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The May 2019 issue of Human/kind!
Delighted to have a monobun in this issue!!!  8)

Catch another brilliant issue of haiku, tanka, haibun (and monobun), shahai and haiga and terrific artwork, and more!

HUMAN/KIND
Journal of Topical and Contemporary Japanese Short-forms and Art
Issue 1.5 May 2019
https://www.humankindjournal.org/issue-1-5.html


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Spring and Summer opportunities!

Want to know more about photography and haiku?
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiga-shahai-courses/
And happy to include tanka too!  :)

Want to further improve your tanka?

We have intermediate and advanced courses:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/tanka-courses/

Tanka - Shape and Sound
This is an advanced course, suitable for those who already have at least a small body of work of tanka.
Technical sound analysis includes visuals of soundwaves, from former sound recordist and consultant Karen Hoy (who was tanka editor for the Blithe Spirit haikai journal, British Haiku Society).
Optional short overall feedback on the new writing work is included from writing tutor Alan Summers.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/tanka-courses/tanka-shape-and-sound/

The haiku courses tend to sell out quickly!
We now have two types of intermediate courses

Intermediate Haiku (Shorter)
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/intermediate-haiku-shorter-course/

Intermediate Haiku Course (Longer Course)
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/intermediate-haiku-longer-course/

This is now our second "Introducing... Haiku"
It proved so successful, and fast-tracked people to write fresh, original, and powerful haiku, that we've brought it back! We've even had someone who was an established haiku poet taking this course as a refresher.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/introducing-haiku/

Karen Hoy & Alan Summers

For those into music, have a go at composing a track to:

rain-soaked wind
the weather-worn notice
peels back more

Alan Summers
https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-276-rain-soaked-wind-the

Still time, Deadline: 24th April 2019!
http://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/04/17/naviarhaiku276-rain-soaked-wind/

Tribute prepared by Marion Clarke, Northern Ireland.
cattails – April 2019
Page 5...
In Memory of Rachel Sutcliffe (1977 – 2019)
http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsapril2019.pdf

Marion has prepared a wonderful tribute that works on many levels, and is a beautiful piece about our much loved poet.

Alan Summers
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society

At Call of the Page we are considering a special online haiku workshop focusing on one line haiku (also known as monoku) later this year, if this interests you, please don't hesitate to contact Karen at: admin@callofthepage.org


Travelling the single line of haiku
http://area17.blogspot.com/2016/12/travelling-single-line-of-haiku-one.html



eye of the song a blackbird touching the void


Alan Summers
Winner, The British Haiku Society Awards 2018
Haiku Section judge: Scott Mason


Judge's commentary by Scott Mason:
"A Rubik's ku of perception and intuition held together with synaesthesia, the winning one-liner beguiles and haunts me. What and where is the "eye" of a blackbird's song? How does that eye "touch" the void? What void are we talking about here anyway – some nexus of negative color (blackness), sound (silence) and capability? ... the focus of Emerson's "transparent eyeball" turned inward? These questions and others draw me into a state of dreamlike reverie, impelled by a creature in equal parts totem and flesh. (The last "literary" bird to transport me like this was a thrush, in Burnt Norton.)"

Emerson's "transparent eyeball"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_eyeball

Burnt Norton and the thrush
http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/a_f/eliot/norton.htm

Burnt Norton (the first poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets.):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_Norton


"Stunning.  Wallace Stevens does come to mind--only you did it with one line. It's beautiful to read out loud and haunting." —Jo Balistreri USA

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Bones - journal for contemporary haiku no. 16
March 15th 2019
http://bonesjournal.com/no16/bones-16.pdf

One of my students has a number of haiku in there for the very first time! :-)

Wonderful work by our very own Marion Clarke! Her work in Bones is astonishing and there is more than one way to read the words and lines. Superb and powerful work!

Work by new THF member Ray Caligiuri as well; and John McManus!

And lots more!!!

Booking is now open for Haiku at Slimbridge; a visit to the famous wildlife sanctuary in Gloucestershire, in the south west of England, where Call of the Page will be holding a haiku poetry workshop and ginko on April 6th 2019.

More information about the event at Slimbridge Wetland Centre: https://www.callofthepage.org/events/haiku-at-slimbridge/

2019 TLP HAIKU CHAPBOOK CONTEST
http://www.turtlelightpress.com/2019-haiku-chapbook-competition-guidelines/

I'm really excited about this haiku manuscript/collection contest! :-)
Looking forward to helping anyone with my Call of the Page hat too!

You have a wonderful judge in Susan Antolin, and I've personally met Rick Black who is a really nice guy and the winner will absolutely love working with him.

Alan

The 29th Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12 is ready for your entries.


We are looking for the very best haiku—haiku that reveal your experience of nature or human nature.


Six winners will receive $100 each and the winning haiku will be published in Frogpond and on the Haiku Society of America website: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm


Read the full submission guidelines, plus the stellar winning haiku from the past three decades, at the Haiku Society of America.

Just released!

inkblots revealing my story to the therapist
by Lori A Minor

"Lori A Minor is what I call a 'current' writer rather than just someone who is contemporary, it's bigger than that. Follow her work, and you can't go wrong, if you want the hidden pulse of the younger generation in society. It's not just squeezing the "breaks" for what they are worth, it's through blood and trial where she's forced herself through more than one glass ceiling.

Lori isn't just an important writer, and even that she's 'current': It's because we need poets and writers like her, we really do, who with heart, truth, bravery, and honesty, under fire, and to go that extra mile for all of us, whatever generation we represent. Lori has sheer raw decentness and her frontline bravery shines through. If you need to find permission to write, and "to be", look to Lori A Minor, who defies any institutionalised permission, or censure."

http://www.lulu.com/shop/lori-a-minor/inkblots-revealing-my-story-to-the-therapist/paperback/product-23943157.html

We are now sold out, but are happy to start a second group as people are already interested.

Thank you to everyone who has signed up already!

The Sound of Haiku is a new exciting course exclusive to Call of the Page:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/the-sound-of-haiku/
Karen Hoy will be adding her expertise as a sound recordist for documentary making.

Alan
under the hat of President, United Haiku and Tanka Society:
cattails: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/welcome.html  



This request from Managing Editor Sonam Chhoki:



Dear Poets,


cattails, the UHTS journal is looking to feature Australian water and land birds in its April 2019 issue. Please would you kindly send Mike Montreuil and me some jpg images with the following details:

. Name of the bird

. Location of the bird/where the image was taken


Deadline: 1st February 2019

Our contact details:

Mike Montreuil : mike58montreuil@gmail.com
Sonam Chhoki: allthingshaibun@gmail.com


We look forward to some great images,


Warm regards

Sonam Chhoki
on behalf of the UHTS and cattails team

Alan and Karen at Call of the Page are excited to launch "Introducing... Haiku."

This short course gently encourages the early road into haiku, and our fascination of haiku: https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/introducing-haiku/

An excellent Christmas gift to anyone you know who might like to dip their toes into haiku, in a safe, friendly, nurturing environment.

warm regards,
Alan

Johnny Baranski Memorial Haiku Contest Winners
http://www.nahaiwrimo.com/home/johnny-baranski-memorial-haiku-contest-winners?fbclid=IwAR2qs1UqKj7fZNIoAHf-vLHLvDHIgJL6g0kunXb1RcMfOSi9lh22Hmj5gAU

Why haiku is different and Basho never wrote them in English
https://area17.blogspot.com/2018/11/why-haiku-is-different-and-basho-never.html

Yūgen (幽玄): where "nothing" is...
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/10/31/a-sense-of-place-hiking-trail-hearing/#comment-87575

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I would love more commentaries over on the "other side" of THF for the re:Virals feature.
Next week we have this powerful monoku:

it's not me he punches the window in anger

          — Robin Anna Smith


The poem is taken from the Haiku Foundation feature Haiku Windows: Broken Window, ed. KJ Munro (February 2018)

You can comment if you do like it, or don't like it,  find it challenging, or encouraging that haiku can be a voice for current issues such as abuse. It can be tough comments, light comments, comic, funny, sad, or otherwise.

"Anyone can participate. A new poem will appear each Friday morning. Simply put your commentary in the Contact box by the following Tuesday midnight (Eastern US Time Zone). Please use the subject header "re:Virals" so we know what we're looking at. We look forward to seeing some of your favorite poems — and finding out why!"
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/contact/

The current haiku is featured here:
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/10/26/revirals-162-2/



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Bridge of Nuance - re:Virals commentary on Christopher Herold's 'somewhere the river bends' haiku:
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/10/26/revirals-162-2/

cattails – October 2018 is now out!
Journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society with fascinating work, and how haiku is helping get youngsters into education: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsOct2018.pdf

WINNERS http://haikuhut.com/ThirdAnnualJaneReichholdHaigaCompetition.pdf


The ​​Third Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition
http://www.haikuhut.com/TheThirdAnnualJaneReichholdMemorialHaigaCompetition.pdf



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