TANKA NEWS & HAIKU HEADLINES

WE ARE ALL JAPAN ANTHOLOGY REALISED

DMG — 2012-05-20T22:37:29Z

THE WAAJ ANTHOLOGY IS AVAILABLE!!!

https://www.createspace.com/3830920

Best wishes,

Sasa Vazic

Sketchbook Issue 41 is now on-line.

DMG — 2012-05-20T00:29:59Z

The new Sketchbook Issue 41 is now on-line. The March / April 2012 Sketchbook contains poems, art and features by one hundred-four writers from twenty-one Countries.

March/April 2012: Cover:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Cover_Emily_Romano_Swan_and_Lily.htm

March/April 2012: Contents Page:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/0_Contents_Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Contents.htm

March/April 2012: SHH2--spring Kigo results:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Karina_Klesko_SHH_2_Spring_Kigo.htm

March/April 2012: "swing" Kukai results:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/0_Results_Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_swing_Kukai_Results.htm

March/April 2012: "pond life" Haiku Thread:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/0_Results_Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_pond_life_Haiku_Thread_Results.htm

March/April 2012: PTP results:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/0_Results_Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Results_PTPC_Index_Shanna_Baldwin_Moore_Results.htm

From the Editor's Chairs:

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_From_The_Editor_s_Chair.htm

Announcement: May/June 2012: SHH 3--summer Kigo:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Announcing_SHH_3_Summer_Kigo_for_MayJune_2012_Issue.htm

Announcement: May/June 2012: "wedding / bride" haiku Thread:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Announcing_MayJune_2012_wedding_bride_Haiku_Thread.htm

Announcement: May/June 2012: "cloud(s)" Kukai:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Announcing_May_June_30_2012_cloud_Kukai.htm

Announcement: May/June 2012: PTP Contest:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/0_Announcement_Sketchbook_7-2_2012_PTPC_MayJune_2012_Shanna_Baldwin_Moore.htm

The editors are now accepting submissions until June 20, 2012 for the next issue: submissions@poetrywriting.org

Karina Klesko, US and John Daleiden, US
jd

Poetrywriting.org/Karina Klesko/Director
www.poetrywriting.org: Sketchbook
Karina Klesko, Senior Editor
John Daleiden, Editor/Webmaster

Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4 Published by Keibooks

DMG — 2012-05-20T00:27:41Z

"M. Kei" <take5tanka@gmail.com> May 14 06:21PM -0400

Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4 Published by Keibooks

Perryville, Maryland – May 14, 2012 – Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka,
Volume Four Published

*Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka*, the anthology series founded by
tanka poet and editor, M. Kei, has announced the publication of Volume
Four. Now on sale, it features 260 pages with the largest selection yet of
tanka poetry and related forms, making it the single largest volume in the
series. It retails for $18.00, and can be bought direct from the printer at
CreateSpace.com, or through Amazon.com and other online retailers.

Buy link: <https://www.createspace.com/3785119 -- also available from
Amazon.com and other retailers.

The editorial team consisting of M. Kei, editor-in-chief (USA), Patricia
Prime (NZ), Magdalena Dale (RO), Amelia Fielden (AUS), Claire Everett (UK),
Owen Bullock (NZ), David Terelinck (AUS), Janick Belleau (CAN), and David
Rice (USA), read all tanka published in English during 2011 with the goal
of selecting the best individual tanka, kyoka, waka, gogyohka, gogyoshi,
tanka sequences, tanka prose, and responsive tanka for inclusion in the
annual anthology. The team read approximately eighteen thousand poems to
choose nearly four hundred for inclusion in the fourth and final volume in
the Take Five series.

Contemporary tanka and related forms in English are an exciting literature
that continues to grow and develop in the hands of increasingly diverse
poets around the world. Originating in Japan over fourteen hundred years
ago, it remains a strong and flexible form evoking profound responses in
the reader. This year’s volume is especially affected by the triple
disaster in Japan. Poets who lived through the disaster bear witness to the
ruin in their poems, while other poets around the world waited anxiously
for news and were compelled by the disaster to reassess the fragility of
their own lives. Many of the poems published in this volume reflect
‘aware,’ the Japanese aesthetic that focuses on the perishability of the
world.

Contributors for this volume are:

Adelaide B. Shaw, Akiko Hasegawa, Alan S. Bridges, Alan Summers, Alex von
Vaupel, Alexander Ask, Alexis Rotella, Alison Williams, Amelia Fielden,
André Surridge, Andrew Riutta, Angela Leuck, Angie LaPaglia, Anita Virgil,
Anne Benjamin, an'ya, Antoinette Libro, Askold Skalsky, Aubrie Cox, Audrey
Olberg, Autumn Noelle Hall, Aya Yuhki, Barbara Robidoux, Barbara A. Taylor,
Barry Goodmann, Beatrice van de Vis, Becky Alexander, Belinda Broughton,
Bett Angel-Stawarz, Bette Norcross Wappner, Beverley George, Beverly Acuff
Momoi, Bob Lucky, Brendan Slater, Brian Zimmer, Byakuren Yanagihara, C.
William Hinderliter, Carla Sari, Carlos Colón, Carmel Summers, Carmella
Braniger, Carol Pearce-Worthington, Carol Purington, Carol Raisfeld, Carole
MacRury, Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti,Catherine Mair, Catherine Smith, Cathy
Drinkwater Better, Chad Lee Robinson, Charles Tarlton, Chen-ou Liu, Cherie
Hunter Day, Christina Nguyen, Claire Everett, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Colin
Stewart Jones, Collin Barber, Curtis Dunlap, Cynthia Rowe, David Caruso,
David Platt, David Rice, David Steele, David Terelinck, Dawn Bruce, Dawn
Colsey, Deborah P. Kolodji, Dee Evetts, Diane Mayr, Dietmar Tauchner,
Dimitar Anakiev, Doreen King, Dorothy McLaughlin, Dorothy Walker, Dru
Philippou, Dy Andreasen, Edith Bartholomeusz, Elaine Riddell, Elehna de
Sousa, Elizabeth Bodien, Elizabeth Howard, Enta Kusakabe, Eve Luckring,
Fonda Bell Miller, Francis Masat, Gary LeBel, Gavin Austin, Gennady Nov,
Geoffrey Winch, George Swede, Gerd Börner, Gerry Jacobson, Giselle Maya,
Grant D. Savage, Guy Simser, H. Gene Murtha, Hannah Mahoney, Harue Aoki,
Heather Feaga, Helen Buckingham, Helen Yong, Hortensia Anderson, Huguette
Ducharme, Ignatius Fay, Ikuko Melze, Ikuyo Okamoto, J. Andrew Lockhart, J.
M. Rowland,J. Zimmerman, James Tipton, Jan Dean, Jan Foster, Jane
Reichhold, Janet Lynn Davis, Janick Belleau, Jeanne Emrich,Jeanne
Lupton,Jeff Hoagland, Jeffrey Woodward,Jim Schneider, Jo McInerney, Joanna
Ashwell, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, John Parsons, John Quinnett, John Samuel
Tieman,John Soules, John Stevenson, Johnny Baranski, Joyce S. Greene, Joyce
Wong, Judith Ahmed, Jules Cohn Botea, Julie Thorndyke, Kala Ramesh, Karen
Audioun Klingman, Karen Peterson Butterworth, Kate King, Kath Abela Wilson,
Kathe L. Palka, Katherine Samuelowicz, Kathy Lippard Cobb, Keitha Keyes,
Kirsten Cliff, Kirsty Karkow, Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Kozue Uzawa, Larry Neily,
Laurence Stacey, LeRoy Gorman, Leslie Giddens, Leslie Ihde, Liam
Wilkinson,Linda Galloway, Linda Jeannette Ward, Linda Papanicolaou, Lisa
Alexander Baron, Lisa M. Tesoriero, Liz Rule, Lois Holland, Lucas
Stensland, Luminita Suse, Lynn D. Bueling, Lynette Arden, M. Kei, Magdalena
Dale, Makoto Nakanishi, Margaret Chula, Margaret Conley, Margaret Dornaus,
Margaret Fensom, Margaret Grace, Margaret Owen Ruckert, Margaret Van Every,
Margarita Engle, Maria Steyn, Marian Morgan, Marian Olson, Marie Lecrivain,
Mariko Kitakubo, Marilyn Hazelton, Marilyn Humbert, Marjorie Buettner, Mark
Holloway, Martin Lucas, Mary Franklin, Mary Kipps, Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa,
Mary Mageau, Matt Quinn, Matthew Caretti, Max Ryan, Maxianne Berger, Mel
Goldberg, Melissa Allen, Merle Connolly, Michael Ketchek, Michael
McClintock, Michael Thorley, Michele L. Harvey, Micheline Beaudry, Mike
Montreuil, Mira N. Mataric, Miriam Sagan, Naoko Kishigami Selland, Naomi
Beth Wakan, Noele Norris, Owen Bullock, Paginini Jones, Pamela A. Babusci,
Patricia Prime, Paul Smith, Peggy Heinrich, Polona Oblak, Quendryth Young,
Raffael de Gruttola, Randy Brooks, Renee Gregorio, Richard von Sturmer, Rie
Ezaki, Roary Williams, Robert McNeill, Robert Smith, 1Robert West, Rodney
Williams, Ron C. Moss, Ron Woollard, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Ruby
Spriggs, Ruth Holzer, Saeko Ogi, 1Sakurako, Sanford Goldstein, Sanjukta
Asopa, Sarah Wika, Seren Fargo, Sheila Sondik, 1Shernaz Wadia, Shona
Bridge, Sonam Chhoki, Sonja Arntzen, Spiros Zafiris, Stanford M. Forrester,
Stella Pierides, Steve Mangan, Steve Wilkinson, Sue Richards, Susan
Constable, Svetlana Marisova, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, T. J. Edge, Takako
Nazuka, Taro Aizu, Terra Martin, Terry Ann Carter, Terry Ingram, Tess
Driver, Tessa Wooldridge, Tim Geaghan, Tito, Tom Clausen, Tomohime, Tracy
Davidson, Vasile Moldovan, Vasile Smărăndescu, Veronica Shanks, Victor P.
Gendrano, Yūko Kawano

About the Editors:

M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He lives on the
Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (USA) and apprenticed aboard a
skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. He now serves with a fully rigged
ship. His publications include over 1400 tanka poems in six languages and
ten countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the anthology series, *Take
Five : Best Contemporary Tanka*, and the author of *Slow Motion : The Log
of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack*, Recommended Reading by the Chesapeake Bay
Project. He edits *Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in
Contemporary Tanka*. He is the compiler of the Bibliography of
English-Language Tanka, which documents over one thousand publications from
1899 to the present day. He is also the author of the award-winning gay Age
of Sail adventure series, *Pirates of the Narrow Seas.*

Patricia Prime, a semi-retired early childhood teacher, lives in Auckland,
New Zealand. She is co-editor of *Kokako*, reviews editor of Takahe, and
reviews/interviews editor of *Haibun Today*. Patricia has been one of the
editors of the *Take Five* anthologies since their inception. Her poems,
reviews, literary essays and interviews have been published in the *World
Poetry Almanac* (Mongolia) and in various journals. She is currently
writing collaborative tanka sequences with an Australian poet and shisan
renga with poets from Europe and also from New Zealand. Her work is
scheduled for publication in *Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online,
Lynx, Atlas Poetica, Gusts, Eucalypt, multiverses *and* red lights*, among
others.

Magdalena Dale was born in, and lives in, Bucharest, Romania. She is a
member of the Romanian Society of Haiku and World Haiku Association. Her
work has been published in several reviews and anthologies in her country
and abroad. Her tanka and haiku have appeared in more literary sites
online. She wrote a bilingual tanka book *Perle de roua/Dew pearls*, a
bilingual renga book *Mireasma de tei/ Fragrance of lime* with Vasile
Moldovan and a bilingual haiku book *Ecourile tăcerii/ The echoes of
silence.* She received several awards for her work.

Amelia Fielden is an Australian professional translator and an
internationally awarded and published tanka poet. Seventeen books of her
translations of modern and contemporary Japanese tanka have appeared over
the last 11 years, with a further two volumes forthcoming in 2012. Amelia
has also published six collections of her own tanka, the most recent
being*Light On Wate
*r (2010). She has collaborated with other Australian poets to produce four
books of responsive tanka, including *Yesterday,Today & Tomorrow* (2011)
with Kathy Kituai, and the bilingual *Words Flower* (2011) with Saeko Ogi.
Amelia is happy to be contacted at anafielden@hotmail.com.

Claire Everett's haiku, tanka, and more recently, haibun and tanka prose,
have appeared in many of the short-form poetry journals worldwide. She was
a contributing poet for cycle 11 (spring/summer 2011) of the online journal
*Daily Haiku*. Claire's interest in tanka prose increased when she was
invited by M. Kei to conduct an in-depth interview with Jeffrey Woodward
for *Atlas Poetica* 9 (July, 2011) discussing the history and practice of
tanka prose. She is now delighted to be the tanka prose editor for *Haibun
Today*. Claire lives with her husband and five children in North Yorkshire,
England, and draws most of her inspiration from walks on the Moors and
Dales and in the Lake District.

Owen Bullock's first tanka appeared in tangled hair in 2000, and thereafter
in *Eucalypt, Lynx, Magnapoets, Modern English Tanka, Moonset, paper wasp,
Atlas Poetica, Presence*, etc. He has published a collection of haiku, *wild
camomile *(Post Pressed, Australia, 2009); fiction, *A Cornish
Story*(Palores, UK, 2010), and poetry,
*sometimes the sky isn't big enough* (Steele Roberts, New Zealand, 2010).
Owen has edited a number of journals, including *Kokako* and *Poetry NZ*.
He is currently on the International Editorial Board for the online
journal, *Axon: Creative Explorations *(University of Canberra). He teaches
creative writing online for the Waiariki Institute of Technology and the
New Zealand Writers' College. <http://www.owenbullock.com/>

David Terelinck (Sydney, NSW, Australia) is a full-time employee and
part-time writer who seriously wishes the balance were reversed. He has
been involved in creative writing for more than twenty-five years with many
awards for his short stories, articles and poetry. David has been writing
tanka for the past five years and has been widely published in
international tanka journals. David's first tanka collection, *Casting
Shadows*, was published in late 2011. During the same year, David co-edited
*Grevillea & Wonga Vine: Australian Tanka of Place*, with Beverley George.
He enjoys giving tanka and other creative writing workshops, and lives by
his motto *scribo ergo respiro*. In 2012 he is looking forward to joining
the editorial panel of the Canadian journal, *GUSTS: Contemporary Tanka.*

Janick Belleau’s latest publication* D’âmes et d’ailes / of souls and wings*—a
bilingual tanka collection won her the Canada-Japan Award in 2010. She
edited the collective work *Regards de femmes—haïkus francophones* in 2008
and coedited *L'Érotique poème court / haïku *in 2006. Her feature articles
and presentations in Canada, in France and in Japan deal with the
contribution of women in the advancement of haiku and tanka.

David Rice lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and aging dog.
Three children and three grandchildren also live in the Bay Area. He has
been reading and writing tanka for more than twenty years, and his poems
have appeared in numerous anthologies. He has self-published two tanka
chapbooks and, with Cherie Hunter Day, the collaborative tanka sequence *Kindle
of Green* (2008). In 2012 he became the editor of *Ribbons*.

For media inquiries or to arrange an interview, contact editor-in-chief M.
Kei by e-mail at: Keibooks at gmail dot com. Publisher information at:
www.AtlasPoetica.org

Keibooks

P O Box 516

Perryville, MD 21903 USA

<http://AtlasPoetica.org>

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M. Kei
Editor-in-chief
Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka
P O Box 516
Perryville, MD 21903
take5tanka (at) gmail (dot) com

Poems for Inner Rooms: Six New Titles by Ai Li

DMG — 2012-05-10T22:33:23Z

From time to time, in the world of English-language haiku and tanka, there is a poet who transcends the form – Ai Li is such a poet. Her work places her firmly among the best of today's post-modern writers. She is an east-west fusionist, whose work needs to be evaluated among those working in both eastern forms and the more free form western traditions. In short, not a genre poet, but simply – Poet. Ultimately, this is where she will stand and be counted.

After a ten year hiatus, since the closing of her London-based journal, “still: a journal of short verse,” Ai Li went silent, or so it seemed, but suddenly she has burst onto the scene with a collection of six new Kindle ebooks. Here are to be found mostly new work seasoned with a pinch of old favorites. She, again, shows the power and the aesthetic of the short, short poem with the same strength, subtlety, and integrity that she has so generously given her readers all along. Ai Li, I might hazard to say, has done with the haiku and tanka forms what Emily Dickinson did with the ballad form in her day.

Ai Li sounds a range from “zen, loss, joy, the surreal, temps perdu, the erotic, humour, truth, the everyday, and ... the sublime.” These six new books are theme-based to appeal to the taste of various readers: 1) the taste of shadow – night journal; 2) flame trees – temps perdu; 3) blood sisters – journal intime; 4) drowning jasmine – memories of malaya; 5) fish kiss – becoming still; 6) tenement moon – memento mori – and all priced at a pocket-cozy $2.99, easily found on Amazon.com’s Kindle eBooks by simply searching “ai li”.

As a long time fan of Ai Li’s poems, all I can say is how sweet to have this rich lode of her work in one place.

– Larry Kimmel, editor of Winfred Press

Darlington Richards launches the Little Book of Yotsumonos.

DMG — 2012-05-06T21:32:39Z

Darlington Richards, publishers of Journal of Renga & Renku, are pleased to announce the launch of the Little Book of Yotsumonos.

Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy

John Carley’s recently-designed four-verse renku format is represented by 60 poems, wherein Carley collaborates with such well-known haikai poets as Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole MacRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor, together with an introduction to the form.

“I have always been impressed by John Carley’s knowledge of Japanese linked verse… It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root.” —Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).

“the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original… I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves.” —Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.

Preview: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: http://darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy

Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com

The Haiku Foundation Video Archive campaign on IndieGoGo

DMG — 2012-04-20T22:24:57Z

Hi Folks,

I'm writing to let you know about The Haiku Foundation Video Archive campaign on IndieGoGo.

Take a moment if you would to check it out. All the tools are there. Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates. If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'The Haiku Foundation Video Archive' happen. This is a word of mouth kind of campaign, so passing this link along and spreading the word is greatly appreciated too. Thanks for having a look, and take care.

Jim Kacian
President
The Haiku Foundation

http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Haiku-Foundation-Video-Archive?a=346480&i=emal

Journal of Renga & Renku third issue call

DMG — 2012-04-20T22:23:50Z

http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr-cfc

Hello!

We're ready to begin accepting offers of content for the third issue of our Journal of Renga & Renku, which is now listed with the Bibliography of Asian Studies and the MLA International Bibliography. The journal will be:

1. published early 2013

2. available in hardcopy only

3. available for secure online purchase using Paypal

We're looking for a variety of content along the lines of:

1. academic/polemic articles on any aspects of the genre

2. translations of old renga and renku

3. news of renku groups and happenings

4. book articles/reviews

5. letters responding to the contents of previous issues, or on any relevant topic

6. and of course, a showcase of current examples of the genre:

a) in English

b) in any other language, accompanied by an English translation

c) previously published or not (just let us have details of prior publication so we can acknowledge properly)

d) simultaneous offers are fine too, again provided you advise us immediately of acceptance, for purposes of acknowledgement

e) in any of the standard forms: kasen, triparshva, nijûin, jûnichô, shisan, rokku, hyakuin, imachi, yotsumono, etc.

f) in any explorations of the above forms in terms of experimentation with one-line, zip, 5/7/5 or other fixed counts, and even rhyme

g) solo and group work

h) with (preferably) or without notes/reflections on the poem/process from sabaki or renju or both

i) Please include the following text in all poetry submissions: "I hereby confirm that I have obtained consent from all of the participating poets to offer this poem for publication by JRR"

7. We are also holding a contest, the winning poem to appear in JRR3; click here for details: http://darlingtonrichards.com/contest

8. We're open to discussing content ideas we've not covered above, so please write

9. All communications will be acknowledged within two weeks

10. Closing date for sending content: October 1, 2012

11. We are regretfully unable to pay contributors for content at this stage

To gain an idea of the sort of content that interests the editors, leaf through the previews of our previous issues (or, better still, buy them) at http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/jrr

Please send all contributions and other communications to RengaRenku@gmail.com (RengaRenku AT gmail DOT com)

We look forward to hearing from you.

Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://darlingtonrichards.com/jrr-cfc

Journal of Renga & Renku 2012 renku contest - invitation for entries

DMG — 2012-03-30T01:02:31Z

Prior to our call for content for the Journal of Renga & Renku, Issue 3, we are delighted to announce this year’s renku contest which will be judged by Dr Chris Drake, long-time professor of Japanese literature at Atomi University in Japan. Details below:

Entry fee: None

Deadline: 1 October 2012

Prizes

1. The winning poem will be published, together with a detailed critique, in the 2013 issue of the Journal of Renga & Renku. All entries will be considered as content for inclusion in the journal.

2. A small (and yet to be selected) prize will be sent by way of congratulation to the sabaki or one designated participant of the winning poem.

Details

1. Only renku in the kasen form are eligible for this contest

2. There is no limit on the number of entries you may send

3. Previously published kasen are also eligible for the contest

4. Kasen that include verses written by the contest judge or editors of JRR, or led by them, are NOT eligible for this contest

Entry procedure

The leader or sabaki of the poem is designated the contest entrant and should do the following:

1. Send a clean copy of the poem (stripped of initials, schema notes, renju's names etc.) as a Word (or RTF) document attachment to RengaRenku@gmail.com (RengaRenku AT gmail DOT com)

2. Mark the subject line: Kasen contest/name of poem/name of sabaki, e.g. Kasen contest/October's Moon/Moira Richards

3. In the body of the email, paste the following text:

I hereby confirm that I have obtained consent from all of the participating poets to enter this poem in the 2012 JRR Renku Contest, and to offer it for publication by JRR

4. There is no need to list the names or number of poets who contributed to the poem. We'll contact you later for this information if we decide to publish.

Judging criteria

Dr Drake will look for:

1. Evidence of serious literary intent and imaginative daring.

2. Evidence of familiarity with renku and with the kasen form. Sites such as renkureckoner.co.uk are good places for review or for gaining basic knowledge, and translations of traditional kasen as well as EL kasen are recommended.

3. Success in achieving multivalent linking. Above all, verses must work as 1) a single verse and also as a new, transformed verse in relation to 2) the previous verse and 3) the following verse. Readers need be able to concretely feel the way identical words have different nuances or mean different things in relation to different verses.

4. Success in using moon, blossom, seasonal, love, and other non-seasonal verses to create an overall sequence rhythm and tone. Variations for standard images will be accepted. The moon, for example, may be replaced by other celestial objects if the change is stated in a note.

5. Success in creating an introduction in verses 1-6, full-bodied, dynamic development in 7–30, and a smooth, quick return to the material world in 31-36.

6. A kasen is long enough to create its own world. If successful, it affects the way a reader returns to and experiences his or her own daily world.

7. Traditional monotheme kasen on a single topic (blossoms, love, Amida Buddha, etc.) will be accepted, though monotony must be avoided.

8. Both group and solo (dokugin) kasen will be accepted. Solo kasen should show evidence of the writer’s ability to hear otherness in her or his own voices.

Contest judge

Chris Drake will judge this contest and introduces himself here:

“I was born in Tennessee in the U.S. in 1947. I got a PhD in Japanese literature from Harvard and taught Japanese literature and comparative literature at Atomi University in Japan for nearly three decades before retiring. My classes included renku appreciation and writing for Japanese students. I’ve published annotated translations of both kasen and hundred-verse hyakuin by Japanese haikai poets of the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries, including a translation of a kasen by Bashō and his followers in JRR2. I’m now completing an annotated translation of Saikaku’s 1675 solo thousand-verse haikai requiem for his wife. I write renku both in English and in Japanese and have participated in several kasen sequences in Japanese judged by the late Higashi Meiga (Akimasa).”

Why a one-form renku contest?

Every JRR contest will feature a different form of the genre, in order to

a) promote appreciation of the distinctive features of the various forms of the genre and how they can be employed to different ends in the writing of poems, and

b) encourage poets to explore more fully the possibilities of one form, and to appreciate what others do with it.

The Kasen

The name Kasen means 'Poetic Immortals' and refers to the Chinese and Japanese practice of creating ideal groups of thirty six artistic forbears. Prior to the establishment of the Basho school formalised linked verse was generally written as one hundred or fifty verse sequences. By the time of Basho's death the majority of haikai sequences were Kasen.

Though he is known as the father of haiku the Kasen renku and haibun [mixed poetry and prose] were Matsuo Basho's preferred vehicles for expression. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Kasen is rather good.

Seasons recur. [The major seasons of spring and autumn] may appear for up to five verses in a row. There are two spring blossom verses. There are three moon verses, two of which are generally autumn. Love appears as a fixed topic twice, potentially for an extended run. The structure of the Kasen clearly demonstrates that fine writing has more to do with periodicity and interlocking cycles, with tonal control, evolution and recontextualisation.

Without clear vision and leadership the twelve verses of a development side can rapidly become amorphous. The Kasen too takes time to complete. But the Kasen was and remains essential to the development of all aspects of excellence in renku. A person who limits themselves always to the shorter contemporary forms is unlikely to develop the highest level of artistry that the genre permits.

—John Carley, Renku Reckoner

Want to learn more about renku and kasen?

1. Lots of great reading matter, including information about the kasen form, from John Carley here:

http://www.renkureckoner.co.uk/

and excellent material from the late Bill Higginson here:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku

2. Lots of space to learn, write and meet other renku enthusiasts at The Renku Group here:
http://renkugroup.proboards.com/

--

Moira Richards
Norman Darlington
Journal of Renga & Renku
http://darlingtonrichards.com/

Journal of Renga & Renku, Issue 2, is now available

DMG — 2012-03-29T18:12:33Z

Darlington Richards Press is delighted to announce that Journal of Renga & Renku, Issue 2,
is now available

http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/products-page/

268 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations and Commentaries -
that's almost 100 pages more than our last issue - Issue 2 of
Journal of Renga & Renku is on sale now. Just $19.95 for the first
month before we revert to the cover price of $25.

This issue includes:

â Essays from Chris Drake, H. Mack Horton, John Carley,
Jeremy Robinson, Charles Tomlinson, Dylan McGee, Jeffrey Angles and Molly Vallor.

â A solo shisan by Nobuyuki Yuasa marks the anniversary of
the devastating tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan one
year ago.

â 47 poems including 30 shisan, and the results and judge's
commentary of the 2011 JRR renku contest adjudged by Eiko Yachimoto, in which four
poems placed, four received Honourable Mentions, and ten more were critiqued/appreciated
in part.

â And much more...

PURCHASE JRR2 here:

http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/products-page/

PREVIEW the Table of Contents and Editorial here:

http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/preview-issue-2/

Journal of Renga & Renku is listed with the Bibliography of Asian
Studies and the MLA International Bibliography

--

Moira Richards
Norman Darlington
Darlington Richards Press
http://darlingtonrichards.com/

-- Moira Richards
http://darlingtonrichards.com

7th International Tanka Festival 2012

DMG — 2012-03-27T20:22:17Z

The 7th International Tanka Festival 2012

Shonan Village Centre, November 28^th- 29^th, 2012
announces The ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition for tanka in English

Call for Submissions:

Open to everyone

Entry Fee: None

Submission Period: April 1^st – June 30^th, 2012

Address for submissions: ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition

c/o Nihon Kajin Club

Shuei Bldg. 2F, 1-12-5 Higashigotanda,

Shinagawa ku, Tokyo, 141-0022, Japan

Rules of Entry:

1. Tanka must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.

2. Post two copies of each tanka, with your name and address on one copy only.

Entry is by mail only.

3. Any theme is acceptable. (Five line form only)

4. Judging is anonymous.

5. Winning tanka and commended tanka will be published in the Festival brochure.

The 7th International Tanka Festival

in SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER 2012

(ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER 2012)

ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER will be held by NIHON KAJIN CLUB, the Japan Tanka Poets’ Society. The schedule is as follows:

November 28^th Registration at SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER

29^th The 7^th International Tanka Festival in SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER

　(10:00~17:00)

　　 At SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER

(JR Zushi )

Awarding ceremony, Keynote speech, Tanka workshop,

Minispeech, Tanka Poetry reading etc.

[From Aya Yuhki via Pamela Babusci]

Atlas Poetica 11 Published by Keibooks

DMG — 2012-03-26T21:18:51Z

Keibooks Announces Atlas Poetica 11 : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

Press Release – For Immediate Release – Please post to all appropriate venues

15 March 2012 – Perryville, Maryland, USA

Today Keibooks releases Atlas Poetica 11, the latest issue of the highly
regarded journal. Atlas Poetica continues its tradition of focussing upon a
topic of particular interest in the field of tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi
poetry in English. This issue emphasizes responsive tanka--sequences
written by two or more authors in a 'call and response' fashion. Includes a
nonfiction article by Dr. Carmella Braniger, several examples of responsive
tanka, and a review of a collection of responsive tanka. As always, it
publishes individual tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi, tanka prose and sequences,
book reviews, announcements, and other items of interest.

Contributors to ATPO 11 include:
Alexis Rotella, André Surridge, Autumn Noelle Hall, Bob Lucky, Brendan
Slater, Brigid Fayers, Bruce D. Reed, Bruce England, Carmella Braniger,
Charles Tarlton, Christina Nguyen, Claire Everett, David Edwards, Dawn
Bruce, Eric Greinke, Gary LeBel, Gary Severance, Genie Nakano, Ignatius
Fay, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, James Won, Jenny Ward Angyal, Johannes S.
H. Bjerg, John Daleiden, Kath Abela Wilson, Laura Maffei, Leslie Ihde, Lisa
Tibbs, Lorne Henry, Lucas Stenland,Luminita Suse, M. Kei, Margaret L.
Grace, Magdalena Dale, Marilyn Hazelton, Marilyn Humbert, Mary Hind, Mel
Goldberg, Melissa Allen, Mike Montreuil, Mira N. Mataric, Nancy Ellis
Taylor, Natalie Perfetti, Neal Whitman, Oprica Padeanu, Owen Bullock,
Patricia Prime, Peggy Castro, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Raquel Bailey, Randy
Brooks, Rodney Williams, S. M. Abeles, Sherry Steiner, Sonam Chhoki, Steven
Carter, T. J. Edge, Taro Aizu, Terry Ingram, Tessa J. Wooldridge, Tish
Davis, Tracy Davidson, William Cullen, Jr.

Purchase direct from the printer at: <https://www.createspace.com/3776889> or at Amazon.com or your favorite online retailer.

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MOONBATHING A Journal of Women's Tanka

DMG — 2012-03-26T21:15:41Z

MOONBATHING

A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

EDITOR
Pamela A. Babusci

Moonbathing Issue 6 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 5 If you wish to purchase a copy(ies) please e-mail me.

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

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Moonbathing will feature only women poets. Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period. Submission deadlines:

Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline: May 15th spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only

Fall/Winter: In-hand deadline: Dec. 15th

fall/winter theme or non-seasonal only

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line on a personal website/blog.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:

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

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 survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.

DONATIONS MOST WELCOME

DISCLAIMER:

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

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Subscriptions: $12 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $6 for single issue. International: $16 (two issues) $8 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to Pamela A. Babusci to: Moonbathing Editor 150 Milford Street Apt. 13 Rochester, NY 14615-1810 USA PLEASE NOTE: I will be moving into a new apt. by the end of May, so, please check with me for my new address before mailing me-thanks!

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

2012 'Love' Tanka Poetry Contest

DMG — 2012-03-24T23:49:22Z

2012 'Love' Tanka Poetry Contest

Now Open! 3/15/2012

GUIDELINES: Only previously unpublished tanka, not submitted for publication or to any other contest, will be accepted. The appearance of poems in online discussion lists, twitter, facebook or personal websites is considered publication. Seeking high quality tanka poetry pertaining to love & passion. Please type “Love Tanka” in subject line to avoid deletion.

Enter as often as you like by email only (please no email attachments or postal submissions will be accepted). All attachments to email will be deleted.

Entries must be emailed no later than June 15, 2012 at 11:59 EDT to qualify. International submissions always welcome. Entries received after the deadline will not be accepted. Winners and Honorable Mentions will be posted on website. All rights revert to the authors after publication.

Fee: $ 3.00/tanka or set of 5 tanka for $10.00

Paypal payments accepted by clicking the link below.

Please make checks/money orders payable to Lyrical Passion Entertainment, LLC.

Only payments will be accepted at the postal address:

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine

c/o Raquel Bailey

P.O. Box 17331

Arlington, VA 22216

Awards: Top Prize – $ 175.00 (US) & Certificate, 2nd Prize: $75.00, 3rd Prize: $40.00

Upon entering any of our poetry competitions, you are confirming that you have read and agree to our rules and guidelines. You are also confirming that you are submitting your own original and exclusive work. We will not accept work simultaneously entered in other competitions or publications. If we find that any entrant does not comply with our rules, they will be disqualified.

Also don't forget about the "Best of the Best" haiku and tanka prizes that will be awarded at the end of the year for the editor's choice of outstanding haiku and tanka poems published at Lyrical Passion Poetry E-zine. Visit the website for more details.

If you look at the trendy revolving map at the bottom of their home page, you will see where their loyal contributors and readers are from. Check out some of the new features they have added to their website as well. Follow them on twitter!

If you are interested in submitting poetry for the e-zine, electronic entries are encouraged but postal mail submissions will be accepted as well.

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine's list of prize winning writers includes, Andre Surridge, Al Fogel, Seren Fargo, Irene Golas, Paul Smith, Kathy L. Cobb, Ernest J. Berry, and Claire Everett. Be their next winner!

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine is also calling for submissions of free verse poetry, senryu, cinquain and short fiction for their webzine. There are no reading fees, they just welcome polished writing. See what's new at the e-zine: http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/

Submit your writing today! Be a part of a prolific community of writers.

Blessings,

Raquel D. BAILEY, Founding Editor lppezine@aol.com

Follow on twitter - "@FoundingEditor"

Thanks for your support.

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/

Kind regards,

Raquel Bailey, Founding Editor

The new Sketchbook is now on-line: Vol. 7, No. 1: Issue 40

DMG — 2012-03-17T22:23:53Z

Hello Sketchbook Friends, Readers and Artists:
　
The new Sketchbook is now on-line: Vol. 7, No. 1: Issue 40:

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-1JanFeb2012/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Cover_Tatiana_Kosach_Illustrator_Ten_Little_Haibuns_Andrea_Cecon.htm

The Sketchbook cover for issue 40 is by illustrator Tatina Kosach from Andrea Cecon’s Haibun book, Ten Little Haibuns.
　
Eighty five Authors / Artists from twenty countries have contributed to this Sketchbook: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, Vienna, United Kingdom (England, Scotland), United States, Yemen.
　
These twelve poets make their first Sketchbook appearance in Issue 40: Marion Clarke, IE; Máire Morrissey Cummins, IE; Mavis Gulliver, Scotland; Stefanija Ludvig, CR; Vladimir Ludvig, CR; Duško Matas, CR; Asim Kumar Paul, IN; Cynthia Rowe, AU; Sherry Steiner, US; Jan Theuninck, BE; Christine L. Villa, US; Jari Thymian US.
　
Consider participating in the Second Contest to "Showcase Haiku Haijin”, SHH.
　
Read the Found Poem Feature initiated by Editor Karina Klesko and moderated by Neal Whitman.
　
Use these links to participate in on-going Sketchbook Features and Activities:
　
April 26, 2012—Sketchbook March / April 30, 2012 "pond life" Haiku Thread
http://poetrywriting.org/SketchbookAnnouncements/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Announcement_April_26_2012_pond_life_Haiku_Thread.htm
　
April 20, 2012—Sketchbook SHH (Showcase Haiku Haijin) Contest 2
http://poetrywriting.org/SketchbookAnnouncements/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Announcement_April_20_2012_Sketchbook_SHH_Contest_2.htm
　
April 19, 2012—Sketchbook March / April 30, 2012 "swing" Kukai
http://poetrywriting.org/SketchbookAnnouncements/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Announcement_April_19_2012_Sketchbook_swing_Kukai.htm
　
April 24, 2012—Poem This Picture (PTP) Contest: Sketchbook March / April 2012
http://poetrywriting.org/SketchbookAnnouncements/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Announcement_April_24_2012_PTP_Poem_This_Picture_Contest.htm
　
April 20, 2012: Let Us Pray—Spreading Peace and Love throughout the world:
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook0-0LUP/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Index_Let_Us_Pray_Feature_Index.htm
　
April 20, 2012: Little Black Book—
http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook0-0LittleBlackBook/Little_Black_Book_Guidelines.htm
　
Thank you for reading Sketchbook.
　
Submissions are now being accepted for Issue 41: March / April 30, 2012. Read the complete submission guidelines.

We look forward to reading and viewing your poems, essays and art.
　
The Sketchbook Editors:
Karina Klesko, US and John Daleiden, US
KK / JD

Poetrywriting.org/Karina Klesko/Director
www.poetrywriting.org
Sketchbook
Karina Klesko, Senior Editor
John Daleiden, Editor/Webmaster

Short List for Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4, Announced

DMG — 2012-03-11T21:38:15Z

Perryville, Maryland – March 10, 2012 – Take Five : Best Contemporary
Tanka, Volume Four Announced

*Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka*, the anthology series founded by
tanka poet and editor, M. Kei, has announced the short list for the fourth
annual volume (2011). The editorial team consisting of M. Kei,
editor-in-chief (USA), Patricia Prime (NZ), Magdalena Dale (RO), Amelia
Fielden (AUS), Claire Everett (UK), Owen Bullock (NZ), David Terelinck
(AUS), Janick Belleau (CAN), and David Rice (USA), read all tanka published
in English during 2011 with the goal of selecting the best individual
tanka, kyoka, waka, gogyohka, gogyoshi, tanka sequences, tanka prose, and
responsive tanka for inclusion in the annual anthology. The team read
approximately eighteen thousand poems to choose about three hundred for
inclusion in this, the fourth and final volume in the Take Five series.

At this point, notifications have been sent to all poets on the short list.
Poets whose names appear on the short list below who have not received
their notification should check their spam and junk mail folders, and if
they cannot find their notification, contact the editor-in-chief
immediately at take5tanka at gmail dot com. If poets do not contact the
editorial team to grant permission, their works cannot be reprinted in the
anthology if chosen. In the case of translations, it is the poet’s
responsibility to contact their translators to make certain they have the
necessary permission to reprint the translations.

Further announcements will be made to Keibooks-Announce at googlegroups dot
com. Sign up for the email list to receive 0-6 announcements per month from
Keibooks regarding Take Five, Atlas Poetica, and other literary works
publishes by Keibooks. <
https://groups.google.com/group/Keibooks-Announce?hl=en>

The shortlisted contributors for Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka,
Volume 4 is:

Adelaide B. Shaw, Akiko Hasegawa, Alan S. Bridges, Alan Summers, Alex von
Vaupel, Alexander Ask, Alexis Rotella, Alison Williams, Amelia Fielden,
André Surridge, Andrew Riutta, Angela Leuck, Angie LaPaglia, Anita Virgil,
Anna Tadjuideen Pakulska, Anne Benjamin, an'ya, Antoinette Libro, Askold
Skalsky, Aubrie Cox, Audrey Olberg, Aurora Antonovic, Autumn Noelle Hall,
Aya Yuhki, Barbara Robidoux, Barbara A. Taylor, Barry Goodmann, Beatrice N.
van de Vis, Becky Alexander, Belinda Broughton, Bett Angel-Stawarz, Bette
Norcross Wappner, Beverley George, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Bob Lucky, Brendan
Slater, Brian Zimmer, Byakuren Yanagihara, C. William Hinderliter, Carla
Sari, Carlos Colón, Carmel Summers, Carmella Braniger, Carol
Pearce-Worthington, Carol Purington, Carol Raisfeld, Carole MacRury.
Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti, Catherine Mair, Catherine Smith, Cathy
Drinkwater Better, Chad Lee Robinson, Charles Easter, Charles Tarlton,
Chen-ou Liu, Cherie Hunter Day, Christina Nguyen, Claire Everett, Claudia
Coutu Radmore, Claudette Russell, Cody Gohl, Colin Stewart Jones, Collin
Barber, Curtis Dunlap, Cynthia Rowe, David Caruso, David Platt, David Rice,
David Steele, David Terelinck, Dawn Bruce, Dawn Colsey, Deborah P. Kolodji,
Dee Evetts, Diane Mayr, Dietmar Tauchner, Dimitar Anakiev, Doreen King,
Dorothy McLaughlin, Dorothy Walker, Dru Philippou, Dy Andreasen, Edith
Bartholomeusz, Elaine Riddell, Elehna de Sousa, Elizabeth Bodien, Elizabeth
Howard, Enta Kusakabe, Eve Luckring, Fay Aoyagi, Fonda Bell Miller, Francis
Masat, Gary Lebel, Gavin Austin, Gennady Nov, Geoffrey Winch, George Swede,
Gerd Börner, Gerry Jacobson, Giselle Maya, Grant D. Savage, Guy Simser, H.
Gene Murtha, Hannah Mahoney, Heather Feaga, Helen Buckingham, Helen Yong,
Hortensia Anderson, Huguette Ducharme, Ignatius Fay, Ikuko Melze, Ikuyo
Okamoto, J. Andrew Lockhart, J. M. Rowland, J. Zimmerman, James Tipton, Jan
Dean, Jan Foster, Jane Reichhold, Janet Lynn Davis, Janick Belleau, Jeanne
Emrich, Jeanne Lupton, Jeff Hoagland, Jeffrey Woodward, Jim Schneider, Jo
McInerney, Joanna Ashwell, Joey Jenkins, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, John
Parsons, John Quinnett, John Samuel Tieman, John Soules, John Stevenson,
Johnny Baranski, Joseph Peter, Joyce S. Greene, Joyce Wong, Judith Ahmed,
Judy Kendal, Jules Cohn Botea, Julie Thorndyke, Kala Ramesh, Karen Audioun
Klingman, Karen Peterson Butterworth, Kate King Kath Abela Wilson, Kathe L.
Palka, Katherine L. Gordon, Katherine Samuelowicz, Kathy Lippard Cobb,
Keitha Keyes, Kirsten Cliff, Kirsty Karkow, Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Kozue
Uzawa, Larry Neily, Laurence Stacey, LeRoy Gorman, Leslie Giddens, Leslie
Ihde, Liam Wilkinson, Linda Galloway, Linda Jeannette Ward, Linda
Papanicolaou, Lisa Alexander Baron, Lisa M. Tesoriero, Liz Rule, Lois
Holland, Lucas Stensland, Luminita Suse, Lynn D. Bueling, Lynette Arden, M.
Kei, Magdalena Dale, Makoto Nakanishi, Margaret Chula, Margaret Conley,
Margaret Dornaus, Margaret Fensom, Margaret Grace, Margaret Owen Ruckert,
Margaret Van Every, Margarita Engle, Maria Steyn, Marian Morgan, Marian
Olson, Marie Lecrivain, Mariko Kitakubo, Marilyn Hazelton, Marilyn Humbert,
Marjorie Buettner, Mark Holloway, Martin Lucas, Mary Franklin, Mary Kipps,
Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa, Mary Mageau, Matt Quinn, Matthew Caretti, Max Ryan,
Maxianne Berger, Mel Goldberg, Melissa Allen, Merle Connolly, Michael
Ketchek, Michael McClintock, Michael Thorley, Michele L. Harvey, Micheline
Beaudry, Mike Montreuil, Mira N. Mataric, Miriam Sagan, Miyoji Ueda, Naoko
Kishigami Selland, Naomi Beth Wakan, Noele Norris, Owen Bullock, Paginini
Jones, Pamela A. Babusci, Patricia Prime, Paul Smith, Peggy Heinrich,
Polona Oblak, Quendryth Young, Raffael de Gruttola, Randy Brooks, Renee
Gregorio, Richard von Sturmer, Rie Ezaki, Roary Williams, Robert D. Wilson,
Robert McNeill, Robert Smith, Robert West, Rodney A. Williams, Ron C. Moss,
Ron Woollard, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Ruby Spriggs, Ruri Hazama, Ruth
Holzer, Saeko Ogi, Saeko Ozaki, Sakurako, Sanford Goldstein, Sanjukta
Asopa, Sarah Wika, Sean Greenlaw, Seren Fargo, Sheila Sondik, Shernaz
Wadia, Shona Bridge, Sonam Chhoki, Sonja Arntzen, Spiros Zafiris, Stanford
M. Forrester, Stella Pierides, Steve Mangan, Steve Wilkinson, Sue Richards,
Susan Constable, Susan Mary Wade, Svetlana Marisova, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, T.
J. Edge, Takako Nazuka, Taro Aizu, Terra Martin, Terry Ann Carter, Terry
Ingram, Tess Driver, Tessa Wooldridge, Tim Geaghan, Tito, Tom Clausen,
Tomohime, Tracy Davidson, Vasile Moldovan, Vasile Smărăndescu, Veronica
Shanks, Victor P. Gendrano, Yūko Kawano.

About the Editors:

*M. Kei* is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He lives on the
Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (USA) and apprenticed aboard a
skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. He now serves with a fully rigged
ship. His publications include over 1400 tanka poems in six languages and
ten countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five
: Best Contemporary Tanka, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, Recommended Reading by the Chesapeake Bay Project.
He edits Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary
Tanka. He is the compiler of the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka,
which documents over one thousand publications from 1899 to the present
day. He is also the author of the award-winning gay Age of Sail adventure
series, Pirates of the Narrow Seas.

*Patricia Prime,* a semi-retired early childhood teacher, lives in
Auckland, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Kokako, reviews editor of
Takahe, and reviews/interviews editor of Haibun Today. Patricia has been
one of the editors of the Take Five anthologies since their inception. Her
poems, reviews, literary essays and interviews have been published in the
World Poetry Almanac (Mongolia) and in various journals. She is currently
writing collaborative tanka sequences with an Australian poet and shisan
renga with poets from Europe and also from New Zealand. Her work is
scheduled for publication in Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online,
Lynx, Atlas Poetica, Gusts, Eucalypt, multiverses and red lights, among
others.

*Magdalena Dale* was born in, and lives in, Bucharest, Romania. She is a
member of the Romanian Society of Haiku and World Haiku Association. Her
work has been published in several reviews and anthologies in her country
and abroad. Her tanka and haiku have appeared in more literary sites
online. She wrote a bilingual tanka book Perle de roua/Dew pearls, a
bilingual renga book Mireasma de tei/ Fragrance of lime with Vasile
Moldovan and a bilingual haiku book Ecourile tăcerii/ The echoes of
silence.” She received several awards for her work.

*Amelia Fielden* is an Australian professional translator and an
internationally awarded and published tanka poet. Seventeen books of her
translations of modern and contemporary Japanese tanka have appeared over
the last 11 years, with a further two volumes forthcoming in 2012. Amelia
has also published six collections of her own tanka, the most recent being
Light On Water (2010). She has collaborated with other Australian poets to
produce four books of responsive tanka,including Yesterday,Today & Tomorrow
(2011) with Kathy Kituai, and the bilingual Words Flower (2011) with Saeko
Ogi. Amelia is happy to be contacted at anafielden@hotmail.com.

*Claire Everett's* haiku, tanka, and more recently, haibun and tanka prose,
have appeared in many of the short-form poetry journals worldwide. She was
a contributing poet for cycle 11 (spring/summer 2011) of the online journal
Daily Haiku. Claire's interest in tanka prose increased when she was
invited by M. Kei to conduct an in-depth interview with Jeffrey Woodward
for Atlas Poetica 9 (July, 2011) discussing the history and practice of
tanka prose. She is now delighted to be the tanka prose editor for Haibun
Today. Claire lives with her husband and five children in North Yorkshire,
England, and draws most of her inspiration from walks on the Moors and
Dales and in the Lake District.

*Owen Bullock's* first tanka appeared in tangled hair in 2000, and
thereafter in Eucalypt, Lynx, Magnapoets, Modern English Tanka, Moonset,
paper wasp, Atlas Poetica, Presence, etc. He has published a collection of
haiku, wild camomile (Post Pressed, Australia, 2009); fiction, A Cornish
Story (Palores, UK, 2010), and poetry, sometimes the sky isn't big enough
(Steele Roberts, New Zealand, 2010). Owen has edited a number of journals,
including Kokako and Poetry NZ. He is currently on the International
Editorial Board for the online journal, Axon: Creative Explorations
(University of Canberra). He teaches creative writing online for the
Waiariki Institute of Technology and the New Zealand Writers' College. <
http://www.owenbullock.com/>

*David Terelinck* (Sydney, NSW, Australia) is a full-time employee and
part-time writer who seriously wishes the balance were reversed. He has
been involved in creative writing for more than twenty-five years with many
awards for his short stories, articles and poetry. David has been writing
tanka for the past five years and has been widely published in
international tanka journals. David's first tanka collection, Casting
Shadows, was published in late 2011. During the same year, David co-edited
Grevillea & Wonga Vine: Australian Tanka of Place, with Beverley George. He
enjoys giving tanka and other creative writing workshops, and lives by his
motto scribo ergo respiro. In 2012 he is looking forward to joining the
editorial panel of the Canadian journal, GUSTS: Contemporary Tanka.

*Janick Belleau’s *latest publication D’âmes et d’ailes / of souls and
wings – a bilingual tanka collection won her the Canada-Japan Award in
2010. She edited the collective work Regards de femmes – haïkus
francophones in 2008 and coedited L'Érotique poème court / haïku in 2006.
Her feature articles and presentations in Canada, in France and in Japan
deal with the contribution of women in the advancement of haiku and tanka.

*David Rice *lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and aging dog.
Three children and three grandchildren also live in the Bay Area. He has
been reading and writing tanka for more than twenty years, and his poems
have appeared in numerous anthologies. He has self-published two tanka
chapbooks and, with Cherie Hunter Day, the collaborative tanka sequence
Kindle of Green (2008). In 2012 he became the editor of Ribbons.

For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author, contact
editor-in-chief M. Kei by e-mail at: take5tanka at gmail dot com. Publisher
information at: www.AtlasPoetica.org

Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka

Keibooks

P O Box 516

Perryville, MD 21903 USA

take5tanka at gmail dot com

--
M. Kei
Editor-in-chief
Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka
P O Box 516
Perryville, MD 21903
take5tanka (at) gmail (dot) com

katikati haiku contest 2012

DMG — 2012-03-05T20:34:58Z

I would be grateful if you could post/share information about this year’s Katikati Haiku Contest, a contest that is held only every 2 years. All proceeds from the contest go towards the Haiku Pathway project in Katikati, the largest collection of haiku “stones” outside Japan.

For the pathway’s 10th anniversary in 2010, 10 new poem boulders were added to the collection ... plus one more, thanks to a surprise gift from the local council. Members of Katikati Lions are now investigating a project to extend the pathway upstream, which will include new poems added to the outdoor gallery.

Please find a page of information about the contest here:

http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/katikaticontest2012

Many thanks for your help,

Sandra Simpson

secretary, Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee

Haibun Today (March 2012) is now online

DMG — 2012-02-25T22:10:18Z

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

Contributors to this issue include Francis W. Alexander, Melissa Allen, Belinda Broughton, Bouwe Brouwer, Helen Buckingham, Owen Bullock, Ashley Capes, Matthew Caretti, Steven Carter, Sally Clarke, Marcyn Del Clements, Glenn G. Coats, Susan Constable, Anne Curran, Tish Davis, Margaret Dornaus, Lynn Edge, Claire Everett, Ignatius Fay, Autumn Noelle Hall, Jeffrey Harpeng, Penny Harter, Marilyn Hazelton, Melinda Hipple, Gerry Jacobson, Dorrie Johnson, Gary LeBel, Chen-ou Liu, Bob Lucky, Ed Markowski, Carol Pearce-Worthington, Dru Philippou, Patricia Prime, Kala Ramesh, Ray Rasmussen, Cynthia Rowe, Adelaide B. Shaw, Charles Tarlton, Kay Tracy, Diana Webb, Harriot West, Neal Whitman and Brian Zimmer.

This issue also features an in-depth critical essay by Chen-ou Liu, “Make Haibun New through the Chinese Poetic Past: Basho’s Transformation of Haikai Prose.” Other articles include “Close Readings” or critical commentaries—Jeffrey Harpeng on Dru Philippou and Cynthia Rowe on Owen Bullock.

Writers are now invited to submit haibun, tanka prose and articles for consideration in the June 2012 issue of Haibun Today. Consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today.

Pacific Asia Museum show

DMG — 2012-02-06T23:14:02Z

Linda Galloway sent us this announcement. Notice that TAKE FIVE will be sold at this show.

Simply Haiku Autumn/Winter Issue

DMG — 2012-01-16T17:53:34Z

Autumn/Winter Issue of

Simply Haiku

in loving memory of Svetlana Marisova

Vol. 9. No. 3 & 4

http://simplyhaiku.theartofhaiku.com/autumnwinter-2011.html

W E L C O M E!

Robert D. Wilson

Saa Vaić

Co-Owners, Co-Publishers, Co-Editors

and the staff members

Contents:

Features

Svetlana Marisova, The 21st Century's English-language Haiku Master by Robert D. Wilson
Study of Japanese Aesthetics: Part IV : Is Haiku Dying by Robert D. Wilson
Part V of Bashos Haiku: translations by Gabor Terebess and David Landis Barnhill
Haiku, Criticism and Fair Use by Robert D. Wilson
Konoshima's Tanka: translations by David Callner
An Interview with Claire Everett by Robert D. Wilson
An Interview with Predrag Cikaric by Sasa Vazic
New Rising Haiku by Ito Yuki

Simply Haiku

Simply Haiku's "Top Ten List" of the World's Finest

Living English Language Haiku Poets for the year 2011

Ramesh Anand

Don Baird

Mark E. Brager

Terry Busch

Predrag Cikaric

Ljubomir Dragovic

Dubravko Korbus

Chen-ou Liu

Francis Masat

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Kala Ramesh

Ernesto P. Santiago

Manoj Saranathan

Shalini Sunkuru

Hansha Teki

Ted van Zutphen

Featured Haiku Poet: Claire Everett by Robert D. Wilson

Simply Haibun

Sonam Chhoki

Beate Conrad

Claire Everett

George Friedenkraft

Kay Higuchi

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Robert D. Wilson

Simply Tanka

Aurora Antonovic

Don Baird

Josh Bunin

Sonam Chhoki

Kirsten Cliff

L. Costa

Tracy Davidson

Wende Skidmore DuFion

Claire Everett

Mary Franklin

Sanford Goldstein

Chen-ou Liu

Patricia Prime

Dragan J. Ristic

Guy Simser

Neal Whitman

Rodney A. Williams

Ted van Zutphen

Simply Haiga

Beate Conrad

Karen Cesar

Heike Gewi

Autumn Hall

Adelaide B. Shaw

Robert D. Wilson

Ted van Zutphen

Simply Haiku Exclusive

Zoe Savina's Collage: In Memory of Svetlana Marisova

Artist to Artist: Vaggelis Moustakas & Robert D. Wilson

Has the Haiku World Gone Crazy? - Robert D. Wilson (paintings by Alexandros /Moustakas/)

Reviews

William Hart, Home to Ballygunge: Kolkata Tanka--- Don Wentworth
An Unmown Sky: An Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry 1996-2007--- Beverley George
Kaneko Tohta, Ikimonofuei: Poetic Composition of Living Things , translated by the Kon Nichi Translation Group--- Robert D. Wilson
Kuki Shuzo, A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics, translated and edited by Michael F. Marra--- Robert D. Wilson
Svetlana Marisova & Ted van Zutphen, "Be Still and Know"--- Robert D. Wilson

Reprints

· Bashō: Two Hundred Haiku (Part IV) by Tim Chilcott
· Bashō: Oku no Hosomichi (Part IV) by Tim Chilcott
· An Interview with Anita Virgil by Robert D. Wilson
· Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo
· Ten Design Lessons from the Art of Ikebana by Garr Reynolds

7 Japanese Aesthetic Principles by Garr Reynolds
Forgive, But Do Not Forget: Ito Yuki talks with Udo Wenzel
Tomas Transtromer Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature 2011 by Sasa Vazic

Multimedia

Japanese Art - Haiga - Japanese Paintings with Haiku poems by Doshin Kuba 俳画　久芳道信

Autumn Haiku, Haiga

Haiga and Graphics

Rin' - sakura sakura

Japanese Art, Japanese Painting, Fine Art

Pinpricks In The Darkness (The Art of Fuyuko Matsui)

Toni Piccini, "HUNGARIAN RAINBOWS"

Haiku - inspired by Arakida Moritake (1473-1549)

an autumn wind

Basho

WHITE SOULITUDE

Interview with Amelia Fielden

Issue 20 of American Tanka is now online

DMG — 2012-01-03T16:09:08Z

Issue 20 of American Tanka, titled A Few Feet Away, is now online at http://www.americantanka.com. It features work by Sanford Goldstein, Carol Purington, Cherie Hunter Day, Guy Simser, Claire Everett, and many others.

American Tanka is open to submissions for Issue 21 and future issues. Please see guidelines on the website.

Laura Maffei