Karina Klesko, US and John
Daleiden, US
January /
February 28, 2011
The January / February 28, 2011
Sketchbook contains poems, art and features by
one-hundred-two writers
from nineteen Countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, India,
Israel, Netherlands, Philippians, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States.
The Editors
extend a warm welcome to all of you!
Eleven poets make
their first Sketchbook appearance in the
January / February 28, 2011 Issue:
Radostina A. Angelova, BG;
Nelly
Dobrinova, BG;
Ed Galing,
US; Dina
Jehuda, IL;
Lady M (Emmeke, Flanders (Belgium), BE ;
Tomas
O'Leary, US;
Russell Ragsdale, KZ;
Vania Stefanova, BG;
Charles Tarlton, US; BG;
Ranu
Uniyal, IN;
Chris G. Vaillancourt, CA. Welcome to the Sketchbook
family.
The January / February 28, 2011
Sketchbook
Cover Art is
"The Flood", An Ekphrastic work from Painter Oliver Vernon, US
and Bernard Gieske, US;
Click
here for a full sized image.
The Haiga featured on the Contents
page is
"winter doldrums by Terri L. French, US.
Congratulations to the January /
February 28, 2011 "east wind" Kukai
winners:
First Place:
Ramona Linke, DE
Second
Place tie: Catherine
J.S. Lee, US and Ramona Linke, DE
Third
Place four way tie: Bill
Cooper, US; Haike Stehr, DE; Marlene Hulst, NL (2 haiku)
Twenty-six haiku poets from twelve countries contributed
seventy-one
haiku to the "east wind" Kukai.
Read the "east wind" Kukai Results
The March /
April 30, 2011 Kukai is "spring's end":
Read the details here.
Thirty-four
Poets from twelve countries wrote one-hundred-sixty-six
poems for the "Hearts Haiku Thread.
Read the
January / February 28, 2011
haiku thread.
Read the Choice Haiku selected by editors
Karina Klesko and
John Daleiden.
The theme of the
March / April 30, 2011 Haiku Thread is
March / April 30, 2011 "Flower(s) / Bouquet Haiku Thread
This January /
February 28, 2011 issue
contains a diversity of poetry forms: Eastern: Haibun,
Haiku, Rengay, Renhai, Renku, Tanka, Tanka Prose, Taiga; Western: Balassi
Stanza, Cinquain, Experimental
Forms, Ekphrastic Poems, Free Verse, Prose Poem, Quatrtain, Rondel, Sonnet, Triple
Quatrain, Villanelle and Yugen.
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 January / February 28, 2011 eighteen
poets from six countries contributed poems. The following poets
participated: Karin
Anderson, AU; Mark Dohle, US;
Joseph Farley, US; Rolland Fletcher, US; Laryalee
Fraser, CA; Bernard Gieske, US;
Robert C. Howard, US; Evica Kraljic, CR; Sandra Martyres, IN; Aju
Mukhopadhyay, IN; Ruth Y. Nott,
US; Sergio Ortiz, US; Reason A. Poteet, US; Vera Primkorac, CR; L.B. Sedlacek, US; Brian Strand, UK;
Linda Sutton, AU; Spiros
Zafiris, CA
Please
continue to send your
poems and prayers to:
letuspray@poetrywriting.org
Read Eiko
Yachimoto's Chapter 8:
Hisajo in the Light of English Haikai Movement
in the next issue of Sketchbook. Read a
review of chapters 1-7 by
Stephen Rojcewicz, US: Brought back to Life via Haiku -
the Artistry of Hisajo: A Review of “Hisajo in the Light
of English Haikai Movement” by Eiko Yachimoto.
Renhai editor Vaughn Seward has selected
Renhai
for the January
/ February 28, 2011
Sketchbook; the
Renhai authors include:
Gillena Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US; Heike Gewi, DE/YE; Dr.
Vidur Jyoti, IN; Walter Mathois, AU; Jerry McKenzie, CA; Vaughn
Seward, CA; Janice Thomson, CA.
Be sure to
read the Renhai notes link at the bottom of each Renhai selection; the notes
contain interesting ideas about the rehnai.
Art features for
January / February 28, 2011:
Generative Art Feature by Judi Suni Hall, US; a
Photo Art Gallery
by Iolanda Scripca, US;
Art Gallery and an art essay
A Visit to the Mueso del Prado by Norman J. Olson.
The winner of the
Poem this Picture Contest
is . . .
Tomas O'Leary, US: read
all the entries!
Sketchbook
Results of the January / February 2011 Poem This Picture
- Contest
The March / April 30, 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
March / April 30, 2011 contest picture.
The deadline for
submission is
Midnight, Monday, April 25, 2011.
The Book Fair features seven books by
these authors:
Selected Poems by Michael Stone, IL;
Ballroom by Lyn Lifshin, US;
Rock 'n Roll Jizz by Doug Draime, US;
Short Verse Delight and
Insect's Nest and Other Poems by Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN; and
Longing for the Mother Tongue by Joseph Farley, US.
Purchasing information about each selection is in the
Book Fair.
Enter the
Book Fair.
Contributing Editor, Helen Bar-Lev,
IL features an
Interview with Michael Stone as well as work for his new
book,
Selected Poems.
Contributing Editor, Doug
Holder, US Interviews
Ed Galing: Poet Of the Greatest Generation.
Contributing Editor, Jeff
Spahr-Summers, aka ZZBaggins features
The Poetry Victims—Vol.
8, Issue 2
and his
Not Quite so Personal
and Irregular Diary.
The editors call
your attention to the following deadline dates posted in the
January / February 2011
Announcements Index on the Contents page. Sketchbook
is now open for March / April 30, 2011 submissions. The
submission deadline for this issue is April 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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