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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.
The September / October
2009 Autumn Kukai theme is
"harvest moon"
. Use the exact words
"harvest moon"
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.
Submissions:
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 – Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Midnight.
Voting: Wednesday,
October 21 - Wednesday, October 28, 2009,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sketchbook.
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kukai must be previously unpublished; they must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.
Announcing September / October 2009 "Leaves" Thread
The theme of
the September / October 2009 haiku thread will be
Leaves. Haiku may reflect either the Northern or
Southern Hemisphere.
Writers may post an unlimited number of
haiku to the
"Leaves" Thread.
The following
twenty-six poets
have contributed to the July / August "Beach" Haiku Thread:
Patricia Biela, US;
Willie Ropelos Bongcaron, PH;
Tanja Cilia, Malta; Gillena Cox, TT; Andrzej Dembończyk, PL; Garry Eaton, CA;
Terri French, US; Victor Gendrano, US; Andrea Gradidge, CA; Alexander "Lex" Joy; Betty Kaplan, US; Ashi (Jens-Christian Kjaer), DK; Karina Klesko, US;
Krzysztof Kokot, PL; Artur Lewandowski,
PL; Roy Linquist, NO; Jacek Margolak, PL; Karen O'Leary, US; Peter H. Pache, US; Keith A. Simmonds, TT;
Anne Smith, UK; Barbara
A Taylor, AU; Maria Tirenescu, RO; Saša Važič, Serbia; Neal Whitman, US; Rafal
Zabratynski, PL
Poets from eleven countries participated
in the beach haiku thread:
Australia, Canada, Denmark, Malta,
Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tabago,
United Kingdom, United States
