Karina Klesko, US and John
Daleiden, US
July / August
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 July / August 2009 Sketchbook
contains poems, art and features from eighty-nine writers / artists from
twenty countries including:
Australia, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Hungry, India, Japan, Israel, Netherlands,
Norway, New Zealand, Philippines,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United
Kingdom, United States.
The Editors extend a warm welcome to all of you!
The July / August, 2009
Sketchbook Cover
Art is by Russ Freeland.
The featured haiga is
Congratulations to the Kukai
winners; July / August "Cicada" Kukai:
First Place: Jacek Margolak, PL
Second
Place: Andrč Surridge, NZ
Third
Place: John
McDonald, UK
Read the "Cicada" Kukai Results—27 poets participated from 13 countries; 54 haiku were
submitted to the kukai
The September /
October, 2009 Kukai "harvest moon":
Read the details here.
The July / August
2009 haiku thread was anything to do with with the beach. Read
the "Read the
July / August "beach" haiku thread. Read the the editor's choice of
the "beach" haiku thread—Editor Karina Klesko and
Editor John Daleiden.
78 haiku were
submitted by 26 poets from 11 countries.
The September /
October
2009 haiku thread was anything to do with leaves...
Read the details here: September
/ October, 2009 "Leaves" haiku thread.
This month Eiko
Yachimoto continues her discussion of Sugita Hisajo's
(1890-1946) haiku development in
Hisajo in the Light of
English Haikai Movement
Installment 6:
Chapter 5: Haiku of Hisajo in the Taisho period (from
1917 to 1926).
Renhai editor Vaughn Seward has selected fourteen
Renhai
for the July / August, 2009 Sketchbook; the
Renhai authors include
Zhanna P. Rader, US: Vaughn Seward, CA; John W. Sexton,
UK; Janice Thomson, CA. 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 features rengay numbers forty-five through
fifty-two completing
the year long rengay project; guest writers are Zhanna P.
Rader and Gary Gay, the creator of the Rengay form:
Mid Summer: 45-48 with
Guest—Zhanna
P. Rader No. 48 and
Late Summer: 49-52
with Guest—Gary
Gay, No. 52.
Sketchbook
Global Correspondent Jan Oskar Hansen has sent a report from
Portugal:
A Village in Iberia .
The Book Fair features The Reagan Psalms CD
by A. D. Winans. If you are looking
for a good listen, try this CD. The Book Fair
also includes these new selections:Sea Trails
by Pris Campbell,
A
Thousand Reasons: Tanka
by Pamela A. Babusci, and
Night Traveler
by M.J. Iuppa,
Anathema: Poems Selected & New
by Andreas Gripp.
Purchasing information about each of these
selections is in the links above. Contributing
Editor, Jeff Spahr-Summers, creator and editor of
Poetry
Victims,
presents July / August readers to art by Amy Kohut, zzbaggins,
and Ed Baker; poetry by Christian Drake, J. A. Spahr-Summers,
and Oskar Hansen.
These thirteen poets
are appearing for the first time in Sketchbook:
Nadia Adams, South Africa; Magdalena Banaszkiewic, Poland;
Ignatius Fay, CA; Bo; Russ Freedland (cover); Bill Gainer, US;
Bernard Gieske, US; Peggy Heinrich, US; M.J. Iuppa, US;
Toshiaki Yoike, CA; John Landry, US; Sergio Ortiz, PR; Richard
Stevenson, CA; Neal Whitman, US. The Sketchbook Editors welcome you
warmly.
The editors call
your attention to the following deadline dates posted in the
Announcements section on the contents page:
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September 1, 2009:
Voices of Israel 2009 Anthology availaible
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September 1, 2009:
The Reagan Psalms CD
on sale for $9.99
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September 1, 2009:
September 2009 The Poet's Gallery Calendar: Philip
Hackett
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September 19, 2009—Announcing
the 2009 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest Postmark
Deadline
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October 31, 2009—San Francisco
International Competition:
Haiku,
Senryu, Tanka and Rengay
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October 31, 2009—IHS
International Haiku Competition 2009 postmarked
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November 1, 2009—the
first all women's tanka journal: Moonbathing.
Fall/Winter Issue:
In-hand Deadline, November 1st.
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November 1, 2009—Entry
date for 2009 Anderbo Poetry Prize
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November 14, 2009—Somerville
News Writers Festival VII,
7 PM—Reading
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November 30, 2009—Cyclamens
and Swords Poetry Contest
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January 31, 2010—The
2010 Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards
Sketchbook
is now open for September / October 2009 submissions. Remember, the 20th of
each publication 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
and viewing your art.
Please join us in our fourth year of
publishing Sketchbook.
Submissions:
submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org
Karina Klesko and
John Daleiden
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