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Featured Haiga
Emily Romano, US
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Haiga
John Daleiden, US;
Rita Odeh, IL; Patricia Lidia, RO;
Shanna Baldwin Moore, US;
Karen O'Leary, US;
Hrisi Udrescu, RO,
Jadran Zalokar
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Contest News: Results &
Announcements
Sketchbook
Mar / Apr 2012 "swing" Kukai Results
Sketchbook Mar / Apr 2012
"pond life" Haiku Thread
Sketchbook Mar / Apr
2012 SHH Contest No. 2 Results ~ Spring
Karina Klesko
Sketchbook Mar / Apr 2012 Poem
This Picture - Contest Results
The Winners are...
1st Place
Sandra Martyres,
IN
2nd Place
Evica
Kraljić, CR
3rd
Place
Catherine J.S. Lee, US
The following twenty-four
poets from ten countries contributed twenty-five poems to this contest.
Paticipants:
Pris Campbell,
US; Cezar F. Ciobîcă, RO; John Daleiden, US; Tracy Davidson, UK; Daniel de Cullá;
Bernard Gieske, US; Harvey Jenkins, CA; Alegria Imperial, CA;
Anisoara Iordache, RO; Evica Kraljić, CR; Štefanija Ludvig, Croatia; Sandra Martyres, IN;
Catherine J.S. Lee, US; Tonka Lovric, CR; Joan McNerney, US;
Cristian Mocanu, RO; Rita Odeh, IL; Asim Kumar Paul, IN;
Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, Croatia; Radhey Shiam, IN; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Gheorghe Postelnicu Stops, RO;
Diana Teneva, BG; Saša Važić, Serbia
Countries:
Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, India, Israel, Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago,
United Kingdom, United States
May / June
30, 2012 Poem the Picture
Contest
Shanna
Baldwin Moore, US
Write a poem in any form for this
Picture.
PoemThisPicture@poetrywriting.org is the place to send your
entry by Midnight, Saturday, June
23, 2012. The winning poem will be featured in the next issue of
Sketchbook along with all entries.
Click here to see a full sized image: May / June
30, 2012 Poem
This Picture Contest.
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Bable Fish to view Sketchbook in another language
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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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Sketchbook is an
E-Journal for
Eastern and Western Short Verse
Forms
In 2012 Sketchbook
will be published on the last day of each month bi-monthly:
February, April, June, August, October, and December.
Submission deadline:
20th of each publishing month six times a year.
Submissions are open to the general
public;
Read the
complete
submission guidelines
Send to:
submissionseditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject: Submission + Genre(s) + Author
Name
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Announcing the May / June 30, 2012 "cloud" Kukai
The
May / June 30, 2012 Kukai is
"cloud peaks" / "billowing clouds" (kumo no mine)
~ Astronomy. See The
Haiku Handbook, William J. Higginson, p. 272. Use the exact words
"cloud peaks" or "billowing clouds" 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.
Haiku
Author,
Country
To:
kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject: cloud kukai
Submissions:
Tuesday, May 01, 2012 – Monday June 18, 2012 Midnight.
Voting:
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - Monday, June 25, 2012 Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sketchbook 7-3 ~ 42 "cloud" 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 anonymity.
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 anonymous 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 May / June 30, 2012 "wedding
/ bride" Haiku Thread
The theme of
the
May / June 30, 2012
haiku thread will be anything to do with "wedding
/ bride"
in the
northern or southern hemisphere. It is not
necessary to use the words "wedding or bride" but the
concept must be obvious.
Writers may
post an unlimited number of haiku to the
"wedding / bride" Haiku Thread.
Subject
Line: May / June 30, 2012 "wedding /
bride"
Haiku Thread
To:
haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org
Deadline:
Midnight Sunday, June 24, 2012
Haiku
Author, Country
All Haiku received
will be posted daily on-line at May / June 30,
2012 "wedding / bride" Haiku Thread.
The
Sketchbook editors will select their
Monthly Haiku Choices from this thread for publication
in the Sunday, June 30, 2012 Sketchbook.
Index to past Haiku Threads: Vol. 1, No. 1 ~ October
2006 - Current
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Sketchbook Special Features
March / April 30, 2012 Sketchbook Vol. 7,
No. 2 ~ Issue 41
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Poetry Genres
Featuring Sketchbook Poets—March / April 30, 2012 Sketchbook Vol. 7,
No. 2 ~ Issue 41
Featuring Sketchbook II Poets: Shanna's Beat—Christopher Barnes, UK; Tracy McPherson, US; Shanna Baldwin Moore, US; Joyce Watkins,
US; A. D. Winans
Featuring childwriter's sketchbook Poets:
March / April 30, 2012 ~ Vol. 5, No. 2: Issue 17—Karin Anderson, AU; John Daleiden, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Karen O'Leary, US; Emily Romano, US
Featuring
Little Black Book: March / April 30, 2012 ~ Vol. 6, No. 1—Karin Anderson, AU; John Daleiden, US; Munia
Khan, BD; Norman J. Olson, US
Sketchbook Index for
March / April 30,
2012: 41
Sketchbook Announcements Index for March / April 30, 2012:
41
A - M Sketchbook Biographies
N - Z Sketchbook Biographies
State
Poet Laureate Information;
United States Poets Laureate
Eastern Genre
Haiku:
Jax Aemilias,
UK;
Vassilis Comporozos, GR;
Robert Davey, UK;
Tatjana Debeljacki, SR;
Jay Friedenberg, US; Peggy Heinrich, US;
Elizabeth Howard, US;
Chen-ou Liu, CA;
Vania Stefanova, BG; Rachel Sutcliffe, US;
Joanna M. Weston
Renhai:
Gellina Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US; Rita Odeh, IL; Vaughn Seward, CA
Tanka
and Tanka Prose:
Vassilis Comporozos, GR;
Elizabeth Howard, US; Chen-ou Liu, CA;
Emily Romano, US;
Charles D. Tarlton, US
Western
Genre
Acrostic: Craig W. Steele, US
Cinquain:
Bob Lucky, US; Karen O'Leary, US; Craig W. Steele, US
Concrete Poetry: Munia Khan, BD
Couplets: Munia Khan, BD
Ekphrastic: Karin
Anderson, AU; Stella Armour, UK; Connie Bransilver, US Photographer;
John Daleiden, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Bernard Mocanu, RO; Iolanda Scripca, US
Experimental Forms:
Gillena Cox, TT; Brian Strand, UK
Essays: Norman J. Olson, US
Fibonacci:
John Daleiden, US; Karen O'Leary, US
The Fold: Gillena Cox, TT
Found Poem:
Bernard Gieske, US; Neal Whitman, US
Free Verse:
Helen
Bar-Lev, IL;
Danica
Bartulovic, CR;
Mark Dohle, US; Joseph Farley, US; Jenny Fraser, NZ;
Jan Oskar Hansen, PT;
Elizabeth Howard,
US; Breindel Lieba
Kasher, IL;
Tracy McPherson, US; Karen O'Leary, US; Kenneth Salzmann,
IL; Sunil Uniyal, IN: Translator; Joyce Watkins, US
Monostich: Andrea Cecon, IT; Chen-ou Liu, CA
Pirouette Poem: Sandra Martyres, IN
Pleiades Poems: Stella Armour, UK
Rondeau:
Karin Anderson, AU; John Daleiden, US
Rictameter Poems: Stella Armour, UK; John Daleiden, US
Sonnet Style Poem: Sandra Martyres, IN
Villanelle: John Daleiden, US; Norman J. Olson, US
Yugen:
John Daleiden, US; Vania Stefanova, BG
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Feature
Read
Let US Pray
Participants in the March / April 30, 2012 Let Us
Pray Feature
Thirteen
poets from five countries are Featured in Let Us Pray
Participants:
Stella Armour, UK;
Danica
Bartulović, CR;
Bernard Gieske, US;
Elizabeth Howard, US;
Tonka Lovric, CR;
Stefanija Ludvig, CR;
Sandra Martyres, IN;
Karen
Cristian Mocanu, RO;
O'Leary, US; Asim Kumar Paul, IN;
Vera Primorac, CR;
Brian Strand, UK;
Suinil Uniyal, IN
Countries:
Croatia, India,
Romania, United Kingdom, United
States
Let Us Pray Invitation
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Contributing Editor Helen
Bar-Lev
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Feature
Free to
enter Kids-Count-For-Earthday-Haiku Webfest
The 2012 Kids Count for Earthday Haiku Webfest is in
association with The Haiku Society of America; With Words
(UK); Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern and Western
Short Forms (USA); and Planetpals
(Worldwide). Partnering together with the planet to bring
positive messages about your world.
Read all the details here!
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January / February 2012
"swing" Kukai Results
First Place: Bernard Giekske, US
Second
Place: Vania Stefanova, BG
Third
Place: Ramesh Ananad, MY
Read the "swing" Kukai Results
Congratulations to the
"swing" Kukai
winners.
Forty-nine
haijin
from fourteen countries contributed one hundred-thirty
haiku to this Kukai.
Ramesh Anand, MY Malaysia ; Ashi, DK; D; Johnny Baransky, US; Danica
Bartulović, CR; Abraham Freddy Ben-Arroyo, IL; Ralf Bröker, DE;S.E.
Buffington, US; Pris Campbell, US; John Daleiden, US; Cynthia Carlson;
Floyd Cheung, US; Cezar Ciobîcă, RO; Carlos Colon; Magdalena Dale, RO;
Tracy Davidson, UK; Robert Davey, UK; Daniel de Culla, ES US; Angele
Ellis, US; Terri L. French, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Judith Gorgone, US;
Michele L. Harvey, US; Hubert Edgar Hix, US; Linda Hofke, DE; Cara
Holman, US; Vladislav Hristov, BG; Alegria Imperial, CA;Harvey Jenkins,
CA; Anisoara Jordache, RO; Robert Kania, PL; Yamadori Komodori, US;
Catherine J.S. Lee, US; Tomislav Maretić CR; Sandra Martyres, IN;
Cristian Mocanu, RO; Susan Murata, US; Rita Odeh, IL; Stella Pierides,
DE / UK; Valli Poole, AU; Maria Santomauro, US; Alex Serban, RO; Keith
A. Simmonds, TT; Brian Strand, UK; Vania Stefanova, BG; Diana Teneva,
BG; Sasa Vazic, RS; Chrtine L. Ville, US
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Editor's Choice "pond life" Haiku Thread
Karina's Choices ~ Check Back!
John's Choices ~
Pond Sights, Sounds and Seasons
Guest Bernard Gieske's
Choices ~
Night and Day – What A Difference they Make
Read the January / February 2012
"pond life"
Haiku Thread
Forty-five poets
from fifteen countries have contributed two hundred eighty-eight haiku to the
March / April 30, 2012 "pond life"
Haiku Thread
Participants: Jax Aemilias, UK; Ramesh
Anand, MY; Karin Anderson, AU; Stella Armour, UK; Danica Bartulović, CR;
Margaret Beverland, NZ; Willie R. Bongcaron, PH; Ralf Bröker, DE; John
Byrne, Ireland; Patricia Carragon, US; Cezar F. Ciobîcă, RO; Marion Clarke, IE; John Daleiden,
US; Robert Davey, UK;Tracy Davidson, UK; Smajil Durmiševic, BA; Bernard
Gieske, US; Cara Holman, US; Alegria Imperial, CA; Anisoara Iordache,
RO; Harvey Jenkins, CA; Munia Khan, BD; Evica Kraljić, CR; Chen-ou Liu,
CA; Tonka Lovric, CR; Stefanija Ludvig, CR; Vladimir Ludvig, CR;
Tomislav Maretic, CR; Sandra Martyres, IN; Malvina Mileta, CR; Karen
O'Leary, US; Pravat Kumar Padhy, IN; Asim Kumar Paul, IN; Marija
Pogorilić, CR; Vera Primorac, CR; Chitra Rajappa, IN;
Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, CR;
Alex Serban, RO; Radhey Shiam, IN; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Vania
Stefanova, BG;
Rachel Sutcliffe, UK; Diana
Teneva, BG; Maria Tirenescu, RO; Angie Werren, US; Neal Whitman, US
Countries:
Australia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New
Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, United
Kingdom, United States
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From the Editor's Chairs
Enter
Karina Klesko, US and John Daleiden, US
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