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Lenard D. Moore had a poem published recently in The News & Observer. The title of the poems is "At The State Fair". http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/11/2406545/at-the-state-fair.html Brendan Slater sent this: Press Release: Yet To Be Named Free Press Founding Editor: Brendan Slater, brendan@yettobenamedfreepress.org Anthology Editor: Alan Summers, alan@yettobenamedfreepress.org&nbsp

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A new issue of Haiku Reality is online: http://haikureality.webs.com/indexeng.htm Pamela A. Babusci sent this: MOONBATHING A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA Please note a change in Issue 7's deadline & my change of address EDITOR Pamela A. Babusci   Moonbathing Issue 7 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 5 & issue 6&

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Terri L. French, SE Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America would like to invite all HSA members, haiku enthusiasts, teachers,  and those interested in learning more about the genre to the 2012 Ginkgo Haiku Fest, September 28 - 30.  The conference will be held at beautiful Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama.  Featured conference speakers are Tom Painting, Bob

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Bruce England is our guest today for a round of Haiku - Three Questions. He writes: I live in Santa Clara and work as a Librarian in San Jose, California. My embrace of (and commitment to) haiku has been a long, drawn-out affair. I became aware of haiku in 1962 through one of those Peter Pauper books. I started writing haiku seriously in 1984. I published a chapbook, Shorelines, with my friend

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The poetry world lost an amazingly gifted poet and lady yesterday. After decades of pain, Hortensia Anderson has transitioned to a better place. No, I will not say that she died. Her poems live on and I firmly believe that our souls do survive and move to another place or realm. Hortensia is free of pain this morning. She has a new body. And we are far better people for having known her and

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Okay poets, let's support Garry. I received the following message from Renee Owen: Hi Curtis:Don't know if anyone mentioned to you already, but Garry Gay is looking for some votes from his haiku friends for a chance to have one of his photos used in a commercial for the fine art site that sells his work, Fine Art America.Below there are three links to his photos. Vote for all three, if you have

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Hello Sketchbook Readers: The new Sketchbook Issue 41 is now on-line. The March / April 2012 Sketchbook contains poems, art and features by one hundred-four writers from twenty-one Countries. March/April 2012: Cover: http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-2MarApr2012-41/Sketchbook_7-2_MarApr_2012_Cover_Emily_Romano_Swan_and_Lily.htm March/April 2012: Contents Page: http://poetrywriting.org/

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A new issue of Lynx is available. You can find Lynx at: http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/272hmpg.html Scott Owens writes: Great news!  Something Knows the Moment has been named 1 of 5 finalists for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Thanks for ordering, reading, and supporting Something Knows the Moment.  Charlotte Digregorio recently posed this question: Does haiku

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Hi Folks, I'm writing to let you know about The Haiku Foundation Video Archive campaign on IndieGoGo. Take a moment if you would to check it out.  All the tools are there.  Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates.  If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'The Haiku Foundation Video Archive' happen. This is a word of mouth kind of campaign, so passing this

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Susumu Takiguchi sent this update: WHC NEWS 10 April 2011 Re: New Issue of World Haiku Review is now online: April 2012 Issue The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce that the April 2012 Issue of World Haiku Review is now online. Click on: https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr/home Rohini, our Technical Editor, is continuing her noble and arduous task of retrieving and

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Pamela A. Babusci sent this update: MOONBATHING A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA EDITOR Pamela A. Babusci Moonbathing Issue 6 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 5. If you wish to purchase a copy(ies) please e-mail me. Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Moonbathing will

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A new issue of Notes from the Gean is available. Colin Stewart Jones sent this: Hi Curtis, Could you please post this for your readers? I have included User Instructions for those who are unfamiliar with the flip format. NftG 3:4 is on the stands http://notesfromthegean.com/ There are too many great works to mention individually but thank you all for your contributions

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Ralf Bröker was born in Ochtrup, Germany, in 1968. He has worked as a pr-writer in Frankfurt am Main and Dortmund. With his family, he returned to the Münsterland as a journalist and pr-consultant. His first poetic work was published in 1986. He started reading haiku, senyru and haibun in 2007 and began writing them in 2008. Ralf is a member of the German Haiku-Society. His work has appeared in

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Norman Darlington forwarded this email from Stephen Gill: SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 16:30 (G.M.T.), repeated SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 23:30 (G.M.T.) B.B.C. RADIO 4, ‘THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DISASTER ZONE’ In Japan, this becomes March 12 (Mon.), 01:30 and March 18 (Sun.), 08:30. Listen live here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_fourfm or listen during the week at your own

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Scott Owens sent this update: Hi, all, Just a quick reminder that next Tuesday (3/13) is the next Poetry Hickory.  At 4:00, Maureen Sherbondy will lead a workshop on using art as inspiration for writing.  Then at 5:30 we will have Open Mic readings from Bill Mills, Kim Teague, and Patricia Deaton and featured readings from Maureen and Malaika King Albrecht.  Visit

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The new issue of A Hundred Gourds online. Haiku editor, Lorin Ford writes: A Hundred Gourds 1:2 is now online Issue 1:2 of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga tanka and renku poetry is now online. http://ahundredgourds.com In this issue Ray Rasmussen introduces a feature on ‘The Graphic Haibun of Linda Papanicolaou’. You’ll find AHG’s first renku section, as well

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Helen Losse has a new book of poems available entitled Mansion of Memory. Please buy a copy. The profits go to Bright Futures Joplin Tornado Fund. The cost is $11 (plus $2 postage). Visit Helen's blog or the Mansion of Memory Facebook page for ordering information. Here is a poem from the book: In the Days Of the Pinkest Shades Of Clover We climbed the lookout tower, hugged a branch of the

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David Jacobs was born in London in 1949 and has lived there since.  He has published several collections of mainstream poetry, the most recent of which "The Gardens of Onkel Arnold" (Peterloo) appeared in 2004.   In the last two years he has concentrated exclusively on haiku. His work has appeared in many of the english language haiku journals including Modern Haiku, Acorn, Haiku

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Japanese Arts Fusion   Dear Poet Friends and Friends of Poets,  I would like to share information with you about a Japanese Performing Arts Event with commissioned art installation which I have organized for the Pacific Asia Museum in the Los Angeles CA area, one of only four American institutions to exhibit Pan-Asia arts. The museum has been wonderfully supportive, and will

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H. Gene Murtha, a naturalist and poet, was born on October 19, 1955 under the sign of Libra in Philadelphia, Pa. He has won or placed high in a number of haikai contest around the world. Gene sponsored and judged the first haiku contest for the inner city children of Camden, NJ., for the Virgilio Group, of which he is an lifetime member. With renku partners Bill (Wm. J.) Higginson and Paul

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New Editors for Modern Haiku Roberta Beary is the new haibun editor for Modern Haiku. Here's what was written in Modern Haiku: Sharpe-eyed subscribers who compulsively read our masthead will have noticed a few changes there, notably the addition of Roberta Beary's name. We're delighted to announce that Roberta has agreed to join the editorial staff as haibun editor. She's starting right away

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Tomislav Maretić lives in Zagreb with his wife Ana and four children. He has written haiku for the past 30 years. They have been nationally and internationally published in a number of haiku journals, magazines, anthologies and almanacs, as well as awarded in many international haiku competitions. Poetry Collections: The Boat in the Reeds (haiku, 1990) Alluvium (free verse, 2002)

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David Harris will read and discuss selections from Sea Trails by Pris Campbell during the live broadcast of Difficult Listening: the Poetry Show on Sunday, January 29, 2012 from 10:00 til noon Central time.  The program can be heard on 107.1 LPFM in the Nashville area, and via the website www.radiofreenashville.org.  Live video (and an archive) of the second hour, which includes poetry

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A new issue of Prune Juice has been released:Prune Juice Issue 7 Winter 2012 (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Scott Owens sent this: POETRY

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Bouwe Brouwer was born raised and is still living on reclaimed land in a small town in the Netherlands. He has been writing haiku since August 2008. Besides publications in magazines such as Whirligig, Simply Haiku, Shamrock, Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest, Chrysanthemum, Blithe Spirit and Vuursteen he also enjoys sharing his haiku by means of small handmade haiku books. Trained as an

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