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Howard, US; Lavana Kray, RO;
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu RO; Karen O'Leary,
US;
Emily Romano, US;
Cynthia Rowe, AU; Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR
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Contest News &
Announcements
Sketchbook Nov. / Dec. 31, 2011
"old calendar" Kukai Results
Sketchbook
Jan / Feb 29, 2012
"candle(s)" Haiku Thread
Announcing Sketchbook
Found Poem Contest Results
Sketchbook Results Nov / Dec 31, 2011 Poem
This Picture - Contest
The Winner is . . .
Blue Orb Lady by Tracy McPherson, US
The following five poets
from three countries contributed five poems to this contest.
Paticipants: Cezar
F. Ciobîcă, RO; Bernard, Gieske, US; Tracy McPherson, US;
Sandra Martyres, IN; Yamadori, US
Countries:
India, Romania, United States
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Global
Correspondents
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Sketchbook Global Correspondents Correspondents:
John Tiong Chunghoo, Malaysia
Gillena
Cox, Trinidad
Sally Evans, Scotland
Jan Oskar Hansen, Portugal
Helen
Bar-Lev, Israel
Bob Lucky, Hangzhou, China
Martin Lochner,
ZA
Cristian Mocanu,
Romania
Aju Mukhopadhyay,
India
Rita Odeh, Israel
Kala Ramesh,
India
E. E. Sule, Nigeria
Alegria Imperial, Canada
Various
Correspondents will be featured from month to
month.
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Announcing the January / February 29, 2012 "waters
of spring" Kukai
The
November / December 31, 2011 Kukai is
"waters of spring". See The
Haiku Handbook, William J. Higginson, p. 268. Use the exact words
"waters of spring" in the haiku. No more
than a total of three haiku may be submitted. Haiku
submitted to the kukai should not be work shopped, appear
on-line in forums, or in print.
no bridge
and
the sun ready to set
waters of spring
~Buson
(Higginson, Haiku Handbook, p. 14).
"waters of spring"
(haru no mizu,
all spring) in
The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words:
on-line:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html
To:
kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject:
"waters of spring"
Kukai
Submissions:
Sunday, January 01, 2012 – Sunday, February 19, 2012 Midnight.
Voting:
Monday, February 20, 2012 - Sunday, February 26, 2012, Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Sketchbook Vol. 7 No. 1 "waters
of spring" Kukai results.
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 work shopped; 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.
Index to past Kukai: Vol. 1, No. 1 ~ October 2006 -
Current
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Announcing the January / February 2012
"precious stones" Haiku Thread
The theme of
the
January / February
29, 2012
haiku thread will be anything to do with
"precious stones" of any kind—crystals, emeralds, diamonds,
ruby, pearl, amethysts, etc.
Writers may
post an unlimited number of haiku to the
"precious stones" Haiku Thread.
Subject
Line: Jan.
/ Feb.
2012
"precious stones" Haiku Thread
To:
haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org
Deadline:
Midnight Saturday February 25, 2012
Haiku
Author, Country
All Haiku received
will be posted daily on-line at
January / February
29, 2012
"precious stones" Haiku Thread.
The
Sketchbook editors will select their
Monthly Haiku Choices from this thread for publication
in the Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Sketchbook.
Index to past Haiku Threads: Vol. 1, No. 1 ~ October
2006 - Current
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Sketchbook Special Features
November / December 31, 2011 Sketchbook Vol. 6,
No. 6
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Poetry Genres
Featuring Sketchbook Poets
Featuring
Sketchbook II Poets: Shanna's Beat: RD Armstrong, US;
Paul Curtiss, US; Tracy McPherson, US; Shanna Baldwin Moore,
US; Joyce Watkins, US; Ben Wesling, US
Featuring childwriter's sketchbook Poe:ts:
Vol. 4, No. 6: November / December 2011: Karin
Anderson, AU; Bernard Gieske, US; Karen
O'Leary, US
Little
Black Book: Amy Gieske, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Munia
Khan, BD
Sketchbook
Index for November / December 31, 2011
Announcements
Index: November / December 31, 2011
A
- M Sketchbook
Biographies
N
- Z Sketchbook
Biographies
State Poet Laureate Information;
United States Poets Laureate
Eastern Genre
Haibun:
Chen-ou Liu, CA
Ghazal: Sunil Uniyal, IN
Haiku:
Tatjana
Debeljacki, CR; Elizabeth
Howard, US; John Kinory, UK;
Chen-ou Liu, CA; "candle(s)
Haiku Thread; "cemetery" Kukai; New Year's Haiku and Haiga
Festival
Monostiches: Chen-ou Liu, CA
Renhai:
John Daleiden, US; Gillena Cox, TT; Walter Mathois, AT;
Vaughn Seward, CA; Neal Whitman, US
Renku: Tomislav Maretić, CR and Lynette Arden, AU: Four
Yotsumono
Senryu:
Vania Stefanova, BG
Tanka
and Tanka Prose:
Matthew Caretti, US; Chen-ou Liu, CA; Charles D. Tarlton, US
Western
Genre
Acrostic:
Karen O'Leary, US
Cinquain: John Daleiden, US
Concrete Poetry: Munia Khan, BD
Epigrams:
Chen-ou Liu ,CA
Experimental Forms:
Karin Anderson, AU;
Brian Strand, UK
Found Poem:
Karina Klesko, US; Neal Whitman, US
Free
Verse: RD Armstrong, US; Helen Bar-Lev, IL; Danica
Bartulovic, CR;
Elizabeth Howard, US;
Tracy McPherson, US; Zvi A. Sesling, IL
Yugen: Georgi Milev, BG;
Vania Stefanova, BG
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Results of the Found
Poetry Contest
First
Place Winner: Bernard Gieske, US—Our
World A Collage Afloat
Second
Place Winner:
Cristian Mocanu, RO:
Brief Encounter
Poems of Honourable Merit:
Munia Khan, BD:
An English Poem;
Desmond Kon
Zhicheng-Mingdé:
Villanelle: Ut Pictura Poesis; Aju
Mukhopadhyay, IN:
Bumblebee Bamboozles
Contest
Judges: Karina Klesko, John Daleiden, Neal Whitman
Entries in the Found Poem Contest Index
Participants: Vinta Agrawal, IN; Marg
Beverland, NZ;
Zlata Bogovic, CR; Bernard Gieske,
US;
Peggy Heinrich, US;
Harvey Jenkins, CA; Munia
Khan, BD; Maude Larke, FR;
Desmond Kon
Zhicheng-Mingdé;
Cristian Mocanu, RO; Aju
Mukhopadhyay, IN; Emily Romano, US;
Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, CR; Zvi A. Sesling;
Brian Strand, UK
Examples
of Found Poem Format:
Found Poem:
Karina Klesko, US; Neal Whitman, US
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Feature ~ New Year's Haiku
Festival
Send your New
Year's haiku greeting to Sketchbook and
Sketchbook readers. The "greetings" will be
posted starting at Midnight Friday, December 30, 2011 ~
through Midnight, Sunday January 01, 2012. Send to:
To:
NewYearsHaiku@poetrywriting.org
Subject Line: NewYearsHaikuFestival
Link:
New Year's Haiku Festival
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Feature
Read
Let US Pray
Participants in the November / December 31, 2011 Let Us
Pray Feature
Poets
participating: Danica
Bartulović, CR; Joseph
Farley, US; Sandra
Martyres, IN;
Brian Strand, UK; Sunil
Uniyal, IN
Countries:
Croatia, India, United Kingdom, United States
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Contributing Editor Helen
Bar-Lev
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November / December 31, 2011 "old calendar" Kukai Results
First Place: Vania Stefanova, BG
Second
Place: John Daleiden, US
Third
Place:
Vania Stefanova, BG
Read the "old calendar" Kukai Results
Congratulations to the "old calendar" Kukai
winners.
Participants
Ramesh Anand, MY; Wille R. Bongcaron, PH; Bouwe Brouwer,
NL;Cezar F. Ciobica, RO; Ailoaei Cristina; John Daleiden,
US; Bernard Gieske, US; Cara Holman, US; Alegra Imperial,
CA; Munia Khan, BD; Sandra Martyres, IN; Aju Mukhopadhyay,
IN; Sergio Ortiz, US; Stella Pierides, DE/UK; Emily Romano,
US; Janak Sapkota, NP; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Brian Strand,
UK; Vania Stefanova, BG; Juhani Tikkanen, FI; Djurdja
Vukelic-Rozic, CR; Angie Werren, US; Neal Whitman, US;
Yamadori, US
Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, Germany,
India, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Philippians, Romania,
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Editor's Choice November / December 31, 2011 "candle(s)" Haiku Thread
Karina's Choices ~
Light A Candle
John's Choices ~
“Candle In The Wind”
Guest Bernard Gieske's
Choices ~ Haiku - myiads of meanings, images, and memoires
Read the
November / December
31, 2011
"candle(s)" Haiku Thread
The following thirty-one Haijin
from fourteen countries have contributed one hundred forty-one haiku to
the
November / December
31, 2011 "candle(s)" Haiku Thread
Participants: Ramesh Anand, MY; Karin
Anderson, AU; Danica
Bartulović; Priyanka
Bhowmick, IN; Willie R. Bongcaron, PH; Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă,
RO; John Daleiden, US; Smajil Durmisevic, BA;
Bernard Gieske, US; Cara
Holman, US; Alegria Imperial, CA;
Munia Khan, BD; Chen-ou
Liu, CA; Tonka Lovric, CR; Vladimir Ludvig, CR; Sandra Martyres, IN;
Ljudmila Milena Mršić, CR;
Karen O'Leary, US;
P K Padhy, IN; Stella Pierides, DE; UK; Emily Romano, US; Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR; Stjepan Rozic, CR;
Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Vania
Stefanova, BG; Irena Szewczyk PL; Juhani Tikkanen, FI; Maria Tirenescu,
RO; Angie Werren, US; Neal Whitman, US; Yamadori, US
Countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, Germany, India, Malaysia,
Philippines, Poland, Romania, United States
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From the Editor's Chair
Enter
Karina Klesko, US and John Daleiden, US
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