2008 Member News & Announcements
05-06-08 "Stanford M. Forrester" <bottlerockets_99@yahoo.com>
Bottle Rockets Press is happy to announce Gatherings: a haiku anthology of amusement parks, carnivals, country fairs, and more. This is a glossy, perfect bound paperback that features 51 poets from around the globe. 75 pages. Please contact Stanford M. Forrester at bottlerockets_99@yahoo.com about discounts on multiple copies. Mail payments to: Stanford M. Forrester, PO Box 189, Windsor, CT 06095, USA. Checks should be made payable to Stanford M. Forrester? in US dollars. USA $14.00 and $4.00 (media mail & bubble wrap envelope) = $18.00. Canada or Mexico $14.00 and $5.00 (air mail & bubble wrap envelope) = $19.00. Europe, Asia, & anywhere else $14.00 and $6.00 (air mail & bubble wrap envelope) = $20.00.
05-01-08 "Stephen Gill" <heelstone@gmail.com>
Stephen Gill announces the publication of a new Hailstone Haiku Circle site ICEBOX located at:
http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com
04-15-08 "Tony A. Thompson" <wisteriajournal@gmail.com>
True Vine Press announces that after extensive planning, they've launched a new project dedicated to publishing haiku, senryu, and tanka. The projects will include anthologies and chapbooks. Of course, they will continue to publish Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka. Please see their website and read the guidelines for their first call for submissions. And please help spread the word, they want this first chapbook to be memorable to the winner and us.
http://truevinepress.blogspot.com
From the Publisher & Editor of Wisteria, Tony A. Thompson
03-23-08 <drusso1@mindspring.com>
Dave Russo sent links to photos from the March HSA Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, available at:
http://nc-haiku.blogspot.com/2008/03/photos-from-hsa-meeting-in-fort-worth.html
He also sent a link for news about the Haiku Society of America Meeting in North Carolina this December:
http://nc-haiku.blogspot.com/2008/03/haiku-society-of-america-meeting-in-nc.html
03-12-08 <pastormark@wefollowjesusingustine.org>
Mark Hollingsworth announced the release of a new web site for the Central Valley Haiku Club in California located at: http://www.valleyhaiku.org/
03-08-08 <brooksbooks@sbcglobal.net>
Brooks Books announces the publication of Sky In My Teacup, an online collection of haiku & photographs by Anne LB Davidson. This collection comes from years of craft with the art of haiku and a lifelong interest in photography. With haunting photographs of New York City before 9-11, and beautiful nature scapes, this collection invites you to build your own connections around each haiku and to imaginatively enter the space of each photograph. Avoiding temptations to illustrate haiku with photographs and refusing to reduce the haiku to commentary on the photographs, Anne LB Davidson invites you to find the sky in your teacup.
This online collection available for free viewing at: <http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/davidson/>
02-05-08 <brockpeoples@riverbedhaiku.com>
Riverbed Haiku Journal will begin publishing quarterly online editions in Spring, 2008. At this time, Riverbed Haiku is also offering a print annual (to be published in December) that will celebrate the best work of that year.
Publication dates and deadlines:
Spring 2008, submit by March 15
Summer 2008, submit by May 15
Fall 2008, submit by August 15
Winter 2008, submit by October 15
Subscription rates are: $30 US bulk, $35 US first class, $40 international. Submissions and subscriptions should be directed to Managing Editor Brock Peoples. More information, our subscription form, and future editions can be found at our website: http://www.riverbedhaiku.com"
02-01-08 <WelchM@aol.com>
The advisory board for the American Haiku Archives (AHA) is pleased to announce the launch of its new Web site at http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org. The archives, founded in 1996, is the largest public archives of haiku and related poetry outside of Japan, and is the official home of the Haiku Society of America archives. Many individual donors have also contributed thousands of books and papers to the collection, which welcomes ongoing contributions from around the world, especially of new publications and personal papers relating to haiku. The new Web site features poems and biographical material about the current honorary curator, H. F. Noyes, and selected past curators. It also presents extensive information about the archives, its location and history, how to use it, how to make donations, and much more. Please visit the site to learn more about the American Haiku Archives and its mission.
2007 Member News & Announcements
12-05-07 <shortpoems@gmail.com>
The Unworn Necklace, Roberta Beary's debut collection of haiku and senryu published by Snapshot Press in August 2007, and launched with a reading at the Haiku North America 2007 conference in North Carolina, is already into its second print run. The deeply felt, resonant poems in The Unworn Necklace challenge the accepted boundaries of haiku being intrinsically 'nature' poems and senryu as only involving 'human' content. The collection, first place winner of the 2006 Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition, has drawn universal praise from leading figures in the worldwide haiku community. Retailing at $14, The Unworn Necklace is available from www.amazon.com and www.snapshotpress.co.uk.
08-18-07 <haiku@seinan-jo.com>
HSA members are welcome to participate in an international haiku workshop and contest with an "Autumn Trees" theme. Frogpond Readers are invited to enter up to 3 poems by sending postcards marked "Seinan Jo Haiku Contest" to the International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun at 5-3-2 Tsukiji Chuo-ku Tokyo, Japan 104-8011.
Email can be sent to <is@asahi.com> The deadline is Sept. 26. Nine winners will be announced by David McMurray during his lecture on "Poems for Mother Earth" to be given Oct. 14 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the International Village Center in Kita-Kyushu. For more information write <haiku@seinan-jo.com>. Or, you can find a poster and lots more information about the workshop and contest at:
http://seinan-jo.com/haiku
http://www.seinan-jo.com/haiku/id110.html
www.asahi.com/english/haiku/
We look forward to hearing from you, and best of luck in the contest.
David McMurray
Asahi Haikuist Network
International Herald Tribune Asahi Shimbun
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/
Update on Haiku North America 2007 "100 Bridges" August 15-19, 2007
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Highlights of the Program in Progress:
An Evening with Sonia Sanchez (Thursday)
African Americans Writing Haiku (Friday night).
Across The Pond: Transatlantic Haiku (Saturday night).
Baseball Haiku (schedule pending).
Haiku North America 2007 Book Fair update: http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/hna_2007_bookfair.html
For more details, please see the HNA 2007 section of the HNA Web site:
http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/hna_2007.html
05-16-07
<Dashiell@UrbanEchoes.net>
2007 Silken Verse Awards
Durham, NC - Urban Echoes Entertainment is pleased to announce the first annual Silken Verse Awards! The writing competition will recognize quality poetic works fashioned in the time-honored literary tradition of haiku, senryu, and tanka verse.
Award Amounts
Haiku 1st Prize: $200, 2nd Prize: $100, 3rd Prize: $50
Senryu: 1st Prize: $200
Tanka: 1st Prize: $200
Eligibility open to writers worldwide. Submissions must be unpublished and not under promise of publication when submitted; may be simultaneously submitted elsewhere, but please notify if accepted. There is no limit to the number of submissions allowed. Include cover letter with name, address, phone number, and email address (if applicable). Poems must be titled and typed or handwritten (legibly) on 3x5 or 4x6 index cards, one poem/card. Entry fee is $1 per poem. Include SASE of sufficient size and postage for return of materials. Postmark deadline for submissions is Friday, August 17, 2007.
Submissions containing racist language, pejorative content,
and/or hate speech will not be considered.
Winners will be announced in October via nationwide press release, in Poets & Writers Magazine, on Urban Echoes's website, and in Urban Echoes's quarterly newsletter. All winners will be published on website and in quarterly newsletter, and all submitting authors will also be considered for future publication by Urban Echoes.
For more info, please visit www.UrbanEchoes.net or contact Info@UrbanEchoes.net or (919) 596-9519.
Contact: Dashiell Thompson, Publicist
<Dashiell@UrbanEchoes.net>
Urban Echoes Entertainment, LLC
P.O. Box 61494
Durham, NC 27715
(919) 596-9519
04-26-07
<max@verhart.org>
Dear haiku friends,
An hour ago I received the sad news that two days ago Wim Lofvers died. I knew he was ill and the end was inevitable, but still such news comes hard.Wim has made important contributions to haiku, nationally in the Netherlands as well as internationally, as a poet, as president of the Haiku Kring Nederland and as a publisher. Many of you have known him in one or more of these capacities. For seven years his biannual journal Woodpecker was one of the most important platforms for haiku poets from all over the world to show their work. Wim's small but ever so delicate series of Radish haiku books were highly appreciated. Wim was a kind man with a deep love for haiku. A funeral service will be held next Saturday, April 28th. Should you want to send your condolences to the family, the adress is:
Rijsterdijk 25 / 8574 VW Bakhuizen / Nethrlands.
Best wishes
Max verhart
See the HSA obituary for Wim Lofvers.
02-13-2007 <carrieannmarie@reachone.com>
CarrieAnn Thunell announces the publication of a new mini-chapbook haiku collection by H.F. Noyes, Stanford M. Forrester, vince tripi, and CarrieAnn Thunell. Titled Earth-Grandmother of the Buddhas, it is 4" by 5.5" and 40 pages, printed on recycled paper. Available for $6.00 in the US, or $8.00 overseas. Send cash or check to CarrieAnn Thunell, PO Box 6131 Olympia, WA 98507- 6131
CarrieAnn Thunell also announces that her haiku chapbook, Blue Gay Currents, is still available through Shadows Ink Publications for $6.95 plus shipping. Mail orders to Shadow Poetry, 1209 Milwaukee Street, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024 |
