cold summer night --
a firefly hovers
alone
Monday, February 28, 2005
Friday, February 25, 2005
9th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest!
Invitation
to the 9th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest!
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The Mainichi Newspapers is inviting participation in the 9th Annual Mainichi Haiku Contest.
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One key word of the 21st century is the "environment" that people share with nature. Haiku that are in line with nature are now the most seasonal type of verse.
We look forward to receiving original Japanese, English or French entries that will help add a touch of inspiration to the world of haiku.
Judges for the contest are haiku experts Akito Arima, Akira Omine, Namiko Ogawa, Yuko Kagiwada, Nobuko Katsura, Tota Kaneko, Momoko Kuroda, Toru Haga, Kai Hasegawa, Naoto Hirose, Tetsunosuke Matsuzaki and Toge Morita.
Toru Haga, an internationally renowned expert on comparative literature, will judge international section entries.
Participants will compete for prizes in three sections -- general, children(those of junior high school age and under), and international (for haiku composed in English or French).
Applications are easy and can be posted or made over the Internet. For the blind, applications can also be submitted in Braille.
Entries must be original haiku and must not have been published or submitted anywhere else. Double submissions will not be accepted. The release and publishing copyrights of any of the entries that are published in subsequent haiku collections will remain with the Mainichi Newspapers.
Those taking part in the international division can submit a maximum of two haiku and it costs nothing to apply. --international and children's entries and entries in Braille are free.
Together with your haiku, please include your name, age, address, telephone number, and the name of any haiku organization to which you belong with your entry. Also indicate which section you are applying for.
To apply over the Internet, simply fill out the entry form.
Please use the provided online form to submit entries. E-mails sent directly to the Mainichi Haiku Contest Office will not be accepted.
The overall winner will take home the grand prize of 500,000 yen, while the runner-up will receive 300,000 yen. Two other prizes of 100,000 yen will be awarded for distinguished compositions in the general section.
Certificates of merit and mementos will be awarded for haiku in international, children's, organization, and school categories.
Results for the winners of the international section will be announced on the Mainichi Daily News Web site in June 2004. Other winners will be announced in the Mainichi Shimbun and Mainichi haiku publications, in June 2004.
The deadline for entries by e-mail is March 25, 2005
About the general section
Entries in the general section cost 2,000 yen for each pair of haiku. Money for general section entries should be sent by postal transfer to the Mainichi Haiku Taisho Jimukyoku (Mainichi haiku contest head office), account No. 00140-0-404438.
For questions, please e-mail the organizers : miki.n@mbx.mainichi.co.jp
Supporters
Among the supporters of the contest are the Modern Haiku Association, the Association of Haiku Poets, the Association of Japanese Classical Haiku, the Japan Children's Haiku Association, the Haiku International Association, the National Committee for the Welfare of the Blind in Japan, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
FROM: http://mainichi-shuppan.com/taisyou/index-e.html
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Thursday, February 17, 2005
SP QUILL QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
To those interested, the SP Quill Quarterly Magazine will be taking haiku, senryu, tanka, cinquiain, and haiga submissions until February 28th for our special Spring 2005 issue. If you are interested, please stop by and submit.
Submission rules:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magazine/submissions.html
Online submission:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magazine/comments.html
Marie Summers
marie@shadowpoetry.com
Shadow Poetry
Shadows Ink Publications
SP Quill Quarterly Magazine
Submission rules:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magazine/submissions.html
Online submission:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magazine/comments.html
Marie Summers
marie@shadowpoetry.com
Shadow Poetry
Shadows Ink Publications
SP Quill Quarterly Magazine
Shadow Poetry - A World of Poetry at Your Fingertips
1209 Milwaukee Street, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024
http://www.shadowpoetry.com
HAIBUN : bus bombing
moonlight
covers hapless passengers --
terrorists' attack
My co-passenger's mobile phone rings and breaks in the news: "Please avoid Ayala as there's heavy traffic jam. A public bus has been bombed near Ayala MRT station. Please pass on and be careful". I worry about my sister who is working in a bank just a few meters away from the scene. She must be in panic right now. My forehead turns clammy and I begin to sweat in the cold of the air-conditioned van. A newsbreak cuts off the music played on the van's radio. "At least three people were killed and several wounded in the latest bombing of a bus which hit two more buses. The blast was heard by nearby hotels, malls, banks and establishments in the vicinity..."
covers hapless passengers --
terrorists' attack
My co-passenger's mobile phone rings and breaks in the news: "Please avoid Ayala as there's heavy traffic jam. A public bus has been bombed near Ayala MRT station. Please pass on and be careful". I worry about my sister who is working in a bank just a few meters away from the scene. She must be in panic right now. My forehead turns clammy and I begin to sweat in the cold of the air-conditioned van. A newsbreak cuts off the music played on the van's radio. "At least three people were killed and several wounded in the latest bombing of a bus which hit two more buses. The blast was heard by nearby hotels, malls, banks and establishments in the vicinity..."
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
SENRYU : Bombings
1
terrorists' night --
the full moon
is bleeding
2
Valentine night's bombing---
the malls' sniffing dogs
remain sleeping
3.
on a Valentine's date,
an unopened champagne bottle
exploded
terrorists' night --
the full moon
is bleeding
2
Valentine night's bombing---
the malls' sniffing dogs
remain sleeping
3.
on a Valentine's date,
an unopened champagne bottle
exploded
Friday, February 11, 2005
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
TANKA SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Tanka Society of America invites you to consider the benefits of being a TSA member. We hope you will give serious consideration to joining the growing worldwide membership.
TSA offers an excellent quarterly, with some exciting changes that are due in March 2005. It is filled with varied and thought-provoking articles, information on contests and periodicals, opportunities to participate with original poetry, and book reviews. Poet and Poem features tanka poets writing about themselves and their work.
The annual TSA Tanka Contest is a main event, judged by a different well-known tanka poet each year.
The TSA Tanka Anthology is printed annually, publishing tanka from all members.
Tanka Cafe, featured in each Newsletter, awards an honorarium for a favorite tanka.It is a participatory event; the selections are made by the TSA members.
We hope that you will explore the following website for more information:
Tanka Society of America site
If there is any way in which I can help please get in touch.
Kirsty Karkow, TSA Secretary
TSA offers an excellent quarterly, with some exciting changes that are due in March 2005. It is filled with varied and thought-provoking articles, information on contests and periodicals, opportunities to participate with original poetry, and book reviews. Poet and Poem features tanka poets writing about themselves and their work.
The annual TSA Tanka Contest is a main event, judged by a different well-known tanka poet each year.
The TSA Tanka Anthology is printed annually, publishing tanka from all members.
Tanka Cafe, featured in each Newsletter, awards an honorarium for a favorite tanka.It is a participatory event; the selections are made by the TSA members.
We hope that you will explore the following website for more information:
Tanka Society of America site
If there is any way in which I can help please get in touch.
Kirsty Karkow, TSA Secretary
Monday, February 07, 2005
Saturday, February 05, 2005
CONTEMPORARY HAIBUN CONTEST
Editors Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross and Ken Jones are calling for haibun submissions for the new online quarterly journal Contemporary Haibun Online [CHO].
http://www.poetrylives.com/CHO/
The first inaugural issue will be released on April 15, 2005 and the submission deadline is March 15.
All submissions will be blind reviewed [author's names removed] and will be either accepted, accepted subject to revision, or rejected. All submissions, whether accepted or rejected, will receive comments from the editors.
In addition, CHO will offer a 'learning column' in which a number of submissions will be shown as:
1. First draft
2. Editors critiques
3. Second drafts
CHO will also offer articles on the contemporary English haibun form and invites submission of articles for consideration.
CHO is associated the print journal Contemporary Haibun and may also publish haibun that are accepted for CHO in Contemporary Haibun.
To submit a haibun for thus first inaugural issue, visit the submission guidelines page:
http://www.poetrylives.com/CHO/pages_main/submissions.html
http://www.poetrylives.com/CHO/
The first inaugural issue will be released on April 15, 2005 and the submission deadline is March 15.
All submissions will be blind reviewed [author's names removed] and will be either accepted, accepted subject to revision, or rejected. All submissions, whether accepted or rejected, will receive comments from the editors.
In addition, CHO will offer a 'learning column' in which a number of submissions will be shown as:
1. First draft
2. Editors critiques
3. Second drafts
CHO will also offer articles on the contemporary English haibun form and invites submission of articles for consideration.
CHO is associated the print journal Contemporary Haibun and may also publish haibun that are accepted for CHO in Contemporary Haibun.
To submit a haibun for thus first inaugural issue, visit the submission guidelines page:
http://www.poetrylives.com/CHO/pages_main/submissions.html
TANKA Competition : SnapShot Press UK
The Snapshot Press Collection Competition was established in 1998 and is now an annual event, alternating between tanka and haiku.
It provides a rare and equal opportunity for authors to have a collection published in a professional manner, regardless of reputation and publishing history.
The 2003 winning tanka collection, Growing Late by Tom Clausen, will be published by Snapshot Press in 2005. The previous tanka winner, Cherie Hunter Day's Early Indigo (Snapshot Press, 2000), went on to receive a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. Numerous other collections have also been published to critical acclaim as a result of entry into this contest.
TANKA - Chat room
1.
sixty minutes
been waiting
in the chat room
my cursor blinks -
i'm still online
2.
sixty minutes
of waiting for an answer --
on the chat window
a blinking cursor
and static pixels
sixty minutes
been waiting
in the chat room
my cursor blinks -
i'm still online
2.
sixty minutes
of waiting for an answer --
on the chat window
a blinking cursor
and static pixels
TANKA - Chat room
1.
sixty minutes
been waiting
in the chat room
my cursor blinks -
i'm still online
2.
sixty minutes
of waiting for an answer --
on the chat window
a blinking cursor
and static pixels
sixty minutes
been waiting
in the chat room
my cursor blinks -
i'm still online
2.
sixty minutes
of waiting for an answer --
on the chat window
a blinking cursor
and static pixels
Friday, February 04, 2005
Thursday, February 03, 2005
TANKA
1.
somewhere
this ant trail
begins and ends
a chicken cackling
in a square dance
2.
my reflection
this morning in a
hundred dewdrops
a grasshopper wiping
its wet feet
3.
somewhere
this ant trail
begins and ends
twin sisters
dance the tinikling
i know
she's been waiting
somewhere
this ant trail
begins and ends
4.
in a bucket
of fishes and ice
mother's reflection
a reminder
of her favorite dish
5.
as i recycle leaves
for compost
falling
on dry ground
raindrops
6.
in between
classes i smell
mother's scent
a pail of fresh
fish in memory
7.
sixty minutes
of waiting for an answer
on the chat window
a blinking cursor
and static pixels
8.
sixty minutes
been waiting
in the chatroom
the cursor blinks --
i'm still online
somewhere
this ant trail
begins and ends
a chicken cackling
in a square dance
2.
my reflection
this morning in a
hundred dewdrops
a grasshopper wiping
its wet feet
3.
somewhere
this ant trail
begins and ends
twin sisters
dance the tinikling
i know
she's been waiting
somewhere
this ant trail
begins and ends
4.
in a bucket
of fishes and ice
mother's reflection
a reminder
of her favorite dish
5.
as i recycle leaves
for compost
falling
on dry ground
raindrops
6.
in between
classes i smell
mother's scent
a pail of fresh
fish in memory
7.
sixty minutes
of waiting for an answer
on the chat window
a blinking cursor
and static pixels
8.
sixty minutes
been waiting
in the chatroom
the cursor blinks --
i'm still online
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
SPIRITUAL HAIKU
moon clouds
Gabriel breaks through
an expectant virgin
sun setting
an angel flies
rings the churchbell
Gabriel breaks through
an expectant virgin
sun setting
an angel flies
rings the churchbell
Moon Haiku
zazen
full moon
on water
crescent moon
cradling the stars
a gentle lady
full moon
alone in the lake
a swan staring
mooncake
ah, the aroma
of new year
the song
of crickets
moonlight sonata
(c) angelo ancheta
full moon
on water
crescent moon
cradling the stars
a gentle lady
full moon
alone in the lake
a swan staring
mooncake
ah, the aroma
of new year
the song
of crickets
moonlight sonata
(c) angelo ancheta
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