...As Autumn
Leaves Turn
September has been a
month of delays for the Sketchbook Editors. On
September I returned to my Iowa home; I discovered that I had to
install a new furnace and make a number of other repairs before
the property could be rented. During that period I had little or
no daily access to the internet. After three weeks I returned to
my home in Arizona and began work on the September
Sketchbook.
Congratulations to
the winners of the "autumn festival" kukai:
First
Place: Kristin
Reynolds, US
Second Place:
Trish Shields, CA
Third
Place: Kristin
Reynolds, US , Mary Davila, US
Read the
"autumn
festival" Kukai Results
Take a trip with
the September haiku poets to the local "bazaar". This thread
of poems re-creates the experiences of shopping at a
"bazaar".
The October 2008
Kukai is any of the following: (migrating birds--geese migrate,
cranes / storks come, shrike, butcher bird, quail, bullbul,
woodpecker, bird of passage, migratory bird, snipe, longbill,
siskin, little birds). Send no more than three entries to
Oct08kukai@poetrywriting.org. Read the complete
details for the
October 2008 "migrating birds" Kukai
Celebrate the end of
October with festivities; send an unlimited number of haiku to
the October Haiku Thread: cat(s), witche(s), jack-0-lantern(s),
shadow(s); or any images that convey the sense of "halloween"
and / or Samhain. Read the complete details for the
"October 2008" Haiku Thread.
Ed Baker has
published a new book,
Restoration Poems, which is featured in the
September Book Fair.
Helen Bar-Lev,
Israel, publisher of Cyclamens and Swords Press, has sent us a
reminder that November 30, 2008 is the closing date for
submission to their First Annual Poetry Contest:
First prize is
$300, second prize $100, third prize $50 and seven honorable
mentions. Winning poems and
honorable mentions will be published in the winter issue.
Read the details here.
If you like to write
haibun then enter the Kikakuza Haibun Contest. The entry is due
by January 31, 2009. There is no entry fee for poets living
outside of Japan.
Read the detail here.
Tanka writers may
want to enter the First International Erotic Tanka Contest;
deadline: Postmark, December 31, 2008.
Read the details here.
The September
Sketchbook issue contains three articles from our Global
Correspondents: Jeff Spahr-Summers, reporting on South
Africa—End
of Innocence; Bob Lucky, reporting from China—On
the Road in China; Helen Bar-Lev, reporting from Israel—Waiting
for the Rain.
The October issue of
Sketchbook is scheduled for publication on Friday,
October 31, 2008. Please send your October submissions to
submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org.
The October 2008
issue will the the first year of continuous monthly publication
of Sketchbook. We look forward to reading
your October poems.
