for
November / December 31, 2009 / January 31, 2010
Vol. 4, No. 6 Featuring Sketchbook II Authors
for
November / December 31, 2009 / January 31, 2010
Vol. 4, No. 6
Johnmichael
Simon and Helen Bar-Lev invite you to visit their website;
poetry, short stories, artwork, contest,
publishing and more. Cyclamens and Swords
Publishing.
www.cyclamensandswords.com
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 January / February Kukai theme is
"melting snow"
. Use the exact words
"melting"
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:
Friday, January 01, 2010 – Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Midnight.
Voting: Thursday,
February 18 - Thursday, February 25, 2010,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Sunday, February 28, 2010
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kukai must be previously unpublished; they must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 January / February "Valentine's" Thread
The theme of
the January / February haiku thread will be
anything to do with the "Valentine's Day" in either the southern and
/ or northern hemispheres. It is not necessary to use
the words "Valentine's Day".
Writers may post an unlimited number of
haiku to the
"Valentine's Day" Haiku Thread.
We apologize for the lateness of this issue as it could not be
helped.
We are going to try and make it up by publishing a Special
February Issue...of art and Love to all.
Please send in any love poems, art etc...A.S.A.P
We will also send out an Invitation to our mailing list. Not on
our list ? Write us at www.poetrywriting.org and we will add you.
Simply Haiku is putting on a new look, I hear....
They have asked me to be the Renku Editor and I have accepted.
Please let me know if you have renku or just submit to:
We are also changing the submissions for the
Sketchbook Kukai to a monthly kukai, which will run
similar to the Shiki List. Each month a new kigo will be
presented and submissions taken...timely voting.
The winners will be notified by email.
We will then publish the completed Kukai in the following
Sketchbook.
Look at the contents page for further instructions.
Tanka:
Cindy Tebo, US; Stacey Dye, US; Victor Gendrano, US; Chen-ou Liu,
CA;
Andrea Surridge, NZ; Brian Zimmer, CA
Tanka Renga: Whispering Softly: Alan Mc Gill and
Karina Klesko
Tanka Triad: Tchaikovsky Drifts:
Gerry Bravi, Jim Swift, b'oki, Carol Macrury, Larylee
Fraser, Michael Evans, Mary Angela Nangini, Linda
Papanicolaou, Michael McClintock
Karin
Anderson, AU; Robert Bauer, US; Ralf Bröker, DE; Leslie
Brockway, US; Daniela Bullas, UK; Willie R. Bongcaron, PH;
Gerry Bravi, CA; Patricia Carragon, US; Martin Cohen, US; John
Daleiden, US; Andrzej Dembonczky, PL; Ignatius Fay, CA; Victor
P. Gendrano, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Michelle L. Harvey, US;
Krzysztof, Kokot, PL; Bob Lucky, CH; Harvey Jenkins, CA;
Ramona Linke, DE; Tomislav Maretic, CR; Jacek Margolak, PL;
John McDonald, UK; Robert Naczas, PL; Rita Odeh, IL; Peter H.
Pache, US; Dejan Pavlinovic, CR; Dragan J. Ristic, SR; D. V.
Rozic, CR; Frances Shaffi, US; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Brian
Strand, UK; André Surridge, NA; Barbara A. Taylor, AU; Cindy
Tebo, US; Juhani, Tikkanane, FI; Sasa Vazic, SR; Neal Whitman,
US
Fourteen Participating Countries
Australia, Canada, China, Croatia,
Finland, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Philippians, Poland,
Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States
Editor's Choice
2009 November / December "winter solstice" Haiku Thread
The following
forty-two poets
have contributed two hundred-nine poems to the November / December "winter solstice" Haiku Thread:
Karin Anderson, AU;
Wolfgang Beutke, DE; Priyanka Bhowmick,
IN; Gerry Bravi, CA; Leslie Brockway, US; Ralf Broker, DE; Daniela Bullas, UK;
Patricia Carragon, US; Amitava Chakrabarty, IN; John Daleiden, US; Jon Davey, UK; Audrey Downey, US; Ignatius Fay, CA; Bernard Gieske, US; Michele L. Harvey,
US; Linda Hofke, DE;
Krzysztof Kokot, PL; Ramona Linke, DE; Chen-ou Liu, CA; Tomislav Maretic, Croatia; Jacek
Margolak, PL; Shanna Baldwin Moore, US;
Elliot Nicely, US; Karen O'Leary, US; Peter H. Pache, US; Dejan
Pavlinovic, CR; Zhanna P. Rader, US;
Terrie Leigh Relf, US; D. V. Rozic, Croatia; Iolanda Scripca, US;
Frances Shaffi, US; Keith A. Simmonds, TT;
André Surridge, NZ; Barbara A Taylor, AU; Cindy Tebo, US; Janice Thomson, CA; Juhani Tikkanen, FI;
Maria Tirenescu, RO; Sasa Vazic, Serbia; Ruth
Walters, UK; Neal Whitman, US
Poets from thirteen Countries
participated: Australia, Canada, Croatia,
Finland, Germany,
India, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States
