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A Hundred Gourds 4:3 released

Outside my window is the first rainbow of my Melbourne winter, which begins today. Those in the Northern Hemisphere will soon be welcoming summer. Wherever you are in the world, the 15th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

www.ahundredgourds.com

AHG 4.3 Feature

'Between Basho and Ban'ya (bypassing Barthes): A New Brand of Haiku?' by Charles Trumbull

AHG is delighted to publish Charles Trumbull's witty and thought-provoking enquiry into a "hybrid" type of haiku which has become quite prevalent. This very enjoyable essay was first delivered as a presentation at the 4th Cradle of American Haiku Festival, in 2014.

Mike Montrueil, AHG's Haibun Editor, provides an informative introduction to the context of Dr. Trumbull's presentation, honouring the history of the Festival and allowing readers a sense of place.

Expositions

Mike Montrueil also interviews Ray Rasmussen on the subject of his thoughts about and his extensive involvement in haibun, Michael Dylan Welch, in an entertaining manner, shows us how Japanese sound units differ from English syllables and Beverley George reviews Cynthia Rowe's new book.

A Hundred Gourds is still looking for a suitable editor for our Expositions section. Please direct any enquiries regarding the Expositions section and submit reviews, essays or commentaries for 2015 issues of AHG to me, Lorin, until further notice.

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 4.4 (the September 2015 issue) is June 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the December 2015 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.

Please take the time to read the AHG submissions page, including the editors' individual comments, and ensure that your submission complies with all requirements.

Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds 4:2 released


The seasons roll around. Today, the first of March, Australia and New Zealand welcome our first day of Autumn whilst those of you in the Northern Hemisphere are anticipating Spring's arrival. Wherever you are in the world, the 14th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

www.ahundredgourds.com


AHG 4.2 Feature –The Seabeck Haiku Getaway: an interview with Michael Dylan Welch


Aubrie Cox, our haiga editor, was on the spot for the annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway,  which is held in the beautiful, historical mill town of Seabeck in Washington, USA, close to the Canadian border.  Aubrie has conducted an in- depth interview on the subject of this enviable retreat with the founder and organiser, Michael Dylan Welch.   

Expositions Section

Due to the unexpected departure of Matthew Paul as Expositions editor last year, A Hundred Gourds will be looking for a suitable editor for our Expositions section in 2015. Please direct any inquiries regarding the Expositions section and submit reviews, essays or commentaries for 2015 issues of AHG to me, Lorin, until further notice.
In this issue, Michael Dylan Welch explores the use of haiku in David Patneaude's young-adult novel, Thin Wood Walls, Jim Sullivan comments on two 'bee' haiku and Cynthia Rowe and Ray Rasmussen review recently published haiku books.


Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 4.3 (the June 2015 issue) is March 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the September 2015 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.

Please take the time to read the AHG submissions page, including the editors' individual comments, and ensure that your submission complies with all requirements.

Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds 3:4 released

The 12th issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

www.ahundredgourds.com


In Memoriam

It was with great sadness in April this year that we read the police confirmation that Martin Lucas, haiku poet and editor and publisher of the British haiku journal, Presence, had drowned. Martin's articulate insight into what makes good haiku is irreplaceable. It is fitting that Matthew Paul who, with Stuart Quine and Ian Storr, will be continuing Presence has written an insightful personal appreciation of Martin and his work for this issue of A Hundred Gourds.


Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 4.1 (the December 2014 issue) is September 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the March 2015 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.

Please take the time to read the AHG submissions page and ensure that your submission complies.

Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds 3:3 released

The eleventh issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure.

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/


As well as our regular Haiku, Tanka, Renku, Haiga, Haibun and Expositions sections, AHG 3.3 features:


Issa's Humanity and Humour: A Haibun Passage from His Travel Journal Oraga Haru

Everyone loves Issa's haiku for their immediacy and evidence of his seemingly simple humanity, yet we don't always pause long enough to study the context that might expand our appreciation. Ray Rasmussen, one of the four founders of A Hundred Gourds, returns as guest author of this issue's feature, an in-depth study of one of Issa's haibun passages. Ray demonstrates that the time taken to read and reflect more thoroughly brings great rewards.


Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 3.4 (the September 2014 issue) is June 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the December 2014 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.


Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds
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A Hundred Gourds 3:2 released

The tenth issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online for your reading pleasure. 

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

As well as our regular Haiku, Tanka, Renku, Haiga, Haibun and Expositions sections, AHG 3.2  features: 


In Memoriam – John E. Carley

John Carley, translator, creator of the zip form of haiku, renku master, author of 'the Little Book of Yotsumonos' and the forthcoming 'The Book of Renku', died on New Year's Eve after a four year battle with mesothelioma. We miss him dearly. As a renku sabaki, John was a superb composer, a generous teacher and an inspiration to so many. AHG renku editor, William Sorlien, provides a fitting retrospective of John's many contributions to haikai.


Haiku Guy: The Guy, the Books, and the Classroom

That haiku guy, David Lanoue, currently President of the HSA, is famous the world around for his dedication to translating Issa's haiku as well as for his novels about haiku and its community. AHG haiga editor, Aubrie Cox, allows readers further insight in her interview with David and also outlines how his novels have been incorporated into the teaching of haiku at college level and in high school years 7 – 12.



Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 3.3 (the June 2014 issue) is March 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the September 2014 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.


Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

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Dear All,

I am delighted to announce the publication of Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in English-Language Haiku.

This anthology, which has been five years in the making, is a landmark work in English-language haiku, with unprecedented scope and focus. Edited by Allan Burns, Where the River Goes details and celebrates the evolution of the nature tradition of haiku over an active period of fifty years. Featuring more than nine hundred haiku, the anthology highlights and explores the work of forty essential "voices," from pioneers such as James W. Hackett, Robert Spiess, and John Wills to major contemporary haiku poets who regularly write in a naturalistic mode.

The book is available now in a beautiful, 479 pp., hardback first edition.

Advance praise would suggest that the anthology will have very considerable appeal both within and beyond the haiku community. Tom Lynch hails it as an "outstanding volume", and Jeremy Mynott, the former head of Cambridge University Press, describes it as both "richly varied" and "ground-breaking". As well as being essential reading for anyone seriously interested in English-language haiku of any persuasion, the anthology makes an ideal seasonal gift for any haiku, poetry, or nature lover. As Ted Floyd, editor of Birding Magazine, has noted, "Anybody interested in nature and in nature writing will delight in this anthology."

Further details, including ordering options, are available on the website at http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/books/where_the_river_goes.htm

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The Haiku Calendar 2014, the fifteenth annual edition of this "attractive and useful" calendar, is also now available to order. Please see http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/calendars/the_haiku_calendar/2014.htm for further details.
The last ordering dates for delivery before Christmas are December 12 (overseas, for single orders), December 17 (for overseas orders of 3 or more items, which can be sent by courier), and December 20 (UK).

Postage on all our books is now free in the UK and S&H on books is discounted by 50% for overseas orders.

Submissions are also open for the forthcoming one-line haiku anthology and the 2015 calendar – I will send a mailing list announcement shortly detailing these.

With all best wishes,

John

John Barlow
Publisher, Snapshot Press
www.snapshotpress.co.uk 

A Hundred Gourds 3:1 is now online

The ninth issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now released. The issue marks the beginning of our third year of publishing.  Many thanks to our readers and contributors for making AHG the success that it continues to be. 

We wish you all the Joy of the Season and a Happy and Fruitful New Year.

http://ahundredgourds.com/ahg31/index31.html


Along with our regular Haiku, Tanka, Renku, Haiga, Haibun and Expositions sections, AHG 3.1 offers two Features:

In Memoriam – Laryalee Fraser, 1940 - 2013

It was with great sadness that we received the news that Lary passed away in October. A patient and encouraging mentor for many, Lary was modest about proclaiming her own achievements.  Susan Constable has compiled a collection of Lary's fine haiku and haiga in tribute to the unstinting service Lary gave to the online haiku community for many years.

Le Groupe Haïku de Montréal

In the heart of Montreal, Canada, Le Groupe Haïku de Montréal meets to support its members in the writing of haiku that differs from the kind of haiku typically written in France. Mike Montreuil gives some insight into the workings of the group and a bi-lingual sampler of haiku, haibun and tanka.


Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 3.2 (the March 2014 issue) is December 15th. AHG has an open submissions policy: any submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the June 2014 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.


Lorin Ford – Haiku Editor, Managing Editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds 2:4 is now online

The eighth issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online. The issue marks the end of our second year of publishing and we thank all of our contributors for making AHG the success that it continues to be. 

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

Haiku in Earth Language

Many thanks to Yoshiko McFarland for this issue's feature: 'Haiku in Earth Language'. Those of you not yet familiar with Yoshiko's work will be both charmed and intrigued. Yoshiko uses her skills in visual arts to supplement and enhance a whole new language of her own creation, a language with its roots in the ancient cultures which lived close to the natural world.

Invitation to Contribute to Expositions and Features

Mathew Paul has the Expositions well up and running in this issue with an essay by Hamish Ironside and several book reviews. He welcomes your essays/ articles and your commentaries on individual poems for the December issue. Please note that submissions to Expositions, like other submissions to AHG, are not to be simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Previously published work will be considered as long as full details of previous publication are included.

As well, we are interested to hear from writers who would like to contribute a feature for AHG, to be published in 2014. Please contact Lorin Ford, initially, with a brief outline of the proposed feature. All AHG feature proposals are subsequently presented to the Editorial Team Panel for approval. Our aim is to provide one feature per issue, and the field is open to all haikai-related subjects and topics.

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 3.1 (the December issue) is September 15th. This means that submissions intended for the December issue must be received by September 15th. We have an open submissions policy. Submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the March 2014 issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.

Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

The Book of Renku

John E. Carley has published a 'The Book of Renku' on the Renku Reckoner website, where you will find this message:

"Welcome to the temporary Renku Reckoner web site.

This site will shortly cease operation. The material previously hosted here has been superceded by The Book of Renku.

Private individuals are cordially invited to download a complete pdf of The Book of Renku free of charge for personal use. Please click the button below and save to an appropriate location. Please refer to the terms and conditions that preface the book."

http://www.renkureckoner.co.uk/

Free of charge to anyone interested in poetry.

John Carley's work on renku is indispensable.

- Lorin

A Hundred Gourds 2:3 is now online

The seventh issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online:

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

Two Features in this issue

Along with our regular Haiku, Haiga, Haibun, Renku, Tanka and Expositions sections, AHG 2.3 presents two features: 'Haiku In India', presented by Kala Ramesh and 'From There to Here: Conversations with John E. Carley', by AHG Renku Editor, William Sorlien.

Invitation to Contribute Features

Poets and Readers who would like to contribute a feature article for any of AHG's 2014 issues are invited to contact Lorin Ford, initially, with a brief outline of the proposed feature. All AHG feature proposals are subsequently presented to the Editorial Team for approval. Our aim is to provide one feature per issue, and the field is open to all haikai-related subjects and topics.

Expositions Section

Mathew Paul is AHG's new Expositions editor, and welcomes your submissions of essays/articles and commentaries on individual poems.

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 2.4 (the September issue) is June 15th. This means that submissions intended for the September issue must be received by June 15th. We have an open submissions policy. Submissions received after the deadline will be filed for consideration for the December issue. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.

Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team, A Hundred Gourds

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A Hundred Gourds 2:2 is now online


The sixth issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online:

http://www.ahundredgourds.com/

* Please note that AHG has a new url, as above. You may wish to replace the old url with the new one in your bookmarks.

Feature

Along with our regular haiku, haiga, haibun, renku and tanka sections, AHG 2.2 includes Susan Constable's feature on Kozue Uzawa, tanka poet and founder and editor of the Canadian tanka journal, GUSTS.

Expositions Section

To our regret, there is no Expositions section in AHG 2.2. We apologise to our readers for any inconvenience. If you have submitted work to the Expositions section, either for AHG 2.2 or for AHG 2.3, please contact Lorin Ford.

And now the good news: We are delighted to welcome Mathew Paul to the AHG team as the new Expositions Editor. Many of you will be familiar with Matthew's reviews in the UK haiku journal, Presence, and others will have recently enjoyed his selections of Workers' Haiku published in THF's per diem.

Due to the imminent deadline for submissions to AHG 2.3, we are not sure at this date whether Matthew's first AHG Expositions section will appear in the June or the September issue. We encourage you to send any book reviews, essays/articles or your commentaries on individual poems for the June AHG, by March 15th, in any case.

We'll publish Matthew's email address for submissions on the AHG website as soon as we can. In the meantime, please send any submissions for the Expositions section or enquiries to Lorin Ford at haikugourds@gmail.com , being sure to include 'AHG Expositions Section' in the title bar.

STOP PRESS

8) We now have Mathew's email address for submissions:  Matt Paul <expositionsgourds@gmail.com>

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 2.3 (the June issue) is March 15th. Please check our submissions page for details and editors' guidelines.

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Lorin Ford, Haiku Editor,
for the Editorial Team,
ahundredgourds

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A Hundred Gourds 2:1 is now online


The fifth issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

As well as haiku, haiga, haibun, renku, tanka and our Expositions section, AHG 2:1 includes a feature by Sandra Simpson on the Haiku Festival Aotearoa, 2012, which was held in Tauranga, New Zealand.

We begin our second year of publishing a wide range of haiku and related poetry with special thanks to Jim Sullivan, AHG's new webmaster, and to Ray Rasmussen, who was willing to teach Jim the mysteries of web work and will continue in his role of consultant.

Many thanks, too, to Ron Moss for his willingness to be the guest editor for this issue's haiga section. Aubrie Cox is now on team as haiga editor and welcomes your haiga submissions for the March issue onwards.

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 2:2 (the March 2013 issue) is December 15th.

Please check the AHG submissions page for all of the editors' guidelines and email addresses.

--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds
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A Hundred Gourds 1:4 is now online

The fourth issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

This issue marks the completion of our first full year of publishing a wide range of haiku and related poetry.

As well as haiku, haiga, haibun, renku, tanka and our Expositions section, AHG I:4 features a retrospective by Kathleen O'Toole on the haiku life of the celebrated American haiku poet, Nick Virgilio.

Haiga: Special News

A very special thanks to Melinda Hipple, an AHG co-founder, part of the webmaster team and haiga editor over the course of our inaugural year from Issue 1:1 through to the current issue 1:4. Our best wishes go with Mel for success in her university studies.

Ron Moss, AHG's resident artist, is Haiga Guest Editor for AHG 2:1, the December 2012 issue and will continue to receive haiga submissions for the December AHG until September 15th.

We welcome Aubrie Cox as the new editor for haiga. Aubrie will receive haiga submissions from September 16th – December 15th for AHG 2:2, March 2013. Please do not send submissions to Aubrie until after submissions for AHG 2:1 have closed.

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 2:1(the December issue) is September 15th.

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Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds

Ron Moss Guest Haiga Editor for issue 2:1, Dec 2012 - Submissions open until September 15th.


A special thanks to Melinda Hipple, who has been AHG's haiga editor for the past year, from Issue 1:1 through to the forthcoming issue, 1:4. Melinda now needs time to pursue her long-deferred, full time university studies. We congratulate her and wish her all the best.


Ron Moss, AHG's resident artist, has generously agreed to be Guest Editor for Haiga for AHG 2:1. the December 2012 issue. Ron has previously served as a Haiga Guest Editor for Simply Haiku, in 2008. Ron welcomes your haiga submissions for the December issue, which will mark the beginning of our second year of publishing A Hundred Gourds.


Please see the AHG submission page for Haiga submission details.


A Hundred Gourds - a quarterly journal featuring haiku, tanka, renku, haiga, and haibun

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Lorin Ford, Haiku Editor
for the Management Team
A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds 1:3 is now online


The third issue of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga, tanka and renku poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

In this issue we commemorate the life of Hortensia Anderson, who passed away on the 21st of May, with a haibun written by Shelia Windsor. Hortensia, as she was known as a haiku writer, will be sadly missed by all who knew her and had the benefit of reading her beautiful haiku.

Our feature for this issue is Visual Innovation in Renku Poetry, introduced by Renku Editor, William Sorlien and featuring a renku by Bea Bereis, Simone Busch, Ramona Linke.

As well as our usual haiku, renku, haibun, haiga and tanka sections you will find an interview with Jane Reichhold, essays by Beth Vieira and Jack Galmitz, a commentary on a poem by Jim Sullivan and two book reviews. Enjoy reading!

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the September edition.

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 1:4 is June 15th.

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Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds
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Darlington Richards are pleased to announce the launch of the Little Book of Yotsumonos.

Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy



John Carley's recently-designed four-verse renku format is represented by 60 poems, wherein Carley collaborates with such well-known haikai poets as Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole MacRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor, together with an introduction to the form.

"I have always been impressed by John Carley's knowledge of Japanese linked verse... It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root." —Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).

"the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original... I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves." —Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.

Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy


Norman & Moira
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com

Coming soon from Darlington Richards Press!

The Little Book of Yotsumonos
by John E. Carley with six other poets

Carley is well known for his ground-breaking and ongoing work in the practice and understanding of renga/renku outside of Japan. He has made valuable and topical contributions to current and previous issues of Journal of Renga & Renku as well as to various internet journals, and his Renku Reckoner website is a well-thumbed resource for poets working in the genre.

Darlington Richards Press
http://www.darlingtonrichards.com

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John E. Carley's partners-in-poems in The Little Book of Yotsomunos are Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole McRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor.

I believe this book will be valuable to anyone interested in contemporary haiku & related poems.

- Lorin

A Hundred Gourds 1:2 is now online

Issue 1:2 of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga tanka and renku poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

In this issue Ray Rasmussen introduces a feature on 'The Graphic Haibun of Linda Papanicolaou'. You'll find AHG's first renku section, as well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun, an essay on the 'New Junicho' renku, an interview with Peter Yovu and reviews of three haiku books.

In response to suggestions from our readers and for your ease in locating haiku, tanka and renku poems by author's name, AHG has now established an index of poets for these sections. This index has also been applied retrospectively to the AHG 1:1 haiku section.

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the June Edition, Issue 1:3.

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 1:3 is March 15th.

--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds

A Hundred Gourds 1:1 is now online

The first issue of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga and tanka poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

The Editorial Team of A Hundred Gourds extends warmest thanks to everyone who submitted their work for consideration for this, our inaugural issue. Thanks to your enthusiastic welcome, it's a bumper edition.

As well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun you'll find essays, interviews and a review in the Expositions section. There is also a memorial Feature dedicated to the late Janice M. Bostok, Australia's haiku pioneer.

Please join us in welcoming three new editors to the AHG team:

•   William Sorlien, of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, is Renku Editor, already organising A Hundred Gourds' first renku section, which will be published in AHG 1:2.

•   Susan Constable, of Vancouver Island, Canada, is the new Tanka Editor. Susan's first tanka section will be published in AHG 1:2.

•   Mike Montreuil, of Ontario, Canada, is the new Haibun Editor. Mike's first haibun section will be published in AHG 1:3.

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the New Years' editions.

•   Special notice for tanka & renku submissions to AHG 1:2 & 1:3

The submission period for tanka and renku only has been extended for the March issue, AHG 1:2. Submissions of tanka and renku received up to the 31st December will be considered for AHG 1:2. Tanka and renku submissions received between January 1st and March 15th will be considered for AHG 1:3. Please read the submissions guidelines page on the AHG website for further details.

The deadline for haiku, haibun, haiga and for the Expositions section of AHG 1:2 remains at December the 15th.

--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds

Dear Readers and Contributors,

The inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds will be a big issue. We are on track for the publication date of December 1st.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work for A Hundred Gourds, 1:1.

As well as haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga, the December issue will contain a retrospective feature on Janice M. Bostok's haiku life, essays by John Carley, Jack Galmitz and Chen-ou Liu and interviews with two haiku poets whose names we're keeping as a surprise.

Submissions for A Hundred Gourds 1:2, the March issue, will remain open until the deadline of December 15th.

We welcome your submissions for AHG issue 1:2 any time up to and including December 15th. After that date, all submissions received will be held over for consideration for the June issue , A Hundred Gourds 1:3.

Further details about submissions to all of the editors are on the A Hundred Gourds temporary webpage, here:

http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/


On December 1st, this same url will take you to the inaugural issue and the temporary webpage will be abandoned.


Lorin Ford, haiku editor
A Hundred Gourds
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