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Ed
Baker, US
far beyond frog moon jumps
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Haiga
Ed Baker, US; Gillena Cox,
TT—Haiga; Jerry Dreesen,
US—Haiga
Susan Constable, CA—Photo
Haiga; Mary Davila, US—Photo Haiga; Jacek Margolak, PL—Photo
Haiga
Pris Campbell,
US and Berenice Dunford, UK—Collaborative
Photo Haiga
Shanna Baldwin
Moore, US—Haiga
/ Tanka
Maya Lyubenova, BG—Visual
Poem
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Art of
Saul Bernstein, US
Hero
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Sketchbook Authors
August 31, 2008, Vol. 3, No. 8
an'ya, US
Norla Antinoro, US
Ed Baker, US
Helen Bar-Lev, IL
Saul Bernstein, US
Ginka
Biliarska, BG
Pris Campbell, US
Susan Constable, CA
Gillena Cox, TT
John Tiong Chunghoo, ML
John Daleiden, US
Mary Davila, US
Jerry Dreesen, US
Curtis Dunlap, US
Berenice Dunford, UK
Jan Oskar Hansen, NO
Elizabeth Howard, US
Michael Lee Johnson, US
Betty Kaplan, US
Michael Kleiza, CA
Karina Klesko, US
Deborah P Kolodji, US
Bob Lucky, CN
Maya Lyubenova, BG
Jacek Margolak, PL
Tracy
McPherson, US
Shanna Baldwin Moore, US
Vasile Moldovan, RO
Lisa Okon, IL
Karen O'Leary, US
Zhanna P. Rader, US
Kristin Reynolds, US
Mel Sarnese, CA
Vaughn Seward, CA
Dr. Ram Sharma, IN
Trish Shields, CA
Keith A. Simmonds, TT
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, US
Brian Strand, UK
Kim Tairi, AU
A. Thiagarajan, IN
Eric V. a.k.a. “El Coyote” US
Max Verhart, NL
Sharon Weimer, US
A. D. Winans, US
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Read the
Poems by Genre
Acrostic, Cinqku,
Cinquain, Climbing Rhyme, Couplets, Crystalline, Dorsimbra,
Doublets,
Fibonacci,
Free Verse, Ghazal,
Haibun,
Haiga,
Haigay,
Haiku, Kwansaba,
Kyoka, Lanterne,
Light Verse, Mondo, Monoku, Orenienga, Pantoum,
Renga,
Rengay,
Renhai, Renku, Rondeau, Sedoka, Shan-zi,
Shisan, Sijo, Sonnet, Stellarenga,
Senryu,
Tanka, Tetractys, Triolet,
Villanelle, Whitney
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Global
Correspondents
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Connecting to
Israel
August 2008 Report
by Helen-Bar Lev
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Johnmichael
Simon and Helen Bar-Lev are pleased to
announce the launch of their new website
www.cyclamensandswords.com.
Poetry, short stories, artwork, contest,
publishing and more. Cyclamens and Swords
Publishing.
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Correspondents:
John Tiong Chunghoo, Malaysia
Gillena
Cox, Trinidad
Sally Evans, Scotland
Helen
Bar-Lev, Israel
Bob Lucky, Hangzhou, China
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 autumn festival 2008 Kukai
For the September
2008 Kukai submit one to three HAIKU using the kigo
"autumn festival". 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,
Country
To:
kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject:Sep08 autumn festival Kukai
Submissions:
Monday September 01, 2008 – Saturday September 20, 2008 Midnight.
Voting:
Sunday, September 21, 2008 – Saturday September 27, 2008,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Tuesday, September 30, 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 September 2008 "bazaar"
Thread
For September 2008
the theme of the monthly haiku thread is "bazaar",
or "church bazaar"—communicate
the idea of a bazaar. Writers may post an unlimited number of haiku to
the Thread.
Subject Line: Sep08 "bazaar" haiku
thread.
To:
haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org
Deadline:
Midnight Sunday, September 28, 2008.
Haiku
Author, Country
All Haiku received
will be posted on-line at
September 2008
"bazaar"
Haiku Thread.
The
Sketchbook editors will select their
Monthly Haiku Choice from this thread for publication in
the Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Sketchbook.
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Sketchbook Special Features
August 31, 2008, Vol. 3, No. 8
Rengay
Authors
Ginka
Biliarska, BG; John Daleiden, US; Vidur Jyoti, IN; Betty
Kaplan; Vasile Moldovan, RO; Max Verhart, NL
Read the Rengay
Haigay
Max Verhart,
NL and Betty Kaplan, US—Nodding
over the pages
Renhai
Daniela
Bullas, UK; Gillena Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US; Vaughn Seward,
CA; Trish Shields, CA
Read the
Renhai
Haiku
Elizabeth Howard, US;
Lisa Okon,
IL;
Jan Oskar Hansen, NO;
Jacek Margolak, PL;
Eric V. a.k.a. “El Coyote” US;
Michael Kleiza, CA
Haiku
Sequence
John Daleiden, US
Tanka
Elizabeth Howard, US;
John Daleiden, US;
Deborah P Kolodji, US;
Bob Lucky, CN
Tanka Series
Gillena Cox, TT—Beloved: A Ten Waka
Series
Haibun
Zhanna P. Rader—Appalachian
Trail
Tankabun
Norla Antinoro
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First International
Erotic Tanka Contest
Deadline
Postmark: Dec. 31st 2008
Details
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New Contributing Editor
Joins Sketchbook
Sketchbook
is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Spahr-Summers is joining
the poetrwriting.org team as a contributing editor. Jeff is
the creator and editor of
The
Poetry Victims: Vol 5, No. 7, Friday' August 15, 2008 &
Friday. August 22, 2008.
Photo by
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
Current
topics in
The
Poetry Victims: Current Poetry News, Music by
Bob Dylan, Coldplay; Photographs by ZZ Baggins; Links;
Waking Life
Art
by: Carol Radsprecher, Daphne Ann Wills, ZZ Baggins, Anna Maly
Poetry
by: Christopher Kuhl; Edward Wells II, J.A. Spahr-Summers, Michael Pacholski,
Please use the back
arrow in the main browser to return to Sketchbook
Karina Klesko,
editor
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Sketchbook II
Volume 1,
No. 5 June 30, 2008
The
OutlawPoets II
A. D. Winans, US—Free Verse:
Marking Time
Shanna Baldwin Moore,
US—Free
Verse: mouflon, money is cement, rain, The Lady and the Goddess
RD Armstrong, US:
Manx Touches the Magic excerpt from El Pagano*
Scot Young, US—Free
Verse: first gig, The Calling, A Beer With Bukowski, Bottom
of the Ninth
G. David Schwartz—Light
Verse: Some Times She's An Angel, My Mommie Plum Forgot, It Was A
Hot Night, What Can I Possibly Say, I like Potatoes; Limerick: There
Once Was A Beauty From Bombay, If I Never See You Again,
She Puts A Bow On The Basket, My Pen
Don't Write
Tracy
McPherson, US—Free
Verse: Mile marker 9,
Number One, Disarmed, Pink Pearls and
Turtlenecks, The Osprey, Nothing Lost, Communication Breakdown,
Wind In My Hair, It was a lovely merlot, Engulfed Cathedral
Lyn Lifshin: Free Verse:
Fifteen Selections from Cove Point: Camel, Dead Girls,
Dying Girls (1), Dead Girls, Dying Girls (2), Dead Girls,
Dying Girls (3), Dear Girls, Dying Girls (1), Dead Girls,
Dying Girls (5), Dead Girls, Dying Girls (6), Dear Girls,
Dying Girls (2), Dead Girls, Dying Girls (7), Dead Girls,
Dying Girls (8), Dead Girls, Dying Girls (9), Dead Girls,
Dying Girls (10), Dead Girl, Dying Girl (11), Dead Girl, Dying
Girl (1), Dead Girls
Lyn Lifshin,
US—Free Verse:
Nineteen Selections from January Poems, 2006: Madonna of
the Blue Jean Skirt, Blue, Past the Middle of the Month,
Martin Luther King Day (1), Martin Luther King Day (2), Martin
Luther King Day (3), Ginerra De Benci (1), Ginerra De Benci
(2), Dark Energy, "Vermillion" He Wrote or was it "Vertuil?",
January Rain, On The Porch and the Scream, Never Use Vermilion
in a Poem, Bad Friday Oh Not One More Awful Anything
Blues, The Aloneliness Dream, Desperately Forgetting She's
Dead, Before Any Lavender Streaks, The Black Pond, Trying To
Not Write A Dark Poem, Sky Going Royal Blue
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Sketchbook II Editors
Karina
Klesko
John
Daleiden
Shanna
Baldwin Moore
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August 2008 "frog(s)" Kukai Results
First Place: Mary Davila, US
Second Place: Jacek Margolak, PL
Third Place: Karina Klesko, US
Read the
Read the
"frog(s)"
Kukai Results
Kukai
Participants
Ed Baker, US;
Gerry Bravi, CA; Daniela Bullas, US; John Daleiden, US;
Mary Davila, US; Jerry Dreesen, US; Sally Evans, UK
(Scotland); Karina Klesko, US; Deborah P Kolodji, US; Jacek
Margolak, PL; Tracy McPherson, US; Vasile Moldovan, RO; Aju
Mukhopadhyay, IN; Peter Pache, US; Ruth Price, US; Zhanna P.
Rader, US; Kristin Reynolds, US; Greg Schwartz, US; Keith A.
Simmonds, TT; Barbara A. Taylor, AU; Don Wentworth, US; Tammy
Whishman, US; Eiko Yachimoto, JP
Eight
Countries: Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Romania,
Trinidad, United Kingdom, United States
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Editor's Choice
2008 August "water" Haiku Thread
Karina's
Choices
John's
Choices
Read the
"water" Haiku Thread
Participating Poets
Hortensia Anderson, US;
Ed Baker, US; Gerry Bravi, CA; Daniela Bullas, UK; John Daleiden, US;
Jon Davey, UK; Iga Gala-Miemus, PL; Bill Kenney, US; Catherine J. S. Lee, US; Jacek Margolak,
PL; Tracy McPherson, US; Vasile Moldovan, RO; Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN; Karen O'Leary, US; Shannon O'Leary, US; Zhanna
P. Rader, US; Kristin
Reynolds, US; Kevin Ryan, UK; Trish Shields, CA; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Barbara A. Taylor,
Maria Tirenescu, RO; AU; Eric V. "El Coyote", US;
Ella Wagemakers, NL; Eiko Yachimoto, JP
Countries:
Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Trinidad, United
Kingdom, United States
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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
On/Off The Beaten Path: The Road Poems, RD. Armstrong, (Raindog)
Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski: The Saga Continues,
RD. Armstrong, (Raindog)
Lost in the Fog, Lyn Lifshin
The Whole Body Singing,
Quendryth Young
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