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A spiffing video has been published on Facebook from our lovely 500 year old charity about the Fringe Festival in Chippenham.

I designed gently subversive haiku-inspired street signs with Charlie Graham-May, and Karen Hoy led an amazing typewriting event which became lovingly emotional. A typewritten letter is something special and personal isn't it?

Enjoy the Fringe Festival mini-video that includes subversive haiku inspired street signs (myself and Charlie Graham-May); Karen Hoy at the typewriter, and a wealth of fun and very British Fringiness!

Posted at Call of the Page FB page (not sure there's a direct video link):
https://www.facebook.com/CallofthePage/

Enjoy!

warm regards,
Alan

Delighted to have my second ePamphlet/Chapbook out!

The first was the joint eBook called The Comfort of Crows.

This time it's a solo collection and called "Glint":
https://proletaria730964817.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/glint-1.pdf




Enjoy the other eBook too at:
https://proletaria.org/2020/02/23/e-chapbooks-march-2020-march-2021/

Please do click likes for us on that page, and there'll be more ebooks in the near future.

warm regards,
Alan

If there's any UK haiku poets who might be able to visit Chippenham around 27th, 28th or 29th February 2020, there'll be a number of warm, funny, slightly subversive haiku street signs around central town!

We'd love you to take photos, make them funny ones too if you like!

Local companies Call of the Page and Rag and Bone Arts CIC, have worked together to present a visual poetry display throughout the town centre. Look out for Haiku poems through the town centre and join in by making up your own Haiku and sharing them via #ChipHaiku on Twitter!

You can see one of the more 'conventional' ones here:
https://www.facebook.com/CallofthePage/

warm regards,
Alan

The Comfort of Crows
Hifsa Ashraf and Alan Summers
(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)
https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com/uploads/3/7/5/9/37595991/the_comfort_of_crows_ebook.pdf

https://www.velvetduskpublishing.com

https://area17.blogspot.com/2019/12/end-of-year-comfort-of-crows-haiku.html

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AHA 2020 CONTEST CALL

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNUAL UHTS AHA HAIKU/SENRYU CONTEST OPEN ON 1st JANUARY AND CLOSE ON 31st January 2020.

Please note that we have a new, shorter submission period.

For further details on how to submit check the contest guidelines here: https://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contests
Please do "not" use the cattails submissions guidelines for contests.

RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by email and the winning poems will be published with the Judge's commentary in an upcoming issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter.

To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Iliyana Stoyanova at uhts_secretary@fastmail.co.uk, with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP".

Marianna Monaco
UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR
email: marianna.monaco@gmail.com
https://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contest-submission-guidelines


As President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society I'll also be writing a report on the results with a special take on haiku and senryu.



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Do visit the World Haiku Series project and even give a like, and a comment!  8)

Hidenori Hiruta, of Akita, Japan, has created an ambitious project of show casing ten haiku from poets from around the world:

https://akitahaiku.com/category/world-haiku-series/


The World Haiku Series runs from December, 2019 until September, 2020.
The series is updated five times a week, so five haiku poets appear on the website every week.
Each haiku poet appears with ten haiku, bio, or photos with Japanese translation.


Hidenori Hiruta
President
Akita International Haiku Network, Japan
(Member of HAIKU INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Japan)

Alan & Karen at Call of the Page have a brand new course called One-Line Haiku starting mid-January in 2020!

One-Line Haiku
https://www.callofthepage.org/courses/haiku-courses/one-line-haiku-new/



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ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN: 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old
edited by Jessica Malone Latham
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/Latham-AnotherTrip.html


From the Editor's Preface:

Though each poem in this collection may not be a direct reflection of childhood, it is my wish that each poem ignites a discussion or creates a spark of curiosity. For when we live with curiousity and openness, the miracle of the present moment comes through.

My vision for this collection is for these poems to be read each day throughout the year. Read them with your child or grandchild, gift them to a friend whose children no longer live at home to spark memories from the past, or spontaneously sift through the book on a cloud-drift day. Spend time savoring each poem, share memories, or write poems together inspired by that day's haiku.

~ Jessica Malone Latham

Another great haikai journal is now nominating work for the Pushcart Prize!

After two major disasters just before my birthday today, along came two big surprises!

First of all I was thrilled to have a haiku selected for commentaries:
https://haikucommentary.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/alan-summers-riverlight/

And then I receive an email to tell me I'm nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and it's for haibun, and one that was totally rewritten, almost from scratch! More power to revision!
https://www.humankindjournal.org/contrib_alan_summers/issue-14-alan-summers


Plus even better!
FIVE former or regular haiku & haibun participants on Call of the Page online courses also won awards including TWO Pushcart Prize nominations for haibun. I wish I could tell you what personal challenges they've gone through, and continue to go through, with both health, and other issues.  Thank you Human/Kind journal!!!

What a birthday already! :-)

So if you haven't checked out Human/Kind please visit, please consider leaving a lovely comment on someone's poetry page too!

And check out the submissions, as the editors are great, and they look for candidates for the Pushcart Prize, Red Moon anthologies nominations, and also Touchstone nominations!

Alan

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Haiku: The one breath poetry evening event (with bar) at the Bristol Museum and City Gallery offers an opportunity for those both overseas, and anyone unable to make the physical event.

An opportunity for poets...
There is also an opportunity to submit haiku, senryu or tanka poetry online, based on (or matched to) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's prints, from wherever in the world you are logging on. We are looking for poems to use as examples during the event, and some may also be selected for possible publication on the museum's website.

Details about the opportunity:
https://www.callofthepage.org/events/haiku-at-bristol-museum/

Look forward to entries!  :)

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Van Gogh's combat fatigues
https://weirdlaburnum.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/van-goghs-combat-fatigues/

Enjoy the challenge, as well as the ekphrastic haibun!  8)

2019 Marlene Mountain Memorial Contest Results!
Plus
#FemkuMag
An e-zine of Womxn's Haiku
July 2019 issue fourteen
Editor: Lori A Minor
Cover art: Lori A Minor
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f4c0ea_ded1742ee13e43ad824263b1fb87c66c.pdf

The Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards for 2019
The Heron's Nest
https://www.theheronsnest.com/awards/awards_2019.html

The Tanka - Shape and Sound course, the first of its kind, has a new start date: Tuesday 6th August 2019:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/tanka-courses/tanka-shape-and-sound/

2019 TLP Haiku Chapbook Winners!
https://www.turtlelightpress.com/2019-tlp-haiku-chapbook-winner/

Super pleased that one participant with Call of the Page did incredibly well too!!!!!!!!!

Dear all,

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ANNUAL UHTS "Fleeting Words" TANKA CONTEST CLOSES on 15th August 2019.

Please do not submit after the deadline to avoid confusion and disappointment.

RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by email and the winning poems will be published with the Judges' commentary in an upcoming issue of Seedpods, our e-newsletter. To receive a copy of Seedpods, please join UHTS by contacting our Secretary, Iliyana Stoyanova at uhts_secretary@fastmail.co.uk, with the subject heading "UHTS MEMBERSHIP".

Marianna Monaco
UHTS CONTEST COORDINATOR
email: marianna.monaco@gmail.com


The "Fleeting Words" Tanka Competition

Fleeting Words is our newest UHTS Contest, and we hope that it will encourage others to learn to write the classic form of tanka. Any subject is acceptable and syllable count is not an issue, however a tanka rhythm of short, long, short, long, long that distinguishes it from a short poem, is important. Please consider sending multiple tanka so we have plenty to choose from.

You are encouraged to submit in your native language in addition to your English submission.

Please see the General Submission Guidelines for further information.

Submission Period and Deadline: May 1-August 15 of each year.
http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/contest-submission-guidelines

The inaugural issue Leaf-Fall edited by Akira Yagami has just been released!

Five haiku poets are featured including Sandra Simpson; Lucy Whitehead; and John McManus!


Akira Yagami has a very limited number of physical copies left for sale.
£6 to UK and Irish residents and £8 to anyone overseas.

All enquiries and orders can be sent to this email address:
"Akira Yagami" <AkiraYagami@gmx.com>


It's a lovely little haiku publication!

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Human/Kind journal 1.6 (June 2019) is now out:
https://www.humankindjournal.org

FIVE HAIKU
CURATED BY MICHAEL O'BRIEN
https://neutralspaces.co/mixtapes/

After writing a number of nature-based haiku I've let my more unusual side reappear with a selection of work at new magazine weird laburnum: Weird haiku. Modern haiku. New haiku. Western haiku. Gendai haiku. Short form. Minimalism. And beyond.
https://weirdlaburnum.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/229/

Dare to enjoy!  8)

p.s.

And do leave a comment about what you think.  :)