17th International “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition in Kumamoto

17th International “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition in Kumamoto 

http://kusamakura-haiku.jp/index_e.html

Applicants: Open to anyone

Deadline:
September 10, 2012 Postmarked on this day OK
Received by September 10, 2012 (overseas only)

Application guidelines:
Entry must be submitted by mail or homepage.
Each applicant can enter up to two haiku poems. Entries via the homepage are only possible in English . Please include: name, current address, gender, e-mail address, and phone number

Fee: Free. One person can send two pieces of Haiku (only unpublished works)

Contest results: Winners will be informed by mail at the beginning of November 2012

awards ceremony: An awards ceremony will be held at the Kumamoto City General Gymnasium and Youth Center on November 17., 2012, but overseas applicants will have their prize money mailed to them.

Publications    
Publications will only be sent to winning individuals during the latter half of Febuary 2013.

Winning haikus will be displayed on our homepage.

Judges: Morio Nishikawa　(Professor emeritus at Kumamoto University), Richard Gilbert (Associate Professor at Kumamoto University )

Prizes:
Kusamakura Taisho (Grand Prize) to one winner :50,000
Chikasuitoshi Kumamoto Shou (Kumamoto ‘City of Artesian Waters’ Haiku Award) to one winner : Commemorative gift
Tokusen (Second Prize) to 8 Winners : 5,000
Nyusen (Third Prize) to 20 winners

Please send your haiku to    
“Kusamakura” Haiku Competition Office
c/o Bunka shinko Ka
( Cultural promotion Section ) City of Kumamoto
1-1 Tetorihoncho, Chuou-ku, Kumamoto City 860-8601 Japan

Essays by Michael Dylan Welch, Robert Wilson

Seeing into the Heart vulnerability in haiku
https://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/essays/seeing-into-the-heart-vulnerability-in-haiku


Japanese Haiku Aesthetics
http://simplyhaiku.theartofhaiku.com/summer-2012/features/japanese-haiku-aesthetics-v.html


INVITATION TO HAIKU
Written by Inahata Teiko

http://www.kyoshi.or.jp/inv-haiku/inv-haiku.htm

SVETLANA MARISOVA Memorial KUKAI

SVETLANA MARISOVA MEMORIAL KUKAI

A kukai is a peer-judged haiku contest. For this kukai the organisers request that all entered haiku exemplify a skillful utilisation of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Entered haiku should display clear traces of the dna that differentiates haiku from all other poetic expressions and give haiku their unmistakeable potency. The rhythm of haiku participates in and expresses the dynamic and organic unfolding of creation rather than settle with being just word pictures incorporating blossoms, moon, snow etc.

Poets wishing to participate must submit their haiku (with their name) to theartofhaiku@gmail.com no later than September 7.

The call for votes will be posted by email to the participating poets on September 7 and a document published on this page listing all the submitted entries, numbered without the authors' names.

Only poets who have submitted poems will be eligible to participate in the voting.

Each voting poet has six (6) points to award allocating 1, 2 or 3 points to chosen poems. No more than 3 points may be cast for any single poem.

Poets are urged not to vote for their own poem.

Please use the following format to submit your votes:


#3---1 pts.

#27--3 pt.

#31--1 pt.

#45--1 pt.

List by the numerical order of the poems, not by personal preference. And please be sure to sign your votes.

Results will be announced on September 14.

September 7 is Svetlana Marisova's first anniversary. To mark the day her friends have chosen to hold a kukai in a way that would appeal to her.

Entries are to be submitted to theartofhaiku@gmail.com by September 7. 

The prompt for kukai entries is - synesthesia in oneness of all things

THE   LIST

Prune Juice, Haibun Today

http://prunejuice.wordpress.com/

for senryu, kyoka and haiga.
editor:  Curtis Dunlap

Haibun Today 
Tanka Prose Editor:  Claire Everett 

tinyWords  Aug 31 deadline
editors:  Kathe L. Palka and Peter Newton
The editorial team is currently reading submissions until Aug.31 for the next issue of tinywords (12.1)  http://www.tinywords.com/ submit

Sirius, the Dog Star

 

predawn sky
in the rabid red-blue glow
of Sirius

by
Angelo B, Ancheta

Stars and Haiku: link here

Joys of Japan Poetry on FB:  here

haigaonline contest

HAIGAONLINE
from Linda Papanicolaou  (haiga Editor)

A note to everyone: On the Haigaonline FB page I've just posted a reminder that the deadline for submissions to Contemporary Haiga challenge is coming up (22 Sept., but I see I made a mistake and published 30 Sept on the FB page, so everyone has a few days grace period). Anyway, the theme is "the sun", which certainly can make for science haiga. I posted links to the SOHO images--they love people to use them for art, just give them credit.

Vancouver Cherry BlossomF estival Haiku Invitational 2012

Congratulations to all !


http://www.vcbf.ca/haiku/2012-winning-haiku

sweet dream

sweet dream -
never wanting to end
a sunset

posted :  here


mind matters
over small talk ...
deepening night 

posted:  here

Blossom Rain's 2ND PHOTO-HAIKU

For details visit BLOSSOM RAIN, click here

haiku tribute to Elvis

haiku tribute for Elvis A. Presley

quiet sunset
on the dance floor
rock and roll

- Angelo B. Ancheta


posted at: HAIKU POETS & TOPICS

http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.jp/2012/08/elvis-presley.html

August Blog Bash by Kathy

http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/190613.html

Sea poems, haiku call from Aubrie

from Aubrie (YAY WORDS)
http://yaywords.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/every-road-will-take-me-down-to-the-sea/

from tinywords
The editorial team is currently reading submissions until Aug.31 for the next
issue of tinywords (12.1)  http://www.tinywords.com/
submit

from  DailyHaiku

DailyHaiku Cycle 14: call for submissions

From the editors at DailyHaiku:

 

Dear Readers, Friends, and Past Contributors,

We are thrilled to announce that submissions are open for DailyHaiku's fourteenth publishing cycle!  This represents the end of our seventh year of publishing as an online daily periodical.  

We now invite you to submit some of your best work for consideration. Your submission, if selected, will grant you one of six spots on our roster of Cycle 14 contributors. It will also become your first set of haiku that will appear on the site. At the end of the 6 month publishing period, each contributor will have four weeks of published haiku, and will receive a copy of our yearly print addition that features their work.

 

If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please thoroughly review our submission criteria detailed on this webpage: http://www.dailyhaiku.org/info/#contribute

Feel free to forward this call to any other haiku enthusiasts that may be interested in participating.

Thank you for helping to make DailyHaiku a lively and dynamic environment to showcase contemporary short form poetry!

All the best,

Patrick and Nicole

Editors---DailyHaiku

How to write a good haiku

How to write a good #haiku:



from Kathy Uyen Nguyen's FB post

1) Read lots of classics like Issa, Basho, Buson, etc.
2) Read modern contemporary haiku in online journals (e.g., Modern Haiku, DailyHaiku, Roadrunner, etc.) and books (ex: http://www.haikuworld.org/books/)
3) Do not strictly function in the 5/7/5 format, but what's more important in the English language is to learn the elements of haiku such as kireji, kigo, and zoka.
4) Do not force yourself; let it flow naturally as you write.
5) Practice and patience

Collaborative Photo-haiku

http://tifholmesphotography.com/cphp/