and the people who lived there.
Landscape and memory are seamlessly merged in this excellent volume. Like all the best writers of place, Scott Owens finds the heart's universal concerns in his vivid rendering of piedmont Carolina.
--Ron Rash, author of Raising the Dead
There's not a speck of sentimentality in the rural poetic Americana framed by Scott Owens in FOR ONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO OWN LAND. There are dead crows, red dirt earth, barking dogs, burning coal, fox traps, and flooding rivers. These stories matter. The poems all rattle and sing. This is a jolt of strong coffee for a watery time.
--John Lane, author of The Woods Stretched for Miles: Contemporary Nature Writing from the South
In For One Who Knows How to Own Land, poet, Scott Owens creates with a mature voice, childhood reminiscences of pastoral summers in the red dirt rural Piedmont of upstate South Carolina. This, his most affecting collection to date, is a remarkable sensory journey that registers narrative moments along the entire emotional scale from harsh to tender, from the threatening to the anodyne. Through the magical nature of memory, these poems of mystery and loss prove again and again that “The boy who left this country/never stopped hearing its names/echo in his ear.”
--Tim Peeler, author of Checking Out
“Why should this be home?” Scott Owens asks us in “Homeplace,” his question as much about leaving as going back. We walk his train tracks and ridges as if they were our own, as though home were “something you held tight before you, /your back bending against its going away.” In this both visceral and meditative rendering of place, decay and rebirth are part of the same landscape. I applaud the skill that directs us down a path of experience and familiarity to “stone steps/ that dead-end in mid-air.” His poetry is wise in knowing the weight of its own footsteps.
-- Linda Annas Ferguson, author of Dirt Sandwich
Read more about For One Who Knows How to Own Land on Scott's Musings Blog.
Charlotte Digregorio sent this update:
Hello Haikuists,
Some of you might be interested in the announcement below.
Dear Charlotte,
I am a friend of Charlie Rossiter's and he has referred me to your organization.
I am the President for the National Association for Poetry Therapy and I would like to invite you and your membership to attend our national conference, "Writing the Winds of Change," to be held in Chicago April 26-29, 2012. We have an extraordinary opening ceremony, featuring local musicians and poets well-known throughout Chicago, as well as, the internationally known key-note poet/educator/essayist and publisher, Haki Madhubuti. We have a variety of workshops which integrate poetry, journaling and the expressive arts in the arenas of mental health, self-growth, wellness and education.
If you would like more information about our conference and registration process, please refer to our web-page at www.poetrytherapy.org.
Should you have any questions in regard to our organization or our conference, please do not hesitate to contact me. I do look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Catherine Conway, President
The National Association for Poetry Therapy
P - 630-220-8682
www.poetrytherapy.org
Ellen Compton sent this update:
Good Morning Curtis,
Here's a note I hope you can include with your announcements and updates.
Cheers, and thanks,
Ellen
Volunteer at 100th D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival
The Haiku Society of America will have a booth at the upcoming 100th National Cherry Blossom Street Festival and is looking for folks to help out. It could be a great time to visit the nation’s capital, enjoy the cherry blossoms, socialize with fellow haiku poets and tell a broader audience about haiku.
The festival, which will be held on Saturday, April 14, rain or shine, runs from 11 – 6 p.m. You are welcome to sign up for an hour or longer. In particular, we could use help with set up and break down before/after the official festival times.
If you love haiku, have always wanted to see Washington DC's cherry blossoms, like working with people, and want to pitch in, please get in touch with Rick Black: rick@turtlelightpress.com or call him at
703-241-4127 for more details. Hope to see you there!
A new issue of Haibun Today is available which includes Penny Harter's haibun, "The Great Blue."
http://haibuntoday.com
Also, Penny's essay "Writing From the Present, Past, and Future," is the featured essay in the "Revelations: Unedited" feature in Frogpond: the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, pp. 28-44. The essay covers writing haiku, haibun, and free verse.
Sasa Vazic sent the Fujisan Haiku Results.
M. Kei sent this:
Lulu.com, the old printer for Keibooks, is offering 30% off Heron Sea by M. Kei and other Keibooks backlist titles, such as Catzilla, and previous issues of Atlas Poetica. This offer is good through February.
Ed Baker sent this update:
just a moment ago I saw that Barney Rosset had died !
a Major, Major 'player' in my life.
neat happening a few years ago he picked this piece to go into his review:
http://www.evergreenreview.com/120/ed-baker.html
here is the Post's obituary :
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=barney-rosset&pid=156046238
hang in, Ed
Haiku Death Match: No Words Barred
Join Press 53 and Piedmont S.L.A.M. for “Haiku Death Match: No Words Barred” on Tuesday, February 28, 7 p.m., at the Community Arts Cafe, Fourth & Spruce in downtown Winston-Salem. This special adults-only event is open to anyone 18 and over who wants to sling Haiku like an assassin. $3 cover and prizes for our winners. For more information, call Kevin at 336-770-5353.
Colin Stewart Jones sent this:
Dear Readers and Friends,
NFTG has recently undergone a process of streamlining and simplification of its website. You can now access either the flip magazine or the static information pages separately by clicking on the relevant cherry on the entry page.
The flip magazine now has a module which can enlarge to full screen, add annotations and has a search facility. NFTG is now available on all browsers, Mac or PC and all mobile devices, including i-Pad and Android. We have also updated our static information pages and have a new bespoke form filler for submissions which can be accessed at the top left or very bottom of the Submissions’ Page and you can also get in contact by through the Editors’ Page.
Thank you all for you continued support.
Colin Stewart Jones
Editor-in-Chief
Notes from the Gean
http://notesfromthegean.com/
Richard Krawiec sent this:
Hope you can come see my first staged full-length play, CREEDS. It's inspired by the true story of Bonnie and Robert Hanssen. Arch conservative, Opus Dei Catholics, sexually bizarre - and Bob was a double-agent for the Russians, called the greatest spy in U.S. history.
We have an excellent cast including Lori Mahl (Actors Equity) who had a career in NYC, working on the stage with, among others, Carol Channing and Tyne Daly, Jeff Alguire, who won a Best Actor Award from the Independent, and an ensemble cast that has performed on every major stage in the Triangle - from Playmakers, to REP, to Burning Coal, to Common Ground to the Arts Center in Carrboro.
It will be staged March 22 - April 1 at Common Ground Theater in Durham, NC.
http://cgtheatre.com/directions
Here's some more info on the show. Tickets range from $7 - $15
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/224259
I've had one-acts produced across the U.S. and Canada, but this is my first full length, and it's as exciting as publishing a first novel.
The play is produced by PlayGround, a Theater Co-operative which has been in operation for 2 years. It's a group of local actresses and actors and NC playwrights who meet once a month to develop scenes by local writers and opportunities for local actors.
If you're interested in supporting PlayGround we are selling a few tickets to the Sunday, April 1, 4 pm cast party. These tickets, which cost $40, will include a free meal, a ticket to your choice of performance (you don't have to go April 1), and a chance to mingle with the cast.
If you want to make a night of it when you come to the play, less than a mile away there are 2 good restaurant choices right on Hillsborough - Bennett Point Grill (quality Southern, no calabash) and Durham House of Pizza (decent pizza and Italian in Sicilian style). Within 4 miles on HIllsborough you have Chinese, Greek, and fast food. Only 10 minutes from the theater are Meelo's and Nana's and Parizade, three excellent local choices.
Hope to see you,
richard krawiec
Check out my websites!
http://www.press53.com/BioRichardKrawiec.html
http://www.rkeditor.com/
http://jacarpress.com/index.html
And finally, Frugal Poet, Susan Nelson Myers, will have a new recipe and poem to share with you later today.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Weekend update
Howard Lee Kilby sent this:
The Arkansas Haiku Society will host the 15th annual haiku conference in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas at the library of National Park Community College on November 4th and 5th. Haiku poets from New Mexico to Maryland will be joining together with many southern states to enjoy haiku. There is no registration fee. The public is cordially invited to attend. For information email hkilby@hotmail.com (use Haiku Conference in the subject line) or telephone 501-767-6096.
Howard
Ed Baker sent this:
The Arkansas Haiku Society will host the 15th annual haiku conference in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas at the library of National Park Community College on November 4th and 5th. Haiku poets from New Mexico to Maryland will be joining together with many southern states to enjoy haiku. There is no registration fee. The public is cordially invited to attend. For information email hkilby@hotmail.com (use Haiku Conference in the subject line) or telephone 501-767-6096.
Howard
Ed Baker sent this:
Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday updates 02/25/2011
Cathy Drinkwater Better sent this:
HIBIKI, by Cathy Drinkwater Better and Geert Verbeke. Empty Sky, Flanders, Belgium; December 2010. HIBIKI is the first collaborative book of haiku by Cathy Drinkwater Better (Maryland, USA) and Geert Verbeke (Flanders, Belgium). This 40-page, side-stapled, digest-size book—“…a unique blend of fine and touching feelings…as the finely knitted thought of a reverberating emotion…” wrote New Delhi, India, reviewer Jasvinder Singh—contains two individual sections of 72 haiku each, one devoted to each poet’s work and a brief biographical note. This limited-edition collection is available exclusively through the poets at the present time. To order in the U.S. and elsewhere, write to: Cathy Drinkwater Better, 613 Okemo Drive, Eldersburg, MD 21784 USA; the cost is $10, postage paid. For more information, e-mail Cathy at cbetter@juno.com or visit her Web site at www.cathydrinkwaterbetter.com. For information on ordering a copy from Geert, visit his Web site at: http://www.haikugeert.net, and click on CYBERWIT INDIA at the top; or write to him at Leo Baekelandlaan14, B-8500, Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium.
From Charlotte Digregorio:
Haikufest To Inspire Poets To Publish
Beginning and advanced poets will learn to appreciate, write, and enhance their haiku skills, from 1 to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, May 7 at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL. The event with lecture, discussion, and exhibition of poetry and art, is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Midwest Region of the Haiku Society of America and the Evanston Public library. Pre-registration is required.
Haiku is short, meditative poetry that originated in Japan in the 1600s, and is currently gaining popularity worldwide in many languages. It is often three lines, has seventeen syllables or less, and captures the moment, with usually a reference to nature or the seasons.
The first presentation, "Haiku: A Path Leading to Conservation Thought," will integrate a lecture on haiku style, form, and history with a discussion of the underlying thought of reverence for nature. Charlotte Digregorio, HSA Midwest Regional Coordinator, will speak. She is an award-winning author, poet, and educator, recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Her poetry has been translated into several languages, and is often exhibited in public venues.
"A Writing Life in Seventeen Syllables or Less," will follow by award-winning Iowa Poet Francine Banwarth. She will discuss what inspires her to write haiku, and her methods of writing with multi-layers of meaning.
Banwarth, who is regularly published worldwide in haiku journals and anthologies, and who has served as a haiku leader, educator, and poetry competition judge for organizations including HSA, says: "Haiku for me is not so much a way of thinking a moment, as it is a way of feeling a moment. I think that is where intuition enters in, as if there is a hermit inside me, or as if I am in a quiet place, breathing under water."
Subsequently, Randy Brooks, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Millikin University and Professor of English, will speak on "The Role of Kukai in The Haiku Tradition." Kukai is a haiku contest in which participating poets are judges. Preceding Haikufest, attendees may submit from three to five haiku by April 23 to Brooks at brooksbooks@sbcglobal.net. These haiku will be exhibited at Haikufest and judged.
Brooks and his wife, Shirley, are co-editors and poetry publishers of Brooks Books. They also edit "Mayfly," a haiku magazine. An award-winning poet who teaches haiku at Millikin, Brooks is the author of "School's Out," his haiku collection, and is co-editor of anthologies including the "Global Haiku Anthology." He is co-chair of the American Haiku Archives at California State Library in Sacramento.
The last presentation will be "Haiga: History and Technique." Poet and artist Lidia Rozmus will reveal the art of haiku accompanied by an ink painting. She will exhibit and discuss her work.
Rozmus has authored and designed several portfolios and books on Japanese-style poetry and haiga that have won HSA awards, including,"A Dandelion's Flight Haiku and Sumi-e"; "Twenty Views from Mole Hill: My Journey"; and "Hailstones, Haiku by Taneda Santoka." Rozmus' art has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Japan, and Poland.
HSA is a not-for-profit organization to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English. Its website is www.hsa-haiku.org
For more information on Haikufest, and to pre-register, contact Charlotte Digregorio, 847-881-2664 or the Evanston Public Library, 847-448-8600.
Marie Kasprzak sent this:
'A beautiful job!' (Elisavietta Ritchie), 'I see wonderful haiku ...' (Neal Whitman), 'Your first issue was a strong one, with great production values. An impressive start' (William Hart).
Dear Poet,
These are only some of the comments we have received following the publication of the inaugural issue if Haiku Pix Review #1, Winter 2011. True to its name, HRP aims to publish haiku that use juxtaposition of images to produce emotion:
spring apple tree
on the old gnarled trunk
its own shadow
-- Bruce Ross
raindrops
on a lotus leaf ...
homecoming
-- Chen-ou Liu
The deadline for Haiku Pix Review #2, Spring 2011 is February 28, 2011. Offer us your honest best!
Also consider entering our Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest. The new deadline is April 1, 2011. Electronic submissions accepted. Visit: www.haikupix.com
Best regards,
Marie Kasprzak and Tad Wojnicki
editor@haikupix.com/
or
haiku@haikupix.com/
Colin Stewart Jones reports that the new issue of Notes from the Gean will be available online on March 1st. He writes:
"enjoy folks it should be a good one!"
col
Scott Owens sent this:
Hi, Curtis,
I have a new book of poems coming out in August, and it is available for discounted advance order right now. The cover price will be $14, but by ordering it online from the publisher's website, you can get it for $9 plus shipping.
The book can be ordered from the Coming Soon page of the MSR Online Bookstore. Here is a link that will take you directly there: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/store/.
The book is called Something Knows the Moment. I'm including comments about it from Fred Chappell, Joseph Bathanti, and a couple of other early readers below. The sooner we meet the publisher's advance sales goal, the sooner the book will be released, so you can help me out by ordering yours now. I'll be giving readings all over NC in the fall, so you should still have a chance to get your copy signed if you like.
Something Knows the Moment may also be ordered by check or credit card directly from the publisher; however, the discount is not as much if ordered this way ($12/book--postage included). Send to: Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001. Credit card orders, call 704-573-2516 (M-F 9am-5pm EST).
Something Knows the Moment by Scott Owens
Published by: Main Street Rag Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781599483023, ~114 pages, $14 (cover price)
“Why ask where none can answer?” Scott Owens’ collection, Something Knows the Moment, poses this question and accompanies it with a hundred others about the nature of God, the nature of faith, of doubt, of trust and distrust, disillusion and resignation. The answer is, We ask because we cannot help but ask. --These poems are necessary.
---- Fred Chappell, NC Poet Laureate
By turns these poems are terrifying and glorious, always luminous, informed by an abiding faith that the liturgy of poetry will leave us burnished and restored.
--Joseph Bathanti, author of Restoring Sacred Art
Scott Owens has the audacity to reimagine The Good Book. It is a resurrection not to be missed: haunted, funny, and outrageous, by turns, fiercely imagined, wonderfully accessible, Scott Owens’ latest shows him to be one of the most engaging and readable poets currently working in the South.
--David Rigsbee, author of The Red Tower
Scott Owens stares steadfastly into the “unrelenting zero.” Owens’ motives shed new light on some of the oldest ideas ever, forcing the reader to immediately ponder his own nature and humanity. Good poetry does precisely this. At the root of these poems is a deep and palpable compassion. There is a tenderness in this book that might shame you.
-- Joe Milford, The Joe Milford Poetry Show
All my best,
Scott Owens
Sasa Vazic and Robert D. Wilson has informed me that Professor Michael Marra passed away.
http://marra.bol.ucla.edu/
Robert D. Wilson interviewed Michael a few years ago:
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv5n3/features/Marra.html
My sincere condolences to the friends and family of Professor Marra.
HIBIKI, by Cathy Drinkwater Better and Geert Verbeke. Empty Sky, Flanders, Belgium; December 2010. HIBIKI is the first collaborative book of haiku by Cathy Drinkwater Better (Maryland, USA) and Geert Verbeke (Flanders, Belgium). This 40-page, side-stapled, digest-size book—“…a unique blend of fine and touching feelings…as the finely knitted thought of a reverberating emotion…” wrote New Delhi, India, reviewer Jasvinder Singh—contains two individual sections of 72 haiku each, one devoted to each poet’s work and a brief biographical note. This limited-edition collection is available exclusively through the poets at the present time. To order in the U.S. and elsewhere, write to: Cathy Drinkwater Better, 613 Okemo Drive, Eldersburg, MD 21784 USA; the cost is $10, postage paid. For more information, e-mail Cathy at cbetter@juno.com or visit her Web site at www.cathydrinkwaterbetter.com. For information on ordering a copy from Geert, visit his Web site at: http://www.haikugeert.net, and click on CYBERWIT INDIA at the top; or write to him at Leo Baekelandlaan14, B-8500, Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium.
From Charlotte Digregorio:
Haikufest To Inspire Poets To Publish
Beginning and advanced poets will learn to appreciate, write, and enhance their haiku skills, from 1 to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, May 7 at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL. The event with lecture, discussion, and exhibition of poetry and art, is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Midwest Region of the Haiku Society of America and the Evanston Public library. Pre-registration is required.
Haiku is short, meditative poetry that originated in Japan in the 1600s, and is currently gaining popularity worldwide in many languages. It is often three lines, has seventeen syllables or less, and captures the moment, with usually a reference to nature or the seasons.
The first presentation, "Haiku: A Path Leading to Conservation Thought," will integrate a lecture on haiku style, form, and history with a discussion of the underlying thought of reverence for nature. Charlotte Digregorio, HSA Midwest Regional Coordinator, will speak. She is an award-winning author, poet, and educator, recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Her poetry has been translated into several languages, and is often exhibited in public venues.
"A Writing Life in Seventeen Syllables or Less," will follow by award-winning Iowa Poet Francine Banwarth. She will discuss what inspires her to write haiku, and her methods of writing with multi-layers of meaning.
Banwarth, who is regularly published worldwide in haiku journals and anthologies, and who has served as a haiku leader, educator, and poetry competition judge for organizations including HSA, says: "Haiku for me is not so much a way of thinking a moment, as it is a way of feeling a moment. I think that is where intuition enters in, as if there is a hermit inside me, or as if I am in a quiet place, breathing under water."
Subsequently, Randy Brooks, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Millikin University and Professor of English, will speak on "The Role of Kukai in The Haiku Tradition." Kukai is a haiku contest in which participating poets are judges. Preceding Haikufest, attendees may submit from three to five haiku by April 23 to Brooks at brooksbooks@sbcglobal.net. These haiku will be exhibited at Haikufest and judged.
Brooks and his wife, Shirley, are co-editors and poetry publishers of Brooks Books. They also edit "Mayfly," a haiku magazine. An award-winning poet who teaches haiku at Millikin, Brooks is the author of "School's Out," his haiku collection, and is co-editor of anthologies including the "Global Haiku Anthology." He is co-chair of the American Haiku Archives at California State Library in Sacramento.
The last presentation will be "Haiga: History and Technique." Poet and artist Lidia Rozmus will reveal the art of haiku accompanied by an ink painting. She will exhibit and discuss her work.
Rozmus has authored and designed several portfolios and books on Japanese-style poetry and haiga that have won HSA awards, including,"A Dandelion's Flight Haiku and Sumi-e"; "Twenty Views from Mole Hill: My Journey"; and "Hailstones, Haiku by Taneda Santoka." Rozmus' art has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Japan, and Poland.
HSA is a not-for-profit organization to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English. Its website is www.hsa-haiku.org
For more information on Haikufest, and to pre-register, contact Charlotte Digregorio, 847-881-2664 or the Evanston Public Library, 847-448-8600.
Marie Kasprzak sent this:
'A beautiful job!' (Elisavietta Ritchie), 'I see wonderful haiku ...' (Neal Whitman), 'Your first issue was a strong one, with great production values. An impressive start' (William Hart).
Dear Poet,
These are only some of the comments we have received following the publication of the inaugural issue if Haiku Pix Review #1, Winter 2011. True to its name, HRP aims to publish haiku that use juxtaposition of images to produce emotion:
spring apple tree
on the old gnarled trunk
its own shadow
-- Bruce Ross
raindrops
on a lotus leaf ...
homecoming
-- Chen-ou Liu
The deadline for Haiku Pix Review #2, Spring 2011 is February 28, 2011. Offer us your honest best!
Also consider entering our Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest. The new deadline is April 1, 2011. Electronic submissions accepted. Visit: www.haikupix.com
Best regards,
Marie Kasprzak and Tad Wojnicki
editor@haikupix.com/
or
haiku@haikupix.com/
Colin Stewart Jones reports that the new issue of Notes from the Gean will be available online on March 1st. He writes:
"enjoy folks it should be a good one!"
col
Scott Owens sent this:
Hi, Curtis,
I have a new book of poems coming out in August, and it is available for discounted advance order right now. The cover price will be $14, but by ordering it online from the publisher's website, you can get it for $9 plus shipping.
The book can be ordered from the Coming Soon page of the MSR Online Bookstore. Here is a link that will take you directly there: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/store/.
The book is called Something Knows the Moment. I'm including comments about it from Fred Chappell, Joseph Bathanti, and a couple of other early readers below. The sooner we meet the publisher's advance sales goal, the sooner the book will be released, so you can help me out by ordering yours now. I'll be giving readings all over NC in the fall, so you should still have a chance to get your copy signed if you like.
Something Knows the Moment may also be ordered by check or credit card directly from the publisher; however, the discount is not as much if ordered this way ($12/book--postage included). Send to: Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001. Credit card orders, call 704-573-2516 (M-F 9am-5pm EST).
Something Knows the Moment by Scott Owens
Published by: Main Street Rag Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781599483023, ~114 pages, $14 (cover price)
“Why ask where none can answer?” Scott Owens’ collection, Something Knows the Moment, poses this question and accompanies it with a hundred others about the nature of God, the nature of faith, of doubt, of trust and distrust, disillusion and resignation. The answer is, We ask because we cannot help but ask. --These poems are necessary.
---- Fred Chappell, NC Poet Laureate
By turns these poems are terrifying and glorious, always luminous, informed by an abiding faith that the liturgy of poetry will leave us burnished and restored.
--Joseph Bathanti, author of Restoring Sacred Art
Scott Owens has the audacity to reimagine The Good Book. It is a resurrection not to be missed: haunted, funny, and outrageous, by turns, fiercely imagined, wonderfully accessible, Scott Owens’ latest shows him to be one of the most engaging and readable poets currently working in the South.
--David Rigsbee, author of The Red Tower
Scott Owens stares steadfastly into the “unrelenting zero.” Owens’ motives shed new light on some of the oldest ideas ever, forcing the reader to immediately ponder his own nature and humanity. Good poetry does precisely this. At the root of these poems is a deep and palpable compassion. There is a tenderness in this book that might shame you.
-- Joe Milford, The Joe Milford Poetry Show
All my best,
Scott Owens
Sasa Vazic and Robert D. Wilson has informed me that Professor Michael Marra passed away.
http://marra.bol.ucla.edu/
Robert D. Wilson interviewed Michael a few years ago:
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv5n3/features/Marra.html
My sincere condolences to the friends and family of Professor Marra.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday updates 2/20/2011
Ray Rasmussen sent this:
Hi Curtis,
If you've not yet made it, please post the announcement as follows:
Announcing Day's End: A collection of haiku, senryu and tanka matched with images and of haibun on the subject of aging by 50 poets. Editor Ray Rasmussen. Guest Editor Anita Virgil.
http://raysweb.net/daysendpoetry
Thanks,
Ray
Michael Dylan Welch sent this:
Curtis, thanks for listing the HNA announcement on your blog. Could I trouble you to change the URL it links to? Instead of http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/pages/next.html, please change it to http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/pages/2011.html. Much thanks if you could do this.
Michael
Norman Darlington sent this:
A quick reminder: There's just over a week left before the first issue of Journal of Renga & Renku reverts from an introductory $19.95 to the cover price of $25. So, if you've been postponing your purchase, there will be no better time than now to order your 170-page copy securely online at http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr
A 17-page online preview, including the full Table of Contents, is available at http://tinyurl.com/preview-jrr1
--
Norman Darlington
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/
Patrick M. Pilarski sent this:
Dear Readers, Friends, and Contributors,
We are thrilled to announce that submissions are open for DailyHaiku's eleventh publishing cycle! This coming cycle represents the start of our sixth year of publishing as an online daily periodical. During Cycle 10, we were excited to see an increase in readership for both our online and print editions. Traffic to www.dailyhaiku.org topped 100,000 hits per month, with up to 4000 unique visitors.
We now invite you to submit some of your best work for possible inclusion in our upcoming cycle (Cycle 11). If you are interested in becoming a Cycle 11 contributor, please see our submission call below. (And please feel free to forward this call on to any other interested parties.)
You may notice that our Spring submissions are open a month early this year. That's because in addition to planning a new cycle, DailyHaiku is also planning a wedding! Your faithful editors are getting married this Spring (to each other, of all people) so we're trying our best to be proactive in our editorial duties.
Thank you once more for helping to make DailyHaiku a lively and dynamic environment to showcase contemporary short form poetry!
All the best,
Patrick and Nicole
Patrick M. Pilarski and Nicole Pakan
Editors --- DailyHaiku
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Submission are now open for DailyHaiku Cycle 11!
http://www.dailyhaiku.org
DailyHaiku is a print and daily online serial publication that publishes the work of Canadian and international haiku poets, blending contemporary, experimental, and traditional styles to explore the boundaries of English-language haiku. Through our special features section, we also aim to chronicle the diverse and ever-changing landscape of contemporary haiku-related forms. We're now looking for a new roster of six talented haiku poets for our upcoming cycle (Volume 6, Cycle 11, Spring/Summer 2011). If selected as a contributor, you will be responsible for providing a total of 28 haiku over a six-month period.
Submission Period: Feb. 1st--28th, 2011 (closes 11:59 pm Mountain Standard Time)
How to Submit: Email submissions to desk@dailyhaiku.org
What to Submit: Ten unpublished haiku---no more, no less---your contact information, a 75 word publication-ready biographical note, and a digital author photo. We do not accept work published or under consideration by other journals or websites.
Payment: One contributor copy of the print volume featuring your work.
For specific submission guidelines and more information about this publication, please visit: http://www.dailyhaiku.org
Richard Krawiec sent this:
Curtis,
Did you want to put something about the Gathering of Poets on your blog? Haiku writers are welcome and should benefit from workshops with Kay Byers and Fred Chappell, too.
http://www.press53.com/GatheringofPoets2011.html
Friday, December 24, 2010
Haiku North America 2011
New Location: Haiku North America to be Held in Rochester, New York, July 27–31, 2011
Organizers of the 2011 Haiku North America conference are pleased to announce that Rochester, New York, will now host the 2011 HNA conference, to be held July 27–31, 2011. The conference will maintain the theme of education in haiku and will take place at the Rochester Institute of Technology, cosponsored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, by the Postsecondary Educational Network-International funded by the Nippon Foundation of Tokyo, and by the Rochester Area Haiku Group. Led by Jerome Cushman, the local organizing committee also includes Carolyn Dancy, Deb Koen, and Deanna Tiefenthal, with local and long-distance help from Francine Banwarth, Randy Brooks, and others. Anticipated activities include an Erie Canal boat cruise, banquet, regional readings, a memorial reading, anthology, T-shirts, and possible visits to nearby cultural attractions, including the National Museum of Play and a guided tour of historic Mt. Hope Cemetery, the oldest Victorian municipal cemetery in America and burial site of Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas, and poet Adelaide Crapsey. More details will be provided at www.haikunorthamerica.com and on the HNA Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Haiku-North-America/113127392085466 (please take a look and click Like! if you're a Facebook member). For more information, please contact Jerome Cushman at jercush@aol.com or Michael Dylan Welch at welchm@aol.com. We look forward to seeing you at Haiku North America in Rochester!
Note: Randy Brooks and Millikin University regret that they are not able to host HNA in 2011. We’re grateful for Randy’s initial work in planning HNA for 2011, and also grateful to haiku poets in Rochester, New York, for taking on the conference. Don’t miss it!
Call for Proposals
If you already submitted a proposal for HNA at Millikin University, it will still be considered (no need to resend). If you would like to submit a new proposal, please send it to Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com by January 31, 2011. The theme will be education in haiku, but proposals do not have to fit the theme. Proposals can include papers, presentations, panel discussions, readings, workshops, or other activities featuring haiku and related literature (except tanka) in North America. Please provide the following details with your proposal (directly in your email message; no attached files, please):
1. Title (as you would want it to appear in the conference program—make it catchy or provocative if appropriate).
2. A maximum of 50 words describing your presentation (as you would want it to appear in the conference program; please write to attract an audience.
3. Additional descriptions or goals of your presentation (for the benefit of conference organizers), mentioning any planned handouts or activities.
4. Special needs such as digital projection (for PowerPoint presentations), audio, whiteboard, etc.
5. Length of time needed or preferred.
Organizers of the 2011 Haiku North America conference are pleased to announce that Rochester, New York, will now host the 2011 HNA conference, to be held July 27–31, 2011. The conference will maintain the theme of education in haiku and will take place at the Rochester Institute of Technology, cosponsored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, by the Postsecondary Educational Network-International funded by the Nippon Foundation of Tokyo, and by the Rochester Area Haiku Group. Led by Jerome Cushman, the local organizing committee also includes Carolyn Dancy, Deb Koen, and Deanna Tiefenthal, with local and long-distance help from Francine Banwarth, Randy Brooks, and others. Anticipated activities include an Erie Canal boat cruise, banquet, regional readings, a memorial reading, anthology, T-shirts, and possible visits to nearby cultural attractions, including the National Museum of Play and a guided tour of historic Mt. Hope Cemetery, the oldest Victorian municipal cemetery in America and burial site of Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas, and poet Adelaide Crapsey. More details will be provided at www.haikunorthamerica.com and on the HNA Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Haiku-North-America/113127392085466 (please take a look and click Like! if you're a Facebook member). For more information, please contact Jerome Cushman at jercush@aol.com or Michael Dylan Welch at welchm@aol.com. We look forward to seeing you at Haiku North America in Rochester!
Note: Randy Brooks and Millikin University regret that they are not able to host HNA in 2011. We’re grateful for Randy’s initial work in planning HNA for 2011, and also grateful to haiku poets in Rochester, New York, for taking on the conference. Don’t miss it!
—Michael Dylan Welch, Garry Gay, and Paul Miller
Call for Proposals
If you already submitted a proposal for HNA at Millikin University, it will still be considered (no need to resend). If you would like to submit a new proposal, please send it to Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com by January 31, 2011. The theme will be education in haiku, but proposals do not have to fit the theme. Proposals can include papers, presentations, panel discussions, readings, workshops, or other activities featuring haiku and related literature (except tanka) in North America. Please provide the following details with your proposal (directly in your email message; no attached files, please):
1. Title (as you would want it to appear in the conference program—make it catchy or provocative if appropriate).
2. A maximum of 50 words describing your presentation (as you would want it to appear in the conference program; please write to attract an audience.
3. Additional descriptions or goals of your presentation (for the benefit of conference organizers), mentioning any planned handouts or activities.
4. Special needs such as digital projection (for PowerPoint presentations), audio, whiteboard, etc.
5. Length of time needed or preferred.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Wednesday updates - September 15
Richard Krawiec sent the link (below) to the Jacar Press chapbook contest? He writes:
"Haiku books will be given equal consideration. I'd also love to see a submission containing both haiku and free verse."
http://jacarpress.com/submit.html
Hi Curtis - heres a link or everyome to send a haiku to the London jaona matsuri - if they do it today tomorrow we will put it up on the haiku wall in the Matsuri!
http://www.charnwoodarts.com/projects/haikumania_at_london_japan_matsuri_september_2010
Paul
Robert Epstein sent this:
I'm writing to let you know that I started a blog a little while ago. The subject, like the anthology, is on death awareness--one's own and that of others. It bears the same title as the collection of poems on the subject of one's own mortality. I thought I would send you a link to the blog; if you think it worthy, I would be most grateful to you for posting an announcement of the launch for this blog, so that other poets might find their way to the site to share their death awareness poetry.
Thanks so much!
http://deathawarenesshaiku.blogspot.com/
Howard Lee Kilby sent this news about the upcoming HSA South Regional Conference:
The 14th annual Haiku Society of America South Regional Conference in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas will be held Friday and Saturday, November 5-6, 2010. Poets from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas will attend. This may be the largest gathering since HSA President Kristen Deming honored Hot Springs by setting the 1998 2nd quarter business meeting in the Spa City.
Our program is chaired by Celia Stuart-Powles of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Remember to bring a $10 haiku related gift for the White Elephant exchange. Dr. Susan Delphine Delaney of Plano, Texas is the inspiration for this event. It's always a hoot.
Here is information about our hotel accomodations:
The Arlington Hotel, 239 Central, Hot Springs, Tel: 1-800-643-1502 www.arlingtonhotel.com as a rate of $79.95 Single or Double with a charge of $15 for each additional person.
To better explain that, one or two people = $79.95; 3=$94.95; 4=$101.95 Please use the confirmation code HAIKU SOCIETY OF AMERICA. They have set aside five rooms. When those rooms are sold, they will set aside another five rooms and so on.
The Springs Hotel and Spa, located at 135 Central Avenue, offered a rate of $69.95 for 20 rooms. When I told Virginia Williams the hotel manager that I couldn't guarantee 20 rooms she said that she couldn't offer that price. She then gave me a rate of $79.95. She did say that if we filled 20 rooms that she'd give us the lower rate.
http://www.thespringshotelandspa.com/
Tel: 1-888-624-5521. The confirmation code is HSA GROUP.
She also said that she's give the same rate if someone wished to come on Thursday and leave on Sunday.
For information please contact Howard Lee Kilby at hkilby@hotmail.com or telephone 501-767-6096. Please use HSA Conference in the subject line.
M. Kei sent this:
Keibooks Announces Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyohka About Cats
13 September 2010 —Perryville, Maryland, USA
Keibooks announces publication of Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyohka About Cats. Edited by M. Kei, the anthology features the work of forty-five poets from around the world. The poets have written tanka, kyoka, and gogyohka—five line poems originally from Japan—in homage to our funny, friendly, and infuriating feline companions. Covering the full range of personality and behavior, the cats of Catzilla! are by turns endearing, heartbreaking, funny, and tragic.
The cover cat, Timmynocky (Swedish for ‘thingamabob’), is a ship’s cat serving aboard a tall ship on the East Coast of the United States. This summer ‘Timmynocky the Sailor Cat’ achieved notoriety when the editor, M. Kei, detailed his exploits on his blog. The full account of Timmynocky’s adventures can be read at
<http://kujakupoet.blogspot.com/2010/06/adventures-of-timmnynocky-sailor-cat.html>.
waking to something
ominous . . . . . . I find
it’s just my cat
going for a late night stroll
on the keys below middle C
Sylvia Forges-Ryan
eros has stopped
by my garden and kindled
a little flame —
I’ve fallen for this cat
with the eyes of a prophet
M. L. Grace
instinctively
Gus, the rest home cat
sits on the bed
of the next one
to leave this world
André Surridge
“Cats are highly evolved, intriguing, mysterious, ruled-by-no-one beings who are mischievious bringers of unwanted gifts. Cats off to M. Kei for bringing us a collection of tanka that tears at our heartstrings one moment and has us giggling the next.”
—Alexis Rotella, author of Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids
List of Poets included in Catzilla!
Alexis Rotella, Amelia Fielden, André Surridge, Angela Leuck, Anne Curran, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Bob Lucky, Bruce D. Reed, Carolyn Thomas, Christopher L. Jorgensen, David Rice, Denis M. Garrison, Diane Mayr, Dorothy McLaughlin, Edward J. Rielly, Geert Verbeke, Geoffrey Winch, Hortensia Anderson, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Jamila, Janick Belleau, Joanne Morcom, John Martell, John Stone, Joyce S. Greene, Kath Abela Wilson, Kathy Nguyen, Kris Lindbeck, Liam Wilkinson, Lorne Henry, M. Kei, M. L. Grace, Miriam Sagan, Owen Bullock, Patricia Prime, Paul Mercken, Peggy Heinrich, Radhey Shiam, Richard Stevenson, Rodney Williams, ruinedXfinery, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Taro Aidu, Vasile Moldovan, William Hart
About the Editor
M. Kei is an internationally known and award-winning tanka poet and editor. He has previously published two collections of his own work, Heron Sea and Slow Motion, and is the editor Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka that reads all tanka, kyoka, and gogyohka published in English each year to select the best for inclusion in the anthology. He previously edited Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart. Kei is currently employed as a sailor aboard a square-rigged ship. He is available for interviews by contacting the address below.
Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyokha About Cats
ISBN 978-0-557-53612-2
Perfect bound, cover cover, B&W interior
136 pp
$14.00 US (paperback), $7.50 US (ebook)
Currently available from Lulu.com/Keibooks.
Forthcoming from Amazon.com and other major booksellers.
Keibooks
P O Box 1118
Elkton, MD 21922-1118
http://www.lulu.com/Keibooks
Email: Keibooks (at) gmail (dot) com
"Haiku books will be given equal consideration. I'd also love to see a submission containing both haiku and free verse."
http://jacarpress.com/submit.html
Paul Conneally sent this:
Hi Curtis - heres a link or everyome to send a haiku to the London jaona matsuri - if they do it today tomorrow we will put it up on the haiku wall in the Matsuri!
http://www.charnwoodarts.com/projects/haikumania_at_london_japan_matsuri_september_2010
Paul
Robert Epstein sent this:
I'm writing to let you know that I started a blog a little while ago. The subject, like the anthology, is on death awareness--one's own and that of others. It bears the same title as the collection of poems on the subject of one's own mortality. I thought I would send you a link to the blog; if you think it worthy, I would be most grateful to you for posting an announcement of the launch for this blog, so that other poets might find their way to the site to share their death awareness poetry.
Thanks so much!
http://deathawarenesshaiku.blogspot.com/
Howard Lee Kilby sent this news about the upcoming HSA South Regional Conference:
The 14th annual Haiku Society of America South Regional Conference in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas will be held Friday and Saturday, November 5-6, 2010. Poets from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas will attend. This may be the largest gathering since HSA President Kristen Deming honored Hot Springs by setting the 1998 2nd quarter business meeting in the Spa City.
Our program is chaired by Celia Stuart-Powles of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Remember to bring a $10 haiku related gift for the White Elephant exchange. Dr. Susan Delphine Delaney of Plano, Texas is the inspiration for this event. It's always a hoot.
Here is information about our hotel accomodations:
The Arlington Hotel, 239 Central, Hot Springs, Tel: 1-800-643-1502 www.arlingtonhotel.com as a rate of $79.95 Single or Double with a charge of $15 for each additional person.
To better explain that, one or two people = $79.95; 3=$94.95; 4=$101.95 Please use the confirmation code HAIKU SOCIETY OF AMERICA. They have set aside five rooms. When those rooms are sold, they will set aside another five rooms and so on.
The Springs Hotel and Spa, located at 135 Central Avenue, offered a rate of $69.95 for 20 rooms. When I told Virginia Williams the hotel manager that I couldn't guarantee 20 rooms she said that she couldn't offer that price. She then gave me a rate of $79.95. She did say that if we filled 20 rooms that she'd give us the lower rate.
http://www.thespringshotelandspa.com/
Tel: 1-888-624-5521. The confirmation code is HSA GROUP.
She also said that she's give the same rate if someone wished to come on Thursday and leave on Sunday.
For information please contact Howard Lee Kilby at hkilby@hotmail.com or telephone 501-767-6096. Please use HSA Conference in the subject line.
M. Kei sent this:
Keibooks Announces Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyohka About Cats
13 September 2010 —Perryville, Maryland, USA
Keibooks announces publication of Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyohka About Cats. Edited by M. Kei, the anthology features the work of forty-five poets from around the world. The poets have written tanka, kyoka, and gogyohka—five line poems originally from Japan—in homage to our funny, friendly, and infuriating feline companions. Covering the full range of personality and behavior, the cats of Catzilla! are by turns endearing, heartbreaking, funny, and tragic.
The cover cat, Timmynocky (Swedish for ‘thingamabob’), is a ship’s cat serving aboard a tall ship on the East Coast of the United States. This summer ‘Timmynocky the Sailor Cat’ achieved notoriety when the editor, M. Kei, detailed his exploits on his blog. The full account of Timmynocky’s adventures can be read at
<http://kujakupoet.blogspot.com/2010/06/adventures-of-timmnynocky-sailor-cat.html>.
waking to something
ominous . . . . . . I find
it’s just my cat
going for a late night stroll
on the keys below middle C
Sylvia Forges-Ryan
eros has stopped
by my garden and kindled
a little flame —
I’ve fallen for this cat
with the eyes of a prophet
M. L. Grace
instinctively
Gus, the rest home cat
sits on the bed
of the next one
to leave this world
André Surridge
“Cats are highly evolved, intriguing, mysterious, ruled-by-no-one beings who are mischievious bringers of unwanted gifts. Cats off to M. Kei for bringing us a collection of tanka that tears at our heartstrings one moment and has us giggling the next.”
—Alexis Rotella, author of Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids
List of Poets included in Catzilla!
Alexis Rotella, Amelia Fielden, André Surridge, Angela Leuck, Anne Curran, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Bob Lucky, Bruce D. Reed, Carolyn Thomas, Christopher L. Jorgensen, David Rice, Denis M. Garrison, Diane Mayr, Dorothy McLaughlin, Edward J. Rielly, Geert Verbeke, Geoffrey Winch, Hortensia Anderson, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Jamila, Janick Belleau, Joanne Morcom, John Martell, John Stone, Joyce S. Greene, Kath Abela Wilson, Kathy Nguyen, Kris Lindbeck, Liam Wilkinson, Lorne Henry, M. Kei, M. L. Grace, Miriam Sagan, Owen Bullock, Patricia Prime, Paul Mercken, Peggy Heinrich, Radhey Shiam, Richard Stevenson, Rodney Williams, ruinedXfinery, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Taro Aidu, Vasile Moldovan, William Hart
About the Editor
M. Kei is an internationally known and award-winning tanka poet and editor. He has previously published two collections of his own work, Heron Sea and Slow Motion, and is the editor Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka that reads all tanka, kyoka, and gogyohka published in English each year to select the best for inclusion in the anthology. He previously edited Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart. Kei is currently employed as a sailor aboard a square-rigged ship. He is available for interviews by contacting the address below.
Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyokha About Cats
ISBN 978-0-557-53612-2
Perfect bound, cover cover, B&W interior
136 pp
$14.00 US (paperback), $7.50 US (ebook)
Currently available from Lulu.com/Keibooks.
Forthcoming from Amazon.com and other major booksellers.
Keibooks
P O Box 1118
Elkton, MD 21922-1118
http://www.lulu.com/Keibooks
Email: Keibooks (at) gmail (dot) com
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday updates - 5-30-2010
This just in from Dave Russo:
Here is a gallery of photos from last week's Haiku Canada:
The summer quarterly issue of Haibun Today is now online for your reading pleasure at http://haibuntoday.com
Contributors to the current issue include Hortensia Anderson, Owen Bullock, Anton Capri, Glenn G. Coats, David Cobb, Tish Davis, Cherie Hunter Day, Charles Hansmann, Jeffrey Harpeng, Michele L. Harvey, Keith Heiberg, Graham High, Ruth Holzer, Marleen Hulst, Roger Jones, Bob Lucky, Mary Mageau, Johannes Manjrekar, Francis Masat, Renée Owen, Dru Philippou, Patricia Prime, Ray Rasmussen, Bruce Ross, Cynthia Rowe, Mark Smith, Richard Straw, Diana Webb and Theresa Williams.
Writers are now invited to submit haibun and articles for consideration in the September 2010 issue of Haibun Today. Consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com
The Football Haiku World Cup is a project based on the writing of haiku poetry specifically geared to the football World Cup in South Africa in 2010. We want to publish beautiful poetry written by you to accompany the beautiful game.
CONTRIBUTE A FOOTBALL HAIKU
The basic question for the project is "What has the football World Cup ever done for us?" based on the Monty Python question "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
Writers are encouraged to send in a single football-related haiku that they have written in answer to that question.
Writers from anywhere in the world are encouraged to send in work.
Writers can send in haiku in any language, though it would be helpful to us if you can provide an English translation as well (but not necessary). It is a World Cup, after all, which is as much a festival of language as a festival of football.
Send us a single football-related haiku written by you to: enter.haiku@gmail.com
Ffi: http://haikuworldcup.blogspot.com/
THE FOOTBALL HAIKU WORLD CUP TEAM
* Matthew Devereux, Woking, Surrey, England
* Alan Summers. Founder of With Words
* Tim Souster. A primary school teacher in London, England; reviewed
for "The Times Literary Supplement" and "The Financial Times".
* Timmy Killeen runs the English Football Post and is based in Galway, Ireland.
* Peter Ulrik Roeder is the author of "Game Over" and is based in Lyngby, Denmark.
* Adriana Piccardo, creator and administrator of a haiku group at Facebook and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* Roxana Elena Roseti is an editor on the Romanian newspaper Jurnalul National.
CONTRIBUTE A FOOTBALL HAIKU (AND HOPEFULLY GET PAID FOR IT) OR DOWNLOAD THE FORTHCOMING EBOOK: HOW THE PROJECT WORKS
The basic idea is very simple.
Firstly, there will be an ongoing ebook of the haiku we receive that can be downloaded. People downloading that ebook can choose to pay any amount that they like, based on the same funding model as the seminal Radiohead album "In Rainbows".
Once we have received a decent number of initial haiku, we can then offer the first version of the ebook for download. So please send your haiku to us as soon as possible.
After that, in the long-term, those haiku can be put together along with specially commissioned illustrations for a book that will be published and available in shops at a set price. We are interested to hear from artists and designers.
Of the initial money that is received from those donating for the downloadable ebook, 25% will go to the small team orchestrating and editing the ebook.
25% will be paid equally to contributors of haiku that are selected to be part of the project. 25% will be provided as special prizes to the writers of the three haiku that are voted as the best by readers of the ebook.
The remaining 25% will be given to a football-related good cause voted on by contributors and readers of the ebook.
So if you contribute a poem or download the ebook, please also send over the name of the football-related good cause you would like to see money donated to enter.haiku@gmail.com.
If you are an individual or organisation that would like to become a partner or patron or supporter of the project, and would be able to contribute financially to it to help us make it happen (no matter how small a contribution), please also contact us immediately at enter.haiku@gmail.com.
In exchange for your contribution we will provide you with a link in the ebook.
Please send us a single football-related haiku written by you to: enter.haiku@gmail.com
Ffi: http://haikuworldcup.blogspot.com/
Here is a gallery of photos from last week's Haiku Canada:
Haibun Today (June 2010) is now online
The summer quarterly issue of Haibun Today is now online for your reading pleasure at http://haibuntoday.com
Contributors to the current issue include Hortensia Anderson, Owen Bullock, Anton Capri, Glenn G. Coats, David Cobb, Tish Davis, Cherie Hunter Day, Charles Hansmann, Jeffrey Harpeng, Michele L. Harvey, Keith Heiberg, Graham High, Ruth Holzer, Marleen Hulst, Roger Jones, Bob Lucky, Mary Mageau, Johannes Manjrekar, Francis Masat, Renée Owen, Dru Philippou, Patricia Prime, Ray Rasmussen, Bruce Ross, Cynthia Rowe, Mark Smith, Richard Straw, Diana Webb and Theresa Williams.
Writers are now invited to submit haibun and articles for consideration in the September 2010 issue of Haibun Today. Consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com
The Football Haiku World Cup
The Football Haiku World Cup is a project based on the writing of haiku poetry specifically geared to the football World Cup in South Africa in 2010. We want to publish beautiful poetry written by you to accompany the beautiful game.
CONTRIBUTE A FOOTBALL HAIKU
The basic question for the project is "What has the football World Cup ever done for us?" based on the Monty Python question "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
Writers are encouraged to send in a single football-related haiku that they have written in answer to that question.
Writers from anywhere in the world are encouraged to send in work.
Writers can send in haiku in any language, though it would be helpful to us if you can provide an English translation as well (but not necessary). It is a World Cup, after all, which is as much a festival of language as a festival of football.
Send us a single football-related haiku written by you to: enter.haiku@gmail.com
Ffi: http://haikuworldcup.blogspot.com/
THE FOOTBALL HAIKU WORLD CUP TEAM
* Matthew Devereux, Woking, Surrey, England
* Alan Summers. Founder of With Words
* Tim Souster. A primary school teacher in London, England; reviewed
for "The Times Literary Supplement" and "The Financial Times".
* Timmy Killeen runs the English Football Post and is based in Galway, Ireland.
* Peter Ulrik Roeder is the author of "Game Over" and is based in Lyngby, Denmark.
* Adriana Piccardo, creator and administrator of a haiku group at Facebook and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* Roxana Elena Roseti is an editor on the Romanian newspaper Jurnalul National.
CONTRIBUTE A FOOTBALL HAIKU (AND HOPEFULLY GET PAID FOR IT) OR DOWNLOAD THE FORTHCOMING EBOOK: HOW THE PROJECT WORKS
The basic idea is very simple.
Firstly, there will be an ongoing ebook of the haiku we receive that can be downloaded. People downloading that ebook can choose to pay any amount that they like, based on the same funding model as the seminal Radiohead album "In Rainbows".
Once we have received a decent number of initial haiku, we can then offer the first version of the ebook for download. So please send your haiku to us as soon as possible.
After that, in the long-term, those haiku can be put together along with specially commissioned illustrations for a book that will be published and available in shops at a set price. We are interested to hear from artists and designers.
Of the initial money that is received from those donating for the downloadable ebook, 25% will go to the small team orchestrating and editing the ebook.
25% will be paid equally to contributors of haiku that are selected to be part of the project. 25% will be provided as special prizes to the writers of the three haiku that are voted as the best by readers of the ebook.
The remaining 25% will be given to a football-related good cause voted on by contributors and readers of the ebook.
So if you contribute a poem or download the ebook, please also send over the name of the football-related good cause you would like to see money donated to enter.haiku@gmail.com.
If you are an individual or organisation that would like to become a partner or patron or supporter of the project, and would be able to contribute financially to it to help us make it happen (no matter how small a contribution), please also contact us immediately at enter.haiku@gmail.com.
In exchange for your contribution we will provide you with a link in the ebook.
Please send us a single football-related haiku written by you to: enter.haiku@gmail.com
Ffi: http://haikuworldcup.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Wednesday updates - 4/21/2010
Just a quick reminder about the 31st annual Haiku Holiday on Saturday, April 24th. I plan to attend. If you're in the neighborhood, please drop by. You'll find a friendly group of poets there, willing to share their knowledge and poems with you.
http://www.nc-haiku.org/meetings.htm#haiku-holiday
Richard Krawiec sent this update:
Fleur de Lisa wins Original Song competition.
This past Saturday Fleur de Lisa won the Original Song competition at the Mid Atlantic Regional Finals of the Harmony Sweepstakes National Competition for a cappella groups. The winning song, "Rainy Season" was written by Sarah Shunk, based on a haiku by Roberta Beary.
Although Fleur de Lisa didn't win the overall competition, the judges and audience were impressed with all six original songs they performed,which included three written to haiku by Beary, one based on a haiku by Richard Krawiec, another written to Jaki Shelton Green's free verse poem, and one original song written by Sarah. In addition to the Original Song winner, the audience favorite from their set was Slicing, also based on a poem by Beary.
Fleur de Lisa'a new CD, The Unworn Necklace, features songs written to a variety of poetic forms, including haiku by Basho and Issa, a relationship suite written to a series of haiku by Roberta Beary, and longer poems written by Jaki Shelton Green, former NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, and Wendell Berry. You can hear samples at their website(link below). "The Sound of the Name' is from their relationship suite. 'Fireflies' combines Japanese Death poems written by Chine and Kagai.
http://haikusongs.com/discography.html
Lenard D. Moore forwarded this news to me:
The Jerry Kilbride Memorial 2010 English-Language Haibun Contest
Sponsor: Central Valley Haiku Club
Deadline: In hand by October 1, 2010
Submissions: All entries must be unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere, and in English. No limit to the number or length of any submissions. Submit three copies of each haibun, two (2) copies without author information attached for anonymous judging, one (1) copy with author’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address for notification purposes. A first prize of $100 and a second prize of $50 will be awarded. Honorable mention certificates also will be given. Winning entries will be published in an upcoming CVHC chapbook and will be available at the CVHC website.. The entry fee $5 (US) per haibun should be paid by check and made out to: Mark Hollingsworth (CVHC Treasurer).
Eligibility: Open to the public; CVHC officers are not eligible.
Correspondence: No entries will be returned. Send business-sized SASE for a list of the winning entries. Please note that entries without SASE, insufficient postage, or that fail to adhere to contest rules will be disqualified.
Judges: Will not be disclosed until the contest winner has been decided.
Send entries to: Yvonne Cabalona, 709 Auburn Street, Modesto, CA 95350-6079.
Penny Harter will read at the 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The festival will take place October 7-10, 2010 in Newark, New Jersey.
More information is available on the festival web site:
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/
Saša Važic' sent this update:
The Haiku Now! Contest 2010 winners have been announced:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/contest/haiku-now-contest-2010/
http://www.nc-haiku.org/meetings.htm#haiku-holiday
Richard Krawiec sent this update:
Fleur de Lisa wins Original Song competition.
This past Saturday Fleur de Lisa won the Original Song competition at the Mid Atlantic Regional Finals of the Harmony Sweepstakes National Competition for a cappella groups. The winning song, "Rainy Season" was written by Sarah Shunk, based on a haiku by Roberta Beary.
Although Fleur de Lisa didn't win the overall competition, the judges and audience were impressed with all six original songs they performed,which included three written to haiku by Beary, one based on a haiku by Richard Krawiec, another written to Jaki Shelton Green's free verse poem, and one original song written by Sarah. In addition to the Original Song winner, the audience favorite from their set was Slicing, also based on a poem by Beary.
Fleur de Lisa'a new CD, The Unworn Necklace, features songs written to a variety of poetic forms, including haiku by Basho and Issa, a relationship suite written to a series of haiku by Roberta Beary, and longer poems written by Jaki Shelton Green, former NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, and Wendell Berry. You can hear samples at their website(link below). "The Sound of the Name' is from their relationship suite. 'Fireflies' combines Japanese Death poems written by Chine and Kagai.
http://haikusongs.com/discography.html
Lenard D. Moore forwarded this news to me:
The Jerry Kilbride Memorial 2010 English-Language Haibun Contest
Sponsor: Central Valley Haiku Club
Deadline: In hand by October 1, 2010
Submissions: All entries must be unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere, and in English. No limit to the number or length of any submissions. Submit three copies of each haibun, two (2) copies without author information attached for anonymous judging, one (1) copy with author’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address for notification purposes. A first prize of $100 and a second prize of $50 will be awarded. Honorable mention certificates also will be given. Winning entries will be published in an upcoming CVHC chapbook and will be available at the CVHC website.. The entry fee $5 (US) per haibun should be paid by check and made out to: Mark Hollingsworth (CVHC Treasurer).
Eligibility: Open to the public; CVHC officers are not eligible.
Correspondence: No entries will be returned. Send business-sized SASE for a list of the winning entries. Please note that entries without SASE, insufficient postage, or that fail to adhere to contest rules will be disqualified.
Judges: Will not be disclosed until the contest winner has been decided.
Send entries to: Yvonne Cabalona, 709 Auburn Street, Modesto, CA 95350-6079.
Penny Harter will read at the 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The festival will take place October 7-10, 2010 in Newark, New Jersey.
More information is available on the festival web site:
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/
Saša Važic' sent this update:
The Haiku Now! Contest 2010 winners have been announced:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/contest/haiku-now-contest-2010/
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Wednesday updates -4/7/2010
I received this wonderful message from Angelee Deodhar:
Dear Curtis,
Here's wishing you,your dear family and the readers of Tobacco Road a very Happy Easter. May you have a wonderful day.
You will be happy to know that my husband,Shridhar, is much better now and able to walk with the help of a walker. He is also able to examine his patients.We are very grateful to all our friends worldwide who have been keeping him in their prayers.
With lots of love,
angelee
white Easter lilies
along the churchyard path
-fragrance of her hair
Dave Russo sent this:
Haiku Holiday: Sat April 24
Don't miss Haiku Holiday, our biggest event of the year! I just posted the schedule. Details on our Web site.
Miscellany
We now have a Facebook Fan page for the NCHS. This will be a modest effort for a while, but for those of you on Facebook, become a fan!
I've just posted a gallery of the Haiku Canada 10th Anniversary Holographic Anthology from 1987.
Pamela A. Babusci sent this:
Moonbathing: a journal of women's tanka is now open for submissions for Issue two. Deadline May, 1, 2010
The second issue of Moonbathing will be a larger issue including more tanka poets from around the world. You can submit up to 10 tanka for consideration.
Some premier issues of Moonbathing are still available, please contact the editor for details at: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com or if you have any questions or concerns.
The premier issue of Moonbathing has already had two very favorable reviews in Blithe Spirit Journal from the UK and in Kokako Journal from NZ.
Thank you for supporting Moonbathing with your tanka, your encouraging words and your subscriptions/donations. They are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing
M. Kei sent this:
Catzilla! Cat Tanka open for submissions April 1 - June 30, 2010
A reminder to poets: Catzilla! an anthology of cat tanka is now open for submissions. Submissions will close on June 30. Guidelines can be found at: http://groups.google.com/group/Keibooks-Announce/browse_thread/thread/e517bf0ed149e34b
Please be sure and include 'Catzilla submission' on the subject line.
Reprints and originals may be submitted, as long as reprints are accompanied by prior publishing information. No simultaneous submissions.
~K~
M. Kei
Catzilla! Editor
--
M. Kei
Editor-in-chief
Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka
P O Box 1118
Elkton, MD 21922-1118
take5tanka (at) gmail (dot) com
If you have been planning to buy a copy of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka (AtlasPoetica.org), or my new novel Pirates of the Narrow Seas (NarrowSeas.blogspot.com), or one of my previous titles, such as Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart or Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, April is the month to do it!
Lulu.com, home to Keibooks, is offering a special coupon for a discount of 10% off the cover price of one purchase. Visit http://stores.Lulu.com/Keibooks and at check out, enter the code 'SHOWERS'. You may use it once during the month of April for a single purchase. Discount applies to book cover price, and does not include the cost of shipping and handling. The coupon can only be used for a single purchase, but you can buy as many books or journals as you wish in that purchase.
Happy reading!
~K~
--
Keibooks
publisher of literature for discerning readers
P O Box 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922 USA
http://Lulu.com/Keibooks
Keibooks (at) gmail (dot) com
Haiku Reality/stvarnost has a new web address:
http://haikureality.webs.com/
Dear Curtis,
Here's wishing you,your dear family and the readers of Tobacco Road a very Happy Easter. May you have a wonderful day.
You will be happy to know that my husband,Shridhar, is much better now and able to walk with the help of a walker. He is also able to examine his patients.We are very grateful to all our friends worldwide who have been keeping him in their prayers.
With lots of love,
angelee
white Easter lilies
along the churchyard path
-fragrance of her hair
Dave Russo sent this:
Haiku Holiday: Sat April 24
Don't miss Haiku Holiday, our biggest event of the year! I just posted the schedule. Details on our Web site.
Miscellany
We now have a Facebook Fan page for the NCHS. This will be a modest effort for a while, but for those of you on Facebook, become a fan!
I've just posted a gallery of the Haiku Canada 10th Anniversary Holographic Anthology from 1987.
Pamela A. Babusci sent this:
Moonbathing: a journal of women's tanka is now open for submissions for Issue two. Deadline May, 1, 2010
The second issue of Moonbathing will be a larger issue including more tanka poets from around the world. You can submit up to 10 tanka for consideration.
Some premier issues of Moonbathing are still available, please contact the editor for details at: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com or if you have any questions or concerns.
The premier issue of Moonbathing has already had two very favorable reviews in Blithe Spirit Journal from the UK and in Kokako Journal from NZ.
Thank you for supporting Moonbathing with your tanka, your encouraging words and your subscriptions/donations. They are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing
M. Kei sent this:
Catzilla! Cat Tanka open for submissions April 1 - June 30, 2010
A reminder to poets: Catzilla! an anthology of cat tanka is now open for submissions. Submissions will close on June 30. Guidelines can be found at: http://groups.google.com/group/Keibooks-Announce/browse_thread/thread/e517bf0ed149e34b
Please be sure and include 'Catzilla submission' on the subject line.
Reprints and originals may be submitted, as long as reprints are accompanied by prior publishing information. No simultaneous submissions.
~K~
M. Kei
Catzilla! Editor
--
M. Kei
Editor-in-chief
Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka
P O Box 1118
Elkton, MD 21922-1118
take5tanka (at) gmail (dot) com
Also from M. Kei:
If you have been planning to buy a copy of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka (AtlasPoetica.org), or my new novel Pirates of the Narrow Seas (NarrowSeas.blogspot.com), or one of my previous titles, such as Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart or Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, April is the month to do it!
Lulu.com, home to Keibooks, is offering a special coupon for a discount of 10% off the cover price of one purchase. Visit http://stores.Lulu.com/Keibooks and at check out, enter the code 'SHOWERS'. You may use it once during the month of April for a single purchase. Discount applies to book cover price, and does not include the cost of shipping and handling. The coupon can only be used for a single purchase, but you can buy as many books or journals as you wish in that purchase.
Happy reading!
~K~
--
Keibooks
publisher of literature for discerning readers
P O Box 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922 USA
http://Lulu.com/Keibooks
Keibooks (at) gmail (dot) com
Haiku Reality/stvarnost has a new web address:
http://haikureality.webs.com/
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Tuesday updates - 3/16/2010
This just in from Norman Darlington:
The Plenitude of Emptiness
hortensia anderson : collected haibun
Preview of a title shortly available from Darlington Richards through Lulu.com, containing 115 haibun from this master of the poetic form which combines distilled, essentialized prose with haiku:
http://bit.ly/poe-preview
Ray Rasmussen sent this:
Just sharing something that I'm doing with some of my published haibun pieces that focus on my annual trip to Utah's Canyon Country with a photography add in.
http://raysweb.net/canyonlandsjournal/index.html
A new issue of Contemporary Haibun Online has been released:
http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/
A new issue of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka has been released.
http://atlaspoetica.org/
an'ya sent this (Click to enlarge an image):
We are getting ready early for our HSA Oregon Regional Haiku Meeting. It's in Oregon in May, but we would like to extend an invitation for any haiku poets to join us. Of course, an RSVP would be required for food purposes and if anyone stayed longer than one day. love ya . . an'ya
The Plenitude of Emptiness
hortensia anderson : collected haibun
Preview of a title shortly available from Darlington Richards through Lulu.com, containing 115 haibun from this master of the poetic form which combines distilled, essentialized prose with haiku:
http://bit.ly/poe-preview
Photography & Haibun: Canyonlands Personal Journal
Ray Rasmussen sent this:
Just sharing something that I'm doing with some of my published haibun pieces that focus on my annual trip to Utah's Canyon Country with a photography add in.
http://raysweb.net/canyonlandsjournal/index.html
A new issue of Contemporary Haibun Online has been released:
http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/
A new issue of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka has been released.
http://atlaspoetica.org/
an'ya sent this (Click to enlarge an image):
We are getting ready early for our HSA Oregon Regional Haiku Meeting. It's in Oregon in May, but we would like to extend an invitation for any haiku poets to join us. Of course, an RSVP would be required for food purposes and if anyone stayed longer than one day. love ya . . an'ya
Friday, March 12, 2010
updates - 3/12/2010
Ed Baker sent this wonderful haiga in response to the one I posted by Angelee Deodhar yesterday. He writes:attached is a "frog/pond poem... haiga that I did in 1999.
also
here is one that I sent to Cid in 2000 or so..
I think that it was published in Hummingbird, and/or Modern Haiku, and/or sketch book, and or moonset... I forget exactly.
so many frogs
in one pond
c r o a k i n g !
This just in from Carole Macrury:
The 11th Tanka Society of America’s
International Competition Call for Submissions
Deadline: Postmark date of May 10, 2010.
Eligibility: Open to all, members and non-members alike, except TSA officers and judges.
Regulations: Any number of tanka may be submitted. Entries must be original, in English, unpublished, and not submitted for publication or to any other contest.
Entry Fee: $1.00 per tanka, U.S. funds only. Please make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America."
Submissions: Submit each tanka on three separate 3 x 5 inch cards, two with the tanka only (for anonymous judging), the third with the tanka and the author's name and address in the upper left-hand corner. Type or print neatly please.
Submit entries and fees to: Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281-8511 USA
Awards: First prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Amount of prizes may be reduced if an insufficient number of entries are received. Winning poems will be published in Ribbons, the Tanka Society of America journal.
Adjudication: The name(s) of the judge(s) will be announced after the contest.
Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.
Correspondence: Unfortunately, entries cannot be returned. Please send a business size SASE for answers to queries or for a list of winning entries. For foreign entries, send a self-addressed envelope and one international reply coupon.
2010 Bath Japanese Festival Info Page
Alan Summers sent this (only 61 days left!):https://sites.google.com/site/bathjapanesefestival/welcome
Photos from the 1st Quarterly Meeting of the HSA (2010)
This just in from Deborah P Kolodji:
I've posted photos from the 2010 First Quarterly Meeting of the Haiku Society of America on Flickr. It was hosted in Pasadena, California by the Southern California Haiku Study Group.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkolodji/sets/72157623473511245/
Angelee Deodhar sent this link to several haibun by Geert Verbeke and friends:
http://haibungeert.skynetblogs.be/
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Saturday updates - 2/6/2010
Krawiec to Teach Haiku Seminar
at World View Conference
at World View Conference
Richard Krawiec has been asked to teach a seminar on 'How to Teach Haiku' at the 2010 World View Conference, which will be held at UNC Chapel Hill this year. This is an international conference that trains K-12 and community college instructors on 'Best Practices in Education' from around the world. Richard will train teachers on how to teach haiku.
The offer came about because of feedback and observations of workshops that Richard has been teaching funded by the Duke East Asia and Pacific Studies Program. Richard writes: "So it's based on direct observation of the work I do, by people I don't know, which makes it especially rewarding for me."
The 1000 Verse Renga
Alan Summers sent this message to the members of The 1000 Verse Renga:
Please check out Area 17 blog:
http://area17.blogspot.com/
about a number of 1000 Verse Renga Projects.
This is going to be the second exciting year for the Project.
Alan
founder/writer With Words
http://www.withwords.org.uk/
Sea, Mist and Sitka Spruce
William Scott Galasso announces a new book. Sea, Mist and Sitka Spruce is a new collection of over 150 haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and short poems, 100+ pages w/ color photography. The book is $15.00 (includes postage & shipping), checks payable to the author. Address: 724 Walnut St. Edmonds, WA 98020. Further info is available via my new email address: scottgalasso@comcast.net. Thanks for your support.
May you enjoy a wonderful and inspiring 2010.
My very best wishes,
Scott
KATIKATI HAIKU CONTEST 2010
An open theme haiku contest with proceeds going to the Haiku Pathway project.Thanks to Katikati Advertiser for sponsoring the bulk of the cash prizes - 18 & over: $NZ100 for first; $NZ50 for second and $NZ25 for third; 17 & under: $NZ50, $NZ25, $NZ15.
Rules:
- Poems should preferably be typewritten, otherwise clearly handwritten.
- Haiku should not have been previously published (including on the web or broadcast).
- Unlimited entries.
- Submit 2 copies of each haiku with 1 only including your name, address, phone number (no mobiles, please), e-mail address, and for the junior section only, your age. Putting several poems on an A4 sheet is fine.
- Entry fee: Within NZ: 18 & over $5 for 3 haiku or $2 for 1 haiku. 17 & under $1 for up to 2 haiku. For overseas entrants: $US5/3 haiku or $US2/haiku.
- Entries in hand by Friday, April 16. Post to: Katikati Haiku Contest, PO Box 183, Katikati 3166, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
- Results will be announced and presented on Sunday, June 6.
- A judge’s report will be sent by email, otherwise please include a stamped addressed envelope.
- Any entry not accompanied by the correct entry fee will be disqualified. Entrants send cash at their own risk.
- Inquiries to nzhaiku@gmail.com
Details about the World Haiku Festival 2010 In Nagasaki are located at the following link:
http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/worldhaikufestival2010innagasaki
Charlie Smith sent this link to the 3rd Annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge:
http://blog.insectmuseum.org/?p=148
Saša Važić sent the following links to the 2009 and 2010 Haiku Presence Awards:
http://haiku-presence.50webs.com/awards/awards09.html
http://haiku-presence.50webs.com/awards/awards.html
Saša also sent this link to the 2009 Haiku Senryu Tanka Rengay results:
http://www.hpnc.org/past-contests/2009-haiku-senryu-tanka-rengay-results
Kate MacQueen and Deborah Finkelstein submitted these links:
Sun CEO Tweets His Departure
Sun Microsystems' 'CEO no more': a haiku for his last day
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday updates 1/24/2010
Atlas Poetica 5 Deadline Approaching
M. Kei sent this:
A reminder to tanka poets: the deadline for Atlas Poetica is January 31, 2010. We have received a great many sequences this time around, but we are in need of short sequences and short tanka prose, and especially individual tanka. Topics for themed tanka include vacation/recreation, rainy weather, and women.
~K~
--
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka
Published by Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, MD
Atlas Poetica
TheMETPress.com
AtlasPoetica.blogspot.com
Information about the 2010 World Haiku Festival in Nagasaki is available at this link:
http://tobaccoroadpoet.com/docs/WHF2010.pdf
Monday, January 18, 2010
Monday updates - 01/18/2010
moonset is looking for baseball haiku for their "edge of the moon" page. Please send your baseball haiku to Johnny Baranski at:
jbsgarage@aol.com
This just in from Deborah P Kolodji:
Haiku Society of America, 1st Quarterly Meeting
Hosted by the Southern California Haiku Study Group
Organizers: Deborah P Kolodji and Naia
Friday, Feb 19, 2010.
5:30 p.m. Dinner at Burger Continental, 535 South Lake Ave, Pasadena.CA (Don't let the name fool you - the menu includes an assortment of Greek, Armenian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean entries.)
7:30 pm. Haiku reading at Ten Thousand Villages, 567 South Lake Ave Pasadena, CA.
Urban Haiku performance, "Basho meets Spoken Word" performance. Poets include Victor Ortiz, Michael Dylan Welch, Eric Morago (reading Basho).
Open Haiku mic.
Saturday, Feb 20, 2010.
10:00 am. Museum tour, Pacific Asia Museum 46 N. Los Robles, Pasadena, CA
10:30 am. Southern California Haiku Study Group participation in a Poets- on-Site-style sampler performance. Haiku and haibun.
11:00 am. Lunch at Sitar, 618 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA
12:30 - 6:00 pm. A variety of readings, talks, and workshops at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles, Pasadena, CA
Presenters include Dr. Thomas Rimer, Jeanne Nakano (Interpretive dance and haiku), Susan Antolin, Ce Rosenow, and others.
6:30 p.m. Dinner at McCormick and Schmick's, 111 N. Los Robles, Pasadena,CA
8:00 pm. - Salon at a private home.
Sunday, Feb 21, 2010
10:00 am. Gold Line Ginko. We will catch the Gold Line in Pasadena to Union Station, Olvera Street, and Little Tokyo.
12:30 pm. (approx) Lunch and sharing of the haiku we write in Little Tokyo.
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Debbie Kolodji dkolodji@aol.com or Naia naia01@yahoo.com
Robert Epstein sent this:
I am writing to invite you to submit poem(s) for a "death" poem anthology that I am editing. By death poems, I am referring to haiku or tanka that are written with awareness of one's own mortality (not someone else's), and which may reflect what Yoel Hoffmann, in JAPANESE DEATH POEMS, refers to as the essence of one's spiritual legacy (however you define that).
I would be most obliged if you would be willing to post the call for submissions. I'm thinking that it might help to post an example poem:
that's what
dandelions do . . .
blow away
-- Stanford M. Forrester, Poetalk
Thank you very much! And, I look forward to receiving a death poem... or more than one!
Warm regards,
Robert Epstein (taylorepstein@earthlink.net)
The February 2010 issue of LYNX: A Journal for Linking Poets is online at:
http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/251hmpg.html
3LIGHTS Journal of Haiku & Related Forms : Winter 2010 has been published. Visit http://3lights.wordpress.com/ to access the new edition. Our featured poet for this debut edition is Michael Dylan Welch.
Submissions of haiku and related poems on a theme of 'music' are now being considered for our Spring edition. Details are at http://3lights.wordpress.com/submissions.
Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson
3LIGHTS : Journal of Haiku & Related Forms
Edited by Liam & Diane Wilkinson
http://3lights.wordpress.com
And finally, many of you probably saw the photo my daughter, Alana, took of me and last month's snowman, an event that turned into our first haiga collaboration. Alas, here are the remains of our beloved snowman, Billy Bobb, a name given to him by my very creative daughter.
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