Wednesday updates

Scott Owens sent this update:

Hi, all,

Just a quick reminder that next Tuesday (3/13) is the next Poetry Hickory.  At 4:00, Maureen Sherbondy will lead a workshop on using art as inspiration for writing.  Then at 5:30 we will have Open Mic readings from Bill Mills, Kim Teague, and Patricia Deaton and featured readings from Maureen and Malaika King Albrecht.  Visit www.poetryhickory.com for more detail on our featured writers and Maureen's workshop.  The workshop, by the way, is only $10, and I still have several slots open for anyone interested in participating.

As always, Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in downtown Hickory will host us, and Main Street Rag will sponsor us.

Looking ahead a bit, in case you haven't heard, at 6:00 on March 20, Taste Full Beans is also hosting a Book Release Party for my new book, For One Who Knows How to Own Land.

Call me (828-234-4266) or email me with questions.

Scott also sent this:

Hey, Curtis,

I hope you can join me for the Book Release Party for my new book, For One Who Knows How to Own Land, at 6:00 on Tuesday, March 20, at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in downtown Hickory.  I will bring wine and snacks.  I'll read a little, talk a little, and hopefully sell and sign a few books.  The new one will be $15.

My other books will also be on sale as follows:
Country Roads $20
Something Knows the Moment $10
The Nature of Attraction $5
Paternity $10
The Fractured World $10

Everybody is welcome, so bring friends.

A flier with more details about the new book is attached.

Hope to see you there.

Scott Owens

www.scottowenspoet.com
www.scottowensmusings.blogspot.com
www.poetryhickory.com
www.wildgoosepoetryreview.com
www.234journal.com
www.poetrycouncilofnc.wordpress.com

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Billie Wilson sent this:

Hello Haiku Folk,

Just a friendly reminder that the in-hand deadline is fast approaching for The Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards for 2012.  I think this year's theme is especially intriguing and look forward to how it will be interpreted by haiku poets in their entries:

"Haiku have three forms or manifestations: the written, which enters the eye; the spoken, which enters the ear; and the essential . . . which enters the heart." [Prompted in part by a passage by Sa'in al-Din ibn Turkah.] (from A Year’s Speculations on Haiku by Robert Spiess and published by Modern Haiku Press, 1995).

Guidelines are at Modern Haiku's website: http://www.modernhaiku.org/spiesscontest2012.html

All the best,
Billie

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Charlotte Digregorio sent this:

Hello, Haikuists:

Please see the attachment, and let me know how many of you plan to attend, including your family/friends, so I can pass this information along to the Library. The Library wants Patrons and The Public to RSVP directly to them, but I will provide them with our numbers.

Thanks.

Charlotte

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Katikati Haiku Contest

Hello,

I would be grateful if you could post/share information about this year’s Katikati Haiku Contest, a contest that is held only every 2 years. All proceeds from the contest go towards the Haiku Pathway project in Katikati, the largest collection of haiku “stones” outside Japan.

For the pathway’s 10th anniversary in 2010, 10 new poem boulders were added to the collection ... plus one more, thanks to a surprise gift from the local council. Members of Katikati Lions are now investigating a project to extend the pathway upstream, which will include new poems added to the outdoor gallery.

Please find a page of information about the contest here:
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/katikaticontest2012

Many thanks for your help,
Sandra Simpson
secretary, Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee

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Penny Harter sends the following:

I spent this past week as author-in-residence at St. Mary of the Lake School in Medford, NJ. (As you can tell, the woman in the photo below is not of me but of another author who also visited the school.)

You will find a photo, feature article about my and her visits to the school, and a very brief video clip of me teaching haiku (stressing that all 5-7-5 verses are not haiku) to 4th grade at:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/author-in-residence-a-highlight-of-read-across-america-week/article_f6cf06ac-5b6a-506c-b2e8-a046b4102ada.html

I worked with both 4th and 7th grades, and they wrote haiku, haibun (wonderful haibun which I will encourage the 7th graders to submit), and various prose and verse pieces in response to the Hubble Space Telescope photos.
_____________________________

Author-in-residence a highlight of Read Across America week
www.phillyburbs.com

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Rick Black sent this update:

Dear Curtis,

We are pleased to let you and the haiku community know that the winner of the 2012 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Contest is Graham High's "The Window That Closes."  It was an especially difficult job this year to pick a winner as so many of the manuscripts were of a high caliber. An honorable mention was taken by Duro Jaiye's "There Was a Time."

TLP plans to publish the winning manuscript in Spring/Summer 2013. We are also going to do an e-anthology to highlight some of the wonderful haiku found in so many of the entries and will let you know when it's up. Here's a link to the full announcment: http://www.turtlelightpress.com/2012-tlp-haiku-chapbook-competition-winner/

Many thanks to all of the contestants who entrusted their poems to us and, of course, to you for sharing the news!

Sincerely,

Rick Black and Kwame Dawes
Judges, TLP 2012 Haiku Chapbook Competition

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Susumu Takiguchi sent this:

WHC NEWS 01 March 2012

WORLD HAIKU REVIEW

Re: Call for Submissions for the Next Issue

Dear Kuyu,

The next issue of World Haiku Review (WHR) is planned for Spring 2012 (end March or early April).

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: Life and late winter and/or spring scenes

The only criterion for selection is quality. Please therefore send in your finest works as soon as you can.

For this issue the deadline is Sunday 25 March. So, please hurry. 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

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Sunday updates

Helen Losse has a new book of poems available entitled Mansion of Memory. Please buy a copy. The profits go to Bright Futures Joplin Tornado Fund. The cost is $11 (plus $2 postage). Visit Helen's blog or the Mansion of Memory Facebook page for ordering information. Here is a poem from the book:

In the Days Of the Pinkest Shades Of Clover

We climbed the lookout tower,
hugged a branch of the Mulberry Tree,
ate purple berries,
sat barefoot stringing beads

on a blanket in the yard
under watchful nose of Mrs. Ross’s
maid, then dripped chocolaty
pudding pops, cooled our-
selves in the water from the hose
or the wading pool,
where Michael leaned to swim—

knit together, purled to a daisy chain,
living our days in the pinkest shades of clover—

so that later roaming the hills
near the Cabin next to Spring River,
we clambered over
sloping limestone rocks and
small, blue cedars, and we knew

why Mummy said, “One can, all can”
is the only fair way, among siblings.

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Scott Owens has a new book of poems entitled For One Who Knows How to Own Land. Scott writes:


Future Cycle Press has just released my new book of poems, For One Who Knows How to Own Land.  These 98 pages of poetry focus on the experience of growing up in the disappearing rural South.  They include some of my favorite oldest poems as well as a lot of new ones.  I am including a brief description of the book as well as comments from Ron Rash, Tim Peeler, John Lane, and  below.  You can order copies from me or on Amazon.  There will be a book launch on March 20 at 6:00 at Taste Full Beans in Hickory, NC, and on March 23 at 7:00 at City Lights Books in Sylva, NC.  I hope you can attend one of those events.

For One Who Knows How to Own Land
Copyright 2012 Scott Owens
Published by FutureCycle Press
Mineral Bluff, Georgia
ISBN:  978-0-9839985-3-2

I grew up in two worlds: my father’s parents’ world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother’s parents’ world of dirt roads, livestock, growing our own food, and endless woods.  That second world was undeniably harder than the first.  The work was dirtier, and there was more of it.  The homes had fewer luxuries: no cable, no AC, never more than one bathroom.  Even death was different. In town, death was a polished event that took place elsewhere, hospitals, nursing homes, slaughter houses, funeral parlors.  On the farm, animals were killed every week, and most people died at home, and their bodies stayed there until they were buried.

Somehow, however, that second world still seemed much more alive, much more real and vital.  Despite that vitality, I was aware that most people knew almost nothing about that second world.  It was then, and is increasingly now, an undiscovered country where life and death exist side by side with a natural intensity missing from the artificial world of the city.

This book, dedicated to my grandfather (one who knew how to own land), is a record of my undiscovered country and the people who lived there.

Landscape and memory are seamlessly merged in this excellent volume. Like all the best writers of place, Scott Owens finds the heart's universal concerns in his vivid rendering of piedmont Carolina.
--Ron Rash, author of Raising the Dead

There's not a speck of sentimentality in the rural poetic Americana framed by Scott Owens in FOR ONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO OWN LAND. There are dead crows, red dirt earth, barking dogs, burning coal, fox traps, and flooding rivers. These stories matter. The poems all rattle and sing. This is a jolt of strong coffee for a watery time.
--John Lane, author of The Woods Stretched for Miles: Contemporary Nature Writing from the South

In For One Who Knows How to Own Land, poet, Scott Owens creates with a mature voice, childhood reminiscences of pastoral summers in the red dirt rural Piedmont of upstate South Carolina.  This, his most affecting collection to date, is a remarkable sensory journey that registers narrative moments along the entire emotional scale from harsh to tender, from the threatening to the anodyne.  Through the magical nature of memory, these poems of mystery and loss prove again and again that “The boy who left this country/never stopped hearing its names/echo in his ear.”
 --Tim Peeler, author of Checking Out

“Why should this be home?” Scott Owens asks us in “Homeplace,” his question as much about leaving as going back. We walk his train tracks and ridges as if they were our own, as though home were “something you held tight before you, /your back bending against its going away.”  In this both visceral and meditative rendering of place, decay and rebirth are part of the same landscape. I applaud the skill that directs us down a path of experience and familiarity to “stone steps/ that dead-end in mid-air.” His poetry is wise in knowing the weight of its own footsteps.
-- Linda Annas Ferguson, author of Dirt Sandwich


Read more about For One Who Knows How to Own Land on Scott's Musings Blog.

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Charlotte Digregorio sent this update:

Hello Haikuists,

Some of you might be interested in the announcement below.

Dear Charlotte,

I am a friend of Charlie Rossiter's and he has referred me to your organization.

I am the President for the National Association for Poetry Therapy and I would like to invite you and your membership to attend our national conference, "Writing the Winds of Change," to be held in Chicago April 26-29, 2012.  We have an extraordinary opening ceremony, featuring local musicians and poets well-known throughout Chicago, as well as, the internationally known key-note poet/educator/essayist and publisher, Haki Madhubuti.  We have a variety of workshops which integrate poetry, journaling and the expressive arts in the arenas of mental health, self-growth, wellness and education.

If you would like more information about our conference and registration process, please refer to our web-page at www.poetrytherapy.org.

Should you have any questions in regard to our organization or our conference, please do not hesitate to contact me.  I do look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Catherine Conway, President
The National Association for Poetry Therapy
P - 630-220-8682
www.poetrytherapy.org

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Ellen Compton sent this update:

Good Morning Curtis,

Here's a note I hope you can include with your announcements and updates.

Cheers, and thanks,
Ellen

Volunteer at 100th D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival

The Haiku Society of America will have a booth at the upcoming 100th National Cherry Blossom Street Festival and is looking for folks to help out. It could be a great time to visit the nation’s capital, enjoy the cherry blossoms, socialize with fellow haiku poets and tell a broader audience about haiku.

The festival, which will be held on Saturday, April 14, rain or shine, runs from 11 – 6 p.m. You are welcome to sign up for an hour or longer. In particular, we could use help with set up and break down before/after the official festival times.

If you love haiku, have always wanted to see Washington DC's cherry blossoms, like working with people, and want to pitch in, please get in touch with Rick Black: rick@turtlelightpress.com or call him at
703-241-4127 for more details. Hope to see you there!

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A new issue of Haibun Today is available which includes Penny Harter's haibun, "The Great Blue."

http://haibuntoday.com

Also, Penny's essay "Writing From the Present, Past, and Future," is the featured essay in the "Revelations: Unedited" feature in Frogpond: the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, pp. 28-44. The essay covers writing haiku, haibun, and free verse.

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Sasa Vazic sent the Fujisan Haiku Results.

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M. Kei sent this:

Lulu.com, the old printer for Keibooks, is offering 30% off Heron Sea by M. Kei and other Keibooks backlist titles, such as Catzilla, and previous issues of Atlas Poetica. This offer is good through February.

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Ed Baker sent this update:

just a moment ago I saw that Barney Rosset had died !
a Major, Major 'player' in my life.
neat happening a few years ago  he picked this piece to go into his review:
      http://www.evergreenreview.com/120/ed-baker.html

here is the Post's obituary :

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=barney-rosset&pid=156046238

hang in, Ed

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Haiku Death Match: No Words Barred

Join Press 53 and Piedmont S.L.A.M. for “Haiku Death Match: No Words Barred” on Tuesday, February 28, 7 p.m., at the Community Arts Cafe, Fourth & Spruce in downtown Winston-Salem. This special adults-only event is open to anyone 18 and over who wants to sling Haiku like an assassin. $3 cover and prizes for our winners. For more information, call Kevin at 336-770-5353.

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Colin Stewart Jones sent this:

Dear Readers and Friends,

NFTG has recently undergone a process of streamlining and simplification of its website. You can now access either the flip magazine or the static information pages separately by clicking on the relevant cherry on the entry page.

The flip magazine now has a module which can enlarge to full screen, add annotations and has a search facility. NFTG is now available on all browsers, Mac or PC and all mobile devices, including i-Pad and Android. We have also updated our static information pages and have a new bespoke form filler for submissions which can be accessed at the top left or very bottom of the Submissions’ Page and you can also get in contact by through the Editors’ Page.

Thank you all for you continued support.

Colin Stewart Jones
Editor-in-Chief
Notes from the Gean

http://notesfromthegean.com/

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Richard Krawiec sent this:

Hope you can come see my first staged full-length play, CREEDS.  It's inspired by the true story of Bonnie and Robert Hanssen.  Arch conservative, Opus Dei Catholics, sexually bizarre - and Bob was a  double-agent for the Russians, called the greatest spy in U.S. history.

We have an excellent cast including Lori Mahl (Actors Equity) who had a career in NYC, working on the stage with, among others, Carol Channing and Tyne Daly, Jeff Alguire, who won a Best Actor Award from the Independent, and an ensemble cast that has performed on every major stage in the Triangle - from Playmakers, to REP, to Burning Coal, to Common Ground to the Arts Center in Carrboro.

It will be staged March 22 - April 1 at Common Ground Theater in Durham, NC.

http://cgtheatre.com/directions

Here's some more info on the show.  Tickets range from $7 - $15
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/224259

I've had one-acts produced across the U.S. and Canada, but this is my first full length, and it's as exciting as publishing a first novel.

The play is produced by PlayGround, a Theater Co-operative which has been in operation for 2 years.  It's a group of local actresses and actors and NC playwrights who meet once a month to develop scenes by local writers and opportunities for local actors.

If you're interested in supporting PlayGround we are selling a few tickets to the Sunday, April 1, 4 pm cast party. These tickets, which cost $40, will include a free meal, a ticket to your choice of performance (you don't have to go April 1), and a chance to mingle with the cast.

If you want to make a night of it when you come to the play, less than a mile away there are 2 good restaurant choices right on Hillsborough - Bennett Point Grill (quality Southern, no calabash) and Durham House of Pizza (decent pizza and Italian in Sicilian style).  Within 4 miles on HIllsborough you have Chinese, Greek, and fast food.  Only 10 minutes from the theater are Meelo's and Nana's and Parizade, three excellent local choices.

Hope to see you,
richard krawiec

Check out my websites!

http://www.press53.com/BioRichardKrawiec.html
http://www.rkeditor.com/
http://jacarpress.com/index.html

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And finally, Frugal Poet, Susan Nelson Myers, will have a new recipe and poem to share with you later today.

Friday updates

A new issue of Prune Juice has been released:Prune Juice Issue 7 Winter 2012

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Scott Owens sent this:

POETRY COUNCIL ANNOUNCES ANNUAL WINNERS

The Poetry Council of NC, a self-supporting, all-volunteer nonprofit organization founded in 1949 to foster a deeper appreciation of poetry in the state, has announced the winners of its annual poetry contests.  Judges were permitted to select 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners as well as up to 3 honorable mentions in each contest category, with the exception of the book contest which has no 3rd place winner.  Some judges elected to name fewer winners.

All winners will receive their awards, including cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, at Poetry Day to be held at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory on April 14.  Winning poems will also be published in the Council’s annual awards anthology, Bay Leaves, and winning poets will be invited to read their poems at Poetry Day.  An additional category for Performance Poetry is judged and awarded at Poetry Day.  Information on any of the contests, Poetry Day, and the Poetry Council is available at www.poetrycouncilofnc.wordpress.com

The complete list of category winners and judges is as follows:

Oscar Arnold Young (book contest):
JUDGE: Paul Hostovsky, Medfield, MA & Ron Moran, Simpsonville, SC
  1st      The Swing Girl by Katherine Soniat, Asheville, NC
  2nd     Lie Down with Me by Julie Suk, Charlotte, NC
  HM    Rendering the Bones by Susan M. Lefler, Brevard, NC
  HM    An Innocent in the House of the Dead by Joanna Catherine Scott, Chapel
            Hill, NC

Gladys Owings Hughes Heritage (free verse):
JUDGE: Darnell Arnoult, Harrogate, TN
  1st      “Babies Hurtling Several Stories” by Ross White, Durham, NC
  2nd      “Daddy Imagines a Good Death” by JS Absher, Raleigh, NC
  3rd      “The Museum of Broken Things” by Jane Shlensky, Bahama, NC

Charles Shull (traditional poetry):
JUDGE: Paul Bone, Evansville, IN
  1st      “Facts about Early America” by Ross White, Durham, NC (rhyming couplets)
  2nd      “Basic Bad Day” by Peg Russell, Murphy, NC (terza rima)
  3rd      “Featured Reader” by Alice Osborn, Raleigh, NC (sestina)
  HM    “On a Recent Engagement” by Michael A. Moreno, Rockville, MD (sonnet)
  HM    “Water the Lover” by Ellen Summers, Greensboro, NC (sonnet)

James Larkin Pearson (free verse):
JUDGE: Felicia Mitchell, Emory, VA
  1st      “Address to Monarchs” by Ross White, Durham, NC
  2nd      “My Mother’s Lake” by Ann Campanella, Huntersville, NC
  3rd      “What Burns for Light” by Lisa Zerkle, Charlotte, NC
  HM    “Circumventing the Circumference” by Terry Collins, Mount Airy, NC
  HM    “Things Fall Out of My Father” by Robert Moyer, Winston Salem, NC
  HM    “The Lesbians Next Door” by Alice Osborn, Raleigh, NC

Ellen Johnston-Hale (humorous verse):
JUDGE: Gloria Alden, Southington, OH
  1st      “Where Time Does Not Fly” by Susan Spalt, Carrboro, NC
  2nd      “The Voice” by Barbara Brooks, Hillsborough, NC
  3rd      “Arctic” by Lisa Zerkle, Charlotte, NC
  HM    “Black Friday” by Doris Dix Caruso, Burlington, NC
  HM    “Patience” by Jane Shlensky, Bahama, NC
  HM    “I Think They Got It!” by Janet Ireland Trail, Greensboro, NC

Charlotte Young (elementary school):
JUDGE: David Roderick, Greensboro, NC
  1st      “Jupiter” by Sydney Campanella (home-schooled), Huntersville, NC
  2nd      “Light Saves Us” by Paige Morrison (North Forest Pines Elem.), Wake Forest, NC
  3rd      “Blue” by Joellen Callahan (North Forest Pines Elem.), Wake Forest, NC
  HM    “Doves” by Sonja Woolley (Episcopal Day School), Southern Pines, NC
  HM    “Nature Walk” by Lilly Corcoran (Episcopal Day School), Southern Pines, NC

Carol Bessent Hayman (middle school):
JUDGE: David Roderick, Greensboro, NC
  1st      “The Pledge of Sausage” by Devon Stocks (Clarkton School of Discovery), Clarkton, NC
  2nd      “Pumpkin Patch” by Kenneth More [sp?] (Clarkton School of Discovery), Clarkton, NC

Sam Ragan North Carolina Connection (high school):
JUDGE: Natasha Trethewey, Decatur, GA
  1st      "Lesson of the Lark" by Maggie Apple of North Guilford High School
  2nd      Jennifer Comerford of North Guilford High School

Scott Owens
www.scottowenspoet.com
www.scottowensmusings.blogspot.com
www.poetryhickory.com
www.wildgoosepoetryreview.com
www.234journal.com
www.poetrycouncilofnc.wordpress.com

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Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic sent this link:

2nd Vladimir Devide Haiku Award - Open Haiku Competition

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Sasa Vazic sent this link to the Autumn/Winter issue of Simply Haiku:

http://simplyhaiku.theartofhaiku.com/autumnwinter-2011.html

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Here is a review of Ed Baker's Stone Girl E-pic.

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Gabriel Rosenstock sent this:

Where Light Begins Haiku, the English-language haiku of Gabriel Rosenstock. This volume also
contains the ground-breaking essay, The Universal Spirit of Issa.

May be downloaded freely by your subscribers.

Best,

Gabriel

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Susan Antolin sent this:

The Haiku Poets of Northern California have extended the deadline for the San Francisco International Rengay Contest to January 31, 2012.  There is still time to find a partner (or two!) and write some rengay before the deadline.  We look forward to receiving your entries!  The submission guidelines are as follows:

Rengay Submission Guidelines

All rengay must be titled. For two people (Poet A and Poet B) follow this linked format: 3 lines/Poet A, 2 lines/Poet B, 3/A, 3/B, 2/A, 3/B. For three poets (A, B, and C) the format is: 3 lines/A, 2 lines/B, 3 lines/C, 2/A, 3/B, 2/C. Type or print each rengay on three letter-size sheets. Include full authorship information, stanza by stanza, as well as all poets' names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses (optional) on one copy only. On the other two copies, mark stanzas with letters only (poet A, poet B, poet C) to indicate the sequence of authorship. Send rengay submissions to HPNC, c/o Fay Aoyagi, 930 Pine St. #105, San Francisco CA 94108.

The 2011 rengay judge is Renee Owen.

Entry Fee: $5 per rengay

Make checks or money orders payable in U.S. dollars to "Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC)." Cash (in U.S. currency) is OK. Enclose a business-size SASE (U.S. first class postage or an IRC) for notification of contest winners. No entries will be returned, with the exception of late submissions, or those received without payment. These will be returned using your SASE; without an SASE these entries will be discarded.

Thank you for participating in this year's contest.

If you have any questions, please contact Fay Aoyagi by e-mail (fayaoyagi@gmail.com)

http://www.hpnc.org

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Charlotte Digregorio sent this:

Haikuists:

Just a reminder for those of you who are members: Our "Ripples" newsletter deadline is Feb. 1. If you have published haiku books, won awards, have given haiku lectures, etc., please let Editor Susan Antolin know, susantolin@gmail.com

Also, some of you have already RSVPed for the Saturday, Feb. 11 haiku meeting from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Winnetka (IL) Public Library, 768 Oak St., Winnetka. You might get inspired to  write some winter haiku for the meeting by checking out Michael Dylan Welch's website at
 http://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/haiku-and-senryu/traces-of-snow.

Also, if you are interested, there is National Haiku Writing Month. See http://sites.google.com/site/nahaiwrimo/home. (Most action takes place on an associated Facebook site -- currently with more than 600 active monthly users).

Charlotte Digregorio

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Ed Baker sent this:

a set of new photos  -first set of thumb-nails at bottom - on my web-site
if you click the image  it enlarges!

http://edbaker.maikosoft.com/photos_2011/dsc_0641.jpg
the new photos at bottom, here:

http://edbaker.maikosoft.com/

here is that huge (4 ' x 8 ')  image of "She w Snake"
which is new version of what is on cover of 'She Intrudes':

http://edbaker.maikosoft.com/photos_2011/dsc_0633.jpg

there are many more pieces photographed in 3 other rooms not included here.

anyway

sure is a bonus   time-wise & intrusion-wise cutting way back on reading internet "stuff"
& only replying to letters/emails....& reading books .... again.

cheers, Ed

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Another message from Scott Owens:

Clayton Joe Young and I have been collaborating on a series of photos and poems which will be on exhibit at the Bethlehem Branch of the Alexander County Library throughout February and March (reception from 5:30 - 7:00 on Feb 2) as part of "The Bethlehem Branch Library Exhibiting Artists Series", sponsored by the Bethlehem Friends of the Library and the Bethlehem Community Development Association.

He has also produced a book featuring the work of that collaboration. And it's beautiful -- thanks in large part to Joe's photos. It is 62 pages long and includes 29 of Joe's photos and 25 of my poems (13 of which are brand spanking new). It is called Country Roads: Travels Through Rural North Carolina. It would make a great gift or collectors' item. And is just a wonderful thing to look at. I, for one, can't stop staring at some of these photos.

It is also expensive (at least by my "poor poet's" standards). Which is why I've only ordered 10 paperbacks and 10 hardcovers to sell. I did get Joe to sign each copy, and I've signed them as well. If you'd like one, I would be glad to mail it out to you (my postage is a lot cheaper than the press's, and the ones you could get from them wouldn't be signed).

Paperbacks are $29.95; Hardcovers are $41.95. Add $4 for shipping and handling. Call me at 828-234-4266 to work out details, or mail a check to Scott Owens, 838 4th Ave. Dr. NW, Hickory, NC 28601, or I can give you paypal info if you want to go that route.

Here is a sample poem just to whet your appetite:

Without Affectation

What would you call it,
this color of the natural world,
brown leaves and dirt,
khaki-almost-blonde straw,
gray trunks of trees,
occasional green of moss and cedar,
all blended under winter's fast-moving,
blue-gray sky --
a muted impressionism --
charcoal, sepia, ochre,
memory, regret, contemplation --
a color your eyes try to filter out.


Or, you can preview the entire book at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2850653.
I hope to see you at the reception, and let me know if I can send you a book beforehand.

Scott Owens
www.scottowenspoet.com
www.scottowensmusings.blogspot.com
www.poetryhickory.com
www.wildgoosepoetryreview.com
www.234journal.com
www.poetrycouncilofnc.wordpress.com

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Penny Harter's poem "Because a Volcano Has Erupted in Japan" appears in the just released anthology *Sunrise from Blue Thunder: Japan, Earthquake-Tsunami, March 2011" (c) Pirene's Fountain, 2011. Edited by Ami Kaye.The poems in this anthology honor the people of Japan as they try to rebuild their lives after these two disasters.

Her sonnet "Summer Ice" appears in the new anthology, *The Best of The Barefoot Muse," (c) 2011 Barefoot Muse Press. Edited by Anna M. Evans.

And four of her haiku and a haiku sequence appear in Aubrie Cox's blog anthology *The Language of Dragons*.
http://yaywords.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the_language_of_dragons.pdf

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And finally, my sincerest thanks to all who have started visiting my other blog, The Frugal Poet. Contact me if you have a poem and recipe to share.

Wednesday updates

Gabriel Rosenstock sent this:

http://www.theawakenedeye.com/haiku_GR.htm#

http://www.theawakenedeye.com/artisans/rosenstock_haiga.htm#

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Sasa Vazic sent this:

KLOŠTAR IVANIĆ

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR HAIKU IN ENGLISH 2011 - RESULTS

Click here to see the Results

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And finally, let's start the day off with a haiku reading:

Sunday updates

New Haiku Collection by Allan Burns

Dear Haiku Friend,

Red Moon Press has just published my first collection of haiku, distant virga.

The book is available online from RMP for $12 + S&H. It features cover and interior art by Ron Moss.

All the haiku have been published previously in a wide array of journals. The book brings them together in a convenient, sequenced bundle. Here are the back cover blurbs:

“Allan Burns’ haiku transport the reader into the sacred ground of life found in landscapes where earth is holy and wildlife thrives. Wit, heart, and intelligence color each carefully wrought poem with keen and sensitive observations. The poems in distant virga belong in every nature lover’s hand, backpack, or library. This collection is a gem.”—Marian Olson

“That Allan Burns values a healthy balance between humanity and the rest of nature is abundantly evident in this, his first collection of haiku. He is finely attuned to subtle interactions, especially those found at play in wilderness settings. Moreover, Burns exhibits an excellent feel for disjunction. As a result, I readily intuit the associations he makes and enjoy the emotions evoked before my mind can intervene. The revelations presented in this fine collection are often as surprising as they are delightful.”—Christopher Herold

This link will lead you to the order page:
http://www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=147

If you do snag a copy and have any thoughts about it, I'd of course be most interested to hear them.

All the best,
Allan

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TURTLE LIGHT PRESS 2012 HAIKU CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
Do you have a collection of haiku/senryu that you would like to have published in a finely bound, handmade edition? Turtle Light Press is now accepting manuscripts for its third biennial haiku contest. The 2008 winner, Michael McClintock, has been writing, editing and publishing haiku for many years; our 2010 winner, Catherine J.S. Lee, is a relative newcomer who also just recently won the 2011 Robert Spiess Memorial Award sponsored by "Modern Haiku."

You can check out past winning books, Sketches From the San Joaquin by McClintock, All That Remains by Lee, or a full copy of the guidelines at www.turtlelightpress.com. The contest will be judged by Kwame Dawes and Rick Black. All manuscripts must be postmarked by December 1, 2011. Any questions, please email rick@turtlelightpress.com

We look forward to receiving and reading your entries!

Rick

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Dear Haiku-Friends;

Chrysanthemum 10 is now online and ready to be viewed at:

www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net


beste Grüße/best wishes,

Dietmar Tauchner

Sunday updates

Journal of Renga & Renku : Just 3 weeks left to send content

A quick reminder that there are just three weeks left in our reading period for the next issue of Journal of Renga & Renku, which closes on October 1, 2011. Full details at http://tinyurl.com/jrr-cfc .  To gain an idea of the sort of content that interests the editors, leaf through the 17-page online preview of the current issue of JRR at http://tinyurl.com/preview-jrr1 .

We'd also be very happy to receive an entry (or several) from you, for the 2011 JRR renku contest, to be judged by Eiko Yachimoto. Full details at http://tinyurl.com/jrr-contest . Entry is free. Closing date for entries: October 1, 2011.

Please send all contributions and other communications to RengaRenku@gmail.com (RengaRenku AT gmail DOT com)

We look forward to hearing from you.

Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://darlingtonrichards.com/

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The results of The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 have been posted.

http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/contests/thcc/results/thcc2011results.pdf

Wednesday updates

Hello Sketchbook Writers and Artists and Readers:

A note from Karina.

Some of you may know, as a woman I love to create new things. In addition to my Global Correspondents, the Little Black Book, Contributing Editors and Childwriter's Sketchbook, which were my last creations to the Sketchbook, I have a new one, Showcase Haiku Haijin, ie. SHH! I will scout out each Sketchbook Issue for haiku to Showcase. These haiku will be chosen by rigid standards.

I have not set a limit to how many haiku will be selected for the Showcase Haiku Haijin; that will be determined and vary each issue depending upon the haiku submitted and selected for the issue. While our thread is themed and our kukai has a kigo, the Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH), will not be restricted to a topic. However, each Showcase Haiku must have a kigo / season word in the season of the publication they are submitting to. Showcase Haiku Haijin is only for Haiku, no other genres. Later we will add Tanka as a separate showcase.

Haijin may send up to five haiku for each bi-monthly issue: February, April, June, August, October, and December. Haiku entered in the Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH) must be previously unpublished; they must not be work shopped; they must not appear on any list, forum, group, blog, or in print. In short, if the haiku has appeared on the internet or in print we consider it to have been published. The next deadline is 20, October, 2011 for the September/October 31, 2011 issue. Any autumn kigo may be selected.

Send to: Shh@poetrywriting.org
Subject line: SHH and your name

Include a Reference from which your Autumn kigo word was chosen; for example:

Autumn Kigo: "morning dew"--autumn season/climate: The Haiku Handbook. William J. Higginson, p. 277.

Autumn Kigo: "quail"--autum season / animals: The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words: on-line @ http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html
Autumn Kigo: "harvest time"--autumn season/humanity: World Kigo Database--on-line:
http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2005/08/harvest-and-its-kigo.html

The World Kigo Datebase also maintains a list of regional Kigo. Other saijiki sources may also be used; just be specific.
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The July / August Sketchbook issue will not be published until September 30, 2011 due to the high volume of submissions and tributes.

Remember to submit your poems to the Found Poem Contest to be elegible for the 1st. prize of $50.00 or 2nd prize of $ 25.00. Read the Details here! Deadline is December 1, 2011.

Send Found Poems to : found@poetrywriting.org
Subject Line: Found Poem Contest plus Poet’s Name
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Sketchbook “autumn leaves” Kukai: Enter by October 20, 2011: read the details here.

Sketchbook “cemetery” Haiku Thread: Enter by October 26, 2011; read the details here.

Submissions are open for the September / October 31, 2011 Sketchbook. Submit by October 20, 2011. Read the submission guidelines.

Karina Klesko, Sketchbook Administrator
kk

Sketchbook Editors: Karina Klesko and John Daleiden
kk / jd

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Gabriel Rosenstock sent this:

a new Wurm project: the poezine can-can

details here: http://www.wurmimapfel.net/can-can

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The winners of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2011 Haiku Invitational have been posted:

http://www.vcbf.ca/haiku/2011-winning-haiku

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I'd like to thank Charlotte Digregorio for linking to my mini essay entitled An Introduction to Haiku & Senryu for New Haiku & Senryu Poets and also for interviewing me and featuring three of my free verse poems on her web site recently.

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And, finally, some very sad news for you today:


Vale Janice M Bostok 1942 -2011

Australian haiku poets will be saddened by the death of revered haiku poet Janice M Bostok, Patron of the Australian Haiku Society, editor, teacher, judge and mentor in the haiku field. Janice died peacefully in the Murwillumbah Hospital yesterday afternoon Sunday 4th September. On behalf of the Australian Haiku Society (HaikuOz) may I offer condolences to Janice’s family, and to her haiku colleagues and friends.

Cynthia Rowe
President: The Australian Haiku Society

More information on Janice’s life and her role in the haiku community will be posted soon.

Please submit your memorial poems and brief tributes to

cynthia.rowe@ozemail.com.au

Sunday updates - December 19

WORLD HAIKU REVIEW

Re: Call for Submissions for the Next Issue

Dear Kuyu,

The next issue of World Haiku Review (WHR) is planned for January 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: kalaramesh8@gmail.com AND susumu.takiguchi@btinternet.com Suggested themes: existence, war and winter scene

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 when enough number of good works are received we will announce that and the submission will be closed soon after that. We at this end 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, need not worry abouth this classification. Just send what happens to come out best.

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.

I will mention some indications about our selection below for those who may be interested to know them.

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.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Kengin to all,

Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor and Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club

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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)

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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;

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Ellen Olinger has started a second blog. She writes:

I began a second blog last summer, where I'm posting a few new short holiday/winter poems.  And some new photos by Karl this week on the first blog.

Merry Christmas, Ellen

Ellen Olinger

Poems from Oostburg, Wisconsin
http://ellenolinger.wordpress.com

Poems Inspired by the Psalms and Nature
http://elingrace.wordpress.com

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Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic

sent this:

Dear Curtis,

Here is a gift for your visitors, Stjepan Rozic's haiku collection Song of a Nightingale.

Wishing you Happy Holidays,
Djurdja and Stjepan

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Click on the link below to view the results of the

15th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition 2010

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Journal of Renga & Renku update:

We’re happy to say that, despite Norman having been snowed in and virtually incommunicado for some weeks now, we’re still on track with Issue 1 being available for purchase if not at year’s end, then early in 2011. Purchase and pricing details will be available on our website by then too.

We’ll be finalizing page design and the proofreading stages of the manuscript when Norman’s internet connection has been restored and after that, contributors/sabaki can expect to receive a pdf of their section of the content for a last look-over.

The journal will run to some 150 large-size pages of renku articles and poetry and the list of contributors is roughly that number too. The listing is available for view on the DR website here:

http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/titles/journal-of-renga-renku-list-of-contributors/

We’re also offering all contributors a few lines of page space to introduce themselves to JRR readers if they’d like to. Our invitation is copied below should you not have received yours yet – we’d love to hear from (and about) you.

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Invitation

Dear contributor, please help us create a vibrant and interesting bio page for JRR. In 50 – 100 words, tell us who you are, where you live and what attracts you to renga/renku. Bios should preferably not be in the first person and please, not be a list of prior publications – too much fiddly formatting. We’ll load them as they arrive, into the outline on our website here:

http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/titles/journal-of-renga-renku-list-of-contributors/

so you will be able to check back after a few days to proof read your entry. Please reply within 7 days to rengarenku@gmail.com (rengarenku @ gmail.com) and sabaki, please pass this on to the renju in your poem so we can get their information too.


Moira Richards
Norman Darlington
--
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/

Wednesday updates - November 3

Penny Harter sends news that she has come through her surgery (for a hysterectomy) very well and is now home recuperating at her daughter's. She thanks everyone for their loving support and prayers during this challenging time. Pathology results indicate that she now is, and will continue to be, just fine.

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The Robert Spiess Memorial 2011 Haiku Awards

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Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2010
Haiku Invitational Winners

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A new issue of Sketchbook is online:

Sketchbook

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New poems have been posted on the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature web site:

Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

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And here is Dead Mule School of Southern Literature editor, Helen Losse, reading one of her poems:

Sunday updates - October 17

Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic sent the results to The Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest (In English 2010). Click the link below to view a pdf document of the results:

Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest

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Simply Haiku call for submissions from Sasa Vazic:

http://simplyhaiku.webs.com/

Submissions for the Winter issue accepted from October 15 through December 15..

Accepting Quality Traditional English Language Haiku, Tanka, Haibun, Haiga, Renga, Book reviews, Interviews and Feature articles.

Please read carefully the Submission Guidelines before submitting.

http://simplyhaiku.webs.com/submissionguidelines.htm
Robert D. Wilson & Sasa Vazic
Co-Owners, Co-Publishers, Co-Editors in Chief

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Penny Harter's haiku are featured on "Daily Haiku." The URL below is for October 10th. From there, you can click on the "next" arrow to see the remaining poems for the week, day by day.

http://www.dailyhaiku.org/haiku/2010-october-10

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David Giacalone sent this update:

Last week, I brought f/k/a out of retirement long enough to do a memorial tribute to Peggy Lyles. I did it as a Page, not a Post, so it is not on the front page of the weblog, but it occurs to me now that a tribute needs to be shared to be meaningful.

If interested, you'll find it at "let us celebrate Peggy Lyles" (Oct. 9, 2010).

best wishes,
David

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Here's a message from Peter Yovu:

Greetings,

I have a new book out from Red Moon Press, entitled Sunrise. Comprised of (by last count) 91 poems, it's divided thematically in five sections, each preceded by a pen and ink drawing. The poems were first printed in venues as diverse as The Heron's Nest and Roadrunner/Masks. If you wish to purchase a copy, please send US $15 (ppd) to:

Peter Yovu
60 VT RTE 12
Middlesex VT 05602

If you live in Canada, please add one dollar. Anywhere else on the planet, please add two dollars and a prayer for my sad country. Just prior to taking it to the post office,I will place your copy of the book somewhere near my stereo as it plays Brian Eno and Harold Budd's The Pearl. If you prefer, I will play Alina, by Arvo Part.

Just let me know.

All the best,
Peter Yovu

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.

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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.)

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Lenard D. Moore forwarded this information to me about the 

HAIKU PRESENCE AWARD 2010

Click the above link to download or view the pdf document.

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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

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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

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.

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And finally, here's a local news story that I hope you'll find interesting. ;-)

An eye for beauty

  Click the above link to view the story.

Sunday updates - 6-13-2010

Haiku Featured on Seattle Japanese Garden Audio Tour

Michael Dylan Welch has recorded two presentations about haiku for the new audio tour of the Seattle Japanese Garden. These professionally recorded and mixed tracks include koto and shakuhachi music performed by Elizabeth and John Falconer. One of these tracks, titled "Haiku and the Japanese Garden" (9:21 in length), is now available for free download or online listening. Check it out at http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/seattle-japanese-garden-audio/id370304184. Or visit http://www.seattle.gov/PARKS/parkspaces/JapaneseGarden/JapaneseGardenTour.xml. You can also download the CD liner notes at http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/japanesegarden.htm#podcast. The second track, titled "Only in Seattle: An Introduction to Haiku Poetry" (approximately 22 minutes in length), will be broadcast on KSER radio sometime in June. On Sunday, June 6, 2010, the Seattle Japanese Garden celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Through the summer of 2010, the Haiku Northwest group has been holding its monthly meetings at the garden too, in their new meeting room. The May 13 meeting featured a presentation on Issa by Michael Dylan Welch. On June 10, Tanya McDonald talked about the haiku of Jack Kerouac. And on July 8, Richard Tice will talk about the haiku of Chiyo-ni. The August 12 presentation is still to be announced.

Seattle will also host a national quarterly meeting of the Haiku Society of America over the weekend of June 25-27, mostly at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, which is currently featuring an exhibit of Japanese woodblock prints (including Hokusai's "Great Wave").

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M. Kei has announced a special section at Atlas Poetica:

25 Tanka Poets from New Zealand

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Saša Važic' sent these updates:

Results of the Katikati Pathway Haiku Competition

Haiku International Association (HIA) contest information.

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

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Gabriel Rosenstock sent this link to Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse.

http://www.themargins.net/archive.html

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The June issue of The Heron's Nest is online:

http://theheronsnest.com/

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Shamrock Haiku Journal Issue 14 is online:

http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com/currentissue.htm

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The fifth issue of Notes From the Gean is now online.

http://www.geantree.com/indexcover.html

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Haiku Chronicles: Episode 12 - The Four Pillars Part I, The Narrow Thread has been posted.

http://www.haikuchronicles.com/

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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.

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Commemorate Shinran Shonin's 750th Memorial Observance with Poetry Calling for Haiku and Tanka

http://www.ingassho.com/haikucontest/haikucontest.html

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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

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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

Wednesday updates - 5/26/2010

Mark Brooks sent this:

During the first half of May, the home offices of haijinx relocated from Austin to Georgetown, Texas. As a result, the haijinx wire went offline for a few weeks. The news feed will restart May 21.

Also, since there has been such a disruption to our online presence, the deadline for the haijinx quarterly, a journal focused on putting the hai back in haiku, will be extended until June 1. More details can be found in our original call for submissions and our submissions page

Thanks for your patience!

Mark Brooks
Christopher Patchel
Carmen Sterba
Alan Summers

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This just in from Carolyne Rohrig:

2010 San Francisco International Competition

Haiku, Senryu, Tanka and Rengay

Sponsored by: Haiku Poets of Northern California

Deadlines for Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka: In hand, October 31, 2010

Deadlines for Rengay: In hand, November 30, 2010

Details

All entries must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. There is no limit to the number of submissions. A first prize of $100 will be awarded in each of the four categories. For the Haiku contests, second and third prizes of $50 and $25 will be awarded. Contest results will be announced at the first HPNC meeting in January and in the HPNC Newsletter. Winning poems will be published in the Spring/Summer issue of Mariposa, the membership journal of the HPNC. All rights revert to authors after the contest results are announced. This contest is open to all except the HPNC president and, for their respective categories, the contest coordinators and the judges (who will remain anonymous until after the competition, except rengay contest). 

Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka Submission Guidelines

Type or print each entry on two 3 x 5 cards. In the upper left corner of each card identify its category as Haiku, Senryu, or Tanka. On the back of one card only, print your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (optional). The entry fee is $1.00 per poem. Send haiku, senryu and tanka submissions, along with entry fee, to HPNC, c/o Carolyne Rohrig, 37966 Parkmont Dr., Fremont, CA 94536.

Rengay Submission Guidelines

All rengay must be titled. For two people (Poet A and Poet B) follow this linked format: 3 lines/Poet A, 2 lines/Poet B, 3/A, 3/B, 2/A, 3/B. For three poets (A, B, and C) the format is: 3 lines/A, 2 lines/B, 3 lines/C, 2/A, 3/B, 2/C. Type or print each rengay on three letter-size sheets. Include full authorship information, stanza by stanza, as well as all poets' names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses (optional) on one copy only. On the other two copies, mark stanzas with letters only (poet A, poet B, poet C) to indicate the sequence of authorship. The entry fee is $5.00 per rengay. The rengay judge will be announced later. Send rengay submissions to HPNC, c/o Fay Aoyagi, 930 Pine St. #105, San Francisco CA 94108.

Entry Fees

Make checks or money orders payable in U.S. dollars to "Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC)." Cash (in U.S. currency) is OK. Enclose a business-size SASE (U.S. first class postage or an IRC) for notification of contest winners. No entries will be returned, with the exception of late submissions, or those received without payment. These will be returned using your SASE; without an SASE these entries will be discarded. 

Thank you for participating in this year's contest.

If you have any questions, please contact Carolyne Rohrig by e-mail (carolyne.rohrig@gmail.com)

http://www.hpnc.org    

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Saša Važic sent these updates:

The Poetry Society of Virginia: Winners 2010 Adult Poetry Contest

(Scroll down to see the winners in the haiku category.)

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The Eight Annual ukiahaiku festival Winning Entries

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The Results of Kaji Aso Studio’s International Haiku Contest 2010