Karina Klesko, US and John
Daleiden, US
March / April
30, 2012
The March / April 2012
Sketchbook contains poems, art and features by
one hundred-four
writers
from twenty-one Countries: Australia, Austria, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Ethiopia,
Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New
Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago,
United Kingdom, United States
Thirteen poets
from eight countries make
their first Sketchbook appearance in the
March / April 2012 Issue:
Jax
Aemilias, UK;
Johnny Baranski, US;
Floyd Cheung, US;
Vassilis Comporozos, Greece;
Daniel de Culla, ES / US;
Anisoara Iordache, RO;
Bernhard
Kopf, AT;
Tonka Lovrić, CR;
Valli Poole, AU;
Kenneth Salzmann, IL;
Craig W. Steele, US;
Rachel Sutcliffe, US;
Joanna M. Weston.
Welcome to the Sketchbook
family of writers.
The
March / April 2012
Sketchbook
Cover Art
is
by Emily Romano, US:
swan and lily.
The Haiga featured on the Contents
page is
the eye of night by Emily Romano, US.
Congratulations to the March / April
2012 "swing" Kukai
winners:
First Place: Bernard Giekske, US
Second
Place: Vania Stefanova, BG
Third
Place: Ramesh Ananad, MY
Read the "swing" Kukai Results
Announcing
the May / June 2012 "cloud peaks" Kukai:
read the
full guidelines here.
Forty-five
poets from fifteen countries have contributed two hundred
eighty-eight haiku to the
March / April 30, 2012 "pond
life"
Haiku Thread.
Click here to read the entire Haiku Thread.
"Pond life" Choice
Haiku selected by editors Karina Klesko; John Daleiden ~
Pond Sights, Sounds and Seasons; and Guest Bernard
Gieske's Choices ~
Night and Day – What A Difference they Make
Announcing the
May / June 2012 "wedding / bride" Haiku Thread:
read the
full guidelines here.
This
March / April 2012 issue
contains a diversity of poetry forms: Eastern Genre:
Haiku, Haiga, Renhai, Tanka and Tanka Prose. Western Genre:
Acrostic, Cinquain, Concrete Poetry, Couplets, Ekphrastic Poems;
Experimental forms-The Fold and Triadic Line Poems; Found
Poetry, Free Verse, Monostich, Pleiades Poems, Rondeau,
Rictameter Poems, Villanelle, and Yugen.
For the March /
April 2012 issue, editor Karina Klesko continues the
Let US Pray
feature. 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 the March / April 2012 issue
thirteen
poets from five countries are
Featured:
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
Please
continue to send your
poems and prayers to:
letuspray@poetrywriting.org
Editor Vaughn Seward has selected
Renhai
for the March / April 2012
Sketchbook; the
Renhai authors include:
Gellina Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US;
Rita Odeh, IL; Vaughn Seward, 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 in the
March / April 2012
issue:
Art Gallery II by
Emily Romano, US: Norman J. Olson writes two Travel pieces ~ An
Art Trip to London and
Fort
Lauderdale and Points South
including ten sketches as well as an
Little Black Book
Art Gallery
of
his recent creations;
Art Photo Gallery by Iolanda Scripca.
The winners of the
March / April 2012
Poem Picture Contest: 1st Place ~
Sandra Martyres, IN; 2nd Place ~ Evica
Kraljić, CR and 3rd Place ~ Catherine J.S. Lee, US.
Read the entire series of twenty-four poems.
The May / June 2012
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
contest picture.
The deadline for
submission is Midnight,
Saturday, June 23, 2012.
Contributing Editor, Helen Bar-Lev,
IL features an
Interview with Kenneth Salzmann.
Contributing Editor, Doug
Holder, US reports his
Review of The Collected Poems of Jared Smith.
Contributing Editor, Jeff
Spahr-Summers, aka ZZBaggins features
Poetry and Art by
Heather Lenz,
J.A. Spahr-Summers, and
Cindy Stell, Sandhya Tiwari,
Sarah
Martin, Marcie Riel in
The Poetry Victims—Vol.
8, Issue 4 and his
thoughts in a
Not Quite so Personal
and Irregular Diary.
The editors call
your attention to the following deadline dates posted in the
2012
Announcements Index
on the Contents page. Sketchbook
is now open for May / June 2012: Issue 42 submissions. The
submission deadline for this issue is June 20, 2012.
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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