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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)

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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/

Hi Robin,

Just going by the names mentioned, including your's, and the offered haiku, it was an incredibly strong field. I wouldn't be surprised that out of the 41 manuscripts that the majority are worthy of being published somewhere.

Congrats to you, and blown away by the powerful examples by everyone, wow!

Alan

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 Justin,

If you are interested in the basic building blocks of haiku, then my wife Karen Hoy has created a startling fresh, innovative, successful introducing haiku course that sets people off really quickly. Some participants have even gone straight into our intermediate haiku courses!


Introducing... Haiku
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/haiku-courses/introducing-haiku/


It's a bit tight, but you could join.

If not, we have one-to-ones by email or Skype or both, to cover your questions about concrete imaging:
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/

In the meantime enjoy your journey through the digital library of The Haiku Foundation!

warm regards,
Alan
Call of the Page
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society

Quote from: Jorlando on July 19, 2019, 02:09:46 PM
Thanks for the reply!
It was a typo I meant to write preferably (my apologize).
I started looking through the the haiku foundations library, thanks for the lead.
As for David G. Lanoue I've read some of his work, The way he phrases his thoughts on the pieces make for an easy and pleasurable read!

Thanks for the help
- Justin

The layering of meaning beyond the immediate: The "now" in monoku
https://area17.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-layering-of-meaning-beyond.html

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

Hi Justin,

Quote from: Jorlando on July 16, 2019, 10:44:45 PM
Any recommendations for haiku collections or other poetry or fiction books with a more concrete image styling.
Preferable from the modern era post ww2 - present

Do you mean pre-1930s and yet still 'concrete'? That might be tricky, as the new genre of haiku only gets a hold with the New Rising Haiku movement.

Did you mean other than modern era as in 'preferable from..."
or is it a typo and you meant to say 'preferably from..."

For pdf books look no further than The Haiku Foundation's Digital Library for work ranging mid-20th onwards, as well as work that touches on pre-haiku days: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/

Quote from: Jorlando on July 16, 2019, 10:44:45 PM
I have copy of narrow road to the interior and spring of my life (issa), and I've read a decent bit on the form itself, just need to absorb more material.

Both Basho and Issa are pre-haiku era, and you are right, it's a 'form' (renga, renku, hokku etc...) as opposed to the haiku genre.

To get a grasp on Matsuo Basho it's best to get a whole range of books, as no one book, however good, can catch all his angles.

Regarding Issa, then David Lanoue is the go-to guy, and he's even met living relatives of Issa not so long ago!

Books about Issa and write like Issa etc...
http://haikuguy.com


If  you want a true and real Japanese haiku poet (not hokku or haikai) there is the book, in English and Japanese, of Kaneko Tohta (1921 – 2018):
https://www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=308&osCsid=4c3fa4d2bf2878f7eec0f09c5a351521

That will rock your world but in a good way!

warm regards,
Alan Summers
Call of the Page

ORIGINAL POST:

Quote from: Jorlando on July 16, 2019, 10:44:45 PM
Any recommendations for haiku collections or other poetry or fiction books with a more concrete image styling.
Preferable from the modern era post ww2 - present

I have copy of narrow road to the interior and spring of my life (issa), and I've read a decent bit on the form itself, just need to absorb more material.

2019 World Tanka Contest Winners!
http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/2019-world-tanka-contest-closed.php?fbclid=IwAR0P563uByIMM8NBaVS5u7_Ad0TjvG-7VuOAX5TVkZx3YkLcJtpOaw1_WtY

Hi Rich,

Quote from: Rich Schilling on July 09, 2019, 07:59:17 AM
The forum seems kind of dead so I was just curious what everyone reads to get in the mood to write haiku? Before I started writing haiku I used to read mostly fiction and music bios, but since writing/publishing haiku I read mostly haiku. I'm thinking lately I need to widen my reading to open up my haiku so it doesn't become to formulaic.

I must admit it seems such a shame that only one section appears to be active when there are so many other parts on this 'side' of the THF website.

You asked:
I was just curious what everyone reads to get in the mood to write haiku?

In the past when I suffered long bouts of block I'd go to Mark Holloway's blog "Beachcombing for the Landlocked" which I'd access on a smartphone while at train stations. He seemed particularly fresh and original and it gave me a boost.

I don't specifically require anything to write haiku, but of course I will read unrelated books as much as related books, and pull from television or streaming video etc...

This was from watching a film on television:


vigilante movie
my elbow
heavy on your knee

Alan Summers
Publication credit: Symmetry Pebbles ed. Richard Thomas (2011)

Anthology credit:
The Humours of Haiku ed. David Cobb (Iron Press 2012)
Collection credit: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

Jodie Foster movie film The Brave One (2007 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_(2007_film)


And this from reading Edgar Rice Burroughs as a youngster, and watching the two adapted movies:


the long summer
re-imagining myself
as John Carter

Alan Summers
Podcast/shownotes: Series 2 Episode 8: Filmku (2019)


Along with my ongoing giallo/yellow series is my Edward Hopper series incl. Nighthawks:
https://proletaria.org/2019/07/04/three-monostichs-by-alan-summers/

Then there is Sylvia Plath and Claude Monet:
https://www.humankindjournal.org/contrib_alan_summers/issue-16-alan-summers


So I "read" everything whether books, films, drama series, paintings, poetry, café situations, train stations.

I also created Slip Realism which is a way of reading:

Slip-Realism - haiku about lives and incidents on the 'peripheral' -Unearthing the anonymous - parallel narratives - new ways of perceiving the real (after Néoréalisme & Nouveau realisme):
https://area17.blogspot.com/2018/01/slip-realism-haiku-about-lives-and.html

At night to rest from thinking about haiku almost all day, I go back to giallo (crime fiction) to switch off, but even then I create giallo haibun from time to time.


You said:
I'm thinking lately I need to widen my reading to open up my haiku so it doesn't become to formulaic.

We need to devour everything, and push ourselves to devour everything, and know more than we should, to keep our haiku fresh and original, and not fall into the template trap.

Your unintentional typo is actually a useful statement:
"become to formulaic" which could be read as "succumb to formulaic [practices]

We don't want to find ourselves writing haiku in such a way that it becomes and goes "to formulaic" and that's easily done to appease readers and fellow poets, and editors, and contest judges, and social media likes and garnering 'nice'.

So we need to lose ourselves occasionally 'outside the box' without string or breadcrumbs to guide us back, as 'back' might be formulaic.

I actually watch a lot of musical bios and the classic album series that both Sky and BBC produce and learn a lot about haiku as much as I do about the music.

Alan Summers
Call of the Page

If there's any artists out there who'd like to have their work on the cover of Leaf-fall's second issue please send up to two original pieces (JPEG's only please!) to akirayagami@gmx.com with the subject line:
"art cover submission".

No theme, all mediums of art are welcome.

Send me your paintings, drawings, photographs, and collages and please don't forget to share this with your artistic friends.

Akira Yagami
editor, Leaf-fall

That would be wonderful! Keep us updated please! :-)

Quote from: Seaview on June 11, 2019, 03:48:35 AM

Quote from: AlanSummers on May 29, 2019, 05:10:55 PM
It's incredibly sad, and I know so many people with chronic illnesses and got to know more via Karen's involvement. I can't talk about one as it's so horribly heartbreaking on so many levels, including great injustice on a monstrous scale.

I figure that the lovely Rachel planned to end the posts after a certain time. It's very rare to publish a posthumous collection, as I know with the case of the lovely Linda Lamas, but it's actually incredibly rewarding.

It would be wonderful if a publisher was approached by her surviving family one day.

Alan

Quote from: Seaview on May 29, 2019, 03:26:49 AM
I see Rachel's blog is no longer posting her work. Sad, but inevitable. I really miss her regular posts and comments here on The Foundation and our online chats.

marion

I was asked to contact the family shortly after her passing on behalf of a group of writers Rachel was involved, Alan. They want to put together an anthology of her work, with the proceeds going to Lupus. I hope that it comes to fruition.

marion