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Title
Understanding the Larger Pond: Raising Awareness and Spreading Haiku Literacy
Subject
Haiku--appreciation
Description
In preparation for a presentation given at Haiku North America 2015 at Union College, Deborah Kolodji sent out questionnaires about haiku to the poetry editors of the top mainstream literary journals with the following questions:
1. Are you open to submissions of haiku or haibun or other related forms?
2. What would you expect a haiku to be, and would you consider a haiku that isn’t 5-7-5 syllables?
3. How often do you receive haiku submissions, and how would you rank them as far as quality? (i.e., 1 is very bad, 10 is very good).
4. Have you ever published haiku?
5. Do you ever receive haibun submissions and have you ever published them?
6. What percentage of your submissions come from slush?
This essay discusses the responses and suggests various ways haiku poets might help raise haiku awareness and literacy among mainstream journals, their editors and readers.
1. Are you open to submissions of haiku or haibun or other related forms?
2. What would you expect a haiku to be, and would you consider a haiku that isn’t 5-7-5 syllables?
3. How often do you receive haiku submissions, and how would you rank them as far as quality? (i.e., 1 is very bad, 10 is very good).
4. Have you ever published haiku?
5. Do you ever receive haibun submissions and have you ever published them?
6. What percentage of your submissions come from slush?
This essay discusses the responses and suggests various ways haiku poets might help raise haiku awareness and literacy among mainstream journals, their editors and readers.
Creator
Kolodji, Deborah
Source
Frogpond 39: 1. -p. 65-75
Publisher
Frogpond Haiku Journal
First presented at Haiku North America 2015 at Union College
First presented at Haiku North America 2015 at Union College
Date
2015
Rights
All rights reserved. This essay is republished here with the kind permission of the author.
Format
pdf
Language
eng
Type
article