Results of "autumn festival" Kukai

 

 

Announcing "autumn festival" September 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 From now on (April 1, 2008), Haiku entered in the Sketchbook kukai must be previously unpublished; they must not be workshopped; they must not appear on any list, forum, group, blog, or in print.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.

 

autumn festival wraps up and leaves... 01. Kristin Reynolds, US   1 1 1 6 1st Place

 

waves dappled red and yellow autumn festival # 07. Trish Shields, CA   1 0 2 5 2nd Place Tie   autumn festival a leaf caught in her hair smells like moonlight # 15. Trish Shields, CA 1 0 2 5 2nd Place Tie

 

autumn festival Grandmother kicks up her heels! 18. Kristin Reynolds, US   0 1 2 4 3rd Place Tie   her toddler's face in a row of pumpkins . . . autumn festival # 02. Mary Davila, US 0 1 2 4 3rd Place Tie

 

autumn festival from the dragon's jaws the shining moon # 03. Jacek Margolak, PL   0 1 1 3 4th Place Tie   Fireworks and shooting stars— autumn festival # 06. Vasile Moldovan, RO 1 0 0 3 4th Place Tie   snowflakes bleach the autumn festival . . . pearly pumpkins # 11. Mary Davila, US 0 1 1 3 4th Place Tie

 

a foot above ground, eddying enso of leaves— autumn festival # 04. Don Wentworth, US   0 1 0 2 5th Place Tie   autumn festival a witch hands me my cider 10. Kristin Reynolds, US 0 0 2 2 5th Place Tie   autumn festival the dragons talk with human voice # 19. Jacek Margolak, PL   0 1 0 2 5th Place Tie   witches, goblins, pumpkins, and haunted houses— autumn festival # 09. John Daleiden, US 0 0 1 1 5th Place Tie

 

autumn festival: golden leaves spiral down in the morning wind # 13. Keith A Simmonds, TT   0 0 1 1 6th Place Tie   another autumn festival damn squirrel eating all my Calvary Figs # 16. Ed Baker, US 0 0 1 1 6th Place Tie

 

staghorn sumac in a display of glory: autumn festival # 05.   0 0 0 0 7th Place   this autumn: 25 th annual Takoma Park Folk Festival all the folk I know dead # 08. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   evening fog the secret ingredient of my mooncakes # 12. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   Storks and cranes ready to go away— autumn festival # 14. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   autumn festival— smoked sausage in the beer tent and country music # 17. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   rays of sunlight quiver upon the ocean... autumn festival # 20. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   Birds in the thicket people in the main square— the autumn festival # 21. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   sunset toast with moon cakes and fruit autumn festival # 22. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   across the valley sounds of autumn festival— a calliope # 23. 0 0 0 0 7th Place   autumn festival squirreling away acorns a squirrel # 24. 0 0 0 0 7th Place

 

Ballot for the Sketchbook September 2008 "autumn festival" Kukai vote.   Please NOTE that the votes should be sent to kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org CALL FOR Sketchbook September 2008 "autumn festival" Kukai vote: Voting: Saturday October 04, 2008 - Tuesday October 07, 2008 at Midnight. 1. All the entries are listed on the ballot by number. 2. Only submitting Kukai Poets are eligible to vote. 3. Email your votes to: kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org When voting, please use the words "autumn festival" Kukai in the subject line of your e-mail. 4. Each poet has SIX (6) points to use for the kukai vote. Voters may distribute the points in increments of 1, 2, or 3. You may not cast more than 3 points for any single poem. 5. Please do not vote for your own poem(s). Any such votes will be disqualified. 6. Please use the following format to submit your votes (listing by numerical order, rather than order of preference, as the sample below): To: kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org Subject: "autumn festival" Kukai Vote Each voter has 6 points # 03--1 pt. # 11--2 pts. # 28--3 pts. 7. All votes will be compiled and the haiku will then be published in the September 31, 2008 Sketchbook with votes received; on the names of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, etc. place poets' names will be revealed. Haiku receiving 0 votes will be published without names. If you want your name revealed regardless of the number of votes received please notify the kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org The votes will appear as per the following sample: 0 2 7 11 = ____ Place Which means: No voter gave 3 points, 2 voters gave 2 points, 7 voters gave 1 point = for a total of 11 points CALL FOR Sketchbook September 2008 "autumn festival" Kukai vote: Voting: Saturday October 04, 2008 - Tuesday October 07, 2008 at Midnight.