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ANNOUNCEMENTS


from Karina Klesko

Dear All,

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:

simplyhaikurenga@poetrywriting.org

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.

Many Blessings,

Karina Klesko
 

 

 

 

Karina Klesko, US and John Daleiden, US

 

November / December 31, 2009, January 31, 2010

 

In 2010 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 November / December 2009 Sketchbook contains poems, art and features from writers from fifteen countries. The Editors extend a warm welcome to all of you!

The November / December 31, 2009, January 31, 2010 Sketchbook Cover Art is by Gillena Cox.

The November / December 2009, January 31, 2010 issue contains poetry in many genre including: Haibun, Haiga, Haiku, Renga, Rengay, Renhai, Renku, Tanka, Ekphrastic Poems, Fibonnaci, Free Verse, Cinquain, and Etheree.

In this issue view art by Ed Baker, US and Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, FR

F. N. Wright, US features two Memories of Mattoon in his continuing series.

Brian Strand, UK features "The Emily", an experimental poetry form.

Congratulations to the Kukai winners; November / December "year ends" Kukai:

    First Place: Jacek Margolak, PL

    Second Place: Zhanna P. Rader, US

    Third Place Tie: Audrey Downey, US; D. V. Rozic, CR; John McDonald, UK; Jacek Margolak, PL

44 Poets  from 14 different  countries wrote 106 "year ends" Haiku. Read the results of the "year ends" November / December 2009 Kukai

The January / February 2010 "melting snow" Kukai: Read the details here.

The November / December 2009 haiku thread was anything to do with with "winter solstice".  Forty-one poets from thirteen countries contributed 209 haiku to the Thread: Read the "winter solstice" Haiku thread. Read the the editor's choice of the "winter solstice" haiku thread—Editor Karina Klesko's Choices and Editor John Daleiden's Choices.

The January / February 2010 haiku thread is anything to do with the "Valentine's Day".  Read the details here: January / February 2010 "Valentine" haiku thread.

Look for Eiko Yachimoto's Chapter 6, Installlment 7 of Sugita Hisajo's (1890-1946) haiku development in Hisajo in the Light of English Haikai Movement in the next Sketchbook.

Renhai editor Vaughn Seward has selected twenty-two Renhai for the September / October, 2009 Sketchbook; the Renhai authors include Gillena Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US; Janice Seward, CA; Vaughn Seward, CA and Janice Thomson,  CA.

Be sure to read the Renhai notes link at the bottom of each selection; the notes contain interesting ideas about the rehnai links and various modes of composing a renhai.

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: Rat atouille for the rindless—John Irvine, AU; The Wandering Poet—Cold Mountain; Annie and The Only One Problem Bear—Jayne Kaplan, US; only the white: A Haiga Collection—Max Verhart, NL; The Muse in the Suitcase—Helen Bar-Lev and Johnmichael Simon, IL; and In Moonlight The Sky Will Slide—Katherine L. Gordon, CA and Helen Bar-Lev, IL. Purchasing information about each of these selections is in the links above.

Contributing Editor, Jeff Spahr-Summers, creator and editor of Poetry Victims, presents November / December readers to visual art by Cesar Ivan and poetry by Belinda Subraman.

The childwriter's sketchbook features poets Dante Bravi, CA; John Daleiden, US; Karen O'Leary, US; and Zhanna P. Rader, US.

These eight poets are appearing for the first time in Sketchbook: Lauren Byrnes, US; Amitava Chakrabarty, IN; Damir Damir, Montenegro; Tatjana Debeljacki, CR; Stacey Dye, US; John Irvine, NZ; Lydia Kautz, US; Ramona Linke, DE. Appearing for the first time in a Sketchbook kukai are: Francis Shaffi, US; Dejan Pavlinovic, CR; Dragan J. Ristic, SR; D. V. Rozic, CR. 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:

Sketchbook is now open for January / February 2010 submissions. The submission deadline for the next issue is the 20th of February, 2010. Submissions are open to the General Public. The Editors look forward to reading your poetry and viewing your art. Please join us in our fifth year of publishing Sketchbook.

Submissions: submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org

Karina Klesko and John Daleiden

 

 

 

 

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