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If there are editors reading, here's an idea for a journal. A journal that gives you a peek into the poet's diary, like browsing someone's notebook and finding little gems scribbled on it's pages. Accepted poems would require poet's to give hand-written version. What do you think?

I've seen wonderful haiku crediting Kernels as first publication, but the link in the THF calendar appears to be broken. Anybody know what happened to Kernels? I'm just curious to see their layout. Thanks.

I just came across this article, http://betweenwit-wonder.blogspot.ca/ . Almost all primers and how-to about haiku states that the cut or kire is on L1 or L2. But here the authors states; "The Single Theme verse may or may not be a sentence, ending with an ellipsis, question mark or exclamation mark.

When an ellipsis is used as the cut marker at the end of 3L it can convey several possible meanings: something left unsaid, a thought trailing off, a sigh, a sense of awe or of wonder."
The link was originaly posted on an FB page. This is something new to me. Very interested to hear other poets take on this.

Haiku is meant to be read not heard. That is the conclusion I came up after hearing poets read out their own poems. Unlike longer poetry, the brevity of haiku does not allow for buildup or setup of emotions when read aloud. Reading it allows me the leisure of pausing, contemplating and digesting the verse. In contrast, listening to the poets doesn't allow me to capture the emotions in their poems. I would love to hear other poet's views. Thanks.

P.S. You can listen to these readings at 'The Living haiku anthology' website.

I was reading an aloutte by Jan Turner titled 'spring eternal' and saw a lot of haiku in that poem, sample below;

blown against the walls...
pleated pinwheels turning 'round
In the springtime breeze

I googled hi name and found nothing, searched his name in this forum and also found nothing. I find the structure of aloutte is very similar to tanka. other poets must be laughing but this is something new to me. I was just wondering whether it's accidental, or he was really writing haiku.