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John Tiong Chunghoo, Malaysia Gillena
Cox, Trinidad Sally Evans, Scotland
Jan Oskar Hansen, Portugal 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.
The November / December 2009 Kukai theme is
"the year ends"
. Use the exact words
"the year ends"
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:
Sunday, November 01, 2009 – Sunday, December 20, 2009 Midnight.
Voting: Monday,
December 21 - Monday, December 28, 2009,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Thursday, December 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kukai must be previously unpublished; they must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.
A kukai is a peered review poetry contest. A haiku Topic
is assigned by the editor. An 'anonymized' list of
submitted haiku is then distributed to all participating
poets and they are invited to vote. Votes are returned
to the editor who tallies the votes and publishes the
haiku for the participants, this time with names and
points revealed.
Announcing the November / December 2009 the "winter
solstice" Thread
The theme of
the November / December 2009 haiku thread will be
anything to do with the "winter solstice in either the southern and
/ or northern hemispheres. It is not necessary to use
the words "winter solstice".
Writers may post an unlimited number of
haiku to the
"winter solstice" Haiku Thread.
Michelle V. Alkerton, CA; Corbelle
Armando, US; Ed Baker, US; Francine Banwarth, US; Willie R.
Boncaron, PH; Gerry Bravi, CA; Daniela Bullas, UK; Martin
Cohen, US; Gillena Cox, TT; Magdalena Dale, RO; John Daleiden,
US; Mary Davila, US; Audrey Downey, US; Ignatius Fay, CA;
Adelle Foley, US; Jack Foley, US; Terri French, US; Patricia
Geyer, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Deirdre Godwin, CA; Judith
Gorgone, US; Phyllis Jean Green, US; Gabor G. Gyukics, HU;
Philip Hackett, US; Alexander "Lex" Joy, US; Manu Kant, IN;
Breindel, Kasher, IL; Frank Kelly, US; Jens-Christian Kjaer,
DK; Krzysztof Kokot, PL; Jill Lang, US; Michael Laroque, US;
Gary LeBel, US; Erik Linzbach, US; Carole MacRury, US;
Tomislav Maretic, Croatia; Jacek Margolak, PL; John McDonald,
UK; Tracy McPherson, US; Anne E. Michael, US; Shanna Baldwin
Moore, US; Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN; Gautam Nadkarni, IN; Rita
Odeh, IL; Peter H. Pache, US; Carol Pearce, US; Eric Petterson,
CA; Charishma Ramchandani, IN; Elaine Riddell, NZ; Rebecca
Saxon, US; April Serock, US; Trish Shields, CA; Keith A.
Simmonds, TT; Monica E. Smith, US; Paul Smith, UK; Iolanda
Scripca, US; Richard Stevenson, CA; Brian Strand, UK; André
Surridge, NZ; Barbara A. Taylor, AU; Cindy Tebo, US; Juhani,
Tikkanen, FI; Jennie Townsend, US; Sasa Vazic, SR; Neal
Whitman, US; Diana Woodcock, Quatar; Eiko Yachimoto, JP; Gosia
Zamorska, PL
Eighteen Participating Countries:
Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, German, Hungry, India,
Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Qatar,
Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United
States
The following
twenty-eight poets
have contributed to the September / October "leaves" Haiku Thread:
Karin Anderson, AU; Ralf Bröker, DE; Willie Bongcaron, PH; Daniela Bullas, UK; Patricia Carragon,
US; John Daleiden, US; Andrzej Dembończyk, PL; Ignatius Fay, CA; Terri French, US; Bernard Gieske, US;
Phyllis Jean Green, US; Alexander "Lex" Joy, US; Betty Kaplan, US; Krzysztof Kokot, PL; Karen O'Leary, US; Jacek Margolak,
PL; Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN; Peter H. Pache, US;
Elaine Riddell, NZ;
Keith A. Simmonds, TT;
Monica E. Smith, US; André Surridge, NZ; Barbara A Taylor, AU; Cindy Tebo, US;
Maria Tirenescu, RO; Sasa Vazic, SR; Neal Whitman, US; Monika Wojtenka, PL
Poets from thirteen countries participated
in the "leaves" haiku thread:
Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, New Zealand,
Philippians, Poland,
Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States
