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NOON: journal of the short poem also accepts short poems outside of haiku.

Also, i did not know Roadrunner was still in production. I've been looking at an outdated link this whole time. Thanks for this news!

quitting time
snowflakes blend
with the crowd   

The Heron's Nest   
Volume VI, Number 8: September, 2004

I like this opening line because it conjures up the tired feelings of a long day at work, and that relief when it's over, stress melting away. It contrasts with the next two lines, coming back to the realm of people with the word crowd.


cicada song
the sleeping bag's 
long zipper

The Heron's Nest   
Volume VII, Number 3: September, 2005


I like the iambs in this opening line, making a kind of song themselves, mimicking the rise & fall of cicada sound too. I like that two words can instantly conjure up a season and a feeling. The endless zip sound of the sleeping bag feels like the most natural juxtaposition to that.

Of course! I'd be thrilled if you use anything in the book :)

The post definitely has educational value beyond the specific request! I'll see what else I have.

Before I did up any more, I should ask, are you still looking for examples? I just noticed this was posted a year ago.

Hi,
I think I can find some of my published ones which may exhibit the dynamic first line/opening line effect. Here's the first:

first kick
birds resume
chirping   

Modern Haiku   
Volume 35.3
Autumn   
2004

As an opening line, it conjures up a lot of possibilities, depending on the reader. The first kick in a line dance, a ball game, a fight, and the intended fetus in a belly. The succinctness of the words illustrates the effect; the rhythm of the words being like a definite kick. Then the L2-3 phrase opens it up even further, yet doesn't discount any of the possibilities opened up by the first line. I like that the first line kind of makes the imagination soar to fill in the space left by the abruptness of the two short words before the reader goes on to L2-3 to the juxtaposition. It's almost like... the first line drop kicks the reader's mind into the air, to make connections and stir up associations and personal connotations to experienced kicks. There's a suspended moment where the invisible ball hangs in the air, and there's silence... and then the birds resume chirping and you're back in the words of the poem.

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I'm curious about the results since November is when contest stated its results will be available.

That's why I like the single spreadsheet with multiple tabs (or sheets in a single workbook); no need for extra documents.
When I have partial haiku I just enter them into their own square. As I comb through for submissions, I run across them and enter finishing ideas or add on to them!

I faced the same issue of having my work scattered in iPhone notes, separate txt, doc, and pages documents, as well as journals, haiku notebooks, emails, forums, and scraps of paper. 12 years of it! This past summer I had the gift of several weeks home by myself with no spouse or kids and decided to organize it all into a spreadsheet. For me an excel spreadsheet works best because individual cells are well suited to each carry a haiku and I am used to keeping extensive excel spreadsheets at the university where I work.  (Although I'm on a Mac so it's Numbers which is Mac's version of excel. Other than a few different functions and terminology it's the same thing.)

My columns include:
Workshop or submission status, Original Haiku, Edited version, Submission history, Source notes, and year.
I love that I can:
- have each haiku in its own little rectangle
- sort by year,
- associate the source (Poland vacation, NaHaiWriMo Facebook, Write Club @ library, etc)
- search by keyword (all haiku written about frogs, thunderstorms, or traffic, etc) in one place
- revisit the haiku and write a revision in the next column without losing the original
- see the submission history for each poem (like this: Acorn-rejected / Modern Haiku- rejected / Heron's Nest- published)
- copy published ones into their own sheet so my body of published work is also in one place but not separated from origins
- update endlessly without running out of space
- did I mention the ease of sorting!

Next project:
- adding a column for season
- starring/flagging more of the ones I want to rework in the status column
- ultimate: getting a first collection together for publishing, such as Alan recommended the Snapshot Press contest by March

Other tabs (or sheets) in the workbook include a log of published haiku with the name, issue, and date of publication; a collection of journals & contests to submit to sortable by deadline or submission open date as well as sub details/emails/urls/ and my own notes about typically accepted archetypes. I then mark if I've submitted to a particular cycle as well as marking each of the haiku in the sub batch in its Submission History column on the other tab/sheet.

I highly recommend excel for organizing haiku. Anything I write on the go on my phone, journal, scrap, I enter within the week into this master database.

Thank you! What lovely winners. (I was getting antsy waiting to see if my submissions could be released back for journal submission.) I appreciate the update here!

July 1 was the date that winners were to be announced by. I guess there is a delay with the new MH issue?