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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.

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.

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