Karina Klesko, US and John
Daleiden, US
November /
December 31, 2010
The November / December 31, 2010
Sketchbook contains poems, art and features by eighty-eight writers
from twenty Countries: Australia, Canada, Croatia, France,
Germany, Hungry, India, Israel, Lebanon, Montenegro,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom (England),
United States.
The Editors
extend a warm welcome to all of you!
Five poets make
their first Sketchbook appearance in the November
/ December 31, 2010 Issue:
Wendy Blumfield, IL;
Oana Aurora Boazu, RO;
Aubrie Cox, US; and
Chris Staubuch, US and
Michael Morell, US. Welcome to the Sketchbook
family.
The November / December 31
Sketchbook
Cover Art is
from Photoexpress.
The Haiga featured on the Contents
page is by
Diana Mayr, US.
Congratulations to the November /
December "winter clouds" Kukai
winners:
First Place: Cara Holman, US
Second
Place: Sanjukta Asopa, IN
Third
Place: Cezar
Ciobica, FR
Thirty-nine poets from eighteen countries contributed
ninety-six
haiku to the "winter clouds" Kukai.
Read the "winter
clouds" Kukai Results
The January /
February 28, 2011 Kukai is "east wind":
Read the details here.
Forty-one Haiku
Poets from fifteen countries composed two hundred-sixteen haiku to celebrate the
winter season represented
in the "first snow" Thread:
Read the
November / December 31, 2010 "first snow" haiku thread
Read the Choice Haiku selected by editors
Karina Klesko and
John Daleiden.
John's
Choices:
Brrrr! It Is Cold Outside
The theme of the
January / February haiku thread is anything to
do with "heart(s)"
Read the details here.
This November /
December 31,
2010 issue
contains a diversity of poetry forms: Eastern: Haibun,
Haiku, Renhai, Tanka; Western: Cinquain, Etheree, Experimental
Forms, Free Verse, Lanterne.
This month, editor Karina Klesko continues the feature:
Let US Pray. The goal is to hear from all faiths and
peoples on a Global Scale. Editor Klesko says, "The more people
who participate and read this feature, the more our hearts will
become one. Surely a heart that envelops the world can make
changes and differences in lives. We can make a difference and
wipe away all the divisions that have arisen because of
different belief systems. Let us all love and respect one
another in one accord. In November / December 2010 thirteen
poets from five countries contributed eighteen poems. Please
continue to send your
poems and prayers to:
letuspray@poetrywriting.org
Read Eiko
Yachimoto's
Chapter 7: Hisajo’s Last Challenge
in this issue of Sketchbook.
Renhai editor Vaughn Seward has selected
Renhai
for the November / December 31, 2010 Sketchbook; the
Renhai authors include: Gillena
Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US; Heike Gewi, Aden/Yemen; Walter
Mathois, Vienna/Austria; Zhanna P. Rader, US; Toshiaki
Koike, CA; Vaughn Seward, CA.
Be sure to
read the notes link at the bottom of each Renhai selection; the notes
contain interesting ideas about the rehnai.
A poetry Feature:
Sunil Uniyal, IN:
Three
Translations from the Poems of Bulleh Shah (1680–1757),
an Indian Punjabi Sufi poet, a humanist and philosopher.
Art features for September / October
31, 2010: Art Gallery
by
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci, FR, a
Gallery
of art by Norman
J. Olson
and an
Art Photo Gallery by
Iolanda Scripca, US.
The winners of the
Poem this Picture Contest
are . . . Bernard
Gieske, US and Diane Mayr, US: read
the winning entries!
Sketchbook
Results of November / December 2010
Poem This Picture - Contest
The January / February 28, 2011 Poem
the Picture Contest is now open; Write a poem in any form for
the Picture. Send your entry to
PoemThisPicture@poetrywriting.org The
winning poem will be published in the next issue of
Sketchbook.
Click here to see a full sized image of the
January / February 2011 contest picture.
The deadline for
submission is February 24, 2011.
The Book Fair features three books by
these authors: Rambles:
Outings with a Wayward Muse by Tom Berman;
The Man In The Booth In The Midtown
Tunnel by Doug
Holder; Lava of My Soul by Iolanda Scripca.
Purchasing information about each selection is in the
Book Fair.
Enter the
Book Fair
Helen Bar-Lev, IL contributes
At the Poetry Workshop...
in her Global Correspondent Report on Israel.
Contributing Editor Doug Holder:
Interview
with Israeli Poet Karen Aklay-Gut: An Orphan who has found a
Home and
Poetry/Literary Arts Collection at Endicott College Beverly,
Mass.
Contributing Editor, Helen Bar-Lev
presents an
Interview with Wendy Blumfield, IL The editors call
your attention to the following deadline dates posted in the
Announcements
Index
on the contents page:
Sketchbook
is now open for Januay / February 2011 submissions. The
submission deadline for this issue is February 20, 2011.
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. Please read the
Submissions
Guide.
Submissions:
submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org
The
Sketchbook Editors Karina Klesko and
John Daleiden
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