Thursday updates

Hi Folks,

I'm writing to let you know about The Haiku Foundation Video Archive campaign on IndieGoGo.

Take a moment if you would to check it out.  All the tools are there.  Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates.  If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'The Haiku Foundation Video Archive' happen. This is a word of mouth kind of campaign, so passing this link along and spreading the word is greatly appreciated too. Thanks for having a look, and take care.

Jim Kacian
President
The Haiku Foundation


http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Haiku-Foundation-Video-Archive?a=346480&i=emal

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Hi Curtis,

Thought you and your readers would like to hear about the HSA booth at the 52nd Sakura Matsui Japanese Street Festival. It has taken a while to catch my breath, but we were able to reach out to lots of people. I have written up a short article: http://www.turtlelightpress.com/2012/04/haiku-hits-the-streets-of-d-c/  or you can go to my personal Facebook page and check out the wealth of pictures to get a sense of the day, too.

Many thanks,
Rick

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Rick Black
Turtle Light Press
(908) 227-7951
http://www.turtlelightpress.com

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http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr-cfc

Hello!

We're ready to begin accepting offers of content for the third issue of our Journal of Renga & Renku, which is now listed with the Bibliography of Asian Studies and the MLA International Bibliography. The journal will be:

1. published early 2013

2. available in hardcopy only

3. available for secure online purchase 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. letters responding to the contents of previous issues, or on any relevant topic

6. 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 immediately of acceptance, for purposes of acknowledgement

e) in any of the standard forms: kasen, triparshva, nijûin, jûnichô, shisan, rokku, hyakuin, imachi, 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

i) Please include the following text in all poetry submissions: "I hereby confirm that I have obtained consent from all of the participating poets to offer this poem for publication by JRR"

7. We are also holding a contest, the winning poem to appear in JRR3; click here for details: http://darlingtonrichards.com/contest

8. We're open to discussing content ideas we've not covered above, so please write

9. All communications will be acknowledged within two weeks

10. Closing date for sending content: October 1, 2012

11. We are regretfully unable to pay contributors for content at this stage


To gain an idea of the sort of content that interests the editors, leaf through the previews of our previous issues (or, better still, buy them) at http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/jrr

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
http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr-cfc

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Dear Curtis,
An announcement for Tobacco Road.
Thanks so much,
Carolyn

NEW EDITOR AT ACORN

For the past four-and-a-half years I have derived great pleasure from editing Acorn. It has been a joy to read your submissions and publish your haiku. A delightful bonus was that I got to know so many of you in the haiku community. I cherish the connections we have made and look forward to our continued friendship as fellow poets. I will watch for your poems in Acorn and other haiku journals and eagerly anticipate seeing you at haiku conferences and events.

I thank AC Missias, who founded Acorn in 1998, for giving me the opportunity to assume the role of editor in 2008. And now I have the privilege of handing over the reins to Susan Antolin who will become editor of Acorn beginning with the Fall 2012 issue. As I move on to pursue other interests, I am so fortunate to have found someone whose outstanding abilities as a haiku poet, and whose experience as a haiku journal editor, make me feel certain that Acorn’s reputation as a journal of the highest quality haiku will be continued and even enhanced under her guidance. Sue has published a wonderful collection of haiku titled Artichoke Season (which you should read, if you have not already done so). She is currently president of the Haiku Poets of Northern California, co-editor of Mariposa, the HPNC haiku journal, and editor of Ripples, the newsletter of the Haiku Society of America. Most important, I know and trust her poetic vision.

Poems for the Fall 2012 issue will be read during July and August only. Please send your submissions directly to Susan at acornhaiku@gmail.com. (Please note the new email address. The website will remain the same: www.acornhaiku.com.)
 
All best,
Carolyn Hall

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Carlos Colón talked haiku recently on Kate Archer Kent's Red River Radio (KDAQ, 89.9 FM)

http://www.redriverradio.org/term/carlos-colon

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A new Gallery of Haiga from haigaonline featuring Ron C. Moss and Michael Dylan Welch

http://www.haigaonline.com/gallery-sp2012/gallery.html


Many Thanks.

Ron

Monday updates

Now out from Modern Haiku Press.

Haiku 21: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku
edited by Lee Gurga & Scott Metz
with an introduction by the editors
Perfectbound, 205 pages: over 600 haiku by more than 200 poets
Modern Haiku Press, 2011 (Lincoln, IL)
ISBN: 978-0-974189-45-1
$20 + $3 (shipping) in U.S.; $20 + $6 (shipping) in Canada; $20 + $12 (shipping) all other countries
URL: http://www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku21.html

In forms ranging from monostich to multilayer to interlinear spaces, Haiku 21 reveals a shift in haiku writing in English today. Along with typically haikuesque sensibilities come fleeting remarks, cosmic wonders, whimsies, dissonances, gritty and elegant meldings with nature, veritable koans. An eye-opening collection. —Hiroaki Sato

This is the most important anthology of English-language haiku to be published in decades. If you are curious to discover how this briefest form of literature has evolved in the 21st century into a novel and potent contemporary poetics, open this book! —Richard Gilbert

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Here's a haiga video by Donna Beaver, Al Pizzarelli, and Anita Virgil:

 EPISODE 22: HAIGA GALLERY

Haiga Gallery from Haiku Chronicles on Vimeo.

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Aubrie Cox sent this:

Dear friends,

Although many of you have already gotten wind of it via Facebook, I wanted to send out a semi-sort-of-kind-of official notice that the dragon/water/fire poems are now online!

http://yaywords.wordpress.com/projects/the-language-of-dragons/

But more importantly, thank you again for sharing your works with me and everyone else. I hope all of you are blessed with a warm, pleasant, and fruitful year!

Cheers,
Aubrie

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Ray Rasmussen sent this:

Hi Curtis,

Please announce the new issue of CHO, just released. I think that you've already announced the December releases of Haibun Today, A Hundred Gourds and Notes from the Gean.

http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/

And you may wish to consider announcing this haiku genre journal website. I just put together the list. I think that it's relatively complete, but there's also a spot for adding journals.

http://raysweb.net/haiku/pages/publicationvenues.html

Ray Rasmussen

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Dear Sketchbook readers and writers:

The Nov/Dec 31, 2011 Issue of Sketchbook is now on-line:
Sketchbook: Vol. 6-6: November/December 31, 2011

Please consider contributing to the Haiku and Haiga New Year’s Festival site.

The November/December 2011 issue of Sketchbook features Poetry and Art from 68 writers living in 18 countries.

The Sketchbook editors send New Year’s Greetings to each of you. Submissions are open for the January / February 2012 Issue. Read the complete submission guidelines.

Sketchbook editors: Karina Klesko and John Daleiden
kk / jd
Poetrywriting.org/Karina Klesko/Director
www.poetrywriting.org: Sketchbook
Karina Klesko, Senior Editor
John Daleiden, Editor/Webmaster

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Haiku and Tanka Harvest
Authored by Victor P Gendrano

Selected Haiku and Tanka poems, 2006-2011

A selection of over 200 haiku and tanka poems previously published in various online and print journals as well as book anthologies, written from 2006-2011.

Order Haiku and Tanka Harvest at the following URL:

https://www.createspace.com/3737478

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Penny Harter shared this interesting essay entitled More than the Birds, Bees, and Trees: A Closer Look at Writing Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Poets.org also has a Poetic Forms & Techniques page.

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Janak Sapkota sent this preview of his new book entitled Whisper of Pines.

Download the Whisper of Pines preview here.

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

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Ed Baker sent this:

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One update and a Tobacco Road redo

Richard Krawiec sent this:

Reminder, there is a November 7 deadline for submissions to Notes from the Gean. Richard Krawiec is encouraging haibun writers to submit. Already have some work going in by established haibun writers, as well as two well-known free verse poets, including a Pulitzer Prize winner. http://www.notesfromthegean.com/submissions.html

Check out my websites!

http://www.press53.com/BioRichardKrawiec.html

http://www.rkeditor.com/

http://jacarpress.com/index.html

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I posted the video below two years ago. I've since received a number of new readers and thought that they might enjoy a Basho reenactment. This short film is done really well. An Interview With Babak Gray, the Director of Bashō and the Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones can be located here.



Here is Gary Warner's response to the video.

Here is Bruce Ross's response to the video.

And finally, here are a few more responses to the video.

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)

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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

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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

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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

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Check out my websites!

http://www.press53.com/BioRichardKrawiec.html

http://www.rkeditor.com/

http://jacarpress.com/index.html

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S E E  T H E  V O I C E !
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

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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.

Sunday updates

 A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds now has a temporary webpage where you will find the basic submission guidelines and information.

There is also an opt-in facility for those who would like to receive news and updates.

http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/

We welcome your submissions of haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga and articles/ essays relevant to the haikai genre for the March 2012 issue until the submissions closing date of December 15th, 2011.

Though the url for the inaugural issue in December will change slightly, the site will remain available via this link as well.

A big thank-you to Mike Rehling, who is generously hosting A Hundred Gourds.

- Lorin Ford, haiku editor
 for the editorial team
A Hundred Gourds

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Journal of Renga & Renku 

Many thanks to all who entered this year's JRR Renku Contest. In total we received 52 poems from 29 sabaki (lead poets) in 11 countries on four continents, which I believe is a record number of entries for any non-Japanese renku contest. Our judge, the renowned renku poet and editor Eiko Yachimoto, is now reading the entries. The winning poem will be published, together with a detailed critique, in the next issue of Journal of Renga & Renku, to appear at the end of 2011. All entries will be considered as content for inclusion in the journal.

The editors
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/

Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/journal.of.renga.renku

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Ed Baker sent the following URL:

http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2011/10/ed-baker-three-excerpts-from-stone-girl.html

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J. Zimmerman sent this:

Wild Violets

The just-published Wild Violets (the 2011 Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Annual Haiku Anthology) is a labor of love, full of haiku, haibun, and essays about modern haiku practice: a great gift book.

It showcases selected haiku by 57 poets (including Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, Christopher Herold, Deborah P. Kolodji, Patricia J. Machmiller, Michael McClintock, Patricia Prime, Billie Wilson, and Teruo Yamagata) from the USA, Europe, New Zealand, and Japan.

Ten informative essays explore the practice of haiku in a wide sense, suggesting ways that readers might add to their haiku toolkit. The first three essays concern our core tools:

    "Kigo: A Poetic Device in English Too" by Patricia J. Machmiller;
    the saijiki, as in Anne M. Homan's "The Task of Writing a Sajiki;" and
    the ginko, adapted to the "Urban Ginko" by Deborah P. Kolodji.

Other essays include "Haiku with Very Few Verbs" by Jerry Ball, "Haiku … Zen—What's the Diff?" by Christopher Herold, and "Gendai Haiku: Why Should We Care?" by Patrick Gallagher.

Selected micro-haibun are for nine of the poets.

The anthology's title is from a haiku by Patricia J. Machmiller:


   the little child
   wanting only to be held—
   wild violets

Edited and introduced by Jerry Ball and J. Zimmerman, the anthology's poems and text are enhanced by Ann Bendixen's powerful yet elegant art. Judith Morrison Schallberger designed the anthology and Harry Lafnear designed the cover.

Wild Violets is available pre-paid by check made out to Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (YTHS) of $12 plus p&p ($5 USA; $10 for Canada, Mexico, or Europe; $12.00 for Asia, Australia, and New Zealand). Include your mailing address with your payment to: YTHS Treasurer, 6116 Dunn Avenue, San Jose, CA 95123, USA.

Printed at Patson's Press, Sunnyvale (September 2011) Wild Violets is 70 pages plus folding inserts; 6" x 9". Glossy art covers; perfect bound. ISBN 978-0-9745404-9-8.

Our editors' introduction can be read at:
http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haiku/anthology.yuki.teikei.htm#2011

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Roberta Beary's The Unworn Necklace was recently reviewed on Basho's Road.

The Unworn Necklace is available at Amazon.com.

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Penny Harter sent this:

I was invited by the Unitarian Church to give the morning message on August 21st. My topic was using writing, specifically poetry, to move from loss and grief into healing and light. I spoke of my several journeys  through loss and grief (divorce, death of my parents, and loss of my husband) and incorporated a number of my poems. My talk was about 1/2 hour long, and they posted it on their web site. To see it, please go to:

http://www.uucsjs.org/sermons.html and scroll down to August 21st.

I'm moved to post this today because today, October 11th, is the third anniversary of my husband Bill Higginson's death.It was a privilege to share my journey with the congregation. I offer another message on November 21st, this one on honoring the planet. I'll share poetry that focuses on the natural world----poems that witness what we've done to harm the Earth, and poems that celebrate its beauties and gifts. I'll post a link to that one too if they video it.

[I've also embedded Penny's video here.]

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Let's close this update with a little flute music this beautiful Sunday morning:

Sunday updates - October 10

Randy Brooks sent this:

Modern Haiku Press is pleased to announce the publication of Modern Haiku, Volumes 1-10 (1969-1979) now available in a CD-ROM edition, edited and designed by Randy Brooks.

This archive of the first ten years of Modern Haiku features facsimiles of all pages from Volume 1.1 (winter 1969), through Volume 10.3 (autumn 1979). This CD comprises simple HTML files, so the contents may be read with any Web browser. All pages of each issue, including front and back covers, were scanned from a set of original issues, some of which are in less than perfect condition, so the quality of the images has sometimes suffered somewhat.

The index of authors, prepared by Modern Haiku Editor Charles Trumbull, records, in alphabetical order by author, the contents of the first ten years of the journal. Included are all essays, reviews, regular features, and—most significantly—the full text of every haiku and senryu that were published. Cover graphic design by Modern Haiku Art Director Lidia Rozmus.

 Order your copy for $30.00 plus $2.50 shipping & handling from:

Randy M. Brooks
Web Editor, Modern Haiku
3720 N. Woodridge Drive
Decatur, IL 62526

It is also available for online purchase from the Brooks Books web site at:

http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/othersbooks/ModernHaikuCD-Volumne1-10.html

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Dear Haiku-Friends;

Chrysanthemum 8 is now online and ready to be viewed at:

www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net

Best Wishes,

Dietmar Tauchner

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M. Kei sent this:

Shoppers who utilize Lulu.com to purchase books from Keibooks (or any of the other small presses that use Lulu.com), can take advantage of their Columbus Day sale to save 14.92% off any order using the code EXPLORE305. Buyers who want to purchase a large order of $350 or more can save 20% buy using the code CARGO305. Coupon codes are good only at Lulu.com through 10/11/2010.

More information at:
http://www.lulu.com/static/100810_EXPLORE305wv.html

~K~

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Keibooks
publisher of literature for discerning readers

P O Box 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922 USA
http://Lulu.com/Keibooks
Keibooks (at) gmail (dot) com

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Pris Campbell sent this:

Main Street Rag has dropped prices

I just received this in the Main Street Rag newsletter today:

'If you’ve browsed the MSR Online Bookstore, you will notice something: We’ve dropped our prices across the board. It occurred to me that the reason why we set our prices where we do is to accommodate distributors and other bookstores. Since we have been seeing so much more traffic and sales on our own website, it made sense to reward folks for buying directly from Main Street Rag. In most cases, it’s a $10-20% decrease, but I like round numbers, so for the most part that means between one and five dollars per book—about the cost of shipping. We hope our newsletter readers will take the time to peruse the MSR Online Bookstore and see what we’ve done—but you should do so soon. We’re about to completely reconfigure the bookstore pages. '

Ergo, The Nature of Attraction is now on sale on the site for 5 dollars plus shipping under 'new releases'. http://www.mainstreetrag.com/

I have about 8 personal copies left for sale and am matching my price to theirs, along with dedication and signature. First eight who message me, then get a check to me get them. There will be no reprinting, so this is it. Scott Owens bought a larger stock and has those to sell, too.

Pris

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Carolyn Thomas sent this:

The Winter Moon Awards for Haiku 2010

Deadline: In hand December 1, 2010

Prizes: First Prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25; Zen Award (if warranted): $25. Honorable Mentions. Winners living outside the US will receive subscriptions to haiku journals in place of cash prizes.

Eligibility: Open to everyone.

Entry Fee: None

Rules: All haiku must be the entrant’s original, unpublished work, and not under consideration by any publication or other contest.

Submissions: Up to 10 haiku in English, typed (or printed legibly) on one sheet of 8 ½ x 11 paper. Submit 2 copies. Provide name, address and pen name, if you use one, in upper left corner of one copy only.

Correspondence: Send #10 (4 1/8 x 9 1/2 ) SASE (outside US, SAE and 1 IRC) for notification of results. No entries will be returned. No email submissions.

Mail entries to: Carolyn Thomas, 7866 Hogan Circle, Hemet, CA 92545 USA

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Here's another video poem by Richard Peek:

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I was out and about with my small camcorder yesterday. Check out the video below. Watch the two gentlemen to the right of the screen.

Monday updates - 4/26/2010

Raffael de Gruttola sent the wonderful reading below. He writes:

This is the piece that Judson Evans, Karen Klein, and I cross-adapted from Katherine Snodgrass' one act play called HAIKU. Katherine is the Director of the Boston Playwright's Theatre at Boston University. We took the dialogue of the play and adapted it as a renku for performance purposes. It was presented at the Mass Poetry Festival last year in October and was videotaped for the local Lowell TV Outlet. Katherine's play won the 1988 Heideman Award-Winning One-Act Play in the US.

Sincerely,
Raffael

Sculling Blackbirds from Eric Sack on Vimeo.

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Carole Macrury sent this reminder:

The 11th Tanka Society of America’s International Competition Call for Submissions

Deadline: Postmark date of May 10, 2010.

Eligibility: Open to all, members and non-members alike, except TSA officers and judges.

Regulations: Any number of tanka may be submitted. Entries must be original, in English, unpublished, and not submitted for publication or to any other contest.

Entry Fee: $1.00 per tanka, U.S. funds only. Please make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America."

Submissions: Submit each tanka on three separate 3 x 5 inch cards, two with the tanka only (for anonymous judging), the third with the tanka and the author's name and address in the upper left-hand corner. Type or print neatly please.

Submit entries and fees to: Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281-8511 USA

Awards: First prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Amount of prizes may be reduced if an insufficient number of entries are received. Winning poems will be published in Ribbons, the Tanka Society of America journal.

Adjudication: The name(s) of the judge(s) will be announced after the contest.

Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.

Correspondence: Unfortunately, entries cannot be returned. Please send a business size SASE for answers to queries or for a list of winning entries. For foreign entries, send a self-addressed envelope and one international reply coupon.

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Saša Važic' sent this update:

The 14th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest.

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Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
Annual Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest

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Apokalipsa magazine is issuing a call for

6th HAIKU COMIC OR COMIC OF HAIKU?

If a haiku is always derived from simplicity, brevity, and the use of least words possible – without redundancy, which express the whole dimensionality of a haiku moment, which is the starting point and goal of the haiku masters’ creativity, interpreting a comic we can speak about experimentation with time, i.e., moment. A haiku comic is a multifaceted experiment that incorporates various interpretations of a personal experience in form of a “frozen” moment – a quick sketch or illustration, an “explained” moment in form of banner short stories, which occasionally flirt with animation approaches, and one- or more-page form, which visualises a certain haiku or creates an atmosphere that forms a basis for understanding a certain moment, message or thought within its time frame.

Your haiku comics will be published in the September 2010 issue of Apokalipsa magazine and in its special volume Haiku comic 6 edited by Boris Bac'ic'. A special comic exhibition and projection within the project Ljubljana 2010 – World Book Capital, and Pecs 2010 –European Capital of Culture, is also planned. The authors will be notified about the upcoming events and will receive the publication by regular mail. Please send the contributions until 1 June 2010 to the following address: REVIJA APOKALIPSA, UI. Lili Novy 25, 1000 Ljubljana, marked Haiku comic, or via e-mail (in tif or jpg format, 600dpi BW or 300dpi GRAYSCALE) to the following address: bajabak@gmail.com.

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Saša also needs your help:

Sasa Vazic, editor of the bilingual Haiku Reality/stvarnost, would like to kindly ask poets to resubmit their work to her email vazicsasa@gmail.com. The fact is her hard disc burned up, so she has lost all emails with submissions.

Haiku Reality is open for submission to all other authors as well.

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This just in from M. Kei:

Atlas Poetica Announces New Special Features: Romanian Tanka Poets

24 April 2010 — Perryville, Maryland, USA

Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka is proud to reveal the new ‘Special Features’ section of its completely redesigned website. The new website, designed by Alex von Vaupel, Technical Director for Atlas Poetica, hosts information about the journal, submission guidelines, ordering information, sample issues, and now the new Special Features section. It is located at .

Atlas Poetica is an international tanka journal that publishes tanka literature in many languages. However, it can be difficult for readers and poets to find venues to enjoy tanka featuring different languages and cultures. Therefore, Atlas Poetica has established the Special Features section to focus on different aspects of the international tanka community.

The first Special Feature is ‘25 Romanian Tanka Poets’ edited by Magdalena Dale and Vasile Moldovan, with an Introduction by Moldovan and translations by Dale and others. The Introduction surveys the history of tanka in Romania from 1878 to the present, and highlights some of the accomplishments of Romanian tanka poets at home and around the world.

The Introduction is followed by twenty-five tanka in the original Romanian accompanied by English translation. Some of the poets featured are well-known to the international tanka community, but other poets are being translated into English for the first time. ‘25 Romanian Tanka Poets’ is a beguiling snapshot of tanka in Romania and provides citations for readers interested in reading more.

More Special Features will be coming soon, including ‘25 Canadian Tanka Poets in French and English,’ edited by Aurora Antonovic and translated by Huguette Ducharme and Mike Montreuil. It is slated to appear the first week of May. It will be followed by ‘25 New Zealand Tanka Poets,’ edited by Patricia Prime. It will appear in the first week of June.

A fourth Special Feature, ‘25 Poems on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Themes’ is in the planning stages. It is being edited by Alex von Vaupel. Queries about the LGBT Special Feature can be sent to with a subject line of “LGBT tanka feature”.

Anyone interested in being a Guest Editor for a Special Feature at the Atlas Poetica website will find guidelines on Special Features home page, below the Atlas butterfly that is the symbol of the journal. Anyone interested in being a Guest Editor should familiarize themselves with the project by reading the Special Features section and also a sample issue of the journal archived on the site. Atlas Poetica’s Special Features are published on an irregular schedule.

About Keibooks:

Keibooks is a micropress located in Perryville, Maryland, USA, founded by poet and tall ship sailor, M. Kei. Keibooks publishes select projects reflecting his interest in tanka poetry and the sea. Using print-on-demand technology, Keibooks is able to publish high quality literature in attractive, affordable editions. Keibooks is home to Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka, and previously published Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, a classic anthology of tanka love poems, as well as several other titles. For more information, visit: <>.

Contact:
M. Kei, publisher and editor
Keibooks
P O Box 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922-1118, USA
Email: Keibooks @ gmail.com
http://stores.lulu.com/keibooks

Tuesday updates - 1/26/2010

Hidenori Hiruta has a three part blog post on the Akita International Haiku Network featuring a number of poets and their haiku about the new year.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

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Gillena Cox maintains the Caribbean Kigo Kukai Results blog. View recent and past winners of the Caribbean Kigo Kukai by visiting:

http://caribbeankigo.pbworks.com/Caribbean-Kigo-Kukai-Results

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M. Kei sent this:

Pirates of the Narrow Seas Now in Print

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And finally, here's a video of Collin Barber reading his excellent haibun entitled Sea of Stars:

Tuesday updates

The January issue of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature has been released featuring poems by Philip DeLoach, Warren Gossett, Charlotte Hamrick, Kevin Cutrer, Mark Folse, Patricia L. Johnson, Anthony Robbins, Donald Harbour, Scott Whitaker, Joseph Olschner, Anderson O’Brien and Lana Maht Wiggins:

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Shape of a Box

Issue 65 of Shape of a Box is online with poems by Rivka Keren.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBHNCxsTHJI

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Winter Moon Awards for Haiku 2009 Results

This just in from Carolyn Thomas:

First Prize $100


record heat

my mind full

of mistakes

Glenn G. Coats VA




Second Prize $50


   her sixty fifth

she shows us a rare iris

             deeply veined

John Parsons UK




Third Prize $25


autumn

the color of his hair

in the leaves

Marguerite Frarey NY




Zen Award $25


just enough snow

to show

the lines of the plough

John F. Ziemba MA




Honorable Mention


heat wave---

we rest on the shady side

of the tombstone

Carole MacRury WA




scent of straw

each hen

a different voice

Barbara Snow OR




late frost

the frayed seams

of his jeans

Barbara Snow OR




full moon---

she describes

the tumor’s size

Susan Marie La Vallee HI




lilac

I find reasons

to return

Jennifer Gomoll Popolis IL




autumn melancholy---

she hand paints

another comb

Pamela A. Babusci NY


Congratulations to the winners chosen from 374 entries. Thanks to all who entered. I wish you peace, joy and prosperity in the New Year.---Carolyn Thomas

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3LIGHTS

SUBMISSION CALL: 3LIGHTS Spring 2010

ISSUE THEME: Music

We are now accepting submissions of haiku and related forms on a theme of MUSIC for the 3LIGHTS Spring 2010 edition. Please submit up to ten haiku/senryu/tanka/kyoka with a musical theme, along with a brief biography, to threelightsgallery@yahoo.co.uk. The closing date for all submissions is March 1st 2010 - the Spring edition will be published in April.

For full submission details, visit http://3lights.wordpress.com/submissions

Issue 1 of the 3LIGHTS Journal will be released this month at http://3lights.wordpress.com

Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson
Editor, 3LIGHTS

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moonset

This just in from an'ya:

Hi there folks, now that we've all survived the holiday season one way or another, just a reminder to submit your work for the Spring/Summer Issue of moonset before our 1 February 2010 deadline. Due to those kind and generous souls who were able to donate, we have filed for our non-profit and are now in process of applying for grants, (although of course, these things take time as you all know). Anyway please feel free to submit your works to the following moonset editors:

haiku and sequences, senryu, and any questions: please email an'ya at moonseteditor@gmail.com

tanka (individual or sequences): please email Amelia Fielden at: anafielden@hotmail.com

renku: please email Norman Darlington at: renkueditor@gmail.com

haibun: please email Bruce Ross at: dr_bruce_ross@hotmail.com

Entries for the moonset haiku contest : please email moonsetpublisher@gmail.com

photographic-arts: please email Jim Swift at: oston@shawbiz.ca

For postal addresses and more details, or to become a subscriber, please visit our website at: http://www.moonset.us

If you plan to send your book in for review, please contact an'ya first, at moonseteditor@gmail.com and I'll let you know where to mail them.

Any news, notes or announcements that you would like posted at the moonset website, please email Sasa Vazic' at: vazicsasa@gmail.com

In addition, attached is our "Author this Picture" painted by resident moonset artist Marje A. Dyck of Canada. Marje herself will choose the haiku she thinks best suits her artwork and we will publish this in our spring issue. It is not too late to submit your haiku before 1 February for this feature, so please email submissions to an'ya at: moonseteditor@gmail.com

Also attached here is a sneak-peak at moonset's new heavy journal cover (front and back) which we are proud to present with our Spring/Summer 2010 issue, again, as a result of donations received in 2009. We thank you ever so much! love ya', an'ya & very Respectfully peterB

Frost, Simply Haiku, and a video

Saša Važić sent this link to the Robert Frost International Poetry Contest that includes a category for haiku:

http://www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.com/contest.htm

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The Winter 2009 issue of Simply Haiku has been released.

http://simplyhaiku.com

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And finally, here is a brief video poem:

Wild Goose, Dead Mule, and Poetea

The fall 2009 issue of The Wild Goose Poetry Review is online. North Carolina Haiku Society member, Richard Krawiec, has a poem in this issue and one other NCHS member has a couple of poems.

Also appearing in this issue are William Alton, Jessie Carty, Harry Calhoun, Daniel Casey, Tawnysha Greene, Marvin Lurie, Felicia Mitchell, Grant Morgan, Simon Perchik, Sam Rasnake, Tony Ricciardelli, Gabriel Shanks, John Sibley Williams, and A.D. Winans.

Poetry, book reviews, and more...

The Wild Goose Poetry Review

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The November issue of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature is also online. Southern Legitimacy Statements are available on the poetry page. After reading the SLS, click the poet's name to read their poems.

Appearing in this issue are Tim Peeler, Scott Owens, Jane Crown, Lance Levens, Adrianne J. Odasso, Rusty Barnes, Barry Basden, Anthony Robbins, Sandra Ervin, Adams, Lesley Doyle, Nancy Posey, and yours truly. :)

The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

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And finally, here's the third and final video of Poetea IV:

Lenard D. Moore, 'Calico Cat' haiku contest, and Modern Haiku

Haiku Society of America President, Lenard D. Moore, is the featured poet this month at the Mann Library Daily Haiku web site. You can visit the web site daily to read Lenard's poems or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Here's a video rewind of Lenard reading a haiku from last December:

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This just in from Origa Olga Hooper:

Tenth bilingual 'Calico Cat' haiku contest.

Anyone may participate in this contest by sending up to three haiku on the theme of my new sumi painting "Solitude" (Goose and Torii). This contest is a blitz, so you only have two days and two nights to submit. Your haiku should appear in the comments section of this post no later than Thursday, November 5th, before 8 am EST (New York time).

For all the details, please visit:

http://origa.livejournal.com/167922.html

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And finally, the autumn sample issue of Modern Haiku is online featuring poems from many poets who have participated in the Three Questions project. Information about the Robert Spiess Memorial Award Haiku Competition is also available, along with an essay by Randy Brooks.

Congratulations also to Roberta Beary for having the favorite haibun of the summer issue.

1000 Verse Renga, a Halloween haiga, and zombie haiku

The 1000 Verse Renga

Alan Summers, of With Words, in Partnership with Bath Libraries (U.K.) has been encouraging a local and global 1000 Verse Renga (senku) where local library users and staff and international haiku poets have been contributing verses during October.

The senku is 800+ verses strong at the moment, with some of the earliest contributions from Michael Dylan Welch, whose autumn hokku so inspired one school they wrote two shisan renku!

The latest contributions have been from the New York State area and Alaska, and from several U.S. librarians, one of whom you may know from Mann Library, thanks Tom!

As 1000 verses need to be reached by 7th November (midnight all time zones) we would love to receive more verses.

As verses pour in from numerous means all the time some verses cannot be linked immediately but will be linked in the final edit, so please do send a renga verse to: 1000verses@withwords.org.uk

BBC 1000 Verse Renga article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8316000/8316198.stm

Alan's Area 17 blog: http://area17.blogspot.com

With Words: http://www.withwords.org.uk

The final version of the 1000 Verse Renga will be a free eBook on With Words, hopefully before Christmas.

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Collin Barber sent this very fine seasonal haiga:

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The following video appears to be a parody of the Kerouac readings posted here last year. In the spirit of Halloween fun and really, REALLY, bad 5-7-5 haiku, we have Zombie Haiku:


Have a safe zombie-free Halloween!

Seabeck report & Poetea IV, part 2 video

This just in from Deborah P Kolodji:

Curtis,

I've finished reporting about the Seabeck Haiku Getaway on my blog.

The links are:

Friday - http://dkolodji.livejournal.com/302989.html

Saturday - http://dkolodji.livejournal.com/305399.html

Sunday - http://dkolodji.livejournal.com/305447.html

All my photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkolodji/sets/72157622519709971/show/

And I have a bonus entry inspired by one of the late-night anonymous haiku workshops, where we did, indeed, spend quite a lot of time discussing heron sounds.

http://dkolodji.livejournal.com/302196.html

Hope you enjoy!
Debbie

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Dave Russo, Bob Moyer, and Stan Siceloff read poems from the recent Poetea reading in Winston-Salem:

Recommended reading list and haiku videos

Here are a few books that I've had the privilege of reading in recent weeks.



While The Light Holds and One Hundred Droplets, are anthologies one and two in a new series from the folks who bring us the excellent journal Magnapoets. These books are affordable and very beautiful, with poems from many of the leading haiku and tanka poets in the world today. Here's a sampling:

one son dead, the other shipped to Afghanistan— my sister's long winter --M. Kei

autumn morning I still have the tooth I lost in my dream --Collin Barber

I weigh the options— butterfly --Peggy Willis Lyles

green tea red plums and oranges on blue china even at breakfast time this man colors my life --Kirsty Karkow

Haiku Wars by poet David Lanoue, published by Red Moon Press, is a highly entertaining romp through the world of haiku, modern and past, through the eyes of a ferret named Oscar. I found myself smiling and, yes, laughing while reading Haiku Wars. Lanoue masterfully blends fiction and factual haiku history. I could not put the book down, reading it in one sitting; it's that good. :)

an orange balloon penis
some clown
left it

The Onawa Poems 1999-2008 edited by Paul W. MacNeil is a superb collection of poems from poets who have visited MacNeil at his summer home located by the shores of Lake Onawa. Poets in this volume are as follows: Yu Chang, Ferris Gilli, Gary Hotham, Kirsty Karkow, Paul MacNeil, Paul David Mena, paul m., John Stevenson, Hilary Tann, and Paul Watsky.

after the hokku we begin our journey --Hillary Tann whistling in a lakeside breeze my beer bottle --Paul David Mena

summit-poem written a web I missed on the way up --paul m. Onawa sunset a few yellow leaves quiver on the poplar --Yu Chang

Ksana, by John Martone, is another offering from Red Moon Press. Martone is a master haijin whose sharp eye for detail has produced an excellent volume of haiku. His arrangement or structure of each haiku in the book enables the reader to pause and savor each poem more deeply. This is a book that will be read on more than one occasion. A keeper!

leaf dancing
a little dance
in the road
just one

walking
tonight

lifting
my
arms

rowing
them
slowly

flew
above
houses

flew
above
houses

I'll post another reading list next week.

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And finally, Dietmar Tauchner sent the following link with several video readings from the WHA haiku gathering in Lithuania this month:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=WHAvideo#g/u

Enjoy!

Part 1 of Poetea IV

Poetea IV was a huge success. We had a very pleasant and attentive crowd who seemed to appreciate and enjoy our poems. For your viewing and listening pleasure, here is Part 1 of today's Poetea reading:

Seabeck Haiku Getaway Reading

What a wonderful treat to find on a Monday morning! Dejah Leger filmed several poets reading their poems at the recent Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Enjoy!

Publications, contest results and readings

This just in from Dietmar Tauchner:

Dear Haiku-Friends;

The international haiku e-zine Chrysanthemum 6 is now online and ready to be viewed at:

www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net

beste Grüße/best wishes,

Dietmar Tauchner

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The Poetry Council of North Carolina held its annual Poetry Day at Catawba College on October 10th. A complete list of award winners is available in this pdf document. You'll find Lenard D. Moore and his book of poems, A Temple Looming, listed in the Oscar Arnold Young Contest for book category.

Congratulations to all award recipients!

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Many of you have already seen the recent Haiku Elvis video, but what about the other poets who shared the stage with King 'Ku? Thanks to Julia Foley's video recording, we can enjoy an extended viewing of the reading. Appearing in this order are Nan Dozier, Shirley Campbell, Laura Flett, Carlos Colon aka Haiku Elvis (same reading, shot from a different angle), and Poetic X. What better way to end the work week than with an entertaining reading from a group of Louisiana poets.

Have a great Friday!

Terry Ann Carter "poems" a person

Last week was Random Act of Poetry Week in Canada. Read about the event in this news article, then watch the video of Terry Ann Carter "poeming" someone.