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Karina Klesko, US and John Daleiden, US

 

May / June 2010


 

The May / June 2010 Sketchbook contains poems, art and features from sixty-one writers from thirteen countries. The Editors extend a warm welcome to all of you!

The May / June Sketchbook Cover Art is a Haiga: crossing timelines by Mary Davila, US

The Haiga featured on the Contents page is

Congratulations to the May / June "morning breeze" Kukai winners:

    First Place: Jacek Margolak, PL

    Second Place Tie: John McDonald, Scotland; Barbara A. Taylor, AU

    Third Place Tie: Bernard Gieske, US; Cara Holman, US: Jacek Margolak, PL

Sixteen Haiku Poets  from eight different  countries wrote fourty-one "morning breeze" Haiku. Read the results of the May / June "morning breeze" Kukai.

The July / August 2010 "new coolness" or "lingering heat" Kukai: Read the details here.

Twenty Haiku Poets from nine countries contributed eighty-seven Haiku to The May / June "beach" Haiku Thread. Read the May / June "beach" Haiku Thread.   Read the Editor's Choices from the Haiku Thread:  John Daleiden - "The Beach...A Place to Celebrate!"  and Karina Klesko  "

The July / August theme for the Haiku Thread is anything to do with "summer fruit" or "fruit trees".  Read the details here.

This issue contains a diversity of poetry forms:  Eastern Genre: Gogyokha, Haibun, Haiga, Haiku, Renhai, Sijo, Tanka; Western Genre: Free Verse, Cinquain, Double Dactyl, Experimental Forms: A Tab, Fusion Sonnets, Quatrain, Lanterne, Tetractys, and Ekphrastic Poetry.

Look for Eiko Yachimoto's Chapter 7, Installlment 8 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 Renhai for the May / June 2010 Sketchbook; the Renhai authors include Gillena Cox, TT; Toshiaki Koike, CA; Jerry McKenzie, CA; Vaughn Seward, CA.

Art features for May / June:  Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI, FR, Gallery 1 by Norman J. Olson.

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

Poem the "moss" Picture Contest is now open:  deadline for submission is August 25, 2010.  Read the details here.

The Book Fair features Cold Mountain by Wandering Poet and this is visual poetry by Ed Baker. Purchasing information about each of these selections is in the links above.

Global Correspondents Helen Bar-Lev, IL and Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN have submitted reports from their respective countries.

Doug Holder, US joins the Sketchbook staff in this issue as a Contributing Editor. His offerings this month include an Interview with Poet Marilyn Jurich, a Dialogue between himself and English Professor Timothy McLaughlin about writing at Bunker Hill Community College, and two of his own poems: A Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel, and Lost Girl on the Psychiatric Ward.

Contributing Editor, Helen Bar-Lev an Interview with Poet Thilde Fox this month and reports on The Annual June Workshop held in Haifa.

Contributing Editor, Jeff Spahr-Summers, creator and editor of Poetry Victims, presents May / June readers to art by Anna Maly, poetry by Seth, and zzbaggins.

The editors call your attention to the following deadline dates posted in the Announcements section on the contents page:

Sketchbook is now open for July / August 2010 submissions. The submission deadline for this issue is August 20, 2010.  For Kukai and Haiku Thread deadlines see the information above.

Submissions are open to the General Public. The Editors look forward to reading your poetry and viewing your art.

Submissions: submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org

The Sketchbook Editors Karina Klesko and John Daleiden

 

 

 

 

 

 

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