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#481
Other Haiku News / Poetry & Place Anthology 2015
April 16, 2016, 08:55:16 AM
Now out!
http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Place-Anthology-Ashley-Capes/dp/0994528922

A new anthology of international poetry collecting ideas and experiences of 'place' in a variety of forms, from free and structured verse to concrete poetry and haiku, each exploring our relationship with place via the personal, political and beyond.

Edited by Ashley Capes and Brooke Linford, the anthology contains poetry by the following poets:

James Croteau ~ Alan Summers ~ Marisa Fazio ~ Judit Hollos ~ Barbara A Meier ~ Ivy Alvarez ~ Lorin Ford ~ Brenda Saunders ~ Caitlin Thomson ~ Duncan Richardson ~ Elliot Nicely ~ Sandra Simpson ~ Mark Miller ~ Fiona McIIroy ~ Carolyn Gerrish ~ Guy Traiber ~ Frank Russo ~ Irene Wilkie ~ Jacqueline Buswell ~ Colleen Z Burke ~ Sarah Rice ~ Jeff Schiff ~ jenni nixon ~ Jenny Blackford ~ Jill Jones ~ John Stokes ~ Marilynne Thomas Walton ~ Julie Storer ~ Karen Andrews ~ Vanessa Proctor ~ Kevin Gillam ~ Les Wicks ~ Mran-Maree Laing ~ Nikki Carr ~ Jan Napier ~ Rasma Haidri ~ Joyce Joslin Lorenson ~ S.E. Street ~ S. G. Larner ~ SuzAnne C. Cole ~ Tina Schumann ~ J. Todd Hawkins ~ Traudl Tan ~ Valentina Cano ~ Mark William Jackson ~ Faith de Savigné ~ Stu Hatton ~ Chris Lynch ~ Jill McKeowen ~ Stuart Barnes ~ Billy Antonio ~ Jane Downing ~ Nathanael O'Reilly ~ Ben Walter ~ Frances Olive ~ Benjamin Dodds ~ Diana Jamieson ~ Andrew Phillips ~ SB Wright ~ Ron C. Moss ~ A. S. Patric ~ Michele Seminara ~ Jonathan Hadwen ~ Joyce Parkes ~ Anne Elvey ~ Brad Frederiksen ~ Amelia Walker ~ Koraly Dimitriadis ~ Jerome Gagnon ~ Emma Rose Smith ~ Margaret Bradstock ~ Christine Burrows ~ Karen Murphy ~ Monica Carroll ~ Janis Butler Holm ~ Frances Donovan ~ Margaret Owen Ruckert ~ Wes Lee ~ Nina Longfield ~ John Upton ~ Veronica Lake ~ Gabrielle Rowe ~ Robyn Sykes ~ Alison Miller ~ Katarina Boudreaux ~ Alice Allan ~ Nicola Scholes ~ Penny Gibson ~ Jane Williams ~ Simon Hanson


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#482
Stephen Gill aka Tito, and a few other British Haiku Society members have created circular haiku, for example: https://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/tag/circular-poem/
#483
New to Haiku: Free Discussion Area / Re: Haibunga!
April 14, 2016, 12:14:06 PM
Well ones I've seen by Johannes Bjerg have text on white and a complex but can't pull them up on the internet.  And Max Verhart:  http://simplyhaiku.theartofhaiku.com/autumn2010/maxhaibunga.htm

Quote from: Lorraine Pester on April 14, 2016, 10:54:24 AM
Quote from: Alan Summers on April 14, 2016, 10:48:54 AM
Okay, not sure who started this in modern times, might have been Alexis Rotella, and then Johannes Bjerg took up the challenge:


Haibunga:
There is also a form called 'haibunga' (haibun and haiga). This was based on Buson's 'byobu' painting (six-fold screen) on which he wrote the entire words of Basho's 'Narrow Road to Oku and added his illustrations to it, in a similar manner as Buson created his other haiga.
http://www.wapoets.net.au/mari-warabiny-haiku-group/info-on-haiga/

quote author=Lorraine Pester link=topic=8753.msg84403#msg84403 date=1460648594]

Ok Alan.
I'm trying to imagine how a haibun would be incorporated on a photo. Or is it? This is regarding Just's haiga 'hitchin' post'.

Lorraine

So, what I'm imagining is a rather neutral, abstract background onto which the haibun is scribed?

Lorraine
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#484
New to Haiku: Free Discussion Area / Re: Haibunga!
April 14, 2016, 10:48:54 AM
Okay, not sure who started this in modern times, might have been Alexis Rotella, and then Johannes Bjerg took up the challenge:


Haibunga:
There is also a form called 'haibunga' (haibun and haiga). This was based on Buson's 'byobu' painting (six-fold screen) on which he wrote the entire words of Basho's 'Narrow Road to Oku and added his illustrations to it, in a similar manner as Buson created his other haiga.
http://www.wapoets.net.au/mari-warabiny-haiku-group/info-on-haiga/

quote author=Lorraine Pester link=topic=8753.msg84403#msg84403 date=1460648594]

Ok Alan.
I'm trying to imagine how a haibun would be incorporated on a photo. Or is it? This is regarding Just's haiga 'hitchin' post'.

Lorraine
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#486
Contests and Awards / Winner announced!
April 08, 2016, 01:37:37 PM
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THE IAFOR VLADIMIR DEVIDÉ HAIKU AWARD 2016 WINNER ANNOUNCED
http://iaforhaikuaward.org/the-iafor-vladimir-devide-haiku-award-winners-announced/

The Grand Prize winner of the sixth IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award has been named as Suraja Roychowdhury of the United States for the following submission:


sunny afternoon
                 
a shadow 
                             
on the mammogram


Suraja Roychowdhury


A full list of Commended and Runners Up will be published shortly, along with a video of the award announcement and haiku reading at The Asian Conference on Literature, Librarianship & Archival Science 2016.
#487
Haiku North America Poets:

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Your work included in Fire in the Treetops, the special 25th anniversary anthology, entitles you to a discount.

Please visit http://www.graceguts.com/press-here/fire-in-the-treetops-contributor-list, see if your name is on the contributor list, and email Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com for your contributor discount code (codes expire 30 June 2016).

#488
Stephen Gill aka Tito, and a few other British Haiku Society members created circular haiku, for example:
https://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/tag/circular-poem/

They can be three line haiku, just put in a circle, as well as a monostich.

Quote from: Anna on April 04, 2016, 11:05:57 AM
Can monoku also be called cyclic ku?  Is being cyclic a specific attribute of  the monostitch?
#489
Dru Marland who is a dear friend, is transgender:
http://dru-withoutamap.blogspot.co.uk

She is an awesome human being, and it's been a privilege to have known her for many years.

Dru is also the artist/owner/publisher of Gert Macky:
http://gertmacky.co.uk

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Jan in Texas on April 02, 2016, 06:11:55 AM
Alan,

An aside, on your response to Lorraine, please.

My practical brain is working today, the abstract part, not so much.

When you say there are three genders,
is the third non-gender?

That is all for now from the bleechers...

Jan
#490
Interesting that Fay Aoyagi is President of the Haiku Society of America, and that Aubrie Cox is main editor for its journal Frogpond, and that many publishers such as Skylark, and magazines are run by women.

That is healthy.  The previous editors for Frogpond were both women, and my chosen editor for The Heron's Nest is a woman, and my previous choice was also a woman.  Of course I could have gone for other editors such as Paul McNeil ( a lovely and supportive editor ).

There should be no glass ceiling in haiku regarding gender or having to be an established voice.   I remember Caroline Skanne being an unknown and having to support her worthiness.  It was funny as I instinctively knew, without knowing her at all, that she would be good!  Those doubters (women actually) did submit work after two issues.   The same with Brass Bell (ed. Zee Zahava) who was a new name but I've been in every non-gender specific issue of haiku, and she helped edit a couple of early haiku, which I was delighted.   

So it's not just gender, but online magazines have the clout now of new names being owners/publishers, and that is what I'm interested in.   But, yes, intriguing, I often connect better with female editors and publishers, although Scott Metz was incredibly supportive of my submissions to Roadrunner, and patient, and eventually over a couple of years, I got several published in Roadrunner, and under aliases in its companion magazine MASKS (where he knew the author's name, but it remains anonymous).

So gender balance is good, and getting better, and Roberta Beary, a good friend (we've met several times) has also helped in certain areas.

But it's also this new name thing that I have always been interested in for over twenty years that is a passion.   

Alan

Quote from: Jan in Texas on April 01, 2016, 08:58:07 PM
Lorraine,
Early February saw a discussion on feminism with perspectives of "the orient" (Anna's terminology), posted by Anna.

I found Light Pilgrim's experienced voice interesting as to just how many women around the world are in positions of editor/publisher of haiku/journals/zines...

At your leisure, take a look.
Alan weighs in nicely on the point you are making, above.

Jan Benson

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/forum_sm/index.php?topic=8528.0
#491
Hi Lorraine,

Actually there are three genders represented.

In pre-haiku days a woman had to become a nun in order to write haikai verses.   As Chiyo was widowed it probably was no big deal and she proved worthy to be included in her own right as a person to be revered along with leading haikai poets.

As I was constrained by the remit, I chose these haiku partly as I know everyone so well, and the struggles they face on a daily basis, except for Angela Terry.   First and foremost it was the haiku, and the authors.

David Briggs was an exception, not by gender, but that as a highly respected mainstream poet he was willing to attempt haiku rather than attempt a mishmash that other poets so often do.

I could have easily included other poets of various genders including male gender and here is a selection of haiku I chose for the Per Diem feature (also three genders):
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/per-diem-archive-details/?IDcat=277

I'm often gender blind, especially when running live workshops, where I forget which gender I've been assigned.   It was very interesting a women's shelter that when an employee (female) said males were not allowed, I looked behind me thinking a man had just entered the building.  It took a few seconds to realise that I was male gender as that doesn't apply to workshopping.  I was officially invited, along with a female gender colleague, but I just forgot what I was.  We had so much fun in the workshop, and gender was forgotten.

Although it's possible I relate to women in haiku, it's not inclusive.  I could have easily included John McManus and Brendon Kent for instance.  A longer feature would have included far more male gender, but it just worked out this way.

I am glad you enjoyed the selection as it was different from the other previous selections, mostly that the names are either unknown or new names.

kind regards,

Alan

Quote from: Lorraine Pester on April 01, 2016, 05:53:35 PM
You were aware that there were 'all those women' and only two men whose poetry you chose? What does that set of choices say about women as haiku poets; there was a time, when women weren't distinguished poets of haiku  :)

I enjoyed your selection, Alan.

Lorraine
#492
From December last year, a post I made about one line haiku updated since:

all those red apples | travelling the monorail - haiku travelling in one line - one line haiku aka monostich aka monoku: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/all-those-red-apples-travelling.html

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#494
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More than one fold in the paper: Kire, kigo, and the vertical axis of meaning in haiku by Alan Summers
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/monthlyarticle


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#495
Haiku & Tanka: Amazement and Intensity
http://www.poetrybarn.co/events/2016/1/9/haiku-tanka-amazement-and-intensity

MON, JUN 6, 2016 12:00 
SUN, JUL 3, 2016 12:00

In this four-week online workshop, teaching artist Alan Summers will guide you through an exploration of the roots of haiku (from classic to gendai) and its sister form of senryu.

He will also cover tanka, sometimes seen as the Japanese sonnet. You'll trace the forms' heritage by readings from its founding fathers and mothers, negotiate its deceptive simplicity of subject and language, and follow the evolution of English language haiku and its subforms through its modern journey.

Throughout the course, we'll refer to a highly respected classic anthology (a downloadable handout will be provided).

In Week 1, "Amazement of the Ordinary," we'll focus on haiku, its origins, its language, and consider what it is exactly that makes a haiku.

In Week 2, "Being Human: The Ordinary Intensity", we'll look at senryu, the sister form to haiku.

In Week 3, "The Japanese Sonnet," we'll look at the related five-line form of the tanka.

In Week 4, "Futures," we'll look at the non-traditional emergent subform: gendai haiku, and reinforce and build on what we've learnt with haiku, senryu and tanka.

4 weeks online/$200
Teaching artist: Alan Summers


How do your online workshops work?

So that you can participate at your time and convenience, our four-week online workshops are entirely correspondence-based, taking place in a password-protected environment. You will have 24-7 access to your virtual classroom from anywhere there's an internet connection and a device to receive it.

Each Monday at 12 PM EST, a new lesson on the workshop's theme—along with recommended readings, discussion questions, and a writing assignment—is posted.

When you're ready—ideally, within the week—you will post one work (poem, essay, etc.) in response to the assignment, and provide feedback for three of your peers.

Time is fluid in an online workshop; Some weeks, you may be inspired to write and post immediately. Other weeks, you may not be able to post until a bit later on. Because of this, our workshops are accessible for a full month after the workshop ends to give you plenty of time to take full advantage of the readings, assignments, and peer-critiques.

Our teaching artists offer timely, detailed critiques on each of your poems, and offer suggestions, when a poem is ready, for potential publication venues.

From FAQ: http://www.poetrybarn.co/faq
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