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Wild Plum Haiku Contest 2018 Results
https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/haiku-contest/


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The Results of the British Haiku Society Awards 2017 are available as a free PDF:
http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RESULTS-OF-THE-BHS-AWARDS-2017-1.pdf


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Everyone has at least one train related haiku hopefully!

You are invited to submit haiku, tanka, rengay, and haibun with a train theme (including experiences and imagery related to steam trains, bullet trains, cross-country journeys, commuter trains, freight trains, the passing landscape, human interaction on trains, internal journeys, etc).

A new exciting themed anthology:
https://wildink.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/call-for-train-haiku/

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Both images are now up, enjoy!

https://australianhaikusociety.org

Alan

Quote from: vanessa on March 20, 2018, 07:06:09 AM

The Australian Haiku Society will be holding a Haiga Kukai on the autumn equinox, 2018. Two images by Ron Moss will be displayed on the AHS website from 21st March and poets are invited to submit one previously unpublished haiku inspired by each image from that time until 29th March. Ron will then select the winning haiku which will be displayed on the AHS website.

Please visit the AHS website for further details: https://australianhaikusociety.org/

Karen Anderson (1932-2018)

Author who penned the very first science fiction haiku.

From Locus magazine March 19, 2018

Writer Karen Anderson, 85, died March 18, 2018 in Los Angeles. Anderson began publishing work of SF interest with "The Innocent Arrival" in Galaxy (1958), and is best known for novels written in collaboration with her husband Poul Anderson. They co-wrote Roma Mater (1986), Gallicenae (1987), Dahut (1988), and The Dog and the Wolf (1988) in the King of Ys series, and The Golden Horn (1980), The Road of the Sea Horse (1980), and The Sign of the Raven (1980) in the Last Viking series. Some of their story collaborations appeared in The Unicorn Trade (1984).

Anderson also published poetry extensively, including the first known science fiction haiku, "Six Haiku", in F&SF in 1962.

June Millichamp "Karen" Kruse was born September 16, 1932 in Erlander KY. She was active in fandom from her teenage years. In 1950, as high schooler in the Washington DC area, she co-founded a Sherlock Holmes society, "The Red Circle Society." She joined the Washington Science Fiction Association in 1952, and that year began publishing fanzine Die Zeitschrift fur Vollstandigen Unsinn, later shortened to The Zed. She attended the 1952 Worldcon in Chicago, where she met Poul Anderson (and many others in the SF field). She attended Catholic University for a year before moving to California to join Poul Anderson; they were married in 1953, and remained together until his death in 2001. She became active in California fandom, and was a member of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Association; they gave her a Forry Award for life achievement in 2010. Anderson was legendary in costuming circles, winning numerous prizes over the years, and she continued to publish fanzines, including Goliard, Alif, Calmatema, Vorpal Glass, and assorted single-issue 'zines. She was the first person to use the term "filk music" deliberately in print (referring to a song by Poul Anderson). She loved theater, and staged many plays and filk performances at conventions. She was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2003. She also published interior artwork and drew fantasy maps, and showed her work at convention art shows.

She is survived by their daughter, Astrid Anderson Bear (married to SF writer Greg Bear) and two grandchildren.

From Terebass:

Karen Kruse Anderson (b. 1932)

She wrote the first published science fiction haiku (or scifaiku), "Six Haiku" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1962).

Six Haiku
by Karen Anderson

The white vapor trail
Scrawls slowly on the sky
Without any squeak.

Gilt and painted clouds
Float back through the shining air
What, are there stars, too?

In the heavy world's
Shadow, I watch the sputnik
Coasting in sunlight

Those crisp cucumbers
Not yet planted on Syrtis
How I desire one!

In the fantastic
Seas of Venus who would dare
To imagine gulls?

When Proxima sets
What constellation do they
dream around our Sun?

i.m. Karen Anderson (1932-2018)

If you are not familiar with Marlene's work, and there are still some seasoned writers who aren't, then you are both in for a treat, and a bumpy ride. Marlene was both bigger than haiku and also made it 'bigger' never ceasing to be relevant.

Click here for an adventure!
http://www.marlenemountain.org

Plus:
https://livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-haiku/defining-haiku/2905-evolving-consciousness-by-marlene-mountain.html

http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org/curators/MarleneMountain.html

http://www.tempslibres.org/tl/en/livres/mm00.html

You feel 'bigger' having met her, an awesome force of nature, and one of our very greatest poets.

Incredibly sad. We can't really know what a great haikai presence she was, but only guess.

Marlene Mountain's grandson has informed people on Marlene's page of her passing away this morning. Please drop by and leave a note on Marlene's page for Marlene, Josh, and her family. It's wonderful that she made it back to facebook recently to connect with us before passing away. It feels now like her goodbye. She was one of a kind, our Marlene. Unforgettable....
Carole MacRury

Alexis Rotella said: We emailed each other two weeks ago. One of her poems introduces the MeToo anthology...Marlene was sick for years. RIP dear poet/iconoclast.

Quote from: Jan Benson on March 15, 2018, 08:12:04 PM
There are several reports on Facebook of Marlene Mountain having past away.
I will try to get more details soon

Jan Benson
In Texas

The cattails journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society archives have been updated: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/archives.html


The Archives for the issues from January 2014 and May 2014 do not have
artwork and photos, due to server changes. All issues not shown are in
the process of being converted to PDF format.

Cattails archives beginning with the January 2014 Premier Edition will be available when they are converted.

Best regards,
Iliyana Stoyanova
UHTS Secretary
http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/officers-biographies

Congratulations to everyone!

SEEDPODS

February 2018
Welcome to Seedpods
The e-newsletter of the United Haiku and Tanka Society

In this edition:
- News from Alan Summers -- UHTS president
- Results for the UHTS Samurai Haibun 2017
- Submission Period for the October 2018 issue of cattails
- Reminder --   "AHA" Haiku/Senryu Contest (the Annual Hortensia Anderson Memorial Awards)

web link:
https://mailchi.mp/a9914c4c6c8d/seedpods-uhts-members-enews?e=bfce4e6055

Alan Summers
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society

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Glad to see this site is still up.
Part 7 - The Nature of English Haiku
Appropriateness of Subject Matter:
http://www.haiku.org.uk/english.htm

Following on, the topic, and others, are picked up, with a list...

Literary Kicks
Opinion: Essential Elements of Haiku
pottygok • August 13th, 2003
Re:
"Every successful haiku poet keeps a mental list of things that should not be part of a haiku. This is my list of things to avoid..."

I think pottygok aka Joshua Gage manages to successfully incorporate some of the don'ts as well as do's:
http://www.litkicks.com/EssentialElementsofHaiku

See how Joshua Gage skilfully navigates the issue back in his 2008 collection:

Joshua Gage
breaths
vanZeno Press
Professional Reading Series (2008)
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/c8503a2886310048681796928f6bd75d.pdf



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Congratulations to the winning haiku writers:

Debbi Antebi
Garry Eaton
Mary Kendall

D.C. Winner:
Elizabeth Steinglass

And Honourable Mentions to:

Lucy Whitehead
Hannah Mahoney
Anna Eklund-Cheong
Billy Antonio
Tia Haynes

https://goldentriangledc.com/initiative/golden-haiku-2018-winners/

Thank you!

Nearly four years later there is funding to bring it forward. It was a lovely surprise to attend the British Haiku Society Annual General Meeting, and see that funding was on the list.

I've often done collaborations, one with Corian® but not with glass until now.

warm regards,
Alan

At the British Haiku Society AGM last December it was declared that the society would be happy to donate a sum necessary for this project to go forward. I was pleased that the vote was a majority one.

Watch this space. :-)

Alan

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Johnny Baranski passed away today just after midnight. Enjoy his voice and some of his work: http://livinghaikuanthology.com/readings/haiku-readings/2732-johnny-baranski-reading-selection.html


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The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial  Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12 (USA)
Ages 12 years to 18 years old
Deadline: In hand by March 25, 2018.
Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of September 2017 may enter.

THE NICHOLAS A. VIRGILIO MEMORIAL HAIKU AND SENRYU COMPETITION
FOR GRADES 7-12
Founded by the Sacred Heart Church in Camden, NJ, and sponsored by the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in memory of Nicholas A. Virgilio, a charter member of the Haiku Society of America, who died in 1989. The Haiku Society of America co-sponsors the contest, provides judges, and publishes the results in Frogpond journal and on the Haiku Society of America (HSA) Website.

Links to both Haiku Society of America submission pages (info & submission document) plus the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/the-nicholas-virgilio-memorial-haiku.html




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