TANKA NEWS & HAIKU HEADLINES

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

MET Press nominates six collections for the Pushcart Prize

2009-12-22T01:27:00Z

This year, Modern English Tanka Press nominated the following six outstanding poetry collections for the Pushcart Prize.

Jack Fruit Moon, haiku and tanka by Robert D. Wilson. ISBN 978-0-9817691-4-1.

Tanka from the Edge by Miriam Sagan. ISBN 978-0-9817691-9-6.

All the Horses of Heaven / Todos los Caballos del Paraíso. Tanka by James Tipton. Bilingual edition with Spanish translations by Martha Alcántar. ISBN 978-1-935398-05-9.

The Stream Singing Your Name: Tanka and Sijo by Jean LeBlanc. ISBN 978-1-935398-06-6.

Elvis in Black Leather, tanka by Alexis Rotella. ISBN 978-1-935398-09-7.

Peeling an Orange: Haiku by Peggy Heinrich. Photographs by John Bolivar. ISBN 978-1-935398- 12-7.

Our sincere congratulations to all these fine nominees on their outstanding works. Each and every one deserves a Pushcart Prize.

Denis M. Garrison, owner
MET Press / Modern English Tanka Press

Concise Delight #2 on sale now

2009-12-22T01:20:00Z

The second issue of Concise Delight Magazine of Short Poetry, No. 2, Winter 2009, has been published and now is on sale. Readers may purchase this issue online from the publisher’s website http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/journals.html and the Lulu.com MET Press bookstore at http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka . Concise Delight #2 is a 7.5″ square perfect-bound paperback, 180 pages.

The list price of Concise Delight is $13.95 USD. S&H varies by country; for USA addresses, it is $6.00.

See the webpage for Issue 2 – Winter 2009 of Concise Delight. It includes a purchasing link for the print magazine.

This is the last issue of Concise Delight. Insistent demands on our time have made it impossible to continue publishing journals. We plan to continue publishing books and, of course, the already published journals all remain on sale.

best wishes,
Denis M. Garrison, editor

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose #2 - Winter 2009 published

2009-12-20T23:26:00Z

MET Press is pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of the biannual journal, Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, edited by Jeffrey Woodward. MH&TP 2 has been published in print, in PDF ebook, and in an online digital edition. This Summer 2009 issue is 180 pages in a trade paperback. ISSN 1947-606X.

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose established itself as the first and only periodical devoted exclusively to these two mixed prose-and-verse genres. Haibun and tanka prose belong to the ancient and venerable tradition of Japanese poetry and belles-lettres. Their practice has waned in modern Japan but, with the continuing popularity of their respective parent-forms, haiku and tanka, in the West, haibun and tanka prose are experiencing unprecedented growth and diverse experimentation from New York to London, from Berlin to Brisbane, and in small towns and open countryside around the globe. Haibun and tanka prose are busily revising the general literary map and, in doing so, quietly reforming haiku and tanka also. Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, a biannual journal, faithfully represents the full range of styles and themes adopted by contemporary practitioners and intends to play a vanguard role in charting the rapid evolution of these genres.

Check out Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose at http://www.themetpress.com/modernhaibunandtankaprose/masthead.html

For more information, contact the editor, Jeffrey Woodward, at MHTP.EDITOR@GMAIL.COM

Peeling an Orange Haiku Collection by Peggy Heinrich, Published by MET Press

2009-11-07T20:44:00Z

DATE: November 6, 2009 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release

Peeling an Orange Haiku Collection by Peggy Heinrich, Published by MET Press

Peeling an Orange, Peggy Heinrich’s fine collection of haiku, showcases the exquisite work of this widely published and award-winning poet. These poems carry the reader through the seasons of a life as well as the seasons of the year. Equally evocative are the stunning black-and-white photographs by John Bolivar, a prize-winning photographer based in Seattle.

Baltimore, Maryland – November 6, 2009 – Peeling an Orange by Peggy Heinrich has been published as a trade paperback by MET Press of Baltimore, Maryland. "January sunset / putting aside her journal / to peel an orange" This fine collection of haiku showcases the exquisite work of Peggy Heinrich, a widely published and award-winning poet. These poems carry the reader through the seasons of a life as well as the seasons of the year. Heinrich’s work has been described as insightful and empathetic and, according to one editor, always finely rendered and thought through. The final haiku in Peeling an Orange: "around the fire / the widening circle / of silence" was cited by well-known artist and teacher Kaji Aso as "an original, neither a second-hand Basho nor Buson, [in which] a basic sense of human life and warmth of heart is well captured." Equally evocative are the stunning black-and-white photographs by John Bolivar, a prize-winning photographer based in Seattle.

"Poet Peggy Heinrich is an insightful and empathetic companion as she invites the reader to travel with her through the seasons of haiku. Her poems are marked by intricate layers of juxtaposition: city and country, sun and rain, solitude and company, humor and poignancy, and above all a deep appreciation of the present steeped in the remembrance of things past. Peeling an Orange is like an enso, offering the reader a complete journey from the ripples in a spring pond to deep winter’s ‘widening circle/of silence’."

— Pamela Miller Ness, Past President, Haiku Society of America

"The poems in Peeling An Orange can only be written by a master poet and Peggy Heinrich is one. This book captivates the reader with its haiku & senryu, and just when you think that it can’t get any better, it does. Over the years I’ve thinned out my bookshelves, but this book is a keeper and it is wonderful to have a collection of such work in a single volume."

— Stanford M. Forrester, editor of bottle rockets: a collection of short verse
　

About Author:

Peggy Heinrich began exploring haiku thirty-five years ago. Her haiku have appeared in almost every haiku journal here and in Japan, from the early days of Dragonfly to the latest website and in many anthologies, including three Red Moon anthologies; The New Haiku by Snapshot Press, the Basho Festival Haiku Anthology and How to Haiku by Bruce Ross. Among her many awards are the Haiku Society of America’s Henderson Award and the Robert Spiess Memorial Award. Also, she was a runner-up in the giant 1988 Japan Air Lines contest and a prize-winner in Ashiya’s International Haiku Festival. Her mini-chapbook, "A Patch of Grass," was published by High/Coo Press in 1984. Besides haiku, Peggy enjoys writing tanka and longer poems, some of which were published in 2006 in her collection, A Minefield of Etceteras.

For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author, contact Peggy Heinrich by e-mail at heinrich01@gmail.com Publisher information at: www.themetpress.com

This book is available from www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and from the publisher. Complete information and mail/email order forms are available online at www.themetpress.com Price: $11.95 USD. ISBN 978-1-935398-12-7. Trade paperback. 84 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 books and periodicals 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
443-802-1249 Email to dmg@themetpress.com www.themetpress.com
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The Breath of Surrender: A Collection of Recovery-Oriented Haiku, edited by Robert Epstein, Published by MET Press

2009-11-06T21:19:00Z

DATE: November 4, 2009 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release

The Breath of Surrender: A Collection of Recovery-Oriented Haiku, edited by Robert Epstein, Published by MET Press

In The Breath of Surrender,haiku poet and psychotherapist Robert Epstein brings together the haiku and recovery communities, whose unique perspectives expand our appreciation of the world within and around us. Whether new to, or widely traveled on, the path of recovery, readers will discover new wholes in their lives sparked by the courage, strength and hope in these inspiring poems.

Baltimore, Maryland – November 4, 2009 – The Breath of Surrender: A Collection of Recovery-Oriented Haiku edited by Robert Epstein has been published as a trade paperback by MET Press of Baltimore, Maryland. Often described as "wordless" due to its brevity and directness, haiku poetry highlights, and celebrates, our often unseen connection with nature. Recovery from the hell realms of addiction: alcohol, drugs, sex, shopping, over-eating, makes possible a reunion with life and one’s fellow beings. In The Breath of Surrender—the first collection of its kind—haiku poet and psychotherapist Robert Epstein brings together the haiku and recovery communities, whose unique perspectives expand our appreciation of the world within and around us. Whether new to, or widely traveled on, the path of recovery, readers will discover new wholes in their lives sparked by the courage, strength and hope in the inspiring poems that fill these pages.

"The addicted brain is a museum of distorted pictures. Recovery brings forth a new framing of images that is well-captured in this unique collection of poems. Those at every stage of recovery can hang these poetic images on the mental walls that have been left so bare by addiction."

—Fred Von Stieff, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Mt. Diablo Center for Recovery; Concord, CA

"These haiku are tragic, funny, clever, and moving. In bite-sized pieces of wisdom and insight ‘The Breath of Surrender’ sheds light, opens doors, and touches hearts on the path of recovery. What joy!"

—Kevin Griffin, author of "One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps" and "A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery"

"The Breath of Surrender poetically epitomizes human-nature via the touchy and controversial subject of ‘addictions.’ It is a well-compiled meaningful book, due to the editing ability and dedication of Robert Epstein. The poems are diversified yet cohesive; some are happy; others are sad and, in their juxtaposition, one way or another, all are recovery-oriented."

—an’ya, editor of /moonset/

About Author:

Robert Epstein is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who practices psychotherapy in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked in the field of recovery treatment since 1980. Robert is a published haiku poet, whose work has appeared in the major haiku journals. A pinch book, "A Clear View of," was published by Tribe Press in 2003. Robert co-edited a collection of selected quotations of Henry D. Thoreau entitled, The Natural Man, which was published in 1978 and is still in print. He also co-authored a self-help book with Stacy Taylor called, Living Well with a Hidden Disability.

For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author, contact Robert Epstein by e-mail at taylorepstein@earthlink.net Publisher information at: www.themetpress.com

This book is available from www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and from the publisher. Complete information and mail/email order forms are available online at www.themetpress.com Price: $16.95 USD. ISBN 978-1-935398-14-1. Trade paperback. 100 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:

Contact: Denis M. Garrison, owner
MET Press / Modern English Tanka Press
443-802-1249
Email to dmg@themetpress.com
www.themetpress.com
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