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I think they'd be thrilled, Alan, and there could be few better uses for haiku than the saving of trees.

My apologies for the delay. I had to chase information.

The event is being coordinated by Wendy Morton. Please send it to her as an attachment with only the poem and your name in a good sized font (12). Her email address is wendymorton@shaw.ca.

Hours to go . . .

This doesn't precisely fit haiku, and it isn't about journals, but I feel impelled to post it here. Nature and poetry and all . . .

For poets who'd like to put poems to work beyond the pixel and the page, this came to me from the talented people at Leaf Press (www.leafpress.ca):

Here is a quick call for poems about trees. Wendy Morton intends to laminate them and to hang them from trees in a park she is trying to protect.

Wendy said: Please send me a short poem about trees or forests( it can be an old poem) be sure to put your name on it. I need it by February 14. Check out this website: www.jdflandtrust.ca which will give you more information about the project. We want to save this forest, and you can help. Please feel free to send this out to anybody on your list.

Great news, Chen-ou. Congratulations, squared!

Congratulations!

It's never too late to celebrate that.

Congratulations!

What's the poem? Will you share?

S

Some of you may have long been familiar with Seven by Twenty. It was new to me. I'd encourage you to send work to the editor.

Published on Twitter (https://twitter.com/7x20), Seven by Twenty isa digital publication of "very very very short literature".

There are more than 3,000 subscribers. Factor in retweets, and you're looking at a better-than-decent circulation base.

The magazine's first (and, to date, only) anthology, 140 and Counting, has work by 119 authors and poets, including Alan Summers, John Stevenson, Charles Trumbull, Lucas Stensland, and Jim Kacian -- far from shabby company.

Joanne Merriam recently stepped down as editor. Julia Platt, the new editor, is very nice.

Submission details are on Merriam's website: http://www.joannemerriam.com/seven-by-twenty/.

The website gives fair warning that it may take one or two months to receive a response (a timespan short enough to be tempting). That said, I received a response six days after submitting work, and my work went live a day later.

In the world of publication, that constitutes immediate gratification.

Thank you, Lorin.

Happy unbirthday, Colin. Thank you for sharing the joy.

That is excellent. Congratulations.

Where does a New Yorker living in London fit?

Poetry that's just poetry isn't doing its job.

Colin, I am thrilled to the marrow to learn that rumours of Notes from the Gean's death have been greatly exaggerated. I was told not to submit work to the publication, because it was going under -- a sorrow, because it was an excellent publication. Is an excellent publication, I'm glad to know.

This brightens my cold-addled morning.

Thank you for the good news and the fine work.

All the best,

Seánan

Courtesy of Alfred Knopf, a broader public will be celebrating April with brief beauties. One of them could be yours.

http://aaknopf.tumblr.com/post/46507303252/the-knopf-poem-a-day-haiku-writing-contest-to

Thank you for your hard work on this.