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We are really excited, even more so than usual, about these new courses! :)

We've just launched details of The Passion of Haibun course and other courses including ekphrastic tanka (and haiku) and also a new course around senryu:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/call-of-page-online-courses-passion-of.html

Thanks Robert,

How old are you?

The competition is for these ages:

7th- 12-13 years old
8th- 13-14 years old
High School
9th- 14-15 years old (freshman)
10th- 15-16 years old (sophomore)
11th- 16-17 years old (junior)
12th- 17-18 years old (senior)

You can obtain submission details from here:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm

As it's a competition it's best if you don't make your entries public in case the haiku judge sees them. :)

Quote from: Robert on February 10, 2017, 12:17:27 AM
my First Haiku. ;D ;D

Lights hanging was spread
Somewhere under the Blue sky
The month in hiding

8) 8)

I've been asked to promote this competition which I've respected for many years, especially as it promotes literacy, as well as make the works of Nick Virgilio widely known amongst youngsters/teenagers.

The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12
Links provided at: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/the-nicholas-virgilio-memorial-haiku.html

Please feel free to further promote this worthy competition.

Alan Summers, co-founder of Call of the Page

Thanks Rick,

We just have one space left on our course, so nearly sold out. So I will be incredibly busy with new material etc... for the course, and be very quiet for at least a couple of months.

I will incorporate the Slip-Realism exercise as it's attracted a lot of positive attention, and might create a PDF at a later date of work. But in the meantime, it's heads down and working incredibly hard to do my students justice. :-)

Quote from: justlikeyou on February 01, 2017, 09:11:40 AM
OK Alan, gotcha. Thank you. Until Tax Season is over here in the US (April 18) I am reluctant to take on anything beyond what I already have, but please let me know if and when you do another similar intensive after that date. I would surely love to be a part of a future course. :-) Rick

Hi Rick,

I won't be able to comment on pieces here or in the forums but do enjoy!  I am stacked up with work and we are launching our first online haiku course shortly, still a space or two. :-)

Haiku course:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-online-intermediate-haiku-course.html

But quickly don't think it's just about using the other senses that we neglect. Read the entire article and look up the examples on the hyperlinks within the article. There is more to it than meets the eye, ear, tastebuds, fingertips etc...

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: justlikeyou on February 01, 2017, 08:45:45 AM
Maybe...

in the bathroom
minding my business
a woodpecker knocking

??

Thanks flowerfox

Can you make sure you credit it fully?

e.g.

The Slip-Realism Perception Challenge
by Alan Summers
https://poetrysociety.org.nz/affiliates/haiku-nz/haiku-poems-articles/monthly-article/

Alan's blog: http://area17.blogspot.com

enjoy!

Quote from: flowerfox on January 31, 2017, 11:58:39 PM

Quote from: Alan Summers on January 31, 2017, 12:31:30 PM
Hi Rick, and flowerfox,

I rarely make our Call of the Pages (formerly With Words) exercises public, but as it started as a Per Diem feature right here at The Haiku Foundation I decided to make it public.

I am very happy for people to ask permission to use the exercise. If it's for someone other than just themselves I would appreciate due acknowledgement and my Area 17 web address being added.

People are welcome to post haiku here on the THF forums, and draw my attention to them, and acknowledge my name and Area 17 address.

Hi flowerfox,

By all means, if you could fully credit myself and my Area 17 blog: http://area17.blogspot.com

Quote from: flowerfox on January 31, 2017, 11:34:58 AM
Ah, good question, Rick, and one I was going to ask as I was thinking I could present
something for critique in the mentoring the beginner section, later this week.

warm regards,

Alan

Many thanks, Alan. I'll certainly do that.

The set of exercises have multiple purposes.

All that becomes self-evident in the workshopping I will be doing both online and at our new residential haiku room.

But in the meantime, anything that doesn't always rely purely on visuals is good. As you have done with that ding! And the annoysome repetitive songs. Although I do like Kylie's song which has interesting social commentary embedded into it.

I personally don't see anything wrong or incomplete about your poem. I often rest my work. Some work appearing in a few days, and the next few months, has some pieces worked on for over five years. No rush with haiku, it makes its own pace.

Alan

Quote from: Janis Benson on January 31, 2017, 02:28:32 PM
But Alan,
I am not relying on that part of the brain.

At no time in the ku does the narrator appear inside the elevator.

a ding
of the elevator
an earworm
burrows deep
.
.
And I in no way assume this exercise is easy, but i am the blind person when it comes to tones and sounds.
My error here is relying on a deep read of the poem, and that fails me.

Perhaps I could add the word "distant" to line one, but the ku is wordy already.
Jan

Quote from: Alan Summers on January 31, 2017, 07:25:55 AM
It's not necessarily an easy exercise because most of us are not visually impaired as Elizabeth Hazen was for a few years. But I hope it's useful that we think of smell and sound as vital to a haiku as much as what we 'see' or 'think we see'.

Yes, stuck song syndrome can effect people whether amusingly or otherwise. I think that's why Kylie Minogue's song struck a chord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPwtJ89jes4

It was deliberately making use of that particular phenomenon of brain worm/ ear worm / stuck song syndrome.

Alan

Quote from: Janis Benson on January 31, 2017, 07:04:11 AM
Alan,
I thought it might read that way.
Fail on my part?
No, since you found a way in.

As a trained musician, (point of the exercise, how the ignored is recognized, especially sound) when I hear the simple ding of a distant bell, it rings a note in my ear, and ignites a song in the key of that bell. An earworm of usually showtunes.

To put a point on my perceived goal of the exercise.

Jan

Hi Rick, and flowerfox,

I rarely make our Call of the Pages (formerly With Words) exercises public, but as it started as a Per Diem feature right here at The Haiku Foundation I decided to make it public.

I am very happy for people to ask permission to use the exercise. If it's for someone other than just themselves I would appreciate due acknowledgement and my Area 17 web address being added.

People are welcome to post haiku here on the THF forums, and draw my attention to them, and acknowledge my name and Area 17 address.

Quote from: justlikeyou on January 31, 2017, 08:09:07 AM
Hi Alan, I assume that this exercise is meant to be accomplished privately with no posting of results anywhere? Rick

Hi flowerfox,

By all means, if you could fully credit myself and my Area 17 blog: http://area17.blogspot.com

Quote from: flowerfox on January 31, 2017, 11:34:58 AM
Ah, good question, Rick, and one I was going to ask as I was thinking I could present
something for critique in the mentoring the beginner section, later this week.

warm regards,

Alan

It's not necessarily an easy exercise because most of us are not visually impaired as Elizabeth Hazen was for a few years. But I hope it's useful that we think of smell and sound as vital to a haiku as much as what we 'see' or 'think we see'.

Yes, stuck song syndrome can effect people whether amusingly or otherwise. I think that's why Kylie Minogue's song struck a chord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPwtJ89jes4

It was deliberately making use of that particular phenomenon of brain worm/ ear worm / stuck song syndrome.

Alan

Quote from: Janis Benson on January 31, 2017, 07:04:11 AM
Alan,
I thought it might read that way.
Fail on my part?
No, since you found a way in.

As a trained musician, (point of the exercise, how the ignored is recognized, especially sound) when I hear the simple ding of a distant bell, it rings a note in my ear, and ignites a song in the key of that bell. An earworm of usually showtunes.

To put a point on my perceived goal of the exercise.
Jan

Dear flowerfox,

Quote from: flowerfox on January 31, 2017, 12:14:58 AM
A good exercise. Would it be ok to print it out so I could read it at a more leisurely pace.

First of all welcome to THF. I stepped down as THF Admin a short while ago, leaving it in the more than able hands of Marion Clarke. :-)

Yes, by all means, print it out for yourself. I still read things the old fashioned way and do the retro art of handwriting some haiku, as I get different energies from writing and typing. :-)

warm regards,

Alan

Great!

I'm reminded of that often awful musak we had to suffer in elevators. I'd probably like some now, as it's even more retro. But much prefer electronic or electronica music. :-)

Quote from: Janis Benson on January 30, 2017, 09:31:04 PM
Took the Challenge
Jan

.

At the New Zealand Poetry Society haiku section:
https://poetrysociety.org.nz/affiliates/haiku-nz/haiku-poems-articles/monthly-article/

.

Congratulations!

I'm also delighted that this haibun was very quickly picked up by a brand new magazine that includes haibun along with other creative forms.  It comes out in April 2017 and future issues will be open for submissions.

Glad to see that haibun is getting out there more and more.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Seaview on January 29, 2017, 12:26:05 PM

Quote from: Alan Summers on January 23, 2017, 06:07:50 AM
Delighted that a haibun figured in the joint winning entries:
https://folded.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/wonderfold-winners/

I was delighted to see your haibun here, Alan.

(Btw I have had a haibun accepted for an anthology to be published in March, which automatically guarantees it goes forward for the Seamus Heaney Award!)

Delighted that a haibun figured in the joint winning entries:
https://folded.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/wonderfold-winners/

I worry that the love of the gun will increase as tensions build up even more around the world:

she carries the warm gun's child
https://isletpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/950/