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Jerry
Dreesen
Blue Blossoms
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Haiga
Laryalee
Fraser, CAHaiga; Mike Keville,
UK and Susan Constable,
CACollaborative
Haiga; Pris Campbell, US and Geoff Sanderson, UKCollaborative
Photo Haiga; Gillena CoxHaiga;
Mary Davila, USPhoto
Haiga; Elizabeth Howard, US and
Jennifer QuillenCollaborative
Haiga; Allison Millcock, AUHaiga;
Ron MossHaiga;
Maya Lyubenova, BGVisual
Shape Poetry; Shanna Baldwin Moore, USPhoto
Haiga
Announcement
GARY
SNYDER
WINS
2008 RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE
$100,000 lifetime achievement award
one
of largest to poets
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Sketchbook Authors April 30, 2008, Vol. 3,
No. 4
an'ya
RD Armstorng, US
Ed Baker, US
Helen Bar-Lev, IL
Gary Blankenship, US
Gerry Bravi, CA
Pris Campbell, US
Susan Constable,
CA
Gillena Cox, TT
John Daleiden, US
Jon Davey, UK
Jerry Dreesen,
US
Laryalee Fraser, CA
Judith Gorgone, US
Andreas Gripp, CA
Elizabeth Howard, US
Paul Ingrassia, US
Vidur Jyoti, IN
Betty Kaplan, US
Michael Kleiza, CA
Karina Klesko, US
Mike Keville,
UK
Angelika Kolompar, CA
Catherine J. S. Lee, US
Maya Lyubenova,
BG
Allison Millcock, AU
Vasile Moldovan, RO
Shanna Baldwin Moore, US
Ron Moss, AU
Karen O'Leary, US
Aleksandar Prokopiev, Macedonia
Zhanna P. Rader, US
Kristin A. Reynolds, US
Kevin Ryan, UK
Geoff Sanderson, UK
Vaughn Seward, CA
Dr. Ram Sharma, IN
Trish Shields, CA
Keith A. Simmonds, TT
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, US
Brian Strand, UK
Craig Tigerman, US
Max Verhart, NL
A. D. Winans, US
Don Wiggins, US
Tad Wojnicki,
US/TW
Eiko
Yachimoto, JP
A
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Connecting to Our
Sister
Publication
Sentinel Poetry (Online)
We are
pleased to announce
Nnorom Okezie Azuonye
NEW
Sketchbook
Contributing Editor
Nnorom Azuonye is the
author of Letter to God & Other Poems
(2003), and The Bridge Selection: Poems for the
Road (2005). The Founder and Administrator of
Sentinel Poetry Movement - the International Community
of Writers and Artists since 2002
www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk
Azuonye is also the Editor
of the magazines: Sentinel Poetry, Sentinel
Literary Quarterly, and the forthcoming
Excellence - a magazine of Christian Living. He
lives in London, United Kingdom with his wife Thelma
Amaka and son Arinze Chinedum.
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Global
Correspondents
Connecting to
Trinidad and Tobago
Parrots
by
Gillena Cox
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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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Announcing May 2008 Kukai
For the May
2008 Kukai submit one to three HAIKU using the kigo
barefoot. The exact word(s) must be used in the haiku.
No more than a total of three haiku may be submitted.
Haiku submitted to the kukai should not be workshopped,
appear on-line in forums, or in print.
Haiku
Author
To:
kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject:May08 barefoot Kukai
Submissions: Thursday,
May 01, 2008 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Midnight.
Voting:
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Tuesday, May 27, 2008,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sketchbook
Recent letters to the
Sketchbook editors and discussions on
various forums indicate that some assumptions about a
kukai must be spelled out. From now on (April 1, 2008),
Haiku entered in the Sketchbook
kukai must be previously unpublished; they must
not be workshopped; they must not appear on any list,
forum, group, blog, or in print. In short, if the haiku
has appeared on the internet or in print we consider it
to have been published. The voting in a kukai is
anonymous and publication anywhere voids anonyminity.
Any haiku found to be previously published will be
disqualified.
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Announcing May 2008 Motherhood Haiku
Thread
For May 2008 the theme of the monthly haiku thread is
Motherhoodanything about mothers. Writers may post an unlimited number of haiku to
the Thread.
Subject Line: May08 Motherhood haiku
thread. To:
haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org Deadline:
Midnight Tusday, May 27, 2008.
three blue-green eggs
in the window ledge nest
rock-a-bye baby
John Daleiden, US
All Haiku received
will be posted on-line at
May 2008 Motherhood Haiku Thread.
The
Sketchbook editors will select their
Monthly Haiku Choice from this thread for publication in
the Saturday, May 31, 2008 Sketchbook.
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Sketchbook Special Features April 30, 2008,
Vol. 3, No. 4

Rengay
Authors
Gillena Cox,
TT; John
Daleiden, US; Betty Kaplan, US; Max Verhart, NL; Dr. Vidur Jyoti, IN
Read the
Rengay

Redenga
Karina Klesko, US & Linda Papanicolaou, US

Renku Graphic Shisan
Images and
Verses by Karina Klesko, US and Linda Papanicolaou, USBell
Crickets

Contemporary Renga
Judith Gorgone, US and Don Wiggins, USLooking
for Love

Haiku
Sequence
Vasile
MoldovanLime
Leaf

Experimental Haiku
Maya Lyubenova,
BGThree
Haiku

Defining
Haiku
Marlene
Mountain'the
japanese haiku' and so on
Marlene
Mountainunaloud.....and
.....aloud....

Renhai
Vaughn Seward,
CA
and Zhanna P.
Rader, USSpring
Signatures
Betty Kaplan,
US and Vaughn Seward, CAThe
First Time
Gillena Cox,
TT and Shanna Baldwin Moore,USGoing
Green
Vaughn Seward,
CA and Betty Kaplan, USAgainst
the Cold
Shanna Baldwin
Moore, US and Gillena Cox, TTIn
The Clearing
April 2008 Renhai Collection
Announcement
April / May Renhai Workshop
Starting
April 13, 2008 TheOutlawPoets will be sponsoring a
10-day Renhai Workshop. Several Renhai poems will be
written step-by-step over the course the workshop.
Vaughn Seward and Zhanna P. Rader will host the
workshop. Sketchbook writers and readers are
invited to join in to watch, comment, and even
participate (depending on your interest and
time). It is anticipated that some of the renhai written
during this workshop will be submitted for inclusion in
the April - May, 2008 issues of Sketchbook.
For more information and background about Renhai, check
out the Sketchbook
Renhai
section of this issue.
To be part
of the Renhai workshop, click on the following link and join
the "Renhai Studio" Yahoo Group. Anyone is welcome
to join.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/renhai/
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Haibun
Tad Wojnicki,
US/TWBean
There Dawn That, Nosh on a Knish
Jon Davey, UKOne
Last Cast
Betty Kaplan,
USMeeting
Charlie,
Her Name was Flora
Maya Lyubenova,
BGA Place in my
Memories
Eiko
Yachimoto, JPPains
and Petals

Photo Tanka
Karina Klesko, US and Kevin Ryan, UKPhoto
Tanka
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Sketchbook II
Volume 1,
No. 3 April 30, 2008
Enter
The
OutlawPoets II

Americana
A. D. Winans,
USFree
Verse: Fire Ants, Visiting La Guna Honda Old Age Home, For
the Young, Superman and the FBI, Both And Bar
Stosh Machek, USFree
Verse: *santos de la
maquina del gumball *(gumball machine saints) |

Feature for April /
May 2008
A
Retrospective of A. D. Winans' Work
Enter
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Shanna Baldwin
Moore, USPhoto
Haiga
Shanna Baldwin
Moore, USThe
Venice Beat PoetsThe Great River Outside the Mainstream
James Ryan Morris
James Ryan
Morris, USFour
Poems: She Said, The Hope, Face to Face, The Relief
R. D.
Armstrong,
USFree
Verse:
Eyes Like Mingus,
The Little Red Book
Sander Roscoe Wolff Interviews Raindog
Pris Campbell,
USFree
Verse: Catboat In Blue, Degas' Ghost
Tracy
McPherson, USFree
Verse: Haiku Backwards, Guide to Love: Test Your
Compatibility!, The
Roster, don't want
to go to bed without you
Gary
BlankenshipFree
Verse: After
Howl VI, W Does
Haiku, A Bush I: The
First Edition Always Lands on the Roof, A Bush II: The Second
Will Be Thrown in the Barberries, A Bush III: A Third Lay in
the Rain until I Picked It up, A Bush IV: Today the Paper Boy
Is Late, A Bush V: A
Sudden Wind Blew the Comics across the Lawn, A Bush VI: The
Dog Ate the Obituaries, A Bush VII: The Paper Stopped We
Forgot to Restart It
Joseph FarleyFree
Verse: The Knock At The Door, Winter Rose, alone,
Memorial, The Days of The Week, cold cash, Twenty Years Later,
Farewell To Thee, Reprieve, When It Rains It Pours, Tokyo
Rose,
Lyn LifshinFive Poems from
Cove Point:
Ring,
Child Prodigy's Time To Die,
Something Great Mom Says,
Blue At The Table In The Hot Sun,
After 15 Years
Lyn LifshinFour Poems from
January Poems, 2006:
Rage January 4, 2006; January 4 Rage;
Rage Even After Ballet; Rage, January
G. David
SchwartzFree
Verse: If I Had One Wish, I Know, Close The Venetian
Blinds, Ill Never Tell

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Sketchbook II Editors:
Karina
Klesko
John
Daleiden
Shanna Baldwin
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childwriter's cover
childwriter's contents: January 31, 2008: Vol. 1, No. 1
Brian Strand,
UKVignette-on
Two Levels
Michemon, JPIllustratorChildren's
Books:
Gallery 1;
Gallery 2;
Michemon Biography

Planetpals.com
is conducting an earth friendly and fun haiku contest to
help kids learn to keep the planet clean and healthy!
The contest aims to promote the introduction of haiku
into the curricula of elementary and junior high school,
spread the enjoyment and teach a comprehensive
understanding of poetic forms and environmental
awareness, so important today.
The contest is open to individual students. Planetpals
encourages this as a lesson plan or activity for
schools, camps, organizations and homeschools. This
contest starts on February 22, 2008 and closes on April
22, 2008.
Click here for complete information.
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"Crane or
Stork" Kukai Results
First Place: Melissa Spurr, US
Second Place: Jacek Margolak, PL
Third Place: Vasile Moldovan, RO
Read the winning haiku in the "Crane or Stork" Kukai
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Enter the Book Fair
Featured Books of the Month
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 Bud 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
The Haiku Handbook, William J. Higginson
San Francisco Blues, A. D. Winans
whispers from hell, A. D. Winans
Rustle of Bamboo Leaves, Vicgtor 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
seasons of a hermitess, an'ya
Fire and Rain, RD Armstrong
Beads on Blossoms, Andreas Gripp
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