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Haiga
Marlene
Buitelaar, NL and Max Verhart, NL—Jazzmen;
Tanya Dikova, IL and Zhanna P. Rader, US—he
offers; Karina Klesko, US—Haiga
1; Shanna Baldwin Moore—Haiga;
Karina Klesko—Haiga
2; Susan Constable—Haiga
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December 31, 2007: Vol. 2, No. 6
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Sketchbook Authors
December 31, 2007, Vol. 2, No.6
an'ya, US
Hortensia Anderson, US
Ed Baker, US
Helen Bar-Lev, IL
Ginka
Biliarska, BU
Gerry Bravi, CA
Hugh Bygott, UK
Gillena Cox, TT
Magdalena Dale, RO
John Daleiden,
US
Sam Flavor, CA
Judith Gorgone, US
S. A. Griffin, US
Elizabeth Howard, US
Paul Ingrassia, US
Betty Kaplan, US
Karina Klesko, US
Joyce Maxner, US
Vasile Moldovan, RO
Shanna Baldwin Moore, US
Odeh, Rita, IL
Zhanna P. Rader, US
Kala Ramesh, IN
Vaughn Seward, CA
Adelaide B. Shaw, US
Trish Shields, CA
Brian Strand, UK
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, US
Barbara A. Taylor,
AU
Cindy Tebo, US
Max Verhart, NL
Josh Wikoff, UK
A. D. Winans, US
Colin Will, UK
Tad Wojnicki, US
F. N. Wright, US
A - M Sketchbook Biographies
N - Z Sketchbook Biographies
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Global Correspondents
Connecting to South Africa
On The Move
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, US
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Correspondents:
John Tiong
Chunghoo, Malaysia
Gillena Cox, Trinidad
Sally Evans, Scotland
Helen Bar-Lev, Israel
Cristian Mocanu, Romania
Aju Mukhopadhyay, India
Rita Odeh, Israel
Kala Ramesh, India
E.
E. Sule, Nigeria
Various
Correspondents will be featured from month to month.
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Read
the poems by genre
Acrostic, Cinqku,
Cinquain, Crystalline, Dorsimbra, Fibonacci, Free Verse , Ghazal,
Haibun, Haiku, Kyoka, Lanterne, Light Verse, Mondo,
Pantoum, Rondeau, Sedoka, Shan-zi, Sijo, Sonnet, Stella
Renga, Senryu, Tanka, Tetractys, Triolet
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Announcing January 2008 Kukai
For the
January 2008 Kukai submit one to three HAIKU using the kigo: "cold
moon"
or “icy moon”. The exact kigo words must be used in the
haiku. No more than a total of three haiku may be
submitted:
icy moon
on the open road
I walk alone
john
daleiden, US
To: kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject: Jan08 kigo “cold moon”, or "icy moon"
Submissions: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 – Sunday, January
20,
2008 Midnight.
Voting: Monday, Januay 21, 2008 – Sunday, January
27, 2008, Midnight.
The results will be
published in the Monday, January 31, 2008 Sketchbook.
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Announcing
January 2008 Haiku Thread
Announcing the January 2008 winter activities /winter Olympics / winter sports Haiku Thread
For January 2008 the theme of the monthly haiku thread is winter
activities/ winter Olympics / winter sports. Writers may post an
unlimited number of haiku to the Thread.
Subject Line: Jan08 winter activities haiku thread.
To: haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org
Deadline: Midnight Sunday, January 27, 2008
slalom gates
the zigzags of sunlight
at day's end
Karina Klesko, US
All Haiku received will be posted on-line at
January 2008 winter activities haiku thread
The Sketchbook editors will select their Monthly Haiku
Choice from this thread for publication in the January 31, 2008
Sketchbook.
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Sketchbook
Special Features
December 31, 2007, Vol. 2, No. 6
Rengay Authors
Hortensia Anderson, Ginka
Biliarska, Betty Kaplan, Karina Klesko, Vasile Moldovan, Ron Moss,
Zhanna P. Rader, Kala Ramesh, Max Verhart
Read the
Rengay
Renku
Karina Klesko, Sabaki
Adelaide B. Shaw, Gerry Bravi,
Karina Klesko—Junicho:
The Fullness of the Moon
Tanka Series
Cindy Tebo and Karina Klesko—City
Lights and Forgotten Hills
Zhanna P. Rader and Hugh Bygott—Remembered
Love: A Tanka Sequence
Cindy Tebo and Karina Klesko—Now
That The Leaves Have Gone
Allen Mc Gill and Karina Klesko—Whispering
Softly
Cindy Tebo and Gillena Cox—Out
of Silence
Tanka Sequence
Zhanna P. Rader and Trish Shields—Lost
Love
Haibun
Karina Klesko—Can
It Get Any Worse
Colin Will—On
Completion
Zhanna P. Rader—The
Path
Abecedarian Poems
Cindy Tebo
and Gillena Cox—Fall
in Bloom: A collaborative Abecedarian Poem
Romanian Kukai
Vasile Moldovan,
Simona Dobrescu, Florentina Loredana Dănilă, Eduard Ţară,
Adriana C. Iacob, Florinel,
Henriette Berge, Valeria Tamaş, Jules Cohn Botea, Flueraşu Petre, Florică Dan, Dragos Tsuku, Cristina Rusu,
Anghel Pop, Valeria Tamaş, Ion Untaru, mărţişor, Maria Tirenescu,
Gabriela Marcian, Magdalene Dale, translator.
Read the English translation of these winning
Romanian haiku from the April,
May, June, July, August, September, 2007
Romanian Kukai
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The first issue of
childwriter's sketchbook will be published on January 31, 2008.
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Book Fair
Featured Book of
the Month:

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moments
Gillena Cox
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The Art of
Haiku, Gerald England, ed.
Spirit Harvest, Trish Shields
unfinished
book, Deborah P. Kolodji
Flowers of Life, Brian Strand
Shorthand of the
Heart, Brian Strand
Poiema: Ekphrasis Poems, Brian Strand
Phaneros, A Selection
of Lanternes, Brian Strand
Things Just Come
Through, Ed Baker
Cobweb,
Cristian Mocanu
Watching the Buds
of Dream, Rita Odeh
The Language
of Sparrows, Andreas Gripp
Like
Darwin Among the Gods, Andreas Gripp
Presence
of Mind, Jim Kacian
Oklahoma
Heat, Marc Thompson
(C)opyright Sign, Daniela Bullas
Animals
are Nature's Poetry, Helen Bar-Lev
Cyclamens And Swords, Helen Bar-Lev
San Francisco Blues,
A. D. Winans
whispers from hell,
A. D. Winans
Rustle of Bamboo
Leaves, Victor P. Gendrano
Coast
Lines, Trish Shields and Katherine Gordon
Fire
Pearls, M. Kei, editor
Heron Sea: Short
Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, M. Kei
The Poetic Image, Alan Summers and Roger Brown
moments, Gillena Cox
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