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Hi Everyone!

Quote from: sandra on March 28, 2015, 07:25:11 PM
Hi all,

We're up to our winter love verse - just 2 lines - and would love to have as many submissions as possible so do come on over to The Renku Sessions and give it a go.

- Sandra

The THF Renku Sessions weblink:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2015/03/26/the-renku-sessions-junicho-verse-8/

When I submit something on the new THF blog I use periods/endstops to separate paragraphs, verses etc...

e.g.

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a two line verse
about winter
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another winter
verse
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or:

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a two line verse
about winter
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another winter
verse
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There does need to be something to break the verses up on the current commentary box, and it'll make it easier for the other participants, and Sandra. :)

kind regards,

Alan

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Thanks Mark!

Quote from: Mark E. on March 26, 2015, 02:33:10 PM
Semi-finalists and honorable mentions are now listed:

http://shambhalatimes.org/2015/03/14/midwinter-haiku-contest-semi-finalists-and-honorable-mentions/

It's great to see all the semi-finalists and honorable mentions now. :-)

warm regards,

Alan

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I was delighted to have a couple of haiku featured in the inaugural magazine:
https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/current-issue/

Quote from: Gabriel Sawicki on November 24, 2014, 10:59:10 AM
Wild Plum is awaiting your submission for the inaugural Spring&Summer 2015 issue. Our aim is to create unique collection of good quality haiku poems in English.

Submission deadline: December 31.

More details on the website http://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/submission/.

The next deadline is June 30 (for the Fall&Winter Issue).

warm regards,

Alan

Congratulations!

If you are near one of their centers, I'm hoping they have more of the haiku in their newspaper?

warm regards,

Alan

Thanks Anna! :)

All poetry has its various approaches from plain simple language conveying simple imagery and meaning, to creating a complex poem that requires closer reading.

I enjoy a variety of haiku poems from the very simple to the more complex...

e.g.

open window
the cat dozes
half in half out

Alan Summers
Publications credits: Presence 3 (1996); Woodpecker, Extra Shuttle Issue  (1997); Iron Book of British Haiku, (Iron Press  1998, Third print 2000); tinywords.com (2001); The Haiku Calendar 2002 (Snapshot Press); Raku Teapot: Haiku Book/CD (Raku Teapot Press/White Owl Publishing 2003)

Award credits:
Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2001 (Snapshot Press)


an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Woodpecker Special Issue, Extra Shuttle Issue ISSN 1384-6094 (1997); Snapshots Four (1998); First Australian Online Haiku Anthology (1999); Haiku International 2000 Anthology, Japan ISBN 4-8161-0675-8 (2000); HaikuOz Information Kit (2001); The Omnibus Anthology, Haiku and Senryu, Hub Editions ISBN 1-903746-09-4 (2001); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S. "Daily Haiku" poet (October 2001); tinywords.com (2002); Yomiuri Shimbun (for my birthday, September 16th 2002); The New Haiku, Snapshot Press, ISBN 978-1-903543-03-0 (2002); BeWrite.net (2003); Raku Teapot: Haiku Book and CD pub. Raku Teapot Press in association with White Owl Publishing Book: ISBN 1-891691-03-1 CD:  ISBN 1-891691-04-X (2003); First Australian Haiku Anthology, Paper Wasp ISBN 0 9577925 9 X (2003); Yomiuri Shimbun Go-Shichi-Go On-Line feature Language Lab (2005); Swot, arts & literature magazine, Bath Spa University (2007); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 , Part 2  (Akita International Haiku Network 2010); THFhaiku 2012 app

Award credit:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, Snapshot Press (1998)
Joint 7th Best of Issue, Snapshot Five (1999)


warm day ...
the workman lunches
in his wheelbarrow

Alan Summers
Publications credits: Hermitage (2004); Snapshot Haiku Calendar (2005)

Award credit:
Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition (Snapshot Press 2004)



wind-spun flakes...
a child's world escapes
the snow globe

Alan Summers

Publication Credit:  tiny words 15.1 (around February 9th 2015)
one of two writing prompt winners for tinywords 15.1
http://tinywords.com/2014/12/27/writing-prompt-for-issue-15-1/#idc-cover

Award credit:   Joint Winner, Tinywords prompt:
http://tinywords.com/2015/02/08/19050/



hunter's moon
the runes of mice
in its wake

Alan Summers

Publication Credit:   Mainichi (Japan, December 1st 2014); ; Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond (Miriam Sagan) https://miriamswell.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/haiku-by-alan-summers/


splitting the sky
a kingfisher lifts a branch
off the breeze

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Mainichi Shimbun (November 20th 2014)


Ganesha's moon
the cabbie's last customer
smells of mint tea

Alan Summers

Publication Credit:
brass bell: a haiku journal Tea Haiku / Haiku Tea issue November 2014


falling clouds
the snow gathering
bits of moon

Alan Summers

Publication Credit:   hedgerow: a journal of small poems (Issue 1, September 2014)


how does this swan
         
sleep like a diamond
     
frosted moon

Alan Summers

Publication Credit:   Frozen Butterfly (October 2014)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCCcvBHqZo


fleeting clouds
my jagged man wears
an albatross

Alan Summers

fliehende Wolken
mein Zackenmann trägt
einen Albatross

German translation by Ralph Broker

Publication Credit: VerSuch ... das projekt gendai haiku 01.07.2014 Wartende wir


Forgotten rain
the wedding ring left
in a doll's house

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan May 30, 2014)



northern lights
a boy makes a ladder
out of his telescope 

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 24.3 (August 2014)


blue-hammer sky
   alcohol stains
    the banjo

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ  magazine April 2014)


night of small colour

a part of the underworld

becomes one heron

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Modern Haiku Vol. 45.2  Summer 2014


a flink of cows
the blue before a night
of falling snow

Twelve cows are a flink.

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 2014


a mole's extra thumb-
I re-arrange all my bones
around you again

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Scope vol. 60 no. 2 (FAWQ  magazine March 2014)


epidermal tongues-
she scales my 200 bones
on a banana leaf   

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine 2014
Friday, 14 March 2014
http://pulsevoices.org/archive/haiku/343-epidermal-tongues



Night clouds
a spider shows me
the harvest moon

Alan Summers

Publication Credits:  Asahi Shimbun (Japan, October 2013)


night-tide

the rook takes back

its moon

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Acorn #31 2013; The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku article Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ  magazine April 2014)


Some are simple, some simpler, some more complex.  Poets love to play with words, and something that requires close reading if it doesn't reveal its meaning in seconds is no bad thing sometimes.  We only use our brains if we allow ourselves to stretch.

warm regards,

Alan

Hi Julie,

Quote from: Julie B. K. on February 18, 2015, 06:43:07 PM
Is The Haiku Foundation not holding their annual set of contests this year? Or am I having trouble navigating the mobile website? Thanks--

I'm sure Billie Wilson will get back to you, but in the meantime, not a competition, but The Touchstone Awards will hopefully be announced before long:  http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards/

The HaikuNow! competition will certainly come around, after all it's only mid-February! ;)
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/haikunow-archive/

Also you can download updated contest calendars:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/event_calendars/

All I can suggest is that you keep coming back to the THF blog at:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org

warmest regards,

Alan

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Last day!

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Just the weekend left to enter!

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Two and a bit days left to the deadline!

I hope you can add some writer's notes along with your haiku entries too. :)

Summer Haiku Competition:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-with-words-summer-competition-2014_14.html

Writer's Notes:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/writers-notes.html

warm regards,

Alan

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Less than a week to the deadline!

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tinywords 15.1

"Congratulations to Gregory Longenecker and Alan Summers who jump-start the issue with their winning contributions below, inspired by Dave Bonta's photo of tracks in snow.

There were a lot of great responses, but for us these two stood out."

webpage link:
http://tinywords.com/2015/02/08/19050/


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Thanks Snow Leopard,

Quote from: Snow Leopard on February 04, 2015, 06:05:07 PM
Hi Alan,

Great idea. :) Not sure if any of these haiku of mine fit the bill.:


meatless month -*
the butcher too lights
butter lamps

*Meatless month: The sale and consumption of meat is banned in Bhutan during the sacred 1st and 4th months of the Bhutanese lunar calendar and other sacred occasions like the Descending Day of the Buddha, the 8th, 15th and 30th of  every month.

From the haibun titled, Will the Lotus Bloom? Frogpond Spring/Summer issue, 2011

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the night still to come
a comma after Venus
first crescent at dusk 

From the haibun, The Wisdom of the Dark, CHO July 1, 2012, vol 8, no 2.

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late night radio—
side by side two spiders
walking the ceiling
From the Haibun Bad Legs and other things, Haibun Today,  Volume 5, Number 1, march 2011.

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night border crossing --
the elephant calf holds
his mother's tail

Shamrock 26 2013, Touchstone Individual Poem Award, 2013

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stolen wombs -
the wind brings only dust
to the village well

Haiku News Vol 2. No 8. 2013, also as haiga in Chrysanthemum 14 2013 and Haiku 21 anthology 2014

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toddler's yawn . . .
in Tsechu* masks of gods
monks leap and swirl

*Tsechu (Dzongkha TSE-CHOO): Mask dance festival is a seasonal event held in spring, autumn and winter.

Simply Haiku, Spring 2011 Volume 9 No 1


Snow Leopard

I'll enjoy going through these, and do post more if you'd like.

Hopefully others will follow suit too.

warm regards,

Alan

Hi Chad,

I very quickly started following your new blog, and going over yet again right now! :)

warmest regards,

Alan

Hi Julie,

Quote from: Julie B. K. on January 31, 2015, 06:37:18 PM
One of mine is set to receive an Honorable Mention. Congrats, Alan!  :D

Congratulations!

warmest regards,

Alan

Shahai -
combining your haiku & your photography
(online course)

The online course starts March 1st, and finishes 1st week of May 2015

Cost:  £150/US$235
(early bird £140/US$220 if paying by February 1st).


Shahai, sometimes referred to as "photo-haiga" are a modern twist on the Japanese tradition of combining haiku with artwork.

Because many haiku writers already enjoy photography as part of their creative expression, shahai is an intensively creative and exciting form to explore. Participants may choose to submit either haiku or tanka as the written element of their artworks.


The feedback received during the course includes:
• in-depth feedback on the haiku/tanka element from Alan Summers (Writer and Tutor with expertise in Japanese poetry forms).
• constructive critique on the photography from Penney Ellis (Photographer, Artist, and Photography Tutor).

Class size:  5+

Cost:  £150/US$235
(early bird £140/US$220 if paying by February 1st).

FURTHER INFORMATION/CONTACT:
For more information and booking, on this and other forthcoming With Words courses, please email: karen@withwords.org.uk.

Thank you for your interest.