TANKA NEWS & HAIKU HEADLINES

Atlas Poetica #5 published by Keibooks

2010-03-17T19:05:00Z

PRESS RELEASE – Please share with all appropriate venues

ATLAS POETICA 5 : A JOURNAL OF POETRY OF PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY TANKA PUBLISHED – NEW WEBSITE UNVEILED – SPECIAL FEATURES COMING SOON

15 March 2010 – Perryville, Maryland, USA

Keibooks is pleased to announce the publication of Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Contemporary Tanka, issue 5 (Spring, 2010) and the unveiling of its new website, AtlasPoetica.org. Atlas Poetica, edited by M. Kei, is published in print and digital formats, both available through the new website, . ATPO contains 72 pages of poetic content in a large, 8.5 x 11 inch format to accommodate individual tanka, tanka prose, tanka sequences, book reviews, articles, and international resources. Print ISSN is 1939-6465 and the digital ISSN is 1945-8908.

ATPO is the only tanka journal devoted exclusively to tanka poetry of place. It brings multiple language offerings from poets around the world together in each issue. It is also the only tanka journal that devotes itself to tanka literature in all its forms, including individual tanka, tanka sequences, tanka prose, shaped tanka, book reviews, articles, and international resources. ATPO seeks to publish all forms of tanka tradition and innovation from well-known and emerging poets and authors around the world. For full submission information, please visit the new website at: http://AtlasPoetica.org.

The Atlas Poetica website has been updated to facilitate the reading and buying of the journal and providing submission information for authors and poets, and also includes a Special Features section. This free to read section will showcase tanka from different communities around the world. The upcoming Special Features are ‘25 Romanian Tanka Poets, One Poem Each’ in English and Romanian edited by Magdalena Dale and Vasile Moldovan and ‘25 Canadian Tanka Poets in English and French’ edited by Aurora Antonovic. To receive announcements about the Special Features, readers should subscribe to Keibooks-Announce (at) googlegroups (dot) com.

ATPO is in the process of revamping its support for multiple languages on the website and updating its list of international resources. In addition, ATPO 7 will be a special issue dedicated to tanka in translation, information, and resources from around the world. Volunteer translators who would like to assist with the effort should contact Editor (at) AtlasPoetica (dot) org. Individuals and organizations who would like to be listed or to update their listing with ATPO should do contact the same address. Book notes of up to 200 words in any language will be published on a space available basis.

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Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka is published by Keibooks (USA).

Keibooks
M. Kei, editor
P O Box 1118
Elkton, MD, 21922-1118
Keibooks (at) gmail (dot) com

Atlas Poetica web site: http://AtlasPoetica.org
Purchase Atlas Poetica at: http://Lulu.com/Keibooks

The Time of This World, translated by Amelia Fielden & Saeko Ogi

2010-03-17T18:43:00Z

DATE: March 16 , 2010 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release

The Time of This World: 100 tanka from 13 collections by Kawano Yuko, translated by Amelia Fielden & Saeko Ogi, Published by MET Press

The Time of This World contains translations by Amelia Fielden and Saeko Ogi of 100 tanka selected from 13 of Kawano Yuko’s major collections, ranging from the passionate love lyrics of her earliest book Like a Forest, Like a Wild Beast, to the thoughts of a young mother living temporarily in the USA; from the mature reflections of My Tanka Diary, to The Maternal Line, where she is confronting the death of her mother, and the resurgence of her own cancer.

Baltimore, Maryland – March 16, 2010 – The Time of This World: 100 tanka from 13 collections by Kawano Yuko, selected by Oshima Shiyo, translated by Amelia Fielden & Saeko Ogi, has been published as a trade paperback by MET Press of Baltimore, Maryland.

Kawano Yuko, highly-acclaimed professional writer and teacher, is married to the scientist and poet Dr Nagata Kazuhiro; they have a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren. Living in Kyoto, the traditional culture capital of Japan, Kawano and Nagata lead the prestigious Tower association of contemporary tanka writers, and publish its monthly journal of the same name. Kawano Yuko stands in the forefront of Japanese post-war women tanka poets. An intensely personal writer who always enlivens her poetry with events from her own life, Kawano has had a long and distinguished career spanning 40 years. She has published books of essays & criticism. During her many years as a high-profile professional poet, Kawano has taught tanka composition at community colleges and on television, lectured all over Japan, and served as a judge for many tanka contests. The Time of This World contains translations by Amelia Fielden and Saeko Ogi of 100 tanka selected by well-known poet and critic, Oshima Shiyo, from 13 of Kawano’s major collections, ranging from the passionate love lyrics of her earliest book Like a Forest, Like a Wild Beast, to the thoughts of a young mother living temporarily in the USA; from the mature reflections of My Tanka Diary, to The Maternal Line, where she is confronting the death of her mother, and the resurgence of her own cancer, first diagnosed in 2000.

About the Translators:

Amelia Fielden is an Australian professional translator, now specializing in modern Japanese tanka, who is also noted for her original English tanka poetry. Together with Saeko Ogi, Amelia first published translations of Kawano Yuko’s work in the joint collection Fountains Play and Time Passes in 2002. This was followed in 2004 by Vital Forces (co-translator Yuhki Aya), the anthology As Things Are (co-translator Uzawa Kozue) in 2005, and a complete, annotated, translation of Kawano’s My Tanka Diary, which gained Amelia a Master of Arts’ degree from the University of Newcastle. In 2004 Amelia was designated, by her, as Kawano Yuko’s official translator. Amelia’s fourteen previous translation publications also include collections by women poets Kawamura Hatsue (2002) Kuriki Kyoko (2005), Kitakubo Mariko (2006 & 2008), and Tanaka Noriko (2008 & 2010). In 2006 Amelia and co-translator Uzawa Kozue were awarded the Donald Keene Prize for Translation of Japanese Literature, by Columbia University, New York, for the anthology Ferris Wheel:101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka. Kaleidoscope, selected tanka by famous male poet and playwrite Terayama Shuji, translated also by Amelia and Kozue was published in Tokyo in 2008 to critical acclaim. Five collections of Amelia’s own tanka poetry have been published, the most recent being Baubles, Bangles & Beads (2007). A book of responsive tanka, In Two Minds, written with Australian poet Kathy Kituai, appeared in 2008.

Saeko Ogi, born in Tokyo, has lived in Canberra since 1972. She is a member of the Neiraku Tanka Society of Nara and also a member of the Araragi-ha Tanka Society of Tsu in Japan. She has been co-translator with Amelia for Kawano Yuko’s and Tanaka Noriko’s work.

For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the translators, contact Amelia Fielden by e-mail at anafielden@hotmail.com. Publisher information at: www.themetpress.com

This book is available from www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka. Information is available online at www.themetpress.com Price: $9.95 USD. ISBN 978-1-935398-15-8. Trade paperback. 44 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink.

About MET Press:

MET Press (Modern English Tanka Press) is an independent publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to producing work of lasting literary value, especially poetry. A family business, we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family. We use modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. Our special mission is to promote the tanka form of poetry and to educate newcomers about this most ancient poetic form.

Contact: Denis M. Garrison, owner
MET Press / Modern English Tanka Press
443-559-2776 Email to dmg@themetpress.com www.themetpress.com

Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Two - Short List

2010-03-16T19:20:00Z

Please forward to all interested persons and venues.

Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Two, is nearing completion. The editorial team consisting of M. Kei, editor-in-chief (USA), Sanford Goldstein (JP), Patricia Prime (NZ), Kala Ramesh (India), Alexis Rotella (USA), Angela Leuck (CAN), and Collin Barber (USA), read all tanka published in English during 2009, totaling approximately sixteen thousand poems in more than a hundred and forty venues. They selected about 300 of the best individual tanka, tanka sequences and tanka prose for inclusion the anthology. They congratulate the many fine poets in the rapidly growing field of contemporary tanka in English for their achievements.

A Thiagarajan

A. A. Marcoff

Adelaide B. Shaw

ai li

Alan Spring

Alex von Vaupel

Alexis Rotella

Amelia Fielden

an xiao

Ana-Maria DiVera

an'ya

André Surridge

Andrew Cook-Jolicoeur

Andrew Riutta

Angela Leuck

Anna Holley

Anne E. Michael

Annette Mineo

Audrey Olberg

Aurora Antonovic

Aya Yuhki

Barbara Strang

Becky DeVito

Bell Gale Chevigny

Belinda Broughton

Beverley George

Bob Lucky

C. W. Hawes

C. William Hinderliter

Carol Raisfeld

Carole MacRury

Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti

Carolyn Thomas

Cathy Drinkwater Better

Chad Lee Robinson

Chen-ou Liu

Cherie Hunter Day

Claudia Coutu-Radmore

Colin Stewart Jones

Collin Barber

Cor van den Heuvel

Curtis Dunlap

Cynthia Rowe

Dave Bacharach

Dave Bachelor

David Bingham

David Lee Kirkland

David Rice

David Terelinck

Dawn Bruce

Deborah P. Kolodji

Dee Evetts

Denis M. Garrison,

Don Miller

Dorothy McLaughlin

Elaine Riddell

Ferris Gilli

Francis Masat

Gautam Nadkarni

Geert Verbeke

George Swede

H. Gene Murtha

J. Andrew Lockhart

Jade Pandora

James Tipton

Jane Reichhold

Janet Lynn Davis

Jared Carter

Jean LeBlanc

Jeanne Emrich

Jeffrey Woodward

Jennifer Nelson Heinmiller

Jo McInerney

Joanne Morcom

John Martell

John Quinnett

Joyce Sandeen Johnson

June Moreau

Kala Ramesh

Karen Cesar

Kathy Kituai

Kathy Lippard Cobb

Kirsty Karkow

Kisaburo Konoshima

David Callner

Kris Lindbeck

Kristin Reynolds

Kozue Uzawa

Larry Kimmel

Laurence Stacey

Laurie W. Stoelting

Lenard D. Moore

LeRoy Gorman

Liam Wilkinson

Linda Galloway

Linda Jeannette Ward

Lois Harvey

Lorelei Jolie Polden

M. Kei

M. L. Harvey

Magdalena Dale

Margaret Chula

Maragaret Grace

Margarita Engle

Maria Steyn

Marilyn Hazelton

Marilyn Potter

Marian Morgan

Mark Rutter

Mary Mageau

Max Ryan

Megan Arkenberg

Melissa Dixon

Michael Ketchek

Michael McClintock

Miriam Sagan

Murial Ford

Natalia L. Rudychev

Owen Bullock

Pamela A. Babusci,

Pamela Cooper

Pamela Miller Ness

Patricia Prime

Patrick M. Pilarski

Paul O. Williams

Paul Smith

Peggy Heinrich

Philip Miller,

Philomene Kocher

R. K. Singh

Randy Brooks

Raquel D. Bailey

Reiko Nakagawa

William I. Elliott

robert d. wilson

Robert Kusch

Roberta Beary

Roger Jones

Ruth Holzer

Sanford Goldstein

Sean Greenlaw

stanley pelter

Susan Marie La Vallee

Terry Ann Carter

Tess Driver

Thelma Mariano

Tom Clausen

Vasile Moldovan

William Hart

While being short-listed does not guarantee inclusion in the final version of the anthology, the finalists will be drawn from the Short List.

All poets have been notified of their short list status and provided with an opportunity to grant permission and make any necessary corrections. If a poet appearing on this list has not received their notification, they should check their spam filters and make certain they are set to allow communications from Take5Tanka@gmail.com and Keibooks-Announce@googlegroups.com. If they still cannot find their notification, they should contact the editor-in-chief atTake5Tanka@gmail.com with valid contact information so that their notifications can be resent.

Poems cannot be published without receiving the poet's explicit permission. Poets who do not respond, or who cannot be contacted by the editor-in-chief, will have their work omitted from the final version of Take Five, Volume Two.

Take Five, Volume Two, is scheduled to appear in print in April of 2010. It can be purchased from Lulu.com or other booksellers.

Meanwhile, the editorial team for Take Five, Volume Three, is already at work. Further information about Tak5 Vol 3 will be forthcoming at a later date.

Congratulations to all the fine poets!

~K~

M. Kei, Editor-in-chief, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka

Editor, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka

MET Press website - a new look & changed purchasing

2010-03-16T05:26:00Z

The main website of Modern English Tanka Press / MET Press, at www.themetpress.com , has been given a whole new look, with larger cover graphics for our books and journals, and with a changed purchasing method. MET Press is no longer directly retailing its titles.

The new buttons on the bookstore pages all lead to our Lulu.com retail website. The "DETAILS" buttons link to each title's product page, each of which has a buy button. There are also "BUY THIS BOOK AT LULU.COM" buttons which add titles directly to your own Lulu.com shopping cart. Finally, there are large "GO TO METP'S LULU.COM BOOKSTORE" buttons which link to our overall bookstore page at http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka which is perhaps the simplest way to shop for MET Press books.

Conducting a retail operation has been unduly labor-intensive and that was strangling the growth of our titles list. Since it has always been the case that book and journal orders entered on themetpress.com website were actually fulfilled by our printing and retail vendor, Lulu.com, this change in process should not affect most customers. In fact, since we were forced to apply flat rates for S&H, customers may realize lower costs shopping directly on Lulu.com.

We are glad to get back to our original business -- publishing. I hope everyone finds the new arrangements work well for them.

best wishes,
Denis M. Garrison
www.themetpress.com
dmg@themetpress.com

New publishing arrangements available at MET Press

2010-03-13T04:04:00Z

MET Press stopped accepting new equity authors in April 2009 because of limitations on our ability to properly serve our equity partners. The equity arrangement includes management and disbursement of royalties, tax reporting on royalties, and other labor-intensive activities. In fairness to those fine authors now publishing with MET Press under these arrangements, we had to stop taking on new authors.

We have really regretted having to say "No" to some wonderful authors and friends seeking publication over this last year.

Now, MET Press has opened up opportunities for publishing with two new arrangements: a purchase option and an author-sales option. The publisher will not be handling royalties for authors under these new arrangements. To read about these new options, please visit our Publish webpage at http://www.themetpress.com/equitypublish/index.html

best wishes.
Denis Garrison
MET Press
www.themetpress.com
dmg@themetpress.com

Publication of Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose Comes to an End

2010-03-08T20:13:00Z

March 8, 2010—PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release

Publication of Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose Comes to an End

Detroit, Michigan – March 8, 2010 – Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose is closing its doors now to further publication. We are gratified by the positive response of critics and readers but, unfortunately, neither the volume of sales nor written contributions is sufficient to support its continuation. Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose 2, published in December 2009, will therefore be the final issue. All issue 3 submissions will be returned with thanks to the submitters.

Back issues of Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose will continue to be available for sale on the MET Press website bookstore and on its Lulu.com bookstore.

Jeffrey Woodward

Editor, Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose

Haibun Today (March 2010) is now online.

2010-02-28T22:45:00Z

ANNOUNCEMENT: Haibun Today (March 2010) is now online.

The premiere quarterly issue of Haibun Today is now online for your reading pleasure at http://haibuntoday.com

Writers are hereby invited to submit haibun for consideration in the June 2010 issue of Haibun Today. Consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com

Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest

2010-02-15T03:18:00Z

Greetings--

I'd like to invite you to participate in this year's Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest.

You may send as many haiku or senryu as you like at $2 each: type or neatly print your submissions (you may put them all on a single sheet of paper if you wish). If you send senryu, please mark them as such. Be sure to include your email address and/or an SASE so that we can notify you of the results!

Our first prize is $250; second $100; third $50; senryu $50. We also offer an Elizabeth Searle Lamb award of $50.

Please send all entries to:

Kaji Aso Studio

40 Saint Stephen Street

Boston, MA 02115

USA

If you'd like to see the winning entries of recent years past, please click here.

All entries must be mailed by APRIL 15, 2010. All rights revert to the authors after June, 2010 when the winners will be announced.

The Kaji Aso Studio is a center for the arts in Boston founded by Japanese painter, poet, and musician Kaji Aso to promote a positive, nature-centered philosophy and practice of art. We have held classes and hosted hundreds of exhibitions, concerts, and readings reading for over thirty years. The Studio is also the home of the Boston Haiku Society, which meets here every third Saturday of the month. If you live in or near Boston or are in town, please join us!

John Ziemba

Katikati Haiku Contest 2010

2010-02-06T10:47:00Z

KATIKATI HAIKU CONTEST 2010

An open theme haiku contest with proceeds going to the Haiku Pathway project.

Thanks to Katikati Advertiser for sponsoring the bulk of the cash prizes - 18 & over: $NZ100 for first; $NZ50 for second and $NZ25 for third; 17 & under: $NZ50, $NZ25, $NZ15.

Rules:

· Poems should preferably be typewritten, otherwise clearly handwritten.

· Haiku should not have been previously published (including on the web or broadcast).

· Unlimited entries.

· Submit 2 copies of each haiku with 1 only including your name, address, phone number (no mobiles, please), e-mail address, and for the junior section only, your age. Putting several poems on an A4 sheet is fine.

· Entry fee: Within NZ: 18 & over $5 for 3 haiku or $2 for 1 haiku. 17 & under $1 for up to 2 haiku. For overseas entrants: $US5/3 haiku or $US2/haiku.

· Entries in hand by Friday, April 16. Post to: Katikati Haiku Contest, PO Box 183, Katikati 3166, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

· Results will be announced and presented on Sunday, June 6.

· A judge’s report will be sent by email, otherwise please include a stamped addressed envelope.

· Any entry not accompanied by the correct entry fee will be disqualified. Entrants send cash at their own risk.

Inquiries to nzhaiku@gmail.com

2010 Haiku Pen Contest - 2010 Think Tanka Contest - 2010 Very Short Story Award

2010-01-25T21:19:00Z

For Immediate Release: 1.25.2010

2010 Haiku Pen Contest - 2010 Think Tanka Contest - 2010 Very Short Story Award - We Welcome Your Energy, Spirit & Wit

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is committed to publishing the very best of haiku, senryu and tanka.This young publication has launched writing contests for 2010 and are also witnessing a tremendous growth in their readership and support. Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is also calling for submissions of poetry and short fiction for their webzine. There are no submission deadlines or reading fees for the e-zine, they just welcome prolific writing of lasting literary value. Complete guidelines are available online at Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine

Read their inspiring interview with Michael Dylan Welch, one of the most talented haiku and tanka writers today.The web-presence of this E-zine is profound with international winning writers such as Richard Stevenson, Kathy Lippard Cobb, James Tipton, Keith A. Simmonds, Patricia Prime, Paul Smith and Ernest J. Berry.

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is proud to announce their 2010 Writing Competitions & have published their 2009 Haiku & Tanka Winners. Read the winning poems on their "International Poetry Contest Winners" page. Current prizes for writers total more than $400 dollars. They welcome snail mail and email submissions and have included the option of paypal payments online.

2009 World Haiku Competition Winners: Ernest J. Berry, James Tipton, Barbara A. Taylor & Sandra Simpson

2009 World Tanka Contest Winners: Paul Smith & Kathy Lippard Cobb

Visit Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine to learn more. Make 2010 a year to remember!

Blessings,

Raquel D. BAILEY, Founding Editor lyricalhitmakers@aol.com
Follow us on twitter - "FoundingEditor"
Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine

The Tanka Gourmet - update

2010-01-25T20:19:00Z

The Tanka Gourmet is scheduled to be published as an MET Press trade paperback sometime this year. Alexis Rotella, Editor, is no longer accepting submissions but will be in touch with poets in the near future to obtain proper credit notations.

Alexis Rotella

HIDDEN RIVER Haiku now available on Scribd.com

2010-01-18T03:11:00Z

I have published my second collection of haiku, Hidden River, online as a free ebook at http://www.scribd.com/doc/25349226/Hidden-River-Haiku-by-Denis-M-Garrison where you can both read it and download it. Prints editions (trade paperback and pocket book) remain for sale at our MET Press bookstore and elsewhere. I hope you will read Hidden River and even perhaps recommend it to your haiku friends.

best wishes,
Denis M. Garrison
www.themetpress.com

3LIGHTS Journal of Haiku & Related Forms: Winter 2010 has been published.

2010-01-17T00:01:00Z

3LIGHTS Journal of Haiku & Related Forms : Winter 2010 has been published. Visit http://3lights.wordpress.com/ to access the new edition. Our featured poet for this debut edition is Michael Dylan Welch.

Submissions of haiku and related poems on a theme of 'music' are now being considered for our Spring edition. Details are at http://3lights.wordpress.com/submissions.

Best wishes,

Liam Wilkinson

3LIGHTS : Journal of Haiku & Related Forms

Edited by Liam & Diane Wilkinson

http://3lights.wordpress.com

Update on Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka

2010-01-06T23:17:00Z

Dear Tanka poets,

There has been a few changes in Moonbathing, so, please read carefully the below updated information.

I will be the sole editor of Moonbathing from now on and all tanka submissions

should be e-mailed to me and all subscriptions and/or donations should be made out to me and

mailed to my address below.

I now have the premier issue of Moonbathing and will be mailing them out to all subscribers this week. Anybody else who would like to purchase a copy(ies), of Moonbathing please let me

know how many you would like to have.

In the future, I plan on making Moonbathing a larger all women's tanka journal, so, I can include more tanka by a greater number of fine poets and to expand its international readership.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com

Hope you had a Joyous Holiday Season & A Happy New Year.

Thank you for supporting Moonbathing.

Harmony, Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

UPDATE ON MOONBATHING: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

EDITOR Pamela A. Babusci

Founding Editor Pamela A. Babusci is proud to announce the first all women's tanka journal: Moonbathing.

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

For the Premier Issue and yearly (Fall/Winter 2009–10), the Editor is sponsoring a "moonbathing" tanka contest. Tanka poets may submit one tanka on the subject of “moonbathing”—whatever that means to you—for consideration, in addition to their regular submissions. The winner will be featured in the premiere issue of Moonbathing and receive two issues of Moonbathing as the prize. (Be sure to label your entry “moonbathing contest” if sending along with a regular submission.)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Moonbathing will feature only women poets. Send a maximum of five (5) tanka per submission period. Submission deadlines:

Fall/Winter Issue: In-hand Deadline: November 1st. Fall/winter or non-seasonal themes only.

Spring/Summer Issue: In-hand Deadline: May 1st. Spring/summer or non-seasonal themes only.

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line, whether on a personal website/blog or on a tanka discussion group; and no publicly workshopped tanka will be considered or accepted.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN EMAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

Moonbathing is seeking to recognize, honor, and praise the unique "female voice" and perspective in tanka. The Editor is excited about being the first women editor to offer this type of literary venue to female tanka poets, and hope all women poets will feel honored and enthusiastic as well.

PAYMENT:

Unfortunately, at this time the Editor will not be able to provide contributors’ copies.

Donations are most welcome.

Due to the current economic situation I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to succeed it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.

DISCLAIMER:

Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Subscriptions: $10 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $5 for one copy (includes postage). International: $14 U.S. dollars. Make checks—or send cash or international money orders—payable to Pamela A. Babusci to: Moonbathing Editor

150 Milford Street Apt. 13 14515-1810 USA

These subscription prices will increase for issues three and four

due to the cost of printing and S&H.

The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

Tanka Online latest update: Interview with Kala Ramesh by Amelia Fielden.

2010-01-06T21:17:00Z

Tanka Online is pleased to announce our latest update, featuring Indian musician and poet, Kala Ramesh. An interview with Kala by Amelia Fielden, "A Song in the Air: an Indian Musician's Path to Haiku and Tanka," recounts how Kala started writing the Japanese forms and also how her music background and the Indian concept of rasa shapes her poetry. Rasa, according to Kala, " means the aesthetic emotion — a flavor, the distilled essence of the mood created in the listener’s mind . . . the residue left in our minds after we appreciate a piece of art." Check out Kala's interview, her inspiring tanka, and also the latest verses of our regulars--Jeanne Emrich, Mariko Kitakubo, Michael McClintock, Maggie Chula, Amelia fielden, and Tom Clausen--at www.tankaonline.com.

Warmest wishes for a Happy New Year!

Jeanne Emrich
Tanka Online Webmaster

SUBMISSION CALL: 3LIGHTS Spring 2010

2010-01-04T23:06:00Z

SUBMISSION CALL: 3LIGHTS Spring 2010

ISSUE THEME: Music

We are now accepting submissions of haiku and related forms on a theme of MUSIC for the 3LIGHTS Spring 2010 edition. Please submit up to ten haiku/senryu/tanka/kyoka with a musical theme, along with a brief biography, to threelightsgallery@yahoo.co.uk. The closing date for all submissions is March 1st 2010 - the Spring edition will be published in April.

For full submission details, visit http://3lights.wordpress.com/submissions

Issue 1 of the 3LIGHTS Journal will be released this month (Jan 2010) at http://3lights.wordpress.com/

Best wishes,
Liam Wilkinson
Editor, 3LIGHTS

Issue 3 of Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu & Kyoka has been published

2010-01-02T18:59:00Z

Dear friends,

I am delighted to announce that issue 3 of Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu & Kyoka has been published. It is available online, free of charge, at http://prunejuice.wordpress.com.

The Winter 2010 edition features new poems from the likes of Sanford Goldstein, Alexis Rotella, M. Kei, Denis M. Garrison, George Swede, Patricia Prime and many other superlative writers of senryu and kyoka. I would like to thank all those writers who submitted work for issue 3 and invite you all to submit again in time for our summer 2010 edition, to be released in July.

Submission details for the next edition of Prune Juice can be found at our website - http://prunejuice.wordpress.com. The deadline is May 1st 2010.

Please spread this information widely, and thanks again for all your support.

Best wishes for 2010,

Liam Wilkinson

Editor, Prune Juice

Prune Juice

Journal of Senryu & Kyoka

Edited by Liam Wilkinson

http://prunejuice.wordpress.com/

Haibun Today, the Blog, Goes Quarterly

2010-01-01T08:04:00Z

Haibun Today, the Blog, Goes Quarterly

Call for Submissions

Haibun Today—First Quarterly Issue, March 2010

Haibun Today, a literary blog devoted to the promotion of haibun since 2007, will become an online quarterly webzine in 2010 with issues in March, June, September and December. You can now find Haibun Today at www.haibuntoday.com as well as at its original haibuntoday.blogspot.com address. Full access to the Haibun Today archives will continue to be available via either site.

You are invited to submit haibun for consideration in the March 2010 issue of Haibun Today. You can consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com.

Thank you for sharing this call widely.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Woodward, Editor

Haibun Today
www.haibuntoday.com

Modern Haiga 2009 print edition published

2009-12-31T05:42:00Z

Modern Haiga annual journal is dedicated to publishing and promoting fine modern graphic poetry. Writers and artists around the world have generously shared their work in Modern Haiga. Whether traditional or modern, delicately minimal or vibrantly complex, hand-crafted or digitally produced, the quality of contemporary haiga continues to astound ... It is still a rare delight to discover a true haiga—a visual moment in which poem and image seem to work with equal strength to create that spark for which we all strive. This 2009 final edition of Modern Haiga is a firework display of this year's sparks, each produced by artists who not only exhibit distinct control over their words and pictures but also over their understanding for what marries the two art forms in order to create another.

The poets and artists included in this issue are: Marnie Brooks, Mary Davila, Audrey Downey, M. Frost, Judith Gorgone, Dan Hardison, John Hawkhead, Colin Jones, Jacek Margolak, Ruth Mittelholtz, Elena Naskova, Linda Pilarski, Carol Raisfeld, Sarah Rehfeldt, Violette Rose-Jones, Alexis Rotella, Manoj Saranathan, and Liam Wilkinson.

The full-color, letter-size, perfect bound paperback book is priced at $34.95 and is available at our Lulu store, http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and at our MET Press website, www.themetpress.com/bookstore/journals.html

Thank you, all the fine poets and artists who submitted their work to Modern Haiga 2009, and to the very hard-working board of editors, Liam Wilkinson (chief editor), Linda Papanicolaou, Raffael de Gruttola, Carol Raisfeld, and Ron Moss.

This is the final issue of Modern Haiga. It has been a great experience!

Berry Blue Haiku - haiku for kids - Call for Subs

2009-12-28T22:40:00Z

Berry Blue Haiku is a quarterly digital magazine focusing on haiku for kids of all ages. In each issue, we will bring you contests, articles, lessons, as well as puzzles with haiku/senryu related-fun.

If you are a writer or an illustrator, please familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines before submitting.

If you still have questions after reviewing our guidelines, please contact us at berrybluehaiku (at) gmail (dot) com (email must be formatted properly to function).

Our first issue is due out in June 2010.

Berry Blue Haiku Author Guidelines

Illustrator guidelines can be found at: http://cobaltcrowproductions.blogspot.com

We are open to all types of haiku: traditional with a seasonal word (kigo), modern, human haiku (often called senryu), or fun haiku.

Our general definition of haiku is a two- or three-line poem that transmits a moment or feeling through sensory images. A haiku often paints different/contrasting images, or leaves the reader with an a-ha! moment.

We would also love to see articles on writing haiku/senryu; on their history; or on haiku masters such as Basho, Chiyo-ni, Issa, Shiki, and Buson, etc. If it relates to haiku/senryu in any way, we'd love to see it.

Other things we'd like to see:

• Haiku lessons/exercises that could be used in classrooms or at home
• Advice and tips on writing haiku
• Crafts incorporating haiku, such as bookmarks, gift tags, postcards, etc. Please include photos if possible.
• Haiku projects for gift ideas
• Puzzle pages incorporating haiku (we're quite open to this--use your imagination)

Submission Requirements

• Send up to five poems, or one article/craft/puzzle page per submission, pasted in the body of your email.
• Please indicate in your cover letter if your submission is simultaneous, and notify us immediately if another publication accepts it.
• For articles longer than 250 words, please double-space.
• Please specify the age level of your poems, articles, and lessons.
• We prefer to review unpublished material, but will consider reprints. Please indicate in your cover letter where and when the submission first appeared.
• We ask that you wait for a response before submitting to us again.
• Format your subject title with either Haiku/Senryu (haiku is fine for either) or Article/Craft/Puzzle Submission and if it is season-themed. ex: Haiku Submission--Winter Themed
• Send your submissions to berrybluehaiku (at) gmail (dot) com (email will need to be formatted properly to be functional).

Nonfiction Submissions Length

children up to 5: 50 - 150 words
6 -11 year olds: 150 to 500 words
12 and up: 500 to 1000 words

Response times

We will do our best to respond to all submissions within two weeks. Response time will be longer on submissions under consideration.

Subscribe to our blog at http://cobaltcrowproductions.blogspot.com/ for more up-to-date information about submissions such as what we need, what we have overstocked, delays in response times, etc.

You may also subscribe to our Twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/cobaltcrowpub.

Rates

All contributors will receive free access to the issue in which their work appears. (Note that for the first issue, which will be available to everyone, contributors will also receive free access to the Berry Blue Haiku September 2010 issue).

We currently do not pay for haiku; however, our three favorite haiku will each receive $10.00 US, payable by PayPal ONLY. If the contributor does not have access to PayPal, we will send a gift certificate from Amazon.com for the same amount.

We pay a flat rate of $10.00 per article/lesson/craft/puzzle page.

Terms

Berry Blue Haiku acquires Exclusive Worldwide Electronic Rights for three months, and then Non-Exclusive Electronic Rights for an additional nine months while the issue is in the archives.

Look for the first issue of Berry Blue Haiku in June 2010.
If you have any questions, ideas or comments, please email us at: berrybluehaiku (at) gmail (dot) com

Gisele LeBlanc
Owner & Executive Editor
Berry Blue Haiku Magazine
Cobalt Crow Productions

http://cobaltcrowproductions.blogspot.com/

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Hi, haiku-friends! This pub is for kids, so please generously spread this call for subs around the haiku community.
Thanks!
Denis Garrison, Tanka News & Haiku Headlines