Terri L. French, SE Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America would like to invite all HSA members, haiku enthusiasts, teachers, and those interested in learning more about the genre to the 2012 Ginkgo Haiku Fest, September 28 - 30. The conference will be held at beautiful Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama. Featured conference speakers are Tom Painting, Bob Moyer, and Laurence Stacey. Along with instruction, there will be games, open mic, ginko walk, door prizes, and a $100 Issa Award for Best Haiku to be voted on by the attendees. The price for the weekend is $60 for HSA members (which includes most meals) and $65 for non-members. Bluff-side rooms with gorgeous views of Lake Guntersville are $105.00/per night.
Please contact Terri at terri.l.french@gmail.com for registration information. Deadline for registration is August, 15.
View the Haiku Fest Flyer
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Monday, August 13, 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. :)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tuesday updates
Susumu Takiguchi sent this update:
WHC NEWS
10 April 2011
Re: New Issue of World Haiku Review is now online: April 2012 Issue
The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce that the April 2012 Issue of World Haiku Review is now online. Click on:
https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr/home
Rohini, our Technical Editor, is continuing her noble and arduous task of retrieving and rescuing poems, articles, treatises, reports, contributions etc. of the past World Haiku Review issues 2001 - 2007, which got tragically lost in mysterious circumstances. Her first effort is focused on saving, recovering and rescuing only. She will then gradually sort them out and give them shape. If you happen to come across any of these invaluable items of the past WHR issues, by all means let us know.
We do hope that you will enjoy this issue of World Haiku Review.
Kengin,
Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor & Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club
Kala Ramesh
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Rohini Gupta
Technical Editor, World Haiku Review
Gabriel Rosenstock sent this update about his new book. Click the title to download more information.
THE INVISIBLE LIGHT
Infrared photographs by Ron Rosenstock
Poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock
Sasa Vazic sent the following Japan-Lithuania haiku contest link:
http://www.worldhaiku.net/news_files/jp_lithu_haikucontest/En_Contest.pdf
Norman Darlington sent the following update:
JOURNAL OF RENGA & RENKU sale price ends soon
JOURNAL OF RENGA & RENKU, Issue 2
There is less than a week left to take advantage of the introductory price of US$19.95. At midnight Saturday 14 April 2012, JRR2 reverts to the cover price of US$25. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can securely order now at http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr . Preview JRR2 Table of Contents at http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/preview-issue-2/
Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/
Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/journal.of.renga.renku
Claudia Coutu Radmore sent the following link to their Ottawa KaDo group:
http://haikukado.wordpress.com
Rick Black sent the following update:
April 2012
In conjunction with National Poetry Month, two events are being held in Camden, N.J., to launch a new collection of haiku by Nick Virgilio, a lifelong resident and one of the most beloved haiku poets in the country.
On Friday, April 27th, the Paul Robeson library at Rutgers University-Camden will host an exhibition of Virgilio’s papers as part of their “American Haiku Masters” collection; and then on Sunday, April 29th, a community reading of the new book, Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku, will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Camden.
Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s, was one of the pioneers of haiku in the U.S. He wrote thousands of haiku ranging in subject matter from the Vietnam war to water lilies, from prostitutes on street corners to cicadas on a hot summer night.
“Virgilio was intensely American, with a generosity of heart and spirit that recall Walt Whitman,” said Rod Willmot, a Canadian haiku poet and former publisher of Burnt Lake Press, which issued Virgilio’s first book, Selected Haiku. “He was a people’s poet, touching readers through the universality of what moved him and the honesty and dedication with which he wrote.”
“When I found out that so many of his poems had never been published, I jumped at the opportunity,”
said Rick Black, founding editor of Turtle Light Press, a Virginia-based publisher which is releasing the new collection. “In particular I have always loved his poems about his brother’s death in Vietnam as well as life on the streets of Camden.”
Haiku, short nature poems of 17 syllables or less, originated in Japan several hundred years ago; they became popular in the U.S. at the start of the 20th century and are still loved and written by many people today, from school children to Pulitzer Prize winning poets.
Edited by Raffael de Gruttola, a former president of the Haiku Society of America, the book contains more than 100 unpublished haiku as well as 25 old favorites, excerpts of an interview with Virgilio on Marty Moss-Coane’s “Radio Times” show, two essays by Virgilio on writing, a tribute by Monsignor Michael Doyle of Sacred Heart Church, an afterword by poet Kathleen O’Toole, photos and facsimiles of some of the original manuscripts.
More than twenty years after his death, Virgilio is still a beloved poet today. He was a regular commentator on the public radio program Weekend Edition with Scott Simon in its early years and was instrumental in helping to found the Walt Whitman Center for the Arts & Humanities. Some of his poems have even inspired street murals near Sacred Heart Church and elsewhere.
The Rutgers exhibition, which runs on Friday, the 27th from noon to 1:30 p.m., highlights original manuscripts, book art, and journals. It will feature a short reading from the new book as well as remarks by the publisher and editor. To R.S.V.P. for lunch or more information, contact curator Elizabeth Moser at: haikumasters@gmail.com
Similarly, a large crowd is expected at Sacred Heart to participate in the community reading on Sunday, the 29th. Featured speakers will include Monsignor Michael Doyle, Tony Virgilio (Nick’s surviving brother), Henry Brann (president of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association), Raffael de Gruttola, Rick Black and others. For more information or directions to the church, please call 856-966-6700 or email: parish@sacredheartcamden.org
“I think it’ll be a wonderful celebration of Nick’s life,” said Monsignor Michael Doyle, pastor of Sacred Heart. “He created beauty out of the gutters of Camden and, by reading these new poems, the entire community will be uplifted.”
Dear haiku poets, you are invited to participate in The First "International Kukai" (HAIKU CONTEST).
The Kigo (THEME) is SPARROW/S no other form of the word will be accepted.
Send THREE haiku which include SPARROW/S to:
Email: international_kukai@yahoo.com
Subject: April_submission
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2012
Voting Deadline: April 20th 2012
Example:
winter solitude—
only a sparrow
to share my meal
—Rita Odeh
tinywords, 2007
Read the full direction page at this link (you must scroll down):
http://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/
Rita Odeh & John Daleiden
ro / jd
Shonan Village Centre, November 28th- 29th, 2012
The ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition for tanka in English
Call for Submissions: Open to everyone
Entry Fee: None
Submission Period: April 1st – June 30th, 2012
Address for submissions: ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition
c/o Nihon Kajin Club
Shuei Bldg. 2F, 1-12-5 Higashigotanda,
Shinagawa ku, Tokyo, 141-0022, Japan
Rules of Entry:
1. Tanka must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
2. Post two copies of each tanka, with your name and address on one copy only.
Entry is by mail only.
3. Any theme is acceptable. (Five line form only)
4. Judging is anonymous.
5. Winning tanka and commended tanka will be published in the Festival brochure.
in SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER 2012
(ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER 2012)
ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER will be held by NIHON KAJIN CLUB, the Japan Tanka Poets’ Society. The schedule is as follows:
November 28th Registration at SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER
29th The 7th International Tanka Festival in SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER
(10:00~17:00)
At SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER
(JR Zushi )
Awarding ceremony, Keynote speech, Tanka workshop, Minispeech, Tanka Poetry reading etc.
WHC NEWS
10 April 2011
Re: New Issue of World Haiku Review is now online: April 2012 Issue
The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce that the April 2012 Issue of World Haiku Review is now online. Click on:
https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr/home
Rohini, our Technical Editor, is continuing her noble and arduous task of retrieving and rescuing poems, articles, treatises, reports, contributions etc. of the past World Haiku Review issues 2001 - 2007, which got tragically lost in mysterious circumstances. Her first effort is focused on saving, recovering and rescuing only. She will then gradually sort them out and give them shape. If you happen to come across any of these invaluable items of the past WHR issues, by all means let us know.
We do hope that you will enjoy this issue of World Haiku Review.
Kengin,
Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor & Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club
Kala Ramesh
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Rohini Gupta
Technical Editor, World Haiku Review
Gabriel Rosenstock sent this update about his new book. Click the title to download more information.
THE INVISIBLE LIGHT
Infrared photographs by Ron Rosenstock
Poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock
Sasa Vazic sent the following Japan-Lithuania haiku contest link:
http://www.worldhaiku.net/news_files/jp_lithu_haikucontest/En_Contest.pdf
Norman Darlington sent the following update:
JOURNAL OF RENGA & RENKU sale price ends soon
JOURNAL OF RENGA & RENKU, Issue 2
There is less than a week left to take advantage of the introductory price of US$19.95. At midnight Saturday 14 April 2012, JRR2 reverts to the cover price of US$25. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can securely order now at http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr . Preview JRR2 Table of Contents at http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/preview-issue-2/
Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/
Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/journal.of.renga.renku
Claudia Coutu Radmore sent the following link to their Ottawa KaDo group:
http://haikukado.wordpress.com
Rick Black sent the following update:
April 2012
‘The Bard of Camden’ to be Honored With New Edition of Poems
In conjunction with National Poetry Month, two events are being held in Camden, N.J., to launch a new collection of haiku by Nick Virgilio, a lifelong resident and one of the most beloved haiku poets in the country.
On Friday, April 27th, the Paul Robeson library at Rutgers University-Camden will host an exhibition of Virgilio’s papers as part of their “American Haiku Masters” collection; and then on Sunday, April 29th, a community reading of the new book, Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku, will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Camden.
Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s, was one of the pioneers of haiku in the U.S. He wrote thousands of haiku ranging in subject matter from the Vietnam war to water lilies, from prostitutes on street corners to cicadas on a hot summer night.
“Virgilio was intensely American, with a generosity of heart and spirit that recall Walt Whitman,” said Rod Willmot, a Canadian haiku poet and former publisher of Burnt Lake Press, which issued Virgilio’s first book, Selected Haiku. “He was a people’s poet, touching readers through the universality of what moved him and the honesty and dedication with which he wrote.”
“When I found out that so many of his poems had never been published, I jumped at the opportunity,”
said Rick Black, founding editor of Turtle Light Press, a Virginia-based publisher which is releasing the new collection. “In particular I have always loved his poems about his brother’s death in Vietnam as well as life on the streets of Camden.”
Haiku, short nature poems of 17 syllables or less, originated in Japan several hundred years ago; they became popular in the U.S. at the start of the 20th century and are still loved and written by many people today, from school children to Pulitzer Prize winning poets.
Edited by Raffael de Gruttola, a former president of the Haiku Society of America, the book contains more than 100 unpublished haiku as well as 25 old favorites, excerpts of an interview with Virgilio on Marty Moss-Coane’s “Radio Times” show, two essays by Virgilio on writing, a tribute by Monsignor Michael Doyle of Sacred Heart Church, an afterword by poet Kathleen O’Toole, photos and facsimiles of some of the original manuscripts.
More than twenty years after his death, Virgilio is still a beloved poet today. He was a regular commentator on the public radio program Weekend Edition with Scott Simon in its early years and was instrumental in helping to found the Walt Whitman Center for the Arts & Humanities. Some of his poems have even inspired street murals near Sacred Heart Church and elsewhere.
The Rutgers exhibition, which runs on Friday, the 27th from noon to 1:30 p.m., highlights original manuscripts, book art, and journals. It will feature a short reading from the new book as well as remarks by the publisher and editor. To R.S.V.P. for lunch or more information, contact curator Elizabeth Moser at: haikumasters@gmail.com
Similarly, a large crowd is expected at Sacred Heart to participate in the community reading on Sunday, the 29th. Featured speakers will include Monsignor Michael Doyle, Tony Virgilio (Nick’s surviving brother), Henry Brann (president of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association), Raffael de Gruttola, Rick Black and others. For more information or directions to the church, please call 856-966-6700 or email: parish@sacredheartcamden.org
“I think it’ll be a wonderful celebration of Nick’s life,” said Monsignor Michael Doyle, pastor of Sacred Heart. “He created beauty out of the gutters of Camden and, by reading these new poems, the entire community will be uplifted.”
The First "International Kukai" Invitation
Dear haiku poets, you are invited to participate in The First "International Kukai" (HAIKU CONTEST).
The Kigo (THEME) is SPARROW/S no other form of the word will be accepted.
Send THREE haiku which include SPARROW/S to:
Email: international_kukai@yahoo.com
Subject: April_submission
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2012
Voting Deadline: April 20th 2012
Example:
winter solitude—
only a sparrow
to share my meal
—Rita Odeh
tinywords, 2007
Read the full direction page at this link (you must scroll down):
http://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/
Rita Odeh & John Daleiden
ro / jd
The 7th International Tanka Festival 2012
Shonan Village Centre, November 28th- 29th, 2012
The ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition for tanka in English
Call for Submissions: Open to everyone
Entry Fee: None
Submission Period: April 1st – June 30th, 2012
Address for submissions: ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition
c/o Nihon Kajin Club
Shuei Bldg. 2F, 1-12-5 Higashigotanda,
Shinagawa ku, Tokyo, 141-0022, Japan
Rules of Entry:
1. Tanka must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
2. Post two copies of each tanka, with your name and address on one copy only.
Entry is by mail only.
3. Any theme is acceptable. (Five line form only)
4. Judging is anonymous.
5. Winning tanka and commended tanka will be published in the Festival brochure.
The 7th International Tanka Festival
in SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER 2012
(ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER 2012)
ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER will be held by NIHON KAJIN CLUB, the Japan Tanka Poets’ Society. The schedule is as follows:
November 28th Registration at SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER
29th The 7th International Tanka Festival in SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER
(10:00~17:00)
At SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER
(JR Zushi )
Awarding ceremony, Keynote speech, Tanka workshop, Minispeech, Tanka Poetry reading etc.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Monday updates
A new issue of Notes from the Gean is available. Colin Stewart Jones sent this:
Hi Curtis,
Could you please post this for your readers? I have included User Instructions for those who are unfamiliar with the flip format.
NftG 3:4 is on the stands
http://notesfromthegean.com/
There are too many great works to mention individually but thank you all for your contributions and support.
The new flip format works on all browsers and platforms and devices. We have an interactive table of contents and full search facility. Readers also have the option to print, download, or add annotations
Enjoy!
Colin Stewart Jones
Editor-in-Chief
Notes from the Gean
Charlotte Digregorio sent this:
Hello, Haikuists,
Attached is the press release for Haikufest to be held Saturday, April 28, in Skokie, IL. We hope a lot of haikuists/aspiring haikuists will join us!
Members (family and friends) can RSVP to me. The public will RSVP to the Library.
We have ten readers so far, and I'd really like to nail down a definite number soon.
I think three more readers will be plenty, and I'll cut it off at that.
Generally, each reader can read three published haiku (or haiku accepted for publication) in a haiku journal/haiku anthology. If you have had more than three haiku published or accepted for publication, please read no more than four haiku. Remember, HSA members only.
If you have any questions about this requirement, please contact me.
Also, readers should introduce themselves and briefly state how they discovered haiku, why they write it, and what inspires them to write (or something else that they feel is relevant).
Please read each haiku slowly and twice, since they are short and we want the audience to grasp them.
Thanks!
Charlotte Digregorio
Midwest Regional Coordinator
Haiku Society of America
Karina Klesko sent this:
Hello Curtis Dunlap,
Would you be so kind as to place this Haiku announcement on your Tobacco Road Blog:
The Second Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH) Contest. The theme is any Spring Kigo. For complete details see this link:
Second Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH) Contest
http://poetrywriting.org/SketchbookAnnouncements/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Announcement_April_20_2012_Sketchbook_SHH_Contest_2.htm
Thank you Curtis
Poetrywriting.org/Karina Klesko/Director
www.poetrywriting.org
Sketchbook
Karina Klesko, Senior Editor
John Daleiden, Editor/Webmaster
kk / jd
Richard Krawiec sent this:
I'm hoping you can come see my play CREEDS at Common Ground March 22 - April 1(link below). It's based on the story of Bonnie and Robert Hanssen. He was an Opus Dei Catholic who became a double agent for the Russians. The cast is killer, led by Lori Mahl(Actors Equity) who made a career for several decades in NYC. She was actually onstage with Carol Channing and Tyne Daly. Also starring Jeff Alguire(Best Actor Award 2011 The Independent). Even the minor roles are filled with seasoned performers from Playmakers, REP, Burning Coal, and Manbites Dog.
Let me know if you can make it and I can arrange you a friends discount. See the link below
richard
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Come see my controversial play, CREEDS, March 22 - April 1
Common Ground Theater, Durham
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/224259
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Check out our website - Poetry contests coming up.
http://www.jacarpress.com/
http://www.rkeditor.com/
Theresa Williams has a new haibun chapbook entitled The Galaxy to Ourselves. Details are available at the following URL:
http://thegalaxytoourselves.yolasite.com/
Norman Darlington sent this:
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/products-page/
JRR2 is live! 278 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations and Commentaries - that's almost 100 pages more than our last issue - Issue 2 of Journal of Renga & Renku is on sale now. Just $19.95 for the first month before we revert to the cover price of $25.
This issue includes:
— Essays from Chris Drake, H. Mack Horton, John Carley, Jeremy Robinson, Charles Tomlinson, Dylan McGee, Jeffrey Angles and Molly Vallor.
— A solo shisan by Nobuyuki Yuasa marks the anniversary of the devastating tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan one year ago.
— 47 poems including 30 shisan, and the results and judge's commentary of the 2011 JRR renku contest adjudged by Eiko Yachimoto, in which four poems placed, four received Honourable Mentions, and ten more were critiqued/appreciated in part.
— And much, much more...
Purchase JRR2 here: http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/products-page/
Preview the Table of Contents and Editorial here: http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/preview-issue-2/
Journal of Renga & Renku is listed with the Bibliography of Asian Studies and the MLA International Bibliography
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Thursday updates
The new issue of A Hundred Gourds online. Haiku editor, Lorin Ford writes:
A Hundred Gourds 1:2 is now online
Issue 1:2 of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga tanka and renku poetry is now online.
http://ahundredgourds.com
In this issue Ray Rasmussen introduces a feature on ‘The Graphic Haibun of Linda Papanicolaou’. You’ll find AHG’s first renku section, as well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun, an essay on the ‘New Junicho’ renku, an interview with Peter Yovu and reviews of three haiku books.
In response to suggestions from our readers and for your ease in locating haiku, tanka and renku poems by author’s name, AHG has now established an index of poets for these sections. This index has also been applied retrospectively to the AHG 1:1 haiku section.
A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the June Edition, Issue 1:3.
The deadline for all submissions to AHG 1:3 is March 15th.
--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds
The March issue of The Heron's Nest is online:
http://theheronsnest.com/
Charlotte Digregorio sent this update
Hello, Haikuists:
I have some more details about Haikufest to be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, April 28 at Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St., Skokie, IL.
In general, there will be a brief presentation on haiku to begin the program. Following this, we hope there will be wide participation on the part of Haiku Society members reading their work. Next, there will be time for question and answers from the audience directed to individual readers, or to the moderator about haiku, in general. We will finish the program with an audience haiku contest. First, Second, and Third Place Winners will receive copies of "Frogpond."
After the program, we will meet at a restaurant within a few blocks of the Library. This, of course, is optional. Non-members are welcome to join us, too. This will be followed by a Ginko walk (nature walk to inspire haiku writing). The Ginko will be held in Vernon Hills, and Lidia Rozmus has graciously volunteered to lead it. To end the day, we will have coffee at Lidia's home.
As for Haikufest at the Library, so far, these HSA members are scheduled to read: Lidia Rozmus, Amelia Cotter, Mac Greene, John Han, Tom Chockley, Alicia Hilton, Joanne Crofton, and Tomoko Hata. We hope more people will read, even HSA members outside the Midwest Region who may find themselves in the Chicago area. Any member who has had three or more haiku published or accepted for publication in a haiku journal or in "Ripples" newsletter may read. Please RSVP as soon as possible and let us know if you plan to read. If you have any questions about your eligibility to read, please contact me.
Once we've nailed down how many readers there will be, we will let them know the maximum number of haiku they may read. Those who read should begin by briefly introducing themselves. They may state, for example, why they like to write haiku, what inspires them to write it, or anything they feel is relevant. We have many interesting members from diverse backgrounds, so we will inspire the audience to start writing haiku, I'm sure.
Last year at Haikufest, we had more than 50 people in the audience, unrelated to members. This year, if you bring friends and family, we will get many more. In our press release to the media and writer's organizations, etc., we will state that attendees may bring a haiku to the program to enter in the contest, or they can write one during the program when they receive inspiration from the readers.
We'd like to have a few volunteers to help sign in people who attend. It's always good to follow up with attendees and put them on our email list. And, we'd also like to have a few volunteers to help judge the audience haiku contest.
Please contact me with questions or to volunteer. Since we are volunteers, we greatly appreciate your help. And, it's a great way to feel part of the HSA community and network with other friendly members.
Thank you so much. We look forward to seeing everyone!
Charlotte Digregorio
Midwest Regional Coordinator
Haiku Society of America
Charlotte also passed this along:
Call for Words and Art
A Midnight Snack
Call for words: Poems suitable for late night reading. Poems must be no longer than 56 lines (including lines between stanzas) and no more than 60 characters (including spaces between words) per line. Submit up to three poems by Word attachment to: arlyn@poeticlicenseinc.net.
Call for art: Cover art related to theme. Submit up to three pieces of art by pdf or jpeg, to arlyn@poeticlicenseinc.net.
Regarding line should read: Submission – A Midnight Snack.
E-mail cover letter should include: (1) poet’s or artist’s name as you would like it to appear; (2) e-mail address; (3) street address; (4) title of each poem or piece of artwork submitted; and (5) brief statement of what keeps you awake at night or what you do when you can’t sleep (no x-rating, please).
Poems and artwork must NOT include identifying information such as name, e-mail address, or street address.
Previously published work is fine provided author/artist retains publication rights. Note prior publisher for acknowledgement.
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance by August 1, 2012 by e-mail. Poets and artist whose work is selected will receive one contributor’s copy as sole remuneration. Additional copies will be available for purchase.
Submission shall constitute: (1) representation that the submission is original work and that the creator retains publication rights, and (2) agreement that if the work is accepted for publication, (a) Poetic License Press may, in its sole discretion, publish and promote the work in any medium or forum, and (b) the sole remuneration is one contributor’s copy of A Midnight Snack.
Poetic License Press is an affiliate of Poetic License, Inc.
PO Box 279, Glencoe, Il 60022
poticlicenseinc.blogspot.com
poeticlicensepress.blogspot.com
arlyn@poeticlicenseinc.net
And finally, Tomislav Maretić sent the link below. The deadline is today, March 1st so hurry if you're going to submit:
http://librasia.iafor.org/haiku.html
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Saturday Updates
Japanese Arts Fusion
Dear Poet Friends and Friends of Poets,
I would like to share information with you about a Japanese Performing Arts Event with commissioned art installation which I have organized for the Pacific Asia Museum in the Los Angeles CA area, one of only four American institutions to exhibit Pan-Asia arts. The museum has been wonderfully supportive, and will use this event as their "kick off event" for this year's focus on Japanese Arts.
I wish you all could be there!
Linda Galloway
Click the image for more information
Saša Važić sent this:
Dear haiku friends,
We invite you to participate in our international haiku contest. You can read about it here
http://variantaenglezeasca.blogspot.com/
We would be grateful to you if you will spread the news. Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Eduard Tara
Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest
Greetings:
I'd like to invite you to participate in this year's Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest.
You may send as many haiku or senryu as you like at $2 each: type or neatly print your submissions (you may put them all on a single sheet of paper if you wish). If you send senryu, please mark them as such. Be sure to include your email address and/or an SASE so that we can notify you of the results!
Our first prize is $250; second $100; third $50; senryu $50.
Please send all entries to:
Kaji Aso Studio
I'd like to invite you to participate in this year's Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest.
You may send as many haiku or senryu as you like at $2 each: type or neatly print your submissions (you may put them all on a single sheet of paper if you wish). If you send senryu, please mark them as such. Be sure to include your email address and/or an SASE so that we can notify you of the results!
Our first prize is $250; second $100; third $50; senryu $50.
Please send all entries to:
Kaji Aso Studio
40 Saint Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115
USA
You can see the winning entries from 2011 and previous years at www.kajiasostudio.com.
All entries must be mailed by APRIL 15, 2012. All rights revert to the authors after June, 2012 when the winners will be announced.
You can see the winning entries from 2011 and previous years at www.kajiasostudio.com.
All entries must be mailed by APRIL 15, 2012. All rights revert to the authors after June, 2012 when the winners will be announced.
The Kaji Aso Studio is a center for the arts in Boston founded by Japanese painter, poet, and musician Kaji Aso to promote a positive, nature-centered philosophy and practice of art. We have held classes and hosted hundreds of exhibitions, concerts, and readings reading for over thirty years. The Studio is also the home of the Boston Haiku Society, which meets here every third Saturday of the month.
Please join us!
John Ziemba
Submissions for the The Frugal Poet: Recipes and Poems for Lean Times anthology are arriving in our inboxes. Susan and I would like to thank everyone who has sent a recipe and poem. We've enjoyed reading your poems and the stories behind each recipe.
For those of you who have not submitted a recipe, please browse over to The Frugal Poet submissions page to read our guidelines.
http://www.frugalpoet.com/p/call-for-submissions.html
And finally, I have some sad news:
Hatsue Kawamura passed away on February 11th. Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold worked on many important books together including:
Nakajo, Fumiko. Breasts of Snow.
Trans. Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold. Tokyo:The Japan Times Press, 2004
Baba, Akiko. Heavenly Maiden Tanka.
Trans. Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold. Gualala CA:AHA Books, 1999
Saito, Fumi, White Letter Poems.
Trans. Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold. Gualala CA: AHA Books, 1998
Please join me in extending our deepest condolences to the friends and family of Hatsue Kawamura.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Sunday updates
New Editors for Modern Haiku
Roberta Beary is the new haibun editor for Modern Haiku. Here's what was written in Modern Haiku:
Sharpe-eyed subscribers who compulsively read our masthead will have noticed a few changes there, notably the addition of Roberta Beary's name. We're delighted to announce that Roberta has agreed to join the editorial staff as haibun editor. She's starting right away and will choose from your work for the summer 2012 issue. Please continue to send your submissions to me, however, at moderhaiku@gmail.com.
Roberta recently had one of her haibun nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Congratulations, Roberta!
Charlie Trumbull also had this announcement:
And finally, I realize that unfortunately all this fun cannot go on forever. I am planning to hand over the reins of Modern Haiku after the summer 2013 issue, which coincides with my 70th birthday. The really good news is that Paul Miller--newly dubbed Modern Haiku associate editor--will pick up these reins and ride this thoroughbred of ours into even wider horizons!
DailyHaiku call for submissions for Cycle 13
Dear Readers, Friends, and Past Contributors,
We are thrilled to announce that submissions are open for DailyHaiku's thirteenth publishing cycle! This represents the start of our seventh year of publishing as an online daily periodical.
We now invite you to submit some of your best work for consideration. Your submission, if selected, will grant you one of six spots on our roster of Cycle 13 contributors. It will also become your first set of haiku that will appear on the site. At the end of the 6 month publishing period, each contributor will have four weeks of published haiku, and will receive a copy of our yearly print addition that features their work.
If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please read our submission criteria detailed on this webpage:
http://www.dailyhaiku.org/info/#contribute
Feel free to forward this call to any other haiku enthusiasts that may be interested in participating.
Thank you for helping to make DailyHaiku a lively and dynamic environment to showcase contemporary short form poetry!
All the best,
Patrick and Nicole
Editors---DailyHaiku
Charlotte Digregorio sent this recap of the February 2012 Critique Meeting Held in Chicago Metro Area
http://tobaccoroadpoet.com/docs/Feb2012recapofhaikumeeting.pdf
Charlie Smith sent this link to the 5th Annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge.
http://blog.insectmuseum.org/?p=4027
A Light Breakfast
poems to start your day
poems to start your day
Poetic License Press
Come see what all the fuss is about!
A Light Breakfast poets read and talk about their work.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:00 p.m.
The Book Stall
811 Elm Street, Winnetka, Il
Friday, March 9, 2012
8:00 p.m., followed by open mic
The Art Center
1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL
Hosted by Highland Park Poetry
and The Art Center
Copies of A Light Breakfast will be available for purchase. Please also support our gracious hosts with you patronage: The Book Stall, Highland Park Poetry, and The Art Center.
PO Box 279, Glencoe, IL 60022
poeticlicenseinc.blogspot.com
And finally, please browse over to The Frugal Poet web site and read the call for submissions page.
http://www.frugalpoet.com/p/call-for-submissions.html
Susan Nelson Myers and I are working on an anthology that will include frugal recipes with poetry.
We look forward to reading your poems and sampling your recipes!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday updates
Aubrie Cox has made two excellent haiku ebooks available for download. Click on the titles to view/download.
Charlotte Digregorio sent this:
Haikuists:
In the Chicago Metro area, we will meet Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Winnetka Public Library, 768 Oak St., Winnetka, IL.
This will be a critique meeting. More details to come as the date draws near.
Charlotte also sent this:
HSA members met for a haiku critique session at Skokie Public Library in Skokie, IL on Saturday, Nov. 12. They were joined by
guests Cynthia Gallaher and Felicia Kaplan.
Participants each received critique of four haiku. Charlotte Digregorio, Midwest Regional Coordinator, stressed that participants should focus on the beauty of haiku for its simplicity and economy of words. For the benefit of many beginners in the group, she spoke of valuable journals, websites, and blogs by HSA members that would assist them in learning the art, along with using HSA’s website and Facebook page for timely information.
Illinois Member Tom Chockley announced that he and Missouri Member Jeanne Allison seek more haikuists to network with by
email. They wish to share haiku, questions, and ideas. To join them, members may contact Tom @ sino_chockley@hotmail.com
Charlotte began the session by speaking about why haikuists love the art and write it. She quoted Midwest HSA members who had
recently responded to that question in her blog. Among responses were:
“In this fast-fleeting world, I find the moment even more momentous. Writing a haiku that captures the wonder of time in
my own words and thought is a tiny miracle of gratitude.”
--Donna Bauerly, Iowa
“The reason I write haiku is what I would guess most people would say is their reason. To set down a marker for the really
important things in my life. A walk in the woods is so much better to focus on than memorializing your fears about a global financial meltdown, or a terrorist attack or the coming hurricane, etc.”
--Mike Rehling, Michigan
“I write haiku because of the joy I get from paying attention and noticing what’s going on around me and within me. I feel each day offers gifts of insight and moments worthy of contemplation or prayers of thanksgiving. I feel more alive when I am writing haiku!”
--Dr. Randy Brooks, Illinois
Next, Charlotte reviewed her “Basic Elements of Haiku” list, including guidelines such as avoidance of making judgmental
statements, and limited use of adjectives, the latter which the beginning haikuists found challenging. She also explained that in a three-line haiku, it’s important to give readers a sense of season, time, or place in the first line, so the image is clear to readers.
Among haiku presented at the meeting were:
november rains . . .
leaves spiral
into sewers
--Ilze Arajs
at the beach
in september
sunbathers milk the rays
--Jim Harper, Illinois
During the session, participants, as a group, brainstormed for winter images, and wrote this haiku:
april thaw . . .
footprints lead to
the merry-go-round
Charlotte said a February 2012 meeting in the Chicago area will take place, with members notified of particulars beforehand by email and notice appearing on the HSA website.
Members may contact Charlotte at her new email address, c-books@hotmail.com, with questions or concerns about activities.
--Submitted by Charlotte Digregorio
Lorin Ford sent this:
Dear Readers and Contributors,
The inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds will be a big issue. We are on track for the publication date of December 1st.
Thank you to everyone who submitted haiku to me for A Hundred Gourds, 1:1.
As well as haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga, the December issue will contain a retrospective feature on Janice M. Bostok’s haiku life, essays by John Carley, Jack Galmitz and Chen-ou Liu and interviews with two haiku poets whose names we’re keeping as a surprise.
Submissions for A Hundred Gourds 1:2, the March issue, will remain open until the deadline of December 15th.
I welcome your haiku submissions for AHG issue 1:2 any time up to and including December 15th. After that date, all submissions received will be held over for consideration for the June issue , A Hundred Gourds 1:3.
Please include your name and country of residence directly beneath the last haiku within the text of your email. Further details about submissions to all of the editors are on the A Hundred Gourds temporary webpage, here:
http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/
On December 1st, this same url will take you to the inaugural issue and the temporary webpage will be abandoned.
warm wishes,
Lorin
--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
A Hundred Gourds
Susumu Takiguchi sent this:
WORLD HAIKU REVIEW
Re: Call for Submissions for the Next Issue
Dear Kuyu,
The next issue of World Haiku Review (WHR) is planned for December 2011.
As for haiku poems in English or in English translation, send in by e-mail anything you like, traditional or non-traditional on any topic, free or formal style, kigo or muki, up to ten poems which have not been published or are not considered for publication elsewhere to both: kalaramesh8@gmail.com AND susumu.takiguchi@btinternet.com Please use the font "Ariel", size 12 and present your haiku in the simplest and most straightforward format, all starting from the left margin, avoiding fanciful layout and formation. Please do not forget to write your country with your full name. Suggested themes: happiness, unhappiness and autumn and/or winter scenes
The only criterion for selection is quality. Please therefore send in your finest works as soon as you can.
There is no set deadline but we will announce when enough number of good works are received, and the submission will be closed soon after that. We ourselves will put selected haiku poems in either the Neo-classical, Shintai (or new style) or Vanguard sections according to their characteristics. You, as the writer, therefore need not worry abouth this classification. Just send what happens to come out best and we will do the rest.
As for other works relating to haiku (haibun, articles, essays, haiga or bookreviews on haiku etc.), just send in whatever you think would deserve publication in WHR. Once again, quality is the key.
If you have books which you wish to be reviewed, send a review copy to me.
I will mention some indications about our selection below for those who may be interested to know them. (For detailed explanation, visit the Editorial of WHR August 2011 at: http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr-august-2011)
We wish to continue to endeavour to present a unique haiku magazine which, while deeply rooted in tradition, is full of new ideas, innovative features or critical views. It will continue to aim at the highest standards and top quality as always.
Kengin to all,
Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor and Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club
* * *
INDICATIONS FOR HAIKU SELECTION
THOSE LIKELY TO BE REJECTED
1 Hackneyed, clichés, imitative or derivative;
2 'So what?' haiku;
3 Too short to be good;
4 Made artificially vague (false 'yugen');
5 Gimmicky as opposed to real skills;
6 Bad English;
7 Template-like, or ticking-box-kind factory haiku;
THOSE LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED
1 New and/or original;
2 Have something to say;
3 Reflecting truths, sincerity and honesty;
4 Coming from your heart and soul;
5 Based on your real and deep experiences;
6 If products of your imagination, true, fine and deep at that;
7 Away from rules & regulations and yet good;
8 Good choice and order of words;
9 Have good rhythm;
10 Pictorial and/or musical feel;
11 Have some sense of humour;
12 Reflecting the grasp of the essence of haiku (a sense of brevity, humour, somewhat detached view or karumi)
INDICATIONS FOR SELECTION OF OTHER WORKS
Basically, many things about haiku would apply to them as well. Additionally:
THOSE LIKELY TO BE REJECTED
1 Repeating what others have said many times;
2 Trapped by and subservient to rules and regulations;
3 Uncritical parroting of received views or conventional wisdom;
THOSE LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED
1 Critical (the more so, the better);
2 Innovative;
3 New contributions to the understanding of haiku;
Keibooks Announces Atlas Poetica 10 : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
Press Release – For Immediate Release – Please post to all appropriate venues
7 November 2011 – Perryville, Maryland, USA
Today Keibooks releases Atlas Poetica 10, the latest issue of the highly regarded journal. ATPO 10 continues to publish tanka, waka, kyoka, and gogyoshi, along with sequences, prosimetrum, book reviews, announcements, and non-fiction articles on a variety of topics.
This issue focuses on gogyoshi, and publishes the ‘Declaration of Gogyoshi’ by Taro Aizu, the foremost advocate of gogyoshi working in English, as well as examples of the genre by various practitioners. It also has a focus on book reviews, including an in depth analysis of Denis M. Garrison’s First Winter Rain, by Charles Tarlton.
In addition, in keeping with Atlas Poetica’s dedication to scholarship about tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi in various countries around the world, we are pleased to publish an article by Margaret Dornaus about Carles Riba and Catalonian tanka, as international contributions by poets from around the world.
Contributors to ATPO 10:
Amelia Fielden, André Surridge, Angie LaPaglia, Aubrie Cox, Autumn Noelle Hall, Bruce England, Carmella Braniger, Carol Raisfield, Charles Tarlton, Chen-ou Liu, Claire Everett, Cody Gohl, David Caruso, Edward J. Rielly, Elizabeth Moura, Gary Severance, Gerry Jacobson, Guy Simser, Hinemaia, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, James Tipton, James Won, Jeffrey Harpeng, 1Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Kath Abela Wilson, Luminita Suse, M. Kei, Margaret Chula, Margaret Dornaus, Margaret Van Every, Marilyn Humbert, Mark Burgh, Matt Esteves Hemmerich, Owen Bullock, Patricia Prime, Peggy Heinrich, Randy Brooks, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Sonam Chhoki, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, T. J. Edge, Taro Aizu, Taura Scott, Terry Ingram, Tish Davis, Tracy Davidson
Purchase online at: http://atlaspoetica.org/?page_id=84
or through your favorite online retailer.
Keibooks
P O Box 516
Perryville, MD 21903
AtlasPoetica.org
--
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
Charlotte Digregorio sent this:
Haikuists:
In the Chicago Metro area, we will meet Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Winnetka Public Library, 768 Oak St., Winnetka, IL.
This will be a critique meeting. More details to come as the date draws near.
Charlotte also sent this:
Recap of November 2011 HSA Meeting in Chicago Area
HSA members met for a haiku critique session at Skokie Public Library in Skokie, IL on Saturday, Nov. 12. They were joined by
guests Cynthia Gallaher and Felicia Kaplan.
Participants each received critique of four haiku. Charlotte Digregorio, Midwest Regional Coordinator, stressed that participants should focus on the beauty of haiku for its simplicity and economy of words. For the benefit of many beginners in the group, she spoke of valuable journals, websites, and blogs by HSA members that would assist them in learning the art, along with using HSA’s website and Facebook page for timely information.
Illinois Member Tom Chockley announced that he and Missouri Member Jeanne Allison seek more haikuists to network with by
email. They wish to share haiku, questions, and ideas. To join them, members may contact Tom @ sino_chockley@hotmail.com
Charlotte began the session by speaking about why haikuists love the art and write it. She quoted Midwest HSA members who had
recently responded to that question in her blog. Among responses were:
“In this fast-fleeting world, I find the moment even more momentous. Writing a haiku that captures the wonder of time in
my own words and thought is a tiny miracle of gratitude.”
--Donna Bauerly, Iowa
“The reason I write haiku is what I would guess most people would say is their reason. To set down a marker for the really
important things in my life. A walk in the woods is so much better to focus on than memorializing your fears about a global financial meltdown, or a terrorist attack or the coming hurricane, etc.”
--Mike Rehling, Michigan
“I write haiku because of the joy I get from paying attention and noticing what’s going on around me and within me. I feel each day offers gifts of insight and moments worthy of contemplation or prayers of thanksgiving. I feel more alive when I am writing haiku!”
--Dr. Randy Brooks, Illinois
Next, Charlotte reviewed her “Basic Elements of Haiku” list, including guidelines such as avoidance of making judgmental
statements, and limited use of adjectives, the latter which the beginning haikuists found challenging. She also explained that in a three-line haiku, it’s important to give readers a sense of season, time, or place in the first line, so the image is clear to readers.
Among haiku presented at the meeting were:
november rains . . .
leaves spiral
into sewers
--Ilze Arajs
at the beach
in september
sunbathers milk the rays
--Jim Harper, Illinois
During the session, participants, as a group, brainstormed for winter images, and wrote this haiku:
april thaw . . .
footprints lead to
the merry-go-round
Charlotte said a February 2012 meeting in the Chicago area will take place, with members notified of particulars beforehand by email and notice appearing on the HSA website.
Members may contact Charlotte at her new email address, c-books@hotmail.com, with questions or concerns about activities.
--Submitted by Charlotte Digregorio
Lorin Ford sent this:
Dear Readers and Contributors,
The inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds will be a big issue. We are on track for the publication date of December 1st.
Thank you to everyone who submitted haiku to me for A Hundred Gourds, 1:1.
As well as haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga, the December issue will contain a retrospective feature on Janice M. Bostok’s haiku life, essays by John Carley, Jack Galmitz and Chen-ou Liu and interviews with two haiku poets whose names we’re keeping as a surprise.
Submissions for A Hundred Gourds 1:2, the March issue, will remain open until the deadline of December 15th.
I welcome your haiku submissions for AHG issue 1:2 any time up to and including December 15th. After that date, all submissions received will be held over for consideration for the June issue , A Hundred Gourds 1:3.
Please include your name and country of residence directly beneath the last haiku within the text of your email. Further details about submissions to all of the editors are on the A Hundred Gourds temporary webpage, here:
http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/
On December 1st, this same url will take you to the inaugural issue and the temporary webpage will be abandoned.
warm wishes,
Lorin
--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
A Hundred Gourds
Susumu Takiguchi sent this:
WORLD HAIKU REVIEW
Re: Call for Submissions for the Next Issue
Dear Kuyu,
The next issue of World Haiku Review (WHR) is planned for December 2011.
As for haiku poems in English or in English translation, send in by e-mail anything you like, traditional or non-traditional on any topic, free or formal style, kigo or muki, up to ten poems which have not been published or are not considered for publication elsewhere to both: kalaramesh8@gmail.com AND susumu.takiguchi@btinternet.com Please use the font "Ariel", size 12 and present your haiku in the simplest and most straightforward format, all starting from the left margin, avoiding fanciful layout and formation. Please do not forget to write your country with your full name. Suggested themes: happiness, unhappiness and autumn and/or winter scenes
The only criterion for selection is quality. Please therefore send in your finest works as soon as you can.
There is no set deadline but we will announce when enough number of good works are received, and the submission will be closed soon after that. We ourselves will put selected haiku poems in either the Neo-classical, Shintai (or new style) or Vanguard sections according to their characteristics. You, as the writer, therefore need not worry abouth this classification. Just send what happens to come out best and we will do the rest.
As for other works relating to haiku (haibun, articles, essays, haiga or bookreviews on haiku etc.), just send in whatever you think would deserve publication in WHR. Once again, quality is the key.
If you have books which you wish to be reviewed, send a review copy to me.
I will mention some indications about our selection below for those who may be interested to know them. (For detailed explanation, visit the Editorial of WHR August 2011 at: http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr-august-2011)
We wish to continue to endeavour to present a unique haiku magazine which, while deeply rooted in tradition, is full of new ideas, innovative features or critical views. It will continue to aim at the highest standards and top quality as always.
Kengin to all,
Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor and Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club
* * *
INDICATIONS FOR HAIKU SELECTION
THOSE LIKELY TO BE REJECTED
1 Hackneyed, clichés, imitative or derivative;
2 'So what?' haiku;
3 Too short to be good;
4 Made artificially vague (false 'yugen');
5 Gimmicky as opposed to real skills;
6 Bad English;
7 Template-like, or ticking-box-kind factory haiku;
THOSE LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED
1 New and/or original;
2 Have something to say;
3 Reflecting truths, sincerity and honesty;
4 Coming from your heart and soul;
5 Based on your real and deep experiences;
6 If products of your imagination, true, fine and deep at that;
7 Away from rules & regulations and yet good;
8 Good choice and order of words;
9 Have good rhythm;
10 Pictorial and/or musical feel;
11 Have some sense of humour;
12 Reflecting the grasp of the essence of haiku (a sense of brevity, humour, somewhat detached view or karumi)
INDICATIONS FOR SELECTION OF OTHER WORKS
Basically, many things about haiku would apply to them as well. Additionally:
THOSE LIKELY TO BE REJECTED
1 Repeating what others have said many times;
2 Trapped by and subservient to rules and regulations;
3 Uncritical parroting of received views or conventional wisdom;
THOSE LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED
1 Critical (the more so, the better);
2 Innovative;
3 New contributions to the understanding of haiku;
Keibooks Announces Atlas Poetica 10 : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
Press Release – For Immediate Release – Please post to all appropriate venues
7 November 2011 – Perryville, Maryland, USA
Today Keibooks releases Atlas Poetica 10, the latest issue of the highly regarded journal. ATPO 10 continues to publish tanka, waka, kyoka, and gogyoshi, along with sequences, prosimetrum, book reviews, announcements, and non-fiction articles on a variety of topics.
This issue focuses on gogyoshi, and publishes the ‘Declaration of Gogyoshi’ by Taro Aizu, the foremost advocate of gogyoshi working in English, as well as examples of the genre by various practitioners. It also has a focus on book reviews, including an in depth analysis of Denis M. Garrison’s First Winter Rain, by Charles Tarlton.
In addition, in keeping with Atlas Poetica’s dedication to scholarship about tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi in various countries around the world, we are pleased to publish an article by Margaret Dornaus about Carles Riba and Catalonian tanka, as international contributions by poets from around the world.
Contributors to ATPO 10:
Amelia Fielden, André Surridge, Angie LaPaglia, Aubrie Cox, Autumn Noelle Hall, Bruce England, Carmella Braniger, Carol Raisfield, Charles Tarlton, Chen-ou Liu, Claire Everett, Cody Gohl, David Caruso, Edward J. Rielly, Elizabeth Moura, Gary Severance, Gerry Jacobson, Guy Simser, Hinemaia, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, James Tipton, James Won, Jeffrey Harpeng, 1Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Kath Abela Wilson, Luminita Suse, M. Kei, Margaret Chula, Margaret Dornaus, Margaret Van Every, Marilyn Humbert, Mark Burgh, Matt Esteves Hemmerich, Owen Bullock, Patricia Prime, Peggy Heinrich, Randy Brooks, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Sonam Chhoki, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, T. J. Edge, Taro Aizu, Taura Scott, Terry Ingram, Tish Davis, Tracy Davidson
Purchase online at: http://atlaspoetica.org/?page_id=84
or through your favorite online retailer.
Keibooks
P O Box 516
Perryville, MD 21903
AtlasPoetica.org
--
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
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:
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wednesday updates
Haiku in the Garden: A Haiku Walk and Writing Workshop
The North Carolina Haiku Society (NCHS)
Saturday, October 22nd 2:30 – 4:30
To many people, a haiku is a short poem of 17 syllables, written in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. In the Japanese haiku tradition, however, the 5-7-5 sound pattern is not sufficient to make a poem a haiku. There are other conventions of form and content that are more important. For example, traditional Japanese haiku include a “season word,” and they often try to convey a connection between Nature and human nature. They are often divided into 2 asymmetrical parts that do not make a complete sentence. They typically use simple language and present images with little or no commentary.
Not only that, but haiku conventions have become more complex since the early years of the 20th century, when many poets in Japan and elsewhere deemphasized the strict 5-7-5 pattern in order to focus on other elements of haiku form and tradition. Other poets have broken with tradition in order to seek new possibilities in haiku. http://nc-haiku.org/haiku-what.htm
This workshop will begin with an introduction of simple approaches to writing haiku. Participants will take a “haiku walk” in the Gardens and Nature Trail with NCHS members and follow-up with a discussion of the poems written by participants.
Fee: $15 ($10 NCBG members)
Pris Campbell sent this:
I'm sending this to those of you who may be interested in my latest chapbook out: Postscripts to the Dead.
The ordering site that prints MiPo's chapbook series is offering a sales cut on all of their items until October 30, so now is the time to get a print copy if you want one. You have to register at the site to order but it's no big deal. I registered a year ago to buy a couple of chaps I wanted and they've sent me no spam.
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/284771
6.71 sale price , plus shipping (UNTIL OCT 30) 7.99 regular price , after Oct 30, plus shipping. The book is 32 pages long. Color cover by Didi Menendez since this book is part of the MiPo series.
digital download is free. We just want people to read the book, not spend a fortune.
The first review is out and he quotes two poems from the book in their entirety which may help you make a decision. I'm excited about the book.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/224867608 (review by Grady Harp)
xPris
Notes from the Gean: press release
www.notesfromthegean.com
Dear Readers and Subscribers,
Our submissions page contains all the relevant information on how to submit. To be considered for any particular issue submissions must be in hand one month before the listed publication dates.
The next issue is due out December 1st but we have extended the submission period for an extra week to November 7th for our December 1st issue only.
Please also check our Gean News tab for any updates.
If you are experiencing any problems with the new web forms them please simply send your submissions by email to the relevant editors:
Haiku: a.williams@notesfromthegean.com
Tanka: m.mcclintock@notesfromthegean.com
Haiga: a.pomphrey@notesfromthegean.com
Haibun: r.krawiec@notesfromthegean.com
Linked forms: a.summers@notesfromthegean.com
Resources: c.s.jones@notesfromthegean.com
thank you
Colin Stewart Jones
Editor-in-Chief
NFTG
Richard Krawiec sent this:
I'm really excited that Lola Haskins is going to be the featured poet at the January 21 meeting of the NCPS. I'm sure you all know her work, but in case you need to refresh yourself.
http://www.lolahaskins.com/
On Sunday, January 22, the day after the NCPS meeting, Jacar Press will be hosting her for a Master Class. There will be limited seating, to insure everyone who attends gets direct feedback on their work. We still need to work out the details of location and cost - which will be under $50, but how much under is dependent on where we hold the workshop.
Since all of you have been supportive of my work, and Jacar's work, in the past I wanted to give you the chance to reserve a spot before I go public with the announcement.
I do NOT want any money now, and I understand this is a tentative commitment. But don't say you think you'd like to go if you're only 50/50. If you're pretty confident you want to attend, barring unforeseen difficulties, let me know.
Lola is a well-connected poet, and a great person. When I got Betty Adcock to critique poems at Quail Ridge Books, one of the poets who showed up ended up being published by a magazine where Betty knew the editor and recommended him.
That's one of the reasons why we go to these things. To develop those contacts.
But the main reason is, we just want to make our work better.
Let me know if you think you'd like to reserve a spot.
richard
--
Check out my websites!
http://www.press53.com/BioRichardKrawiec.html
http://www.rkeditor.com/
http://jacarpress.com/index.html
S E E T H E V O I C E !
VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL 2011
VISIBLE VERSE FESTIVAL 2011
Fri, Nov 4 and Sat. Nov 5
Pacific Cinémathèque
1131 Howe St
Vancouver, BC, Fri Nov 4 and Sat Nov 5‹Curator and host Heather Haley and Pacific Cinémathèque enter their second decade of the Visible Verse Festival, an annual celebration that has become the sustaining venue for artistically significant poetry video and film in North America. It has always featured a strong component of B.C. and Canadian work; now Visible Verse attracts more international submissions than ever before.
Friday evening¹s far-reaching program is a showcase of more than 35 short films and videos from Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
On Saturday afternoon at 4 pm, the festival presents an Artist Talk and Q&A with pioneering videopoet Tom Konyves, author of the newly released VIDEOPOETY: A Manifesto. Signed hard copies will be available for sale.
Immediately following at 5 pm, Heather Haley hosts a Visiting Poets Reading with esteemed visual poet Alexander Jorgensen from Pennsylvania and California¹s dynamic performance poet Rich Ferguson. Admission is by donation for both events.
For further information, including high def images, contact:
Heather Haley
Pacific Cinémathèque
778 861-4050
hshaley@emspace.com
http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/visible-verse-festival-2011
Roberta Beary's work will be featured in A Companion to Poetic Genre (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture).
The hardcover edition of Roberta's book entitled The Unworn Necklace can be purchased at Amazon.com. The Unworn Necklace received a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America and was a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award – the first book of haiku to receive such recognition.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Monday updates
Good day to you all!
I have power issues with my laptop so please bear with me while I struggle with this new...bump in the road.
Here are a few news items:
A new issue of Notes from the Gean was recently published online.This issue is loaded with a lot of great stuff to read. Browse over to http://www.notesfromthegean.com/ and check out the contents page.
BTW, my sincerest thanks to the editors for publishing two renray in the new issue.
Season's greetings - autumn is now fast coming on here in Kyoto. The crickets are beginning to quieten their cries.
Kindly spread the word about the Kikakuza International Haibun Contest's transmutation into next years's Genjuan International Haibun Contest if you possibly can. Nobuyuki Yuasa and I would much appreciate it being posted on any English/international haiku sites or in newsletters this autumn. The renaming is explained and guidelines outlined in the attachment (in two different Word formats). For good measure, however, I will copy them out below, too. We will look forward to another good entry from many countries around the world. Entry is free again. Deadline: late January.
The Hailstone Haiku Circle site, the Icebox, at http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/ also carries the guidelines, as well as last year's top four pieces to read (both items are accessed by links at top right). You can also see there (scroll down a little on the top page) the book we have produced of the first three years' Decorated Works and order it if you like. There are some new translations of haibun by Basho, Buson, and Issa at the back. There will be a few review/gift copies available shortly, but only a few!
Thank you in advance for any help you can give our Contest. If ever in the Kyoto-Osaka area, please drop by.
Best wishes,
Stephen Gill (Tito)
(and on behalf of Nobuyuki (Sosui), too)
Turtle Light Press sent this update.
Deadline: March 15, 2012
No of entries: up to 6 original unpublished haiku (in one of the former Yugoslavian languages and/or in English) not under consideration elsewhere.
Topic and form: any
Send four (4) copies of each haiku, or group of haiku, signed by a cipher, along with a separate sheet in another envelope with your cipher, name, age, profession, address, phone number and email address to:
APOKALIPSA
Ulica Lili Novy 25
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
(subject: For haiku contest)
or to
revija@kud-apokalipsa.si
In which case enclose two attachments, one with haiku and another with your personal data, both signed by your cipher.
Judges: Edin Saračević, Silva Trstenjak and Alenka Zorman.
Winners will receive some practical prizes. Contest results will be published in Apokalipsa Review.
Hi Curtis,
We may be adding people to the program.
This is our first working schedule.
Howard
9:00 AM Welcome & Haiku Sharing....Howard Lee Kilby and R. Paul Tucker, MD, Arkansas Haiku Society
9:30 ......"Senryu" by Patricia Laster, Poets Roundtable of Arkansas, Benton, AR,
10:30 ...."Liminality" by Susan Delphine Delaney, MD, Plano, TX
11:30 ...Lunch Break
1:00 PM... "Writing a Haiku Blog" by Margaret Dornaus, Writer and Teacher
2:00 ... "Japanese Calligraphy Demonstration" by Mickey Hulsey
3:00 ... Ginko Walk and Kukai lead by Johnye Elizabeth Strickland, Professor Emeritis, UALR
Saturday: NOV 5, 2011
9:00 AM Announcements - Participants
9:30 Workshop ...Tom Painting, Teacher, Atlanta, GA
11:30 Lunch Break
1:00 "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Omar Almobarak, Hot Springs, AR
2:00 "Panel" Beginning Haiku Poets" Rev. Gail Paul, Hot Springs, AR
3:00 Haiku Friends Autumnal Gift Exchange ... led by Susan Delphine Delaney, MD
(Please bring a wrapped gift a haiku poet would enjoy, (about $10 or pre-loved.)
There are poets expected from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
The program is subject to change with the addition of confirmed haiku poets.
Please let me know if there is any information I can share with you.
Thank you very much,
Howard Lee Kilby
PO Box 1260
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas 71902-1260
Tel: 501-767-6096
Email: hkilby@hotmail.com
HAIKU REALITY / STVARNOST CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
http://haikureality.webs.com/
Your submissions (up to 6 unpublished haiku in English and your mother tongue, haiga, essays, interviews, book reviews) are welcome.
Please read the submission guidelines before submitting: http://haikureality.webs.com/ohaikureality.htm
Beginning with the next issue English Haiku Editor and one of the two selectors (besides Jasminka Nadaskic Djordjevic) of the best haiku of the issue will be Robert D. Wilson, who will take an'ya's place, as she has to concentrate more on her many other obligations.
Thank you very much to an'ya for her excellent collaboration!
Deadline: October 31, 2011.
Warmly,
Saša Važić
I have power issues with my laptop so please bear with me while I struggle with this new...bump in the road.
Here are a few news items:
A new issue of Notes from the Gean was recently published online.This issue is loaded with a lot of great stuff to read. Browse over to http://www.notesfromthegean.com/ and check out the contents page.
BTW, my sincerest thanks to the editors for publishing two renray in the new issue.
Season's greetings - autumn is now fast coming on here in Kyoto. The crickets are beginning to quieten their cries.
Kindly spread the word about the Kikakuza International Haibun Contest's transmutation into next years's Genjuan International Haibun Contest if you possibly can. Nobuyuki Yuasa and I would much appreciate it being posted on any English/international haiku sites or in newsletters this autumn. The renaming is explained and guidelines outlined in the attachment (in two different Word formats). For good measure, however, I will copy them out below, too. We will look forward to another good entry from many countries around the world. Entry is free again. Deadline: late January.
The Hailstone Haiku Circle site, the Icebox, at http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/ also carries the guidelines, as well as last year's top four pieces to read (both items are accessed by links at top right). You can also see there (scroll down a little on the top page) the book we have produced of the first three years' Decorated Works and order it if you like. There are some new translations of haibun by Basho, Buson, and Issa at the back. There will be a few review/gift copies available shortly, but only a few!
Thank you in advance for any help you can give our Contest. If ever in the Kyoto-Osaka area, please drop by.
Best wishes,
Stephen Gill (Tito)
(and on behalf of Nobuyuki (Sosui), too)
Turtle Light Press sent this update.
The 14th International Apokalipsa Haiku Contest
Deadline: March 15, 2012
No of entries: up to 6 original unpublished haiku (in one of the former Yugoslavian languages and/or in English) not under consideration elsewhere.
Topic and form: any
Send four (4) copies of each haiku, or group of haiku, signed by a cipher, along with a separate sheet in another envelope with your cipher, name, age, profession, address, phone number and email address to:
APOKALIPSA
Ulica Lili Novy 25
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
(subject: For haiku contest)
or to
revija@kud-apokalipsa.si
In which case enclose two attachments, one with haiku and another with your personal data, both signed by your cipher.
Judges: Edin Saračević, Silva Trstenjak and Alenka Zorman.
Winners will receive some practical prizes. Contest results will be published in Apokalipsa Review.
Haiku Hot Springs, November 4th and 5th
Hi Curtis,
We may be adding people to the program.
This is our first working schedule.
Howard
9:00 AM Welcome & Haiku Sharing....Howard Lee Kilby and R. Paul Tucker, MD, Arkansas Haiku Society
9:30 ......"Senryu" by Patricia Laster, Poets Roundtable of Arkansas, Benton, AR,
10:30 ...."Liminality" by Susan Delphine Delaney, MD, Plano, TX
11:30 ...Lunch Break
1:00 PM... "Writing a Haiku Blog" by Margaret Dornaus, Writer and Teacher
2:00 ... "Japanese Calligraphy Demonstration" by Mickey Hulsey
3:00 ... Ginko Walk and Kukai lead by Johnye Elizabeth Strickland, Professor Emeritis, UALR
Saturday: NOV 5, 2011
9:00 AM Announcements - Participants
9:30 Workshop ...Tom Painting, Teacher, Atlanta, GA
11:30 Lunch Break
1:00 "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Omar Almobarak, Hot Springs, AR
2:00 "Panel" Beginning Haiku Poets" Rev. Gail Paul, Hot Springs, AR
3:00 Haiku Friends Autumnal Gift Exchange ... led by Susan Delphine Delaney, MD
(Please bring a wrapped gift a haiku poet would enjoy, (about $10 or pre-loved.)
There are poets expected from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
The program is subject to change with the addition of confirmed haiku poets.
Please let me know if there is any information I can share with you.
Thank you very much,
Howard Lee Kilby
PO Box 1260
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas 71902-1260
Tel: 501-767-6096
Email: hkilby@hotmail.com
HAIKU REALITY / STVARNOST CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
http://haikureality.webs.com/
Your submissions (up to 6 unpublished haiku in English and your mother tongue, haiga, essays, interviews, book reviews) are welcome.
Please read the submission guidelines before submitting: http://haikureality.webs.com/ohaikureality.htm
Beginning with the next issue English Haiku Editor and one of the two selectors (besides Jasminka Nadaskic Djordjevic) of the best haiku of the issue will be Robert D. Wilson, who will take an'ya's place, as she has to concentrate more on her many other obligations.
Thank you very much to an'ya for her excellent collaboration!
Deadline: October 31, 2011.
Warmly,
Saša Važić
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Several updates - July 14, 2010
Folks, I apologize for the lack of updates. Summer can be a busy time for me. I've also spent more time writing. So far, July has been great for the creative juices.
Okay, on to the updates, a few that you probably already know about.
Penny Harter was featured on the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's "Poetry Fridays" blog-post on Friday, July 9th. This series features the "Festival Poets" who have been invited to read at the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival, to be held October 7th -10th at the Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ. In addition to linking to some of her longer poems, the post featuring Penny links to one of her haibun and a haiku, as well as to her "Three Questions" responses on Tobacco Road. You can find it at:
http://blog.grdodge.org/2010/07/09/poetry-fridays-festival-poet-penny-harter
And see the rest of the list of "Festival Poets"---with a briefer profile of Penny (click on her name) at:
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2010/festival-poets
She feels honored to have been asked, and she hopes to see some of you there. She'll be reading sometime on the weekend, yet to be announced. You can visit the Dodge Poetry Festival web site from time to time as they refine the schedule: http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2010. (Four-day and weekend only tickets are available now on the site. Individual day tickets go on sale mid-August.)
Hi Curtis,
First, let me say I enjoy getting your blog updates very much. It's truly become the key source of information for our field. Keep up the good work!
Second, I have 2nd editions of my two books available in all ebook formats (e.g., for Apple's iPod/iPadf, Kindle, Sony Reader, etc.). Soon, these books will be available at each product's online ebook stores, but
are ready now at the links below.
Small Events: Haibun by W. F. Owen (Expanded 2nd Edition):
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/18520
Note: This book won the Kanterman Merit Book Award for Best Haibun in 2008.
Haiku Notebook Second Edition:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17633
I hope you can include this information in a future update please.
Thanks and take care,
Bill
Dear fellow haiku poets & friends:
I am proud to announce the publication of my chapbook; Wrecking Ball & other Urban Haiku from Accents Publishing. A haiku chronicle of the seasons in my home city, Philadelphia, it collects poems that have appeared in haiku journal in recent years, with some new poems as well.
Perfect bound, 30 haiku, 30 pages; just $5 dollars. Reviewed in the current edition of Frogpond.
It is available from the publisher Accent Publishing: http://www.accents-publishing.com, from http://www.amazon.com or from me:
Barry George
2011 Chestnut st., #11G
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103
($5 plus $1 shipping & handling, within the USA). Please make Check out to: Barry George.
Liam Wilkinson sent this update:
SUBMISSION CALL : 3LIGHTS AUTUMN 2010
http://3lights.wordpress.com
3LIGHTS Journal of Micropoetry invites you to submit haiku, senryu, tanka and other micropoems for its autumn issue. The autumn issue's theme will be FAIRGROUNDS & THE CIRCUS.
Please submit up to ten unpublished micropoems on a theme of fairgrounds and the circus to threelightsgallery [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk. We no longer require biographical details, but please include your name and location. The deadline for all submissions is September 1st 2010 and the issue will be published online in October.
Whilst we continue to accept and encourage submissions of quality haiku, senryu and tanka, from the autumn issue onwards we are also keen to receive submissions of micropoems (poems of no more than 140 characters including spaces). Micropoetry is a swiftly growing literary form and, thanks to microblogging sites such as Twitter, poets are continually discovering new forms of concise expression. As a result, 3LIGHTS now opens its arms to submissions of these short poems and dedicates itself to promoting these brief and engaging works.
For our complete submission details and to read our past issues, please visit http://3lights.wordpress.com. We look forward to receiving your work. Please feel free to share this submission call widely.
Our forthcoming issue, 3LIGHTS Summer 2010, will be released in August, featuring a selection of new poetry from some of the finest writers of short-form poetry. We're also delighted to present a selection of haiku and tanka from our featured poet André Surridge.
Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson
3LIGHTS : Journal of Haiku & Related Forms
Edited by Liam & Diane Wilkinson
http://3lights.wordpress.com
Lenard D. Moore forwarded this information to me about the
Charlotte Digregorio sent this update:
The Haiku Society of America's National Quarterly Meeting in Mineral Point, WI, will be from Friday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Sept. 12. It's a biggie, and we're expecting people from outside the Midwest Region.
THE CRADLE OF AMERICAN HAIKU FESTIVAL 2: SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2010
Friday, September 10
2:00-7:00 Registration at The Foundry Books: 105 Commerce Street/Mineral Point
5:00-7:00 Opening Reception Sponsored by Modern Haiku
7:00-8:30 MEMORIES OF BOB SPIESS – Speakers to include Bob’s friends associates. MEMORIES will be followed by readings of Bob’s haiku and "Speculations."
8:30-9:30 Open Haiku Reading
Saturday, September 11
Breakfast On Your Own
7:30-8:00 Tai Chi Warmup -- Jayne Miller
9:00-9:55 Robert Spiess: A Poetics for Modern Haiku --Randy Brooks
9:55-10:10 Break
10:10-11:05 Robert Spiess’s Muse -- Lee Gurga
11:05-11:20 Break
11:20-12:15 Verbs in Haiku -- Charles Trumbull
12:15-1:15 Lunch On Your Own
1:15-2:45 Hat Haiku: A Midwest Workshop -- Francine Banwarth & Dubuque Haiku
1:15-2:45 Traditional Approach to Haiga -- Lidia Rozmus
1:15-2:45 Experience Kodo (Japanese Incense): Enjoy the Subtleties and Nuances of Incense from Japan -- Jerome Cushman
3:00-4:30 A Journey to the Back of Beyond: Risk-taking in Haibun --Roberta Beary
3:45-5:15 Repeat Lidia Rozmus
4:15-5:45 Repeat Jerome Cushman
4:45-5:45 Instant Feedback: One-on-one mini conference sessions with award-wining haiku, senryu, rengay, and haibun writers, editors, and publishers.
6:00-6:45 Cocktails and Social at TFB
6:45-7:45 Midwest Style Picnic/Tailgate at TFB
7:45-8:15 HAS and Midwest Regional Announcements and Presentation of the Haiku North America banner to Randy Brooks
8:15-9:15 Open Reading
Sunday, September 12
Breakfast On Your Own
9:00-10:30 Shake Rag Alley Kigo
10:30-11:00 Announcement of Kukai Contest Winners
11:30-? Lunch and Haiku Reading--Location TBA
First Runner-up: Christopher Herold and Carol O'Dell for STEAMY WINDOWS
Second Runner-up: Origa (Olga) Hooper, Hana Nestieva, Valeria Simonova-Cecon for EVER REVIVING
The deadline for the next Einbond Competition is in-hand February 28, 2011.
And finally, here's a local news story that I hope you'll find interesting. ;-)
Okay, on to the updates, a few that you probably already know about.
Penny Harter was featured on the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's "Poetry Fridays" blog-post on Friday, July 9th. This series features the "Festival Poets" who have been invited to read at the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival, to be held October 7th -10th at the Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ. In addition to linking to some of her longer poems, the post featuring Penny links to one of her haibun and a haiku, as well as to her "Three Questions" responses on Tobacco Road. You can find it at:
http://blog.grdodge.org/2010/07/09/poetry-fridays-festival-poet-penny-harter
And see the rest of the list of "Festival Poets"---with a briefer profile of Penny (click on her name) at:
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2010/festival-poets
She feels honored to have been asked, and she hopes to see some of you there. She'll be reading sometime on the weekend, yet to be announced. You can visit the Dodge Poetry Festival web site from time to time as they refine the schedule: http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2010. (Four-day and weekend only tickets are available now on the site. Individual day tickets go on sale mid-August.)
Hi Curtis,
First, let me say I enjoy getting your blog updates very much. It's truly become the key source of information for our field. Keep up the good work!
Second, I have 2nd editions of my two books available in all ebook formats (e.g., for Apple's iPod/iPadf, Kindle, Sony Reader, etc.). Soon, these books will be available at each product's online ebook stores, but
are ready now at the links below.
Small Events: Haibun by W. F. Owen (Expanded 2nd Edition):
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/18520
Note: This book won the Kanterman Merit Book Award for Best Haibun in 2008.
Haiku Notebook Second Edition:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17633
I hope you can include this information in a future update please.
Thanks and take care,
Bill
Dear fellow haiku poets & friends:
I am proud to announce the publication of my chapbook; Wrecking Ball & other Urban Haiku from Accents Publishing. A haiku chronicle of the seasons in my home city, Philadelphia, it collects poems that have appeared in haiku journal in recent years, with some new poems as well.
Perfect bound, 30 haiku, 30 pages; just $5 dollars. Reviewed in the current edition of Frogpond.
It is available from the publisher Accent Publishing: http://www.accents-publishing.com, from http://www.amazon.com or from me:
Barry George
2011 Chestnut st., #11G
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103
($5 plus $1 shipping & handling, within the USA). Please make Check out to: Barry George.
Norman Darlington sent this:
Call for Content - Journal of Renga & Renku
We're ready to begin accepting offers of content for the first issue of Journal of Renga & Renku (formerly billed as The Renku Journal). While some details remain to be ironed out, the journal will be:
1. published near the end of 2010
2. available in hardcopy only
3. available for purchase online using Paypal
We're looking for a variety of content along the lines of:
1. Academic/polemic articles on any aspects of the genre
2. Translations of old renga and renku
3. News of renku groups and happenings
4. Book articles/reviews
5. and of course, a showcase of current examples of the genre:
a) in English
b) in any other language, accompanied by an English translation
c) previously published or not (just let us have details of prior publication so we can acknowledge properly)
d) simultaneous offers are fine too, again provided you advise us of prior publication for purposes of acknowledgement
e) in any of the standard forms: kasen, triparshva, nijûin, jûnichô, shisan, rokku, hyakuin, yotsumono, etc.
f) in any explorations of the above forms in terms of experimentation with one-line, zip, 5/7/5 or other fixed counts and even rhyme
g) solo and group work
h) with (preferably) or without notes/reflections on the poem/process from sabaki or renju or both
6. We are also considering holding a contest, but have not finalised our thinking on that. Please send us any ideas you may have and/or indication as to whether you'd be interested in entering and/or reading the results
7. We're open to discussing content ideas we've not covered above so please write
8. All communications will be acknowledged within one week
9. We are regretfully unable to pay contributors for content at this stage
Please send all contributions and other communications to RengaRenku AT gmail DOT com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku
1. published near the end of 2010
2. available in hardcopy only
3. available for purchase online using Paypal
We're looking for a variety of content along the lines of:
1. Academic/polemic articles on any aspects of the genre
2. Translations of old renga and renku
3. News of renku groups and happenings
4. Book articles/reviews
5. and of course, a showcase of current examples of the genre:
a) in English
b) in any other language, accompanied by an English translation
c) previously published or not (just let us have details of prior publication so we can acknowledge properly)
d) simultaneous offers are fine too, again provided you advise us of prior publication for purposes of acknowledgement
e) in any of the standard forms: kasen, triparshva, nijûin, jûnichô, shisan, rokku, hyakuin, yotsumono, etc.
f) in any explorations of the above forms in terms of experimentation with one-line, zip, 5/7/5 or other fixed counts and even rhyme
g) solo and group work
h) with (preferably) or without notes/reflections on the poem/process from sabaki or renju or both
6. We are also considering holding a contest, but have not finalised our thinking on that. Please send us any ideas you may have and/or indication as to whether you'd be interested in entering and/or reading the results
7. We're open to discussing content ideas we've not covered above so please write
8. All communications will be acknowledged within one week
9. We are regretfully unable to pay contributors for content at this stage
Please send all contributions and other communications to RengaRenku AT gmail DOT com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku
Liam Wilkinson sent this update:
SUBMISSION CALL : 3LIGHTS AUTUMN 2010
http://3lights.wordpress.com
3LIGHTS Journal of Micropoetry invites you to submit haiku, senryu, tanka and other micropoems for its autumn issue. The autumn issue's theme will be FAIRGROUNDS & THE CIRCUS.
Please submit up to ten unpublished micropoems on a theme of fairgrounds and the circus to threelightsgallery [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk. We no longer require biographical details, but please include your name and location. The deadline for all submissions is September 1st 2010 and the issue will be published online in October.
Whilst we continue to accept and encourage submissions of quality haiku, senryu and tanka, from the autumn issue onwards we are also keen to receive submissions of micropoems (poems of no more than 140 characters including spaces). Micropoetry is a swiftly growing literary form and, thanks to microblogging sites such as Twitter, poets are continually discovering new forms of concise expression. As a result, 3LIGHTS now opens its arms to submissions of these short poems and dedicates itself to promoting these brief and engaging works.
For our complete submission details and to read our past issues, please visit http://3lights.wordpress.com. We look forward to receiving your work. Please feel free to share this submission call widely.
Our forthcoming issue, 3LIGHTS Summer 2010, will be released in August, featuring a selection of new poetry from some of the finest writers of short-form poetry. We're also delighted to present a selection of haiku and tanka from our featured poet André Surridge.
Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson
3LIGHTS : Journal of Haiku & Related Forms
Edited by Liam & Diane Wilkinson
http://3lights.wordpress.com
Lenard D. Moore forwarded this information to me about the
Click the above link to download or view the pdf document.
Charlotte Digregorio sent this update:
The Haiku Society of America's National Quarterly Meeting in Mineral Point, WI, will be from Friday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Sept. 12. It's a biggie, and we're expecting people from outside the Midwest Region.
THE CRADLE OF AMERICAN HAIKU FESTIVAL 2: SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2010
Friday, September 10
2:00-7:00 Registration at The Foundry Books: 105 Commerce Street/Mineral Point
5:00-7:00 Opening Reception Sponsored by Modern Haiku
7:00-8:30 MEMORIES OF BOB SPIESS – Speakers to include Bob’s friends associates. MEMORIES will be followed by readings of Bob’s haiku and "Speculations."
8:30-9:30 Open Haiku Reading
Saturday, September 11
Breakfast On Your Own
7:30-8:00 Tai Chi Warmup -- Jayne Miller
9:00-9:55 Robert Spiess: A Poetics for Modern Haiku --Randy Brooks
9:55-10:10 Break
10:10-11:05 Robert Spiess’s Muse -- Lee Gurga
11:05-11:20 Break
11:20-12:15 Verbs in Haiku -- Charles Trumbull
12:15-1:15 Lunch On Your Own
1:15-2:45 Hat Haiku: A Midwest Workshop -- Francine Banwarth & Dubuque Haiku
1:15-2:45 Traditional Approach to Haiga -- Lidia Rozmus
1:15-2:45 Experience Kodo (Japanese Incense): Enjoy the Subtleties and Nuances of Incense from Japan -- Jerome Cushman
3:00-4:30 A Journey to the Back of Beyond: Risk-taking in Haibun --Roberta Beary
3:45-5:15 Repeat Lidia Rozmus
4:15-5:45 Repeat Jerome Cushman
4:45-5:45 Instant Feedback: One-on-one mini conference sessions with award-wining haiku, senryu, rengay, and haibun writers, editors, and publishers.
6:00-6:45 Cocktails and Social at TFB
6:45-7:45 Midwest Style Picnic/Tailgate at TFB
7:45-8:15 HAS and Midwest Regional Announcements and Presentation of the Haiku North America banner to Randy Brooks
8:15-9:15 Open Reading
Sunday, September 12
Breakfast On Your Own
9:00-10:30 Shake Rag Alley Kigo
10:30-11:00 Announcement of Kukai Contest Winners
11:30-? Lunch and Haiku Reading--Location TBA
Francine Banwarth sent this:
2010 Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition Results
The Haiku Society of America announces the results of the 2010 Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition. Thank you to our judges Jerry Ball and Merrill Ann Gonzales, to all who entered, and congratulations to the winners!
Grand Prize: Ron Moss, Ferris Gilli, Matthew Paul, Paul MacNeil for TIDE SWELL
Grand Prize: Ron Moss, Ferris Gilli, Matthew Paul, Paul MacNeil for TIDE SWELL
First Runner-up: Christopher Herold and Carol O'Dell for STEAMY WINDOWS
Second Runner-up: Origa (Olga) Hooper, Hana Nestieva, Valeria Simonova-Cecon for EVER REVIVING
The deadline for the next Einbond Competition is in-hand February 28, 2011.
And finally, here's a local news story that I hope you'll find interesting. ;-)
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sunday updates - 6-6-2010
Saša Važic' sent this link to the
FWEE First Annual International Hydropower Haiku Writing Contest
http://www.fwee.org/haiku/contestinfo.html
Gabriel Rosenstock sent this link to Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse.
http://www.themargins.net/archive.html
The June issue of The Heron's Nest is online:
http://theheronsnest.com/
Shamrock Haiku Journal Issue 14 is online:
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
The fifth issue of Notes From the Gean is now online.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
Haiku Chronicles: Episode 12 - The Four Pillars Part I, The Narrow Thread has been posted.
http://www.haikuchronicles.com/
The next meeting of the Southeast Region of The Haiku Society of America will take place on Saturday, July 10 between 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
For directions and other details, please contact meisterp@uah.edu.
Allow several days for a response, as I’m not online every day in the summer.
Commemorate Shinran Shonin's 750th Memorial Observance with Poetry Calling for Haiku and Tanka
http://www.ingassho.com/haikucontest/haikucontest.html
25 Tanka for Children: Call for Submissions
The Special Features section of the Atlas Poetica web site is seeking submissions for a collection of ’25 Tanka for Children’ edited by M. Kei. Selections should be suitable for children ages 6 - 12 (1st - 6th grade reading levels), and should address topics that will appeal to children (and their educators and families). Upbeat, fun, and silly tanka are welcome, but so are serious tanka that address topics children may have to deal with in their lives, such as the loss of a pet, divorce, disabilty, bullies, etc. However, the purpose of the collection is to engage children with tanka poetry, so serious subjects should be handled in a positive and entertaining way. Poets should speak to children, not ‘about’ children.
Form: Tanka, kyoka, waka, gogyohka, cinquain, cinqku, and other recognized variants of tanka in English are all welcome. Poems should be untitled. Although tanka are not usually rhymed, anything that engages the attention of children is a welcome addition to the work. Shaped tanka, acrostic tanka, and visual tanka are all welcome. No illustrations. All work should be reproducible in text only. The collection will attempt to present different variations of tanka, such as sanjuichi, SLSLL, 2-3-2-3-3 beats, free form, and the variants, such as cinquain, but literary value and appeal to children are paramount.
Limericks: One or two limericks may be published to compare and contrast tanka with the five line poetic form most likely to be known to children. Limericks should be the author’s original work and adhere to the guidelines. The editor reserves the right to omit limericks for any reason.
Pedagogic Value: Vocabulary and grammar should be age appropriate, with proper English syntax. Although poems will be selected based on their appeal to children (test them out on any children you might have access to), poems will also be evaluated for their value in teaching basic elements of literature, such as alliteration, rhythm, metaphor, simile, etc.
Possible Teachers Guide: Poets who work with children in any capacity are invited to share their credentials and to comment briefly upon their poems regarding pedagogic value. These comments might be edited and expanded to become a ‘teachers guide,’ and poets understand that their commentary, if used, will receive a credit. The ‘teachers guide’ is not a firm project, and there is no guarantee that it will happen.
Age: The general Atlas Poetica guidelines apply, therefore poets must be 16 or older. Please visit http://atlaspoetica.org/ for complete guidelines and to view previous Special Features. Poems should be contained in the body of an email. Please query before sending attachments.
Submissions: Poets are invited to send up to ten poems each, but only one poem will be chosen by each poet, in keeping with the theme and format of the ’25 Poems’ features on the Atlas Poetica website. Send to: editor@AtlasPoetica.org, with a subject line of ‘Tanka for Children.’
Deadline: Deadline for submitting to ’25 Tanka for Children’ is September 15, 2010. The planned publication date is Winter 2010/2011. Special Features are published on an irregular schedule.
Email address for submissions: Editor (at) AtlasPoetica (dot) org -- subject line: 25 Tanka for Children
Hi All:
This has been the busiest year ever at Red Moon Press, with half a
dozen new titles already prepared for the new year (our 18th), and a
couple more coming soon. We think you'll find something for every
haiku reader and taste.
Here's what's new:
Individual Collections
• Stephen Addiss — Cloud Calligraphy
This volume finds Addiss at his most playful and features 6 of his
inimicable haiga as well. “Stephen Addiss creates an interconnected
meditation with both brush and ink. Each
poem starts on the page, but finishes in the reader’s mind! His
poems are so full of movement they have the power to stop us, and put
us back in the moment.” —Stanford M. Forrester, Editor, bottle
rockets
• Dimitar Anakiev — Rustic
Anakiev’s fourth book with RMP (At the Tombstone, Kosovo Peonies,
balcony) features 50 recent poems, each reflecting upon a different
keyword, and each with copious notes as to the origins of the poem
and the concept at hand. ". . . a literary historian’s dream,
providing the author’s statement of intent and detailed notes.
Reading the individual poems in context shows them to be simple and
profound, inviting the reader to join the poet in contem-plating
culture, history, and our collective roots in the natural world,
including chaos and war.” —Johnye Strickland, Professor Emeritus,
University of Arkansas
• Jim Kacian — where i leave off / waar ik ophoud
Produced by ’t schrijverke of the Netherlands in a bilingual
(English / Dutch) edition, this is Kacian’s 15th book devoted to
haiku. This one explores the one-line haiku, and includes a mini-
essay on the subject, as well as more than 50 examples, along with a
selection of his miniature “one-bun,” haibun where the prose is
limited to a single sentence. "Kacian breaks new ground by
systematically exploring the possibilities of one-line haiku in
English.” Max Verhart, Editor, Vuursteen
• Dietmar Tauchner — as far as i can
This is Tauchner’s long-awaited first full-length book of haiku in
English, and he doesn’t disappoint. The book pivots about a visit to
the Mauthausen Prisoner Camp, which provides perspective on the
poet’s life and pursuits. “Lean and quiet, the haiku in this
excellent collection convey deeply felt connections with nature,
other people, and the inner self. They dignify the commonplace and
affirm the unknown and mysterious within the familiar.” —Peggy
Willis Lyles, Editor, The Heron’s Nest
• Jim Westenhaver — long enough
This poet’s first book of haiku suggests he will be a name to watch.
This elegiac meditation on the fleeting touch between two people will
stay with you. “What is unsaid pulses through long enough, and yet
this slim collection of 27 poems overflows itself. Each haiku speaks
to the next; the white space between vibrates with increasing energy
until the last poem ricochets back to the first, demanding the book
be re-read wholly anew.” —Eve Luckring
Annual Publications
• where the wind turns: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language
Haiku 2009
The fourteenth volume of the most decorated series in haiku history,
where the wind turns features 161 poems, 12 linked forms, and 6
critical essays on the reading, writing and study of the genre.
“Simply the best thing out there.” —Charles Trumbull, Editor,
Modern Haiku
• contemporary haibun Volume 11
This eleventh volume of the only series devoted to the best haibun
and haiga produced in English features 70 poems and 32 haiga..
“contemporary haibun has stood alone, for nearly a decade, as the
chief vehicle and bulwark of the burgeoning haibun movement in
English.” —Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, Haibun Today
Special Publications
• Ruth Franke — Schwerelos Gleiten / Slipping through Water
This innovative new book combines short prose and verse (haibun) with
visual artistic impressions by the renowned German artist Reinhard
Stangl. The 22 haibun invite the reader to enter the atmosphere of
the different scenes and allow the multi-layered content to take
effect. English versions by David Cobb and Celia Brown. Preface by
Jim Kacian. A magnificent production by Wiesenburg, distributed in
North America by Red Moon Press.
Coming Soon
• Carolyn Hall — How to Paint the Finch’s Song
Hall’s second major collection, out in June.
• Robert Boldman — Selected Haiku
Boldman’s return to haiku after a 25-year hiatus. Publication date
to be determined.
You can find these, and much more, at <www.redmoonpress.com>.
As always, thank you for your continuing support.
Jim Kacian
Red Moon Press
FWEE First Annual International Hydropower Haiku Writing Contest
http://www.fwee.org/haiku/contestinfo.html
Gabriel Rosenstock sent this link to Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse.
http://www.themargins.net/archive.html
The June issue of The Heron's Nest is online:
http://theheronsnest.com/
Shamrock Haiku Journal Issue 14 is online:
http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm
The fifth issue of Notes From the Gean is now online.
http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html
Haiku Chronicles: Episode 12 - The Four Pillars Part I, The Narrow Thread has been posted.
http://www.haikuchronicles.com/
The next meeting of the Southeast Region of The Haiku Society of America will take place on Saturday, July 10 between 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
For directions and other details, please contact meisterp@uah.edu.
Allow several days for a response, as I’m not online every day in the summer.
Commemorate Shinran Shonin's 750th Memorial Observance with Poetry Calling for Haiku and Tanka
http://www.ingassho.com/haikucontest/haikucontest.html
25 Tanka for Children: Call for Submissions
The Special Features section of the Atlas Poetica web site is seeking submissions for a collection of ’25 Tanka for Children’ edited by M. Kei. Selections should be suitable for children ages 6 - 12 (1st - 6th grade reading levels), and should address topics that will appeal to children (and their educators and families). Upbeat, fun, and silly tanka are welcome, but so are serious tanka that address topics children may have to deal with in their lives, such as the loss of a pet, divorce, disabilty, bullies, etc. However, the purpose of the collection is to engage children with tanka poetry, so serious subjects should be handled in a positive and entertaining way. Poets should speak to children, not ‘about’ children.
Form: Tanka, kyoka, waka, gogyohka, cinquain, cinqku, and other recognized variants of tanka in English are all welcome. Poems should be untitled. Although tanka are not usually rhymed, anything that engages the attention of children is a welcome addition to the work. Shaped tanka, acrostic tanka, and visual tanka are all welcome. No illustrations. All work should be reproducible in text only. The collection will attempt to present different variations of tanka, such as sanjuichi, SLSLL, 2-3-2-3-3 beats, free form, and the variants, such as cinquain, but literary value and appeal to children are paramount.
Limericks: One or two limericks may be published to compare and contrast tanka with the five line poetic form most likely to be known to children. Limericks should be the author’s original work and adhere to the guidelines. The editor reserves the right to omit limericks for any reason.
Pedagogic Value: Vocabulary and grammar should be age appropriate, with proper English syntax. Although poems will be selected based on their appeal to children (test them out on any children you might have access to), poems will also be evaluated for their value in teaching basic elements of literature, such as alliteration, rhythm, metaphor, simile, etc.
Possible Teachers Guide: Poets who work with children in any capacity are invited to share their credentials and to comment briefly upon their poems regarding pedagogic value. These comments might be edited and expanded to become a ‘teachers guide,’ and poets understand that their commentary, if used, will receive a credit. The ‘teachers guide’ is not a firm project, and there is no guarantee that it will happen.
Age: The general Atlas Poetica guidelines apply, therefore poets must be 16 or older. Please visit
Submissions: Poets are invited to send up to ten poems each, but only one poem will be chosen by each poet, in keeping with the theme and format of the ’25 Poems’ features on the Atlas Poetica website. Send to: editor@AtlasPoetica.org, with a subject line of ‘Tanka for Children.’
Deadline: Deadline for submitting to ’25 Tanka for Children’ is September 15, 2010. The planned publication date is Winter 2010/2011. Special Features are published on an irregular schedule.
Email address for submissions: Editor (at) AtlasPoetica (dot) org -- subject line: 25 Tanka for Children
Hi All:
This has been the busiest year ever at Red Moon Press, with half a
dozen new titles already prepared for the new year (our 18th), and a
couple more coming soon. We think you'll find something for every
haiku reader and taste.
Here's what's new:
Individual Collections
• Stephen Addiss — Cloud Calligraphy
This volume finds Addiss at his most playful and features 6 of his
inimicable haiga as well. “Stephen Addiss creates an interconnected
meditation with both brush and ink. Each
poem starts on the page, but finishes in the reader’s mind! His
poems are so full of movement they have the power to stop us, and put
us back in the moment.” —Stanford M. Forrester, Editor, bottle
rockets
• Dimitar Anakiev — Rustic
Anakiev’s fourth book with RMP (At the Tombstone, Kosovo Peonies,
balcony) features 50 recent poems, each reflecting upon a different
keyword, and each with copious notes as to the origins of the poem
and the concept at hand. ". . . a literary historian’s dream,
providing the author’s statement of intent and detailed notes.
Reading the individual poems in context shows them to be simple and
profound, inviting the reader to join the poet in contem-plating
culture, history, and our collective roots in the natural world,
including chaos and war.” —Johnye Strickland, Professor Emeritus,
University of Arkansas
• Jim Kacian — where i leave off / waar ik ophoud
Produced by ’t schrijverke of the Netherlands in a bilingual
(English / Dutch) edition, this is Kacian’s 15th book devoted to
haiku. This one explores the one-line haiku, and includes a mini-
essay on the subject, as well as more than 50 examples, along with a
selection of his miniature “one-bun,” haibun where the prose is
limited to a single sentence. "Kacian breaks new ground by
systematically exploring the possibilities of one-line haiku in
English.” Max Verhart, Editor, Vuursteen
• Dietmar Tauchner — as far as i can
This is Tauchner’s long-awaited first full-length book of haiku in
English, and he doesn’t disappoint. The book pivots about a visit to
the Mauthausen Prisoner Camp, which provides perspective on the
poet’s life and pursuits. “Lean and quiet, the haiku in this
excellent collection convey deeply felt connections with nature,
other people, and the inner self. They dignify the commonplace and
affirm the unknown and mysterious within the familiar.” —Peggy
Willis Lyles, Editor, The Heron’s Nest
• Jim Westenhaver — long enough
This poet’s first book of haiku suggests he will be a name to watch.
This elegiac meditation on the fleeting touch between two people will
stay with you. “What is unsaid pulses through long enough, and yet
this slim collection of 27 poems overflows itself. Each haiku speaks
to the next; the white space between vibrates with increasing energy
until the last poem ricochets back to the first, demanding the book
be re-read wholly anew.” —Eve Luckring
Annual Publications
• where the wind turns: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language
Haiku 2009
The fourteenth volume of the most decorated series in haiku history,
where the wind turns features 161 poems, 12 linked forms, and 6
critical essays on the reading, writing and study of the genre.
“Simply the best thing out there.” —Charles Trumbull, Editor,
Modern Haiku
• contemporary haibun Volume 11
This eleventh volume of the only series devoted to the best haibun
and haiga produced in English features 70 poems and 32 haiga..
“contemporary haibun has stood alone, for nearly a decade, as the
chief vehicle and bulwark of the burgeoning haibun movement in
English.” —Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, Haibun Today
Special Publications
• Ruth Franke — Schwerelos Gleiten / Slipping through Water
This innovative new book combines short prose and verse (haibun) with
visual artistic impressions by the renowned German artist Reinhard
Stangl. The 22 haibun invite the reader to enter the atmosphere of
the different scenes and allow the multi-layered content to take
effect. English versions by David Cobb and Celia Brown. Preface by
Jim Kacian. A magnificent production by Wiesenburg, distributed in
North America by Red Moon Press.
Coming Soon
• Carolyn Hall — How to Paint the Finch’s Song
Hall’s second major collection, out in June.
• Robert Boldman — Selected Haiku
Boldman’s return to haiku after a 25-year hiatus. Publication date
to be determined.
You can find these, and much more, at <www.redmoonpress.com>.
As always, thank you for your continuing support.
Jim Kacian
Red Moon Press
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