Karina Klesko, US and John
Daleiden, US
December 2009
In 2009 Sketchbook
with be published bi-monthly: February, April, June, August,
October, and December. The publication date for each issue
is the last day of the month. Submissions are due on the
20th of the month of publication.
The February 28, 2009 Sketchbook Cover
art is
Magnolia Canopyby Artist Mary Hillier, US.
Congratulations to the Kukai winners;
February "hazy moon" Kukai
First
Place: Vasile Moldovan, RO
Second Place:
Catherine J. S. Lee, US
Third
Place: Christopher Herald, US
Read the "hazy
moon" results
The January /
February 28, 2009 Kukai theme is "hazy moon":
Read all the "hazy moon" haiku entered in the kukai—34 poets
from 9 countries wrote 81 haiku.
The January /
February 28, 2009 Spring
"arts and crafts" haiku thread
is posted. Read the the editor's choice of "arts
and crafts"—Editor Karina Klesko,
Editor John Daleiden.
The theme of the
March / April 2009 haiku thread will be anything that blooms. Read the details here:
blossoms thread March / April 2009.
The March / April 2009 Kukai theme is
"spring dream(s)".
Read the details here.
Featured this month is the fourth
installment of Eiko Yachimoto's
Hisajo in the Light of
English Haikai Movement:
Chapter 3: Kyoshi and the Irony of Shiki’s Modern Haiku
Movement.
Vaughn Seward has selected 14
Renhai for the February 2009 issue
including 9 two-way collaborative poems with 5 different
writers, 1 three-way renhai, and 4 solo renhai. Be sure to
read the notes link at the bottom of each selection; the notes
contain interesting ideas about the rehnai links and various
modes of composing a renhai.
Rengay Through The Seasons by Vaughn
Seward featuring rengay numbers nineteen through 26 of
the year long rengay project hosts guest writer Toshiaki
Koike and Jon Davey:
Mid-winter rengay,
Late-winter rengay.
Sketchbook
Global Correspondents have sent the following reports this
month:
Jeff Spahr-Summers reporting on South Africa,
Bob Lucky reporting from China, and
Helen Bar-Lev reporting from Israel.
The Book Fair
features
The Reagan Psalms CD
by A. D. Winans. If you are looking
for a good listen, try this CD.
Contributing
Editor, Jeff Spahr-Summers, creator and editor of
Poetry
Victims, treats
February readers to a revised site with collaborative Art by
Amy Kohut and ZZbaggins and poetry from Robert King.
Appearing for the
first time in Sketchbook: Üzeyir Lokman
ÇAYCI,
Patricia J. Maynard,
Robert Moyer,
Eric Pederson,
Edward Wells II,
Beata Wyszyńska,
Hank Beukema, and
Manuela Theiss, and
Michael Dickel.
The Editors welcome these writers to Sketchbook.
The editors call
your attention to the following deadline dates:
The
Results of the First International Erotic Tanka Contest
are announced and published by Judge Pamela A. Babuscia.
Sketchbook
is now open for April submissions. Remember, the 20th of
each month is the deadline for open submissions to the poetry
pages. Submissions are open to the General Public. The Editors look forward to reading your poetry.
Please join us as we venture into our fourth year of
publishing Sketchbook.
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