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From Marilyn:

Dear Alan,

Thank you for checking.  red lights is very much alive.  The January issue is at the printers now and will be mailed out around January 15th.  The poster may not have been able to find it listed on Denis Garrison's Tanka Central website.  He kindly moved information on red lights to the site below which you also have with my address at the bottom of your email.

http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/redlights.html

And, thank you very much for recommending red lights to your tanka students.  Your faith in the journal is greatly appreciated.

My very best,
Marilyn

I knew the books were being discontinued.

Here's the Red Lights webpage:
http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/redlights.html

I've just emailed Marilyn Hazelton, and hopefully we can receive confirmation for this year.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Stewart Baker on January 03, 2014, 11:42:52 AM
Thanks, Scott. :)

Edit: Does Red Lights still exist?  MET Press seems to have gone out of business in December.

Slip-Realism at Per Diem, the daily haiku feature at THF:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/#per_diem

Slip-Realism:

Haiku is replete with the quotidian—it is the everyday that is the stuff of our poetry. And yet, what makes it of interest is our perception of it as not ordinary, as, in fact, uncanny. Slip-realism aims to explicate this daily miracle.

January Per Diem editor Alan Summers defines it thus:

Slip-Realism—unearthing the anonymous; avoiding the straightforward; parallel narratives in our day and night lives: new ways of perceiving the real (after Nouveau réalisme).

Alan goes on to describe what he's looking for:

It's an approach to focusing on subjects often on the periphery of our vision. It's also incorporating, where possible, sound as essence; aural landscape; or visual marker, because we are surrounded by soundscape. Think of yourself as just freshly kidnapped, hood over your head, perhaps in the trunk of a car, and you need sound markers to gauge the journey.

Slip-Realism is about the 'side' of things, and 'on the edge' outside day-to-day life of the mainstream of public life.

weblink:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2014/01/01/per-diem-for-january-2014-slip-realism/


January 1st, 2014

Elbowed by that north wind
I step aside and see it
fling the lark skyward

– Dru Marland


January 2nd, 2014

a yowling stray
the saucer of milk
iced over

- Neal Whitman
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/poet-details/?IDclient=689


Enjoy the rest of the January haiku at Per Diem:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/#per_diem

warm regards,

Alan

A colleague who writes haiku regularly is looking for fellow Vermont writers.  She lives in the Williston area.  Is there anyone nearby?

warm regards,

Alan

Dear Snow Leopard,

Colin is fine, and is just pursuing other interests and media.  But you can catch his latest haiku collection here: http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/thinking.html

Thinking Once a Week will be published in January 2014.

For card purchases and international purchases:
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/orders.html

warm regards,
Alan

Quote from: Snow Leopard on December 11, 2013, 07:43:21 AM
Links to the NFTG lead to a "free domain" up for sale.

Has anybody heard from Colin?

I hope he is okay.

Hi Stewart,

I'd suggest contacting Emiko Miyashita, Randy Brooks, David Cobb, Michael Dylan Welch (currently in Japan giving talks) and Richard Gilbert amongst others.

Translations:
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/translations.html

Let me know how you get on.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Stewart Baker on November 23, 2013, 06:24:08 PM
Anybody have advice on how to secure the rights to translate Japanese works into English?

e.g.

At what point in the process should I contact the rights-holder?
Are there any form letters online I could use for this sort of thing?  My Japanese is probably not quite at the level where I could write an effective legal request from scratch... :)

That's great!

I feel the BBC's World Series is still incredibly important.

Thanks for the opportunity and look forward to listening to the link.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Tracy on November 15, 2013, 03:37:40 PM
Thanks to both of you.  I will use your poems to support examples in the interview.  How the final piece will be edited is beyond my control.  The story will air in the UK Sat. at 6 am on the BBC World Service, but I will have a link etc. after it runs.

--t

Hi Tracy,

You have my permission to use my poems as examples in your radio interview.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: Tracy on November 15, 2013, 12:09:25 PM
Hi Julie and Alan,

I would like to use poems from both of you as examples in a radio interview that tapes tonight.  I need your permission.  Write me through my website www.TracyKoretsky.com.

I will also check back here.

Hi Tracy,

These were part of a commission a few years back about the race to the moon that I did with respected Space Historian Piers Bizony:

umbilical cord-
a space man's first
baby steps

Alan Summers
Publications credits: "Rocket Dreams" commission
Read/performed U.K. National Poetry Day October 4th 2007 with Space Historian Piers Bizony and NASA images, as part of World Space Week: The Haiku Foundation's Per Diem: Daily Haiku December 2012  (31 poems): Children


deep space
it seeps into
my vertical bed

Alan Summers
Publications credits: World Space Week Rocket Dreams commission 2007; Eye to the Telescope (Issue 1 • May 2011 The Long and Short of Speculative Poetry edited by Samantha Henderson & Deborah P Kolodji)


Sputnik satelite
a solar flare picks out
a rivet

Alan Summers
Publications credits: "Rocket Dreams" commission 2007; tinywords.com (2007)


escape velocity
the moon pulls oceans
behind Apollo 11

Alan Summers
Publications credits: "Rocket Dreams" commission 2007


Rocket Dreams: The Race to the Moon

4 day trip
to the moon-
"the cats take it easy"

deep space silence
the moon inbetween
the beeps n'bleeps

Houston,
Tranquility Base here,
the Eagle has landed

Jules Verne novel-
the columbiad cannon
becomes reality

Buzz's footprint...
standing the test of time
and regolith

visor reflection—
first man on the moon
on record

slippery surfaces
Buzz plans seven steps ahead
in kangeroo hops

private communion
an earth-based lawsuit
becomes lunacy

felt tip pen
it becomes the engine switch
Aldrin broke

space week—
another boyscout
watches moonrise

Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Dark Pens, a journal of moon haiku (1.1 2013)
1st Issue March 2013 http://www.darkpens.com/


sciencefiction

mars landing-
a tendril of red dust
shifts from a footfall

Alan Summers
Publications credits: tinywords (2007); Dylan Tweney "Practical Haiku: How Reading and Writing an Ancient Form of Poetry Can Change Your Life." (ebook 2010)

Quote from: Tracy on November 14, 2013, 05:22:37 PM
Won't bore everybody with details, but if you've got an example  (doesn't have to be your own; I'll credit accordingly) of an outerspace/ space exploration piece, please let me know and I'll fill you in on my latest project.  Great exposure for haiku poet, really, really tight deadline.

One-Line Haiku Anthology extension

For those of you who have not submitted one-line haiku to Snapshot Press you can send work that covers your earliest works to work published by December 2013.

For those of you who have already submitted work, but only up to the original cut off date, you can now send new ones published from July 1 to December 31 2013.

The email address: Snapshot Press Submissions <submissions@snapshotpress.co.uk>

Snapshot Press say:

Since the end of June a considerable number of poets have written saying
they regrettably missed the deadline, while numerous others have made
post-deadline submissions or requested an extension. Given this interest I
have decided to extend the submission period to the end of 2013.

I therefore invite you to send a supplementary submission of haiku published
between July 1 and December 31 2013, should you wish to do so. Please limit
this submission to work from this period only and otherwise follow the
guidelines at:
http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/submissions/one-line_haiku_anthology.htm

I aim to respond to all submissions as early as possible in 2014, once I've had a chance to carefully consider the (fast-approaching-9,000) researched and submitted haiku together.

All best wishes

John

John Barlow
Editor, Snapshot Press
w: www.snapshotpress.co.uk

Ambiguity: A word or phrase that can mean more than one thing, even in its context. Poets often search out such words to add richness to their work. Often, one meaning seems quite readily apparent, but other, deeper and darker meanings, await those who contemplate the poem.

Example: Robert Frost's 'The Subverted Flower'
http://home.comcast.net/~cnsatter/Poetry/thesubvertedflower.html


Alan Summers re Ambiguity:

We can push the verse further using one of the key core characteristics of haiku, which makes it survive in this extreme brevity of a whole poem, and that is the taking out of some information as text, and trusting the reader to find that information within the absence of visible information.  It's the white text on white paper, something probably viewed with horror by poets of longer poetry.

There is a gap in-between the two parts of haiku created by a juxtaposition of images, sometimes closely related, sometimes almost too far apart in logical meaning. 

Juxtaposition in haiku can be two images moving in parallel, making the reader stimulate their own poetic creativity.

The simplicity of haiku can paradoxically hold profound meaning through disparate mundane concrete real images, seemingly remunerated as connections with themselves,  and us, forcing us to co-exist in a shared environment.

These extracts are from a much longer piece on ambiguity that's going into the book.

warm regards,

Alan

Quote from: onecloud on October 19, 2013, 01:42:34 PM
Alan,

by,  ..."exercise on ambiguity,"...
do you want examples where the poet is not present in the verse?

...a tree falling with out a witness? an omnipresent voice? 

Quote from: Alan Summers on September 22, 2013, 12:47:57 PM
It would be great to see some examples here.  My essay is now to become part of a forthcoming book called Writing Poetry the haiku way.

Look forward to examples of haiku.

warm regards,

Alan

regards,
marty :)

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Elías Rovira: Porträt des zeitgenössischen Haiku in Spanien
Übersetzung aus dem Spanischen ins Deutsche von Klaus-Dieter Wirth

Elías Rovira: Portrait of Contemporary Haiku in Spain
Translation from Spanish into English by Klaus-Dieter Wirth
http://www.bregengemme.net/chrysanthemum/pages/en/current-issue.php



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World Monuments Fund haiku contest results
The extended judge's report and the results weblink to WMF:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/extended-judges-report-for-2013-world.html




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London Haiku Poetry event plus South East England Residential course: The Holistic Approach to haiku: self-development through poetry with Alan Summers

With Words are planning a London Haiku event which can be a Q&A, discussion, or traditional two hour workshop, or a longer workshop from 11am to 4pm with opportunity for a haiku walk along the Thames.

If you are interested, please don't hesitate to contact Karen at: karen@withwords.org.uk

We'd love to hear what you might like, as we often get calls to do a workshop or live event.

The haiku writing walk is called a Ginko, in Japan, and is a relaxing way to gather material by way of notes or drafting haiku.   We can then reconvene to a place for reading out the draft poems, and I can suggest possible revisions.  That's one option, which we can go into more depth via email.

Residential Week-end Course in South East England, just outside London:

The Holistic Approach to haiku:
self-development through poetry
with Alan Summers

Further details:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/london-haiku-poetry-event-plus-south.html


warm regards,

Alan

EDIT REASON: Brief introduction to the Ginko, and correcting a grammatical point thanks to Max! :-)

It would be great to see some examples here.  My essay is now to become part of a forthcoming book called Writing Poetry the haiku way.

Look forward to examples of haiku.

warm regards,

Alan