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Mary Davila, US
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Haiga
Pris Campbell,
US—Haiga; Maya Lyubenova,
BG—Haiga;
Jacek Margolak, PL—Haiga; Shanna Baldwin Moore, US—Haiga
Susan
Constable, CA—Photo
Haiga; Mary Davila, US—Photo
Haiga; Laryalee Fraser, CA—Photo
Haiga; Shanna Baldwin Moore, US—Photo
Haiga
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Cover Artist
Magnolia Canopy
Mary Hillier, US
tea
candles flicker
at the end of February
scent of magnolia
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Global
Correspondents
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Connecting to
South Africa
14:
Casper
by Jeff Spahr-Summers
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Connecting to
Israel
Landscapes of the North and the Galilee
Coloured Pencils and
Watercolour Paintings Exhibition
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
"spring dream(s)" April 2009 Kukai
The April 2009 Kukai theme is
"spring dream(s)". Use the exact words "spring
dream(s)"
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:"spring dreams" kukai
Submissions:
Sunday, March 01, 2009 – Saturday, April 18, 2009 Midnight.
Voting: Sunday,
April 19 - Sunday, April 26, 2009,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Thursday, April 30, 2009
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kukai must be previously unpublished; they must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 March / April 2009 blossoms Thread
The theme of
the March / April 2009 haiku thread will be anything
that blooms.
Writers may post an unlimited number of
haiku to the blossoms Thread.
Subject Line:
blossoms
March / April 2009 haiku
thread.
To:
haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org
Deadline:
Midnight Friday, April 24, 2009.
Haiku
Author, Country
All Haiku received
will be posted daily on-line at
blossoms thread March / April 2009.
The
Sketchbook editors will select their
Monthly Haiku Choice from this thread for publication in
the Thursday, April 30, 2009 Sketchbook.
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Sketchbook Special Features
February 28,
2009, Vol. 4, No. 1
Cinquain
Ekphrastic Poem
Free Verse
Haiga
Haigay
Haiku
Lanterne
Rengay
Renhai
Tanka
Featuring
Sketchbook Authors
for February 28,
2009, Vol. 4, No. 1
Featuring Sketchbook II Authors
for February 28,
2009, Vol. 2, No. 1
The Little
Black Book:
Enter
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Making Sense
A Series of Haigay
by Marlène
Buitelaar, NL and Betty Kaplan, US
Artwork by
Max Verhart, NL
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Contributing Editor Jeff
Spahr-Summers
Jeff is
the creator and editor of
Poetry Victims
The
February 25, 2009, Vol. 6, Issue 2 is now
online:
Featuring
collaborative Art by Amy Kohut and ZZbaggins, as well as,
Poetry by Robert King.
Stephen Biko
Seasonal Showers in Pretoria
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In November
Jacarandas grow
Powerful summer flowers
Showy blue in hue
And throughout December
Violet showers blow
Just so
Like snow
Floating to and fro
Slowly
Down the flowing
Boulevards below
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers 1991
from Frank Talk
Blog
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Poetry Victims Features
Music by Kylie Minogue
ZZ Baggins:
Not Quite So Personal and Irregular Diary
ZZ Baggins Photography
World According to ZZ Baggins
Who the Hell?
Please use the back
arrow in the main
browser to return to Sketchbook
Karina Klesko,
Editor
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Enter the
Book Fair
Featured Books of the Month
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Michael Dickel
The
World Behind it, Chaos
Michael Dickel, a poet and
photographer with degrees in psychology, creative
writing and English Literature from the University of
Minnesota, teaches at The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Dickel's prize-winning work has appeared in
literary journals, art books, and anthologies for over
20 years. This debut book magnificently explores chaos &
mystery.
read
poems from The World Behind it, Choas |
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
El Pagano and Other
Twisted Tales, RD Armstrong
Marking Time,
A. D. Winans
Restoration Poems, Ed Baker
As If, Angela Consolo Mankiewicz
The Reagan Pslams CD, A. D. Winans
Hesitant Commitments, Pris Campbell
The Dark Abode, Dr.Sarojini Sahoo
The World Behind it, Chaos, Michael
Dickel
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February 2009 "hazy moon" Kukai Results
First
Place: Vasile Moldovan, RO
Second Place:
Catherine J. S. Lee, US
Third
Place: Christopher Herald, US
Read the "hazy
moon" results
Participants in the
"hazy moon"
kukai
Barbara
Anderson, US; Cheryl Ashley, US'; Francine Bamwarth; Robin
Beshers, US; Tom Cassell, US; Gillena Cox, TT; Magdalena Dale,
RO; John Daleiden, US; Mary Davila, US; Tanya Dikova, IL;
Victor P. Gendrano, US; Deirdre Godwin, CA: Judith Gorgone,
US; Christopher Herold, US; Harvey Jenkins, CA; Doris Kasson,
US; William Kenney, US: Catherine J. S. Lee, US; Jacek
Margolak, PL; John McDonald, UK (Scotland); Ioan
Marineseu-Puiu, RO;
Vasile
Moldovan, RO;
Peter Pache,
US; Bill Pauly, US:; Kristin Reynolds, US; Keith A.
Simmonds, TT; Elehne de Sousa, CA: Barbara A. Taylor, AU; John
Thompson, US; Eric V. "El Coyote", US; Priscilla Van
Valkenburgh, US; Tad Wojnicki, US/TW; Eiko Yachimoto, JP;
Sherry Zhou, CA;
Countries:
Australia, Canada, Japan, Poland, Romania, Trinadad and Tobogo,
Taiwan, United Kingdom (Scotland), United States
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Editor's Choice
2009 February "arts and crafts" Haiku Thread
Karina's Choices
John's
Choices
Read the
Spring "arts and crafts" haiku thread
Participating Poets
Gillena Cox, TT;
John Daleiden, US; Margaret D. McGee, US; Jacek Margolak, PL; Ioan Marinescu-Puiu,
RO; Vasile Moldovan, RO;
Karen O'Leary, US;
Peter H. Pache, US; Keith A.
Simmonds, TT; Barbara A. Taylor, AU; Eric V. aka El Coyote, US
Australia,
Poland, Romania, Trinadad and Tabogo, United States
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