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I just sent in 10 each of one-line, hokku, and modern, and a best of. I don't think I have enough in the 5-7-5 format to submit traditional. :)

An unusual, and presumably not likely to recur, opportunity: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/28/opinion/la-oe-poetry-20130728

Good stuff, Alan!  I had intended to submit for it but just missed the window.  Blast!  Next time... :)

Thanks, Sandra. :)

I think it's a PHP error.  (Both his personal and the Crysanthemum site are PHP-based, and neither work, but the overall domain is an HTML file and that loads fine.  I might send him an e-mail just to make sure he's aware of it.)

Thanks for the links, Alan!  I'll share them with her.

Does anybody know if Crysanthemum has moved websites, or if it's closed down?  I'm unable to open up either their English or German version.  (Or, for that matter, the host's personal site...)

I was going to show the site to a German friend of mine the other day, and couldn't.

I like the website.  Very slick.

I received a nicely-worded form rejection from Terri today on a batch of senryu I sent in about a week and a half ago, so she seems to have gotten the magazine firmly back on track.  :)

Good to know, Alan.  Thanks for sharing. :)

Coming a bit late to this, but there's some fantastic stuff in there, Don!  I especially love your use of street art for the image part of the pieces. :)

NASA has an open call for haiku to send to Mars aboard the MAVEN spacecraft.

http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/send-your-name/

Deadline is July 1st, at which point people get to vote on the submitted haiku.  (Which makes this harder, as you will have to appeal to the average member of the public, as well as those seasoned in haiku.)

The three haikuists with the most votes will be asked to write haiku especially for the occasion, and all haiku will be sent to Mars on a DVD on the spacecraft.  I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they'll be sticking to the 5/7/5 count pretty strictly, too.

The top three entries will also be featured prominently on the website.

A bit out of left field, but cool idea!

A bit of thread revivification going on, but there's interesting stuff in here!

QuoteI think haiku has unique properties that set it apart from other literature.  Part of it for me has to do with the brevity of the form.  With few words to go on, the mind searches among them for meaning.  This allows haiku to slip beyond words to reach parts of us that are more primitive or preconscious and goes into places more conventional poetry and literature may be unable to access.

A lot of great poetry and literature, I think, does this as well.  (Although there are certainly aspects to haiku that aren't in a lot of other forms of poetry, the same is just as true for those other forms.)

Quote from: Lorin on December 09, 2010, 04:44:21 PM
Poetry -
but what is poetry.
Many shaky answers
have been given to this question.
But I don't know and don't know and hold on to it
like to a sustaining railing.


from 'Some like Poetry' - Wislawa Szymborska
- translated by Regina Grol

I love this.  Thank you for sharing, Lorin.

As for "is haiku poetry?" I believe it is.  It fits a lot of the formal definitions, and more importantly for me, tends towards poetic functions and diction rather than those used in regular speech like prose or other forms of communication. 

It's certainly a specific type of poetry, but I think it does a bit of a disservice to good poetry of all forms to say that haiku is necessarily better.  (So as for "is haiku JUST poetry?" my answer is: "Well, no.  But poetry isn't JUST poetry, either.")

Sounds great!  If I still lived in South Carolina, I'd go for sure.  Bit too long a drive from Southern California, though...  :D

I think the best you can do in the US is pick somewhere near a major airport, so that the fares to attend might be marginally more affordable.  (My own location close to LAX clearly has no bearing on these considerations...  ;) )

Alternately, somewhere that it's cheap to get around and stay in, so the savings are on that side instead.

Commencing space-watching.

Quote from: Alan Summers on March 19, 2013, 04:32:27 PM

I'd love to do some workshops and readings in the USA, although as I know from previous experience it's a big place. :-)

Alan

Just slightly.  :D

Posting this here (I am in no way affiliated with NPR) after seeing it on Facebook.  It would be interesting to see mostly haikuists take part instead of those who think they know what a haiku is from learning it in grade school...

QuoteWith the spring cherry blossoms currently in bloom, we're asking for you to submit original haiku to be featured in a collaborative cherry blossom video project! Please keep it to the traditional 17 syllable (5-7-5 format) on the theme of cherry blossoms.

Please post your haiku in a comment or use the hashtag #nprhaiku on Twitter. Submissions will be accepted through Friday, March 22.

Link to Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/NPR