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First Frost, #2, Autumn 2021

 

          cupping my hands a minnow slips in

 

 

Kingfisher Journal, #4, Autumn 2021

 

          tonguing 
          the empty socket 
          winter moon 

 

          the memory of your scent 
          naked ladies in bloom

 

          blue virgin the broken chalice within me 

Two-Person Rengay

So Much Depends

    Billie Dee, San Diego, CA
    Michael Dylan Welsh, Sammamish, WA

        a red Toyota
        glazed with rainwater
        beside the white geese \

        let us go then you and I
        to get pizza

            water water everywhere
            the Mississippi lapping
            at our porch

            I've seen the best minds
            of my generation
            cryonically frozen

        and miles to go gefore
        I upgrade to first class

        my child's balloon
        disappearing
        into that good night

                         Prune Juice #21, March 2017, page 20

                        [written at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, 11/6/10]

two ku

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Modern Haiku, 43:1, winter-spring, 2012

all that dark matter.....white peony

fireflies
the time it takes to smoke
two cigarettes

 

Haiku Scotland

Please note that Issue 13 will be published in May. Issue 14 will be a>special dedicated to the work of Duncan Gardiner.

Submissions always welcomefor each issue, but please no more than 8 at any one time (I receive hundreds each month and the number increases each month, so please bear>with me if I don't make me usual 2 week-turnaround.

Frazer Henderson

http://home.clara.net/nhi/mg0223.htm
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/mg043.htm

surf log

• HaikuOz, the journal of the Australian Haiku Society, announces a new international biannual haiku journal Chrysanthemum. Gabi Greve is one of these editors and will be translating English language submissions into German (Thank you Gabi san!) The listed URL does not work yet (site under construction).
  
  Chrysanthemum is an international internet magazine that will appear twice a year, and will showcase previously unpublished Haiku/Senryû, Tanka, Haibun, Essays and Interviews in German and English. Haiku/Senryû submitted in English will be translated into German, if not already accompanied by a German translation, which is welcome but not required. Tanka, Haibun, Essays and Interviews will appear only in their original language. Submissions in languages other than German or English are also welcome as long as as they are accompanied by a translation into German or English.
  Chrysanthemum welcomes work based both on traditional values as well as modern, innovative contributions in form and content, although there will be a special focus on innovative work of quality. Chrysanthemum hopes to achieve a connection between the heritage of the genre and the development and adaption in countries outside Japan.
  
  
• A collection of English haiku on a Geocities-Japan site. 2004 11th Haiku Meeting: December 11, Moderator: Catherine Urquhart. I can't read the headers, but this series is worth a read.
  
  
• From WorldKigoLibrary: SOME PHILOSOPHY AND PERSONAL NOTES ON HAIKU by Paul MacNeil, Florida, USA
  
  It is my conviction that much short poetry is mistakenly shared as "haiku." I ask rhetorically (and others have posed this long before me), "why call it haiku?" By this I mean, why call what you write "haiku" if not to acknowledge the tradition and philosophy of the "haiku" that is Japanese haiku? The differences of language and form are very well covered in an essay by a Japanese, Keiko Imaoka. Her writing has influenced me. http://epiphanous.org/mark/haiku/resources.html
  and Mark Alan Osterhaus: http://www.execpc.com/~ohaus/haiklink.htm
  Among others, look there for definitions by Barlow of Britain, Alexeyev of Russia, Mena, Missias, Higginson, Davidson, and Reichhold of the USA. At a website http://www2.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~dhugal/haikuhome.html
  
  
• From 5-7-5 to 8-8-8, Haiku Metrics and Issues of Emulation -- New Paradigms for Japanese and English Haiku Form by RICHARD GILBERT and JUDY YONEOKA
  Language Issues: Journal of the Foreign Language Education Center (vol. 1) Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Kumamoto (March 2000) Japan.
  An detailed linguistic analysis of Japanese -on and English syllabic metrics; heavy reading ~ Billie
  
  
  

new links

Washed ashore in today's websurf:

• Haiku, Haibun, Haiga by Ray Rassmussen ~ Do not miss this site! Artistically, it is one of the best personal websites I've run across. Fresh, energetic writing from a master haijin. I especially recommend the haibun section (Rasmusen is webmaster of Contemporary Haibun Online). The links and didactic sections are worth the trip alone. The linked photo gallery is pure gravy. Enough raving, just go...
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• a procession of ripples: an anthology of selected haiku ~ Laryalee Fraser has put together a collection of fine English language haiku from such notable haijin as: an'ya, Robert Wilson, Jane Reichhold, Mike Rehling, Lorin Ford, Carol Raisfeld ... The accompanying photography suggests the haiga tradition. Pure pleasure here. There is even a page that formats printouts for you!

misc. haiku links

Aozora - Haiku from South-East Europe
http://aozora.tempslibres.org/

The Art of Haiku
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/hk/

Asahi Haikuist Network (editor: David Mc Murray)
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/index.html

Association of Haiku Poets & Museum of Haiku Literature
http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/index-e.html

Bottle rockets: a collection of short verse
http://www.geocities.com/bottlerockets_99

Cascina Macondo (Italian haiku website; editor: Pietro Tartamella)
http://haiku.cascinamacondo.com/

The Electronic Poetry Network (editor: Carlos Colón)
http://www.shreve-lib.org/images/Poem.htm

Geert Verbeke - Haiku Websites
http://users.skynet.be/geert.verbeke.bowls
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/ph_diary

Haiku NewZ (newsletter; haiku page editor:Sandra Simpson)
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews

Haiku Ireland (official site of the Haiku Ireland group)
http://www.haikuireland.org/

HIA - Haiku International Association
http://www.haiku-hia.com/index_en.html

The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa
http://webusers.xula.edu/dlanoue/issa/links3.html

Haiku Research Papers (Richard Gilbert)
http://research.iyume.com/

The Haiku Society of America
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/index.htm

Haiku Spirit (Gilles Fabre's bilingual site /English and French/)
http://www.haikuspirit.org/

The Heron's Nest (editor: Christopher Herold)
http://theheronsnest.com/haiku

Kuniharu Shimizu, Japanese haiga artist - «See haiku here»
http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~kuni_san/haiga_gallery/

Modern Haiku (editor: Lee Gurga)
http://www.modernhaiku.org/

Museum of Haiku Literature
http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/index-e.html

Roadrunner Haiku Journal (editor: Jason Sanford Brown)
http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/

The Shiki Internet Haiku Saloon
http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/

Simply Haiku (owner/managing editor: Robert Wilson)
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/

The World Haiku Association
http://www.worldhaiku.net/

The World Haiku Club
http://www.worldhaikuclub.org/

Journals

The following list is continuously appended:

Online Journals

• Amaze - the Cinquain Journal ~ AMAZE: The Cinquain Journal is dedicated to developing, promoting, and publishing cinquains in the traditional form established by Adelaide Crapsey. We are also very interested in the development and publication of innovative forms of the cinquain, such as mirror cinquains and cinquain cycles or sequences. Deborah P. Kolodji, Editor
  
• Contemporary Haibun Online ~ A Quarterly Journal of Contemporary English Language Haibun. Selections from the online journal appear in the annual print edition. Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross, Editors
  
• HaigaOnline ~ Beautifully edited and produced, HaigaOnline is published Summer and Winter, with feature galleries posted in the Spring and Fall. The haiga (picture/haiku) selected are among the finest composed in the English language, including traditional sumi-e style, photo-haiga, abstract and avant guarde styles. HO uses Macromedia Flash for its innovative music and slideshow pages. This is one of the most elegant e-journals to be found in any genre, anywhere. Linda Papanicolaou, Editor
  
• Lynx: A Journal for Linking Poets ~ A quarterly e-journal of symbiotic poetry, focusing on linked haiku, rengay and renga series, and other collaborative genre. Lynx also publishes solo linked forms, such as the ghazal, haibun, tanks and haiku series, as well as free-form sequences. Recently, collaborative haiga have been added. Jane Reichhold, Werner Reichhold, editors; Allison Millcock, haiga editor
  
• Modern English Tanka ~ "dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka (including tanka written in cinquain and cinqku set forms). We are interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition. In addition to verse, we publish articles, essays, reviews, interviews, etc., related to tanka." Denis M. Garrison, Editor; Michael McClintock, Contributing Editor
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• Roadrunner Haiku Journal ~ a quarterly online journal that publishes quality avant guarde English-language haiku and senryu. The Gendai [21st Century-Modern] Haiku Translations section is worth the visit alone. Jason Sanford Brown & Scott Metz, Editors.
  
• Simply Haiku ~ a quarterly journal of Japanese short form poetry, "contains original contributions from new poets and experienced haijin, with offerings in the English genres of haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, renku and haiga. In addition, we feature a haiku column, and offer articles, interviews and book reviews featuring well known figures from the international haiku community along with reprints from other journals that merit wider distribution." Robert D. Wilson, Managing Editor
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• Tanka Central ~ the megasite for English language tanka and related forms "The mission of TankaCentral.com is to promote the tanka form of poetry, to educate newcomers to tanka about the form's history and future, techniques and uses, and to work for wider publication of tanka in both specialty and mainstream poetry venues. In order to accomplish this mission, it is our intent to build this into a megasite that will be the best place to study tanka on the internet, with its own onsite resources, with comprehensive links to other relevant sites, with connections to others who write, read, and publish tanka, and that can become the best source for finding places that publish tanka, calls for submissions, contests, etc. "
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• ..Tryptich Haiku ~ alternative and experimental haiku. Kevin Doran, Managing Editor
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Print Journals

• Acorn: a journal of contemporary haiku ~ Acorn is a small biannual journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. In particular, it showcases the individual poem and the ability of haiku to reveal the extraordinary moments found in everyday life. A.C. Missias, editor
  
• Frogpond: the Journal of the American Haiku Society ~ The official publication of the Haiku Society of America. Its primary function is, to publish the best in contemporary English-language haiku and senryu, linked forms including sequences, renku, rengay, and haibun, essays and articles on these forms, and book reviews. Published three times a year. George Swede and Anita Krumins, editors
  
  
  bottle rockets ~ a magazine dedicated to haiku, senryu, and related poetry. Stanford M. Forrester, Editor
  
• HaikuOz ~ the journal of the Australian Haiku Society. A print journal, but their web site posts announcements for international contests and upcoming events.
  
  
  

www.tankasocietyofamerica.com

http://www.haibun.net/

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