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From: Jim Kacian <redmoon@shentel.net>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 7:22 PM
Hi All:
Red Moon Press celebrates the tenth year of publication of contemporary
haibun as the only book and series committed to the best haibun and haiga
produced each year. This volume contains 54 haibun, ranging in style from
memoir to journal to short story, in tone from the arch to the mystical,
in content from the commonplace to the supernatural. Add to this 25 haiga
which include the most traditional approaches side by side with creations
employing a multitude of styles from other traditions and media, and the
result is a volume unique in contemporary English literature.
"contemporary haibun has stood alone for a decade as the chief vehicle and
bulwark of the burgeoning haibun movement in English. Without the vanguard
role of this annual anthology, one might reasonably inquire howand perhaps
ifhaibun would have survived." Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, Haibun Today
contemporary haibun Volume 10 is now available online at
www.redmoonpress.com or by ordering from Red Moon Press. If you're a
contributor to the volume and have not yet ordered your copies at the
contributors' rate, contact the press directly at redmoon (at) shentel
(dot) net, replacing the (at) with a @ and the (dot) with a .
Thank you all for your continued support.
Red Moon Press...
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Editor Jeffrey Woodward has issued a call for
submissions to a new print/online journal
which will be released through Dennis Garrison's MET Press: Modern Haibun
& Tanka Prose.
The journal opened to submissions, effective Jan. 1, and there is a March
31 deadline.
Woodward is looking for new work only; reprints will be the rare
exception.
The digital edition will go online in June and the hardcopy and e-book
editions
will be released immediately thereafter. The journal is biannual:
summer (June) and winter (December) issues. http://www.modernhaibunandtankaprose.com/MHTP/callforsubmissions.html
The URL for the site’s Masthead http://www.modernhaibunandtankaprose.com/
and here is the URL for the Submission
Guidelines http://www.modernhaibunandtankaprose.com/submit.html
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Subject: apertura 7° edizione 2009 CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE POESIA HAIKU IN
LINGUA ITALIANA
con sezione dedicata alle scuole e all'handicap
comunicato stampa: italiano and english
CASCINA MACONDO
Centro Nazionale per la Promozione della Lettura Creativa ad Alta Voce e
POETICA HAIKU
Borgata Madonna della Rovere, 4 - 10020 Riva Presso Chieri - Torino -
Italy
tel. 011-9468397 - cell. 328 42 62 517
info@cascinamacondo.com - www.cascinamacondo.com
BANDISCE
7° EDIZIONE - CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE DI POESIA HAIKU IN LINGUA ITALIANA
possono partecipare: autori di ogni nazionalitŕ e di ogni etŕ
partecipazione: GRATUITA
sezioni: individuale (autori singoli) - collettiva (scuole e area
handicap)
quantitŕ: massimo tre haiku classici INEDITI (5-7-5 sillabe) in lingua
italiana.
invio: solo attraverso la compilazione del modulo on line
www.cascinamacondo.com (previa registrazione)
scadenza: 31 MAGGIO 2009
premiazione: domenica 22 NOVEMBRE 2009 a Cascina Macondo - cerimonia
ufficiale
premi: 114 haiku classificati (57 sezione singola + 57 sezione collettiva)
pubblicati in volume
1°- 2°- 3° PREMIO SEZIONE SINGOLA:
- preziosa ciotola Raku, attestato, libro degli haiku
- al PRIMO PREMIO anche un soggiorno di una settimana per 2 persone alle
CINQUE TERRE ospiti in un villino
del Villaggio La Francesca (Bonassola-La Spezia-Italia)
- al SECONDO PREMIO anche un soggiorno di una settimana per 2 persone
presso la PENSIONE SIGNORINI
(Castiglioncello-Livorno-Italia)
1°- 2°- 3° PREMIO SEZIONE COLLETTIVA:
- targa in ceramica Raku alla Scuola
- attestato e libro degli haiku all'alunno
- libro all'insegnante
AI PRIMI DIECI CLASSIFICATI DI OGNI SEZIONE ATTESTATO DI MERITO
nota 1: tutti gli haiku pervenuti sono visibili sul sito di cascina
macondo
nota 2: il pubblico puň votare gli haiku messi on line
(Il voto del pubblico č utile parametro di riferimento per dirimere i casi
che hanno ottenuto paritŕ di voto dalla giuria)
clicca qui per il bando completo IN 14 LINGUE (grazie per averlo stampato
e appeso in qualche luogo)
http://my.cascinamacondo.com/site/bando.asp
giuria
Alessandra Gallo (scrittrice-poetessa-insegnante)
Annette Seimer (traduttrice)
Antonella Filippi (scrittrice-poetessa-Haijin)
Domenico Benedetto (fotografo)
Fabia Binci ( scrittrice-Haijin-insegnante)
Fabrizio Virgili (Haijin-insegnante)
Giorgio Gazzolo (Haijin)
Michele Bertolotto (web master-Haijin)
Pietro Tartamella (scrittore-poeta-Haijin-insegnante)
membri onorari della giuria
Ban'ya Natsuishi ( Japan )
Danilo Manera ( Italy )
David Cobb ( UK )
Jim Kacian ( USA )
Max Verhart ( Holland )
Nico Orengo ( Italy )
Visnja Mcmaster ( Croatia )
Zinovy Vayman ( Russia )
Sponsor e Patrocini
Regione Piemonte www.regione.piemonte.it
Comune di Riva Presso Chieri www.comune.rivapressochieri.to.it -
Fondazione Italia-Giappone www.italiagiappone.it
Liceo Europeo Convitto Nazionale Umberto I www.cnuto.it/CNUTO/CNUTO/SitoPubblico/Sezioni/11
Villaggio La Francesca www.villaggilafrancesca.it - Pensione Signorini
www.pensionesignorini.it
Cogest M&C-Business & Travel www.cogest.info - Edil.Dan.Pi. Costruzioni
s.a.s www.edildanpi.it
Gruppo Piotto - Gruppo Haijin di Arenzano - Edizioni Angolo Manzoni
www.angolo-manzoni.it
Deart Web Agency www.deart.org - Colombre Film www.colombre.it - Circolo
dei Lettori www.circololettori.it
NOTA:
il tuo indirizzo di posta elettronica proviene dall'elenco dei nostri
amici simpatizzanti, oppure č stato recuperato
nel web da liste che lo hanno reso pubblico, o recuperato da email inviate
da amici che abbiamo in comune.
Se non vuoi piů ricevere i comunicati di Cascina Macondo ti preghiamo
cortesemente di inoltrare questa stessa email
al mittente, scrivendo semplicemente come oggetto la parola: CANCELLA.
Press release: English
CASCINA MACONDO
National Centre for the Promotion of Creative Reading Aloud and HAIKU
POETICS
Borgata Madonna della Rovere, 4 - 10020 Riva Presso Chieri - Torino -
Italy
tel. +39 (0)11-9468397 - mobile +39 328 42 62 517
info@cascinamacondo.com - www.cascinamacondo.com
ANNOUNCES
THE 7th INTERNATIONAL HAIKU POETRY CONTEST IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE
Participants: authors of any nationality and age
Admission: FREE
Sections: individual: single authors - collective: schools and handicap
area
Quantity: up to three UNPUBLISHED traditional haikus in Italian (5-7-5
syllables)
Submission: only by filling in the form on line www.cascinamacondo.com (by
registration)
Expiry: 31st May 2009
Prizegiving: Sunday 22nd November 2009 at Cascina Macondo - official
ceremony
Prizes: 114 classed haiku (57 individual section + 57 collective section)
published in a volume
1st-2nd-3rd prize individual section: a precious Raku bowl, certificate,
haiku book
to the 1st PRIZE also a one week stay for two people at CINQUE TERRE
guests in a villa at Villaggio La Francesca
(Bonassola-La Spezia-Italia)
to the 2nd PRIZE also a one week stay for two people guests at Pensione
Signorini (Castiglioncello-Livorno-Italia)
1st-2nd-3rd prize collective section:
-ceramic Raku plaque to the School
-certificate and haiku book to the student
-book to the teacher
To the FIRST TEN classed in every section: a merit certificate
Note 1: all submitted haikus will be published on the website of Cascina
Macondo
Note 2 : visitors of the website will be able to vote for their favourite
haiku
(visitors' votes are a useful reference in cases in which a haiku obtained
by the jury an equal number of votes)
click here for the complete announcement in 14 LANGUAGES (thank you to
print it and hang it in some places)
http://my.cascinamacondo.com/site/bando.asp
jury
Alessandra Gallo (writer-poetess-teacher)
Annette Seimer (translator)
Antonella Filippi (writer-poetess-Haijin)
Domenico Benedetto (photographer)
Fabia Binci (writer-Haijin-teacher)
Fabrizio Virgili (Haijin- teacher)
Giorgio Gazzolo (Haijin)
Michele Bertolotto (web master-Haijin)
Pietro Tartamella ((writer-poet-Haijin-teacher)
honorary members of the jury
Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan)
Danilo Manera ( Italy )
David Cobb ( UK )
Jim Kacian ( USA )
Max Verhart ( Holland )
Nico Orengo (Italy)
Visnja McMaster (Croatia)
Zinovy Vayman (Russia)
Sponsors and Patronage
Regione Piemonte www.regione.piemonte.it
Comune di Riva Presso Chieri www.comune.rivapressochieri.to.it -
Fondazione Italia-Giappone www.italiagiappone.it
Liceo Europeo Convitto Nazionale Umberto I www.cnuto.it/CNUTO/CNUTO/SitoPubblico/Sezioni/11
Villaggio La Francesca www.villaggilafrancesca.it - Pensione Signorini
www.pensionesignorini.it
Cogest M&C-Business & Travel www.cogest.info - Edil.Dan.Pi. Costruzioni
s.a.s www.edildanpi.it
Gruppo Piotto - Gruppo Haijin di Arenzano - Edizioni Angolo Manzoni
www.angolo-manzoni.it
Deart Web Agency www.deart.org - Colombre Film www.colombre.it - Circolo
dei Lettori www.circololettori.it
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Ennis Book Club Festival 2009 and the Irish Haiku Society announce
Insight into Haiku
with the poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky
(a haiku reading and a haiku workshop)
held in the Clare Museum, Arthur's Row (off O'Connell Square), Ennis, Co.
Clare
on Saturday 7th March, 2009; 12 noon to 1pm
Admission is €10/€8
Tickets available from 12th January 2009. To book contact Glór Box Office.
Tel. 065 6843103 or email boxoffice [at] glor.ie
Early booking essential
Further festival information at
www.ennisbookclubfestival.com | e-mail: info [at]
ennisbookclubfestival.com, irishhaikusociety [at] hotmail.com
Tel. 087 972 3647 or 085 784 2822
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Hi, All:
Red Moon Press announces the release of white lies: The Red Moon Anthology
of English-Language Haiku 2008.
white lies is the 13th volume in this most awarded series in the history
of haiku publishing.
The details: 182 pp., 8.25" x 5.5", ISBN 978-1-893959-80-4. 133 haiku, 18
linked forms and 5 essays on the reading,
writing and study of the genre. $17. You can purchase this volume online
at where you can also see the listings of
our other fine books on haiku. And of course you can purchase this in the
conventional way through our hard copy catalog.
If you need a catalog, please send a request to this email with your
snailmail address and we'll get one to you right away.
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Dimitar, Important announcement:
World Haiku Association will co-organize Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2009 and
WHAC5 in autumn 2009, in Lithuania.
Its outline attached.
We cannot cover travel expenses, but accomodations and meals only during
our
festival.
WHA Home Office would accept 20 haiku poets from countries excluding
Japan,
Russia, Ukraina, Belarus and Lithuania.
Druskininkai Poetic Fall Office would accept 10 haiku poets from Russia,
Ukraina, Belarus and Lithuania.
All participant poets' haiku will be included in Druskininkai Poetic Fall
2009 Anthology.
Please email the materials below to WHA Home Office, if you or your friend
would attend to
Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2009 and WHAC5.
1 Your photo (jpeg).
2 Your short biography in English within 800 words.
3 20 of your haiku (published or unpublished) in original language with
English translation.
Application deadline:
28 February 2009
Addressee
WHA Home Office
c/o Ban'ya Natsuishi
3-16-11 Tsuruse-nishi, Fujimi, Saitama
354-0026 JAPAN
Tel & fax: +81-49-252-9823
Email: haikubanya@mub.biglobe.ne.jp
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Dimitar Anakiev, film-maker
Dimitar Anakiev Film s.p.
Na Mlaki 1B
SI-4240 Radovljica
Tel. +386.31.364.304, +386.40.246.853
Home page in English:
http://dimitar.anakiev.googlepages.com/home
Homepage in Deutsch:
http://dimitar.anakiev.googlepages.com/dimitarfilmsgerman
Blog:
http://dimitarfilmsblog.blogspot.com/
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THE FOURTH ANNUAL HERON'S NEST
ILLUSTRATION CONTEST
This year's illustration contest drew nearly three hundred entries. Thank
you for making our selection process so
difficult! Congratulations to those whose work has been selected and our
deep appreciation for everyone who has
offered their work. As always, it was with a mixture of gratitude and
regret that we enjoyed but ultimately had
to relinquish the opportunity to use so many truly beautiful images. We
hope that those of you who have not been
rewarded with a selection this year will not be discouraged and that we
will have the opportunity of seeing more
of your work later this year.
Click this link to see the winning entries.
Cover - Johan Bergstad
Overview - Natalia L. Rudychev
Spring - Sandra Simpson
Summer - Ron Moss
Autumn - Richard Krawiec
Winter - Natalia L. Rudychev
Readers' Choices - Ron Moss
We applaud the winners of the fourth annual Heron's Nest Illustration
Contest and are grateful to all of the artists
who participated.
John Stevenson
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Dear Haiku Friends,
I am terribly sorry, but we just made the surprising discovery that the
email address we were planning to use
(and already published) for submissions to the ukiaHaiku festival this
year was already in use!
So, we have changed it to: ukiahaikufest09@yahoo.com. I also sent
erroneous information about the fee schedule.
There is only one fee: $5 for up to 3 haiku.
I know you've already received several emails from me about the ukiaHaiku
festival, but I PROMISE this will be
the last for the 2009 festival. PLEASE pass this information on to your
email contacts and change the email address
in your on-line or in-print listings if possible.
Below you will find the complete (and correct) listing information, in
case you still need it, and below that is
an attachment with the corrected version of A Tale of a Festival.
THANK YOU!
Looking forward to your submissions,
Kate MarianchildCoordinator, ukiaHaiku festival
ukiaHaiku festival information and contest guidelines
haiku wing from distant landsspring migration
Ukiah is a northern California town whose name, backwards, spells “Haiku.”
In 2009 the City of Ukiah will hold
its 7th annual haiku contest and festival. The festival encourages local,
national, and international submissions
of Contemporary Haiku.
Website Address: www.ukiahaiku.orgFee: $5 for up to three haiku.Limit:
Maximum 3 haiku per person.
Eligibility: age 19 and over.Submission Guidelines: If emailing: Follow
instructions on website, or:
1) Send a separate email for each haiku to ukiahaikufest09@yahoo.com. Send
no more than three haiku.
In body of email include: a) author's name; b) email address; c) the
category (Contemporary);
d) the poem; e) alternate/additional contact information;2) Send the fee
by snail mail to
ukiaHaiku festival, POB 865, Ukiah, CA 95482. If snail mailing: Go to
www.ukiahaiku.org and download the form.
Follow instructions on the form.Deadline: March 13, 2009 (postmark or
email date).Judging: Internationally
famous haiku poet Jane Reichhold will judge the Contemporary Haiku
category. Awards: $100 first place,
$50 second place, $25 third place, plus a small booklet of winning poems
and publication in that booklet.
Festival and Awards Ceremony: Sunday April 26, 2009, 2 p.m. Winners are
strongly encouraged to attend
the festival to read their poems. (Out-of-towners might consider visiting
the Mendocino Coast before
or after the festival. Mendocino is a world-class tourist destination
1-1/2 hours from Ukiah by car).
tiny girlreciting her poem -hard to breathe
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A Tale of a Festival
Once upon a time there was a lovely little town known as Ukiah.
The name came from the Pomo word “Yokayo,” meaning “ Deep Valley .”
The town dozed and twitched for 100 years by the Russian River ,
sprouting pears and walnuts, grapes and babies.
Artists and poets trickled into the community, attracted by the
green-gold hills, the big sky, and the friendly people.
In due time a government came into being, complete with city council.
The good councillors sponsored community fairs, fireworks, and concerts.
The citizens were happy and didn’t expect much more of their elected
officials.
Then one day a new idea sprang forth – an idea never proposed before to
any town government anywhere in North America…or even the western
hemisphere.
The city mothers and fathers murmured among themselves, scratched their
collective head, and finally, being an intrepid bunch, decided to sponsor
an…Astrology Fair? (nope)... UFO Expo? (noooo)... Give up?...A Haiku
Festival!
Why? Because “Ukiah” backward spells “Haiku,” silly!
Aahh, haiku…I’m glad you asked what that is. Haiku is a wondrous creation
of
the Japanese – a form of poetry that, when you try to write it, infuses
everything
in your life, including you, with an inner glow. Dew will shine more
brilliantly,
bees will hum more tranquilly, and chores will be more fun. Sound like new
love? Well,
it is, kind of. When you look at the world with “haiku eyes” you fall in
love with it
all over again, just like when you were a child. It doesn’t matter how
your poems turn
out – the magic is in the way you look at things.
So, again, what is, or are, haiku? (The word can be singular or plural).
Haiku are simple, 3-line poems. They usually don't use rhyme,
alliteration,
or punctuation, and they don’t philosophize or “psychologize.”
They offer a poetic glimpse of a scene or a situation – a snapshot created
with words.
hovering above
silver but always changing
snow piles in the sky
by Vincent K. Brock of Ukiah
sitting all alone
on a sidewalk full of sun
a small grey pebble
by Brianna Mack of Ukiah
Haiku can use a “traditional” 5-7-5 pattern of syllables, such as the ones
above, in which the first line has 5 syllables,
the second 7, and the third 5; or they can be written in the
“contemporary” form, with fewer syllables. Here are some
contemporary haiku:
late fall fig tree
naked except for
one big leaf
by Kayla Wildman of Potter Valley
just past mauve –
paddling hard
for a dark shore
by Jim Kacian of Virginia
Either way works, and both forms will be accepted in most categories of
the ukiaHaiku festival’s poetry contest this year,
except in those categories that specify “contemporary” or “traditional.”
(For more information on traditional vs.
contemporary haiku, go to www.ukiahaiku.org and click on “Submission
Guidelines” at the bottom of the home page).
The ukiaHaiku festival was born in the year 2003, and like all infants, it
has grown. Now in its seventh year,
the festival is thriving. Local poets go to classrooms and instruct
students in writing haiku.
Nearly 1,500 poems pour in each year from children and adults living in
Ukiah and distant places
like South Dakota , Romania , and New Zealand . Poetry submissions are
judged
by the Ukiah Poet Laureate Committee and well-known haiku poet Jane
Reichhold,
who judges the Adult Contemporary Haiku category.
An awards ceremony is held at which the winning poets read their poems,
and a book of the winning poems is published.
Best of all? People who never wrote poems before are turning their
observations of the world into poetry.
You are invited, encouraged, and cajoled to submit entries to the
ukiaHaiku festival. All categories are free
of charge except “Adult Contemporary Haiku,” which costs $5 for up to
three poems. Modest prizes are offered,
along with publication in the book and the opportunity to read your
winning haiku at the festival.
Prizes are very modest in all categories except "Contemporary Haiku -
Adult,"
for which prizes of $100, $50, and $25 are offered this year for the first
time.
All winning poems will also be published in a book. The submission
deadline for
the 2009 ukiaHaiku festival contest is Friday, March 13, 2009.
Submission forms can be downloaded from www.ukiahaiku.org or picked up at
libraries around Mendocino County,
as well as the Bookmobile and Grace Hudson Museum. Submissions can also be
emailed to ukiahaikufest09@yahoo.com.
(For the Adult Contemporary category a check for $5 will have to be mailed
– see website).
This year’s awards ceremony, complete with music and award-winning poetry,
will be held on Sunday,
April 26 from 2-4 p.m. at the Ukiah Conference Center.
A Tale of a Festival was written by Kate Marianchild, Coordinator and
Publicist for ukiaHaiku festival.
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Hi, All:
Red Moon Press announces the release of white lies: The Red Moon Anthology
of English-Language Haiku 2008.
white lies is the 13th volume in this most awarded series in the history
of haiku publishing.
The details: 182 pp., 8.25" x 5.5", ISBN 978-1-893959-80-4. 133 haiku, 18
linked forms and 5 essays
on the reading, writing and study of the genre. $17. You can purchase this
volume online at where you
can also see the listings of our other fine books on haiku. And of course
you can purchase this in
the conventional way through our hard copy catalog. If you need a catalog,
please send a request to
this email with your snailmail address and we'll get one to you right
away.
We also would like to invite the submission of haiga for the upcoming
contemporary haibun volume 10.
You can send your work electronically to this email address (we prefer
tiff files at 300dpi and no
larger than 7" x 7") or snailmail them to Red Moon Press, Haiga
Submission, PO Box 2461,
Winchester VA 22604-1661 USA. It is best to enclose copies. If you send
originals and you
want them sent back, please include an envelope with sufficient postage.
We will consider
previously published work. Deadline for receiving haiga is 15february2009.
Thanks, and we
look forward to seeing your fine work soon.
Jim KacianRed Moon Press
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Announcement: MODERN HAIBUN & TANKA PROSE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS.Call for
Submissions.
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose.Issue 1. Summer 2009.You are invited to submit
haibun and
tanka prose for the Summer 2009 premiereissue of Modern Haibun & Tanka
Prose.
The submission deadline is March 31,2009. Submissions will NOT close
earlier than the deadline.
Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose is a biannual journal-a print literary
journal,a PDF ebook,
and a digital online magazine-dedicated to the publication andpromotion of
fine English
haibun and tanka prose.
We seek traditional andinnovative haibun and tanka prose of high quality
and desire to
assimilate thebest of these Japanese genres into a continuously evolving
English tradition.
Inaddition to haibun and tanka prose, we publish articles, essays, book
reviewsand interviews
pertinent to these same genres.Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose specializes in
fine haibun and tanka prose.
Allselection decisions will be made at the sole discretion of the
editor.Previously unpublished work,
not on offer elsewhere, is solicited.Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose,
Baltimore, Maryland USA.
Website:.http://www.modernhaibunandtankaprose.com/.Editor: Jeffrey
Woodward.
Email up to five haibun, five tanka prose, and fiveshort works to the
Editor at MHTP(dot)EDITOR(at)GMAIL(dot)COM .
Beforesubmitting, please read the detailed submission guid
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Dear Haiku Friends,
I am terribly sorry, but we just made the surprising discovery that the
email address we were
planning to use (and already published) for submissions to the ukiaHaiku
festival this year
was already in use!
So, we have changed it to: ukiahaikufest09@yahoo.com. I also sent
erroneous information about
the fee schedule. There is only one fee: $5 for up to 3 haiku.
I know you've already received several emails from me about the ukiaHaiku
festival,
but I PROMISE this will be the last for the 2009 festival. PLEASE pass
this information
on to your email contacts and change the email address in your on-line or
in-print listings if possible.
Below you will find the complete (and correct) listing information, in
case you still need it,
and below that is an attachment with the corrected version of A Tale of a
Festival.
THANK YOU!
Looking forward to your submissions,
Kate MarianchildCoordinator, ukiaHaiku festival
ukiaHaiku festival information and contest guidelines
haiku wing from distant landsspring migration
Ukiah is a northern California town whose name, backwards, spells “Haiku.”
In 2009 the City of Ukiah will hold its 7th annual haiku contest and
festival.
The festival encourages local, national, and international submissions of
Contemporary Haiku.
Website Address: www.ukiahaiku.orgFee: $5 for up to three haiku.Limit:
Maximum 3 haiku per person.Eligibility: age 19 and over.Submission
Guidelines:
If emailing: Follow instructions on website, or: 1) Send a separate email
for
each haiku to ukiahaikufest09@yahoo.com. Send no more than three haiku.
In body of email include: a) author's name; b) email address;
c) the category (Contemporary); d) the poem;
e) alternate/additional contact information;
2) Send the fee by snail mail to ukiaHaiku festival,
POB 865, Ukiah, CA 95482. If snail mailing:
Go to www.ukiahaiku.org and download the form.
Follow instructions on the form.
Deadline: March 13, 2009 (postmark or email date).Judging: Internationally
famous haiku poet Jane Reichhold will judge the Contemporary Haiku
category.
Awards: $100 first place, $50 second place, $25 third place, plus a small
booklet
of winning poems and publication in that booklet.Festival and Awards
Ceremony:
Sunday April 26, 2009, 2 p.m. Winners are strongly encouraged to attend
the festival to read their poems. (Out-of-towners might consider visiting
the Mendocino Coast before or after the festival.
Mendocino is a world-class tourist destination 1-1/2 hours from Ukiah by
car).
tiny girlreciting her poem -hard to breathe
---------------------------- A Tale of a Festival
Once upon a time there was a lovely little town known as Ukiah. The name
came from the Pomo word
“Yokayo,” meaning “ Deep Valley .” The town dozed and twitched for 100
years by the Russian River
,sprouting pears and walnuts, grapes and babies. Artists and poets
trickled into the community,
attracted by the green-gold hills, the big sky, and the friendly people.
In due time a government came into being, complete with city council. The
good councillors sponsored
community fairs, fireworks, and concerts. The citizens were happy and
didn’t expect much more of their
elected officials.
Then one day a new idea sprang forth – an idea never proposed before to
any town government anywhere
in North America…or even the western hemisphere. The city mothers and
fathers murmured among themselves,
scratched their collective head, and finally, being an intrepid bunch,
decided to sponsor an…Astrology Fair? (nope)... UFO Expo? (noooo)...
Give up?...A Haiku Festival! Why? Because “Ukiah” backward spells “Haiku,”
silly!
Aahh, haiku…I’m glad you asked what that is. Haiku is a wondrous creation
of the Japanese – a form of poetry that,
when you try to write it, infuses everything in your life, including you,
with an inner glow.
Dew will shine more brilliantly, bees will hum more tranquilly, and chores
will be more fun.
Sound like new love? Well, it is, kind of. When you look at the world with
“haiku eyes” you fall
in love with it all over again, just like when you were a child. It
doesn’t matter how your poems
turn out – the magic is in the way you look at things.
So, again, what is, or are, haiku? (The word can be singular or plural).
Haiku are simple, 3-line poems.
They usually don't use rhyme, alliteration, or punctuation, and they don’t
philosophize or “psychologize.
”They offer a poetic glimpse of a scene or a situation – a snapshot
created with words.
hovering above
silver but always changing
snow piles in the sky
by Vincent K. Brock of Ukiah
sitting all alone
on a sidewalk full of sun
a small grey pebble
by Brianna Mack of Ukiah
Haiku can use a “traditional” 5-7-5 pattern of syllables, such as the ones
above,
in which the first line has 5 syllables, the second 7, and the third 5;
or they can be written in the “contemporary” form, with fewer syllables.
Here are some contemporary haiku:
late fall fig tree
naked except for
one big leaf
by Kayla Wildman of Potter Valley
just past mauve –
paddling hard
for a dark shore
by Jim Kacian of Virginia
Either way works, and both forms will be accepted in most categories of
the ukiaHaiku festival’s
poetry contest this year, except in those categories that specify
“contemporary” or “traditional.”
(For more information on traditional vs. contemporary haiku, go to
www.ukiahaiku.org and click on
“Submission Guidelines” at the bottom of the home page).
The ukiaHaiku festival was born in the year 2003, and like all infants, it
has grown.
Now in its seventh year, the festival is thriving. Local poets go to
classrooms and
instruct students in writing haiku. Nearly 1,500 poems pour in each year
from children
and adults living in Ukiah and distant places like South Dakota , Romania
, and New Zealand .
Poetry submissions are judged by the Ukiah Poet Laureate Committee and
well-known haiku poet
Jane Reichhold, who judges the Adult Contemporary Haiku category. An
awards ceremony is held
at which the winning poets read their poems, and a book of the winning
poems is published.
Best of all? People who never wrote poems before are turning their
observations of the world into poetry.
You are invited, encouraged, and cajoled to submit entries to the
ukiaHaiku festival.
All categories are free of charge except “Adult Contemporary Haiku,”
which costs $5 for up to three poems. Modest prizes are offered,
along with publication in the book and the opportunity to read your
winning haiku at the festival. Prizes are very modest in all
categories except "Contemporary Haiku -
Adult," for which prizes of $100, $50, and $25 are offered this year for
the first time.
All winning poems will also be published in a book. The submission
deadline for the 2009
ukiaHaiku festival contest is Friday, March 13, 2009.
Submission forms can be downloaded from www.ukiahaiku.org or picked up at
libraries around
Mendocino County , as well as the Bookmobile and Grace Hudson Museum.
Submissions can also
be emailed to ukiahaikufest09@yahoo.com. (For the Adult Contemporary
category a check
for $5 will have to be mailed – see website). This year’s awards ceremony,
complete with music and award-winning poetry, will be held on Sunday,
April 26 from 2-4 p.m. at the Ukiah Conference Center.
A Tale of a Festival was written by Kate Marianchild, Coordinator and
Publicist for ukiaHaiku festival.
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Hi, All:
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RESULTS OF THE 8th INTERNATIONAL HAIKU CONTEST
HAIKU CALENDAR LUDBREG 2009
REZULTATI 8. MEĐUNARODNOG NATJEČAJA
ZA HAIKU-KALENDAR LUDBREG 2009
The number of 310 haikus written by 106 authors from 21 countries
(Australia, Austria, Bangladesh,
Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany,
Greece, India, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Trinidad &
Tobago and United States of America)
were received for competition to the 8th international haiku contest Haiku
Calendar Ludbreg 2008.
Here are the results.
Na 8. međunarodni natječaj za Haiku-kalendar Ludbreg 2009 pristiglo je 310
haikua od 106-ero autora iz 21 zemlje
(Australija, Austrija, Bangladeš, Belgija, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bugarska,
Filipini, Francuska, Grčka, Hrvatska,
Indija, Kanada, Nizozemska, Novi Zeland, Njemačka, Poljska, Rumunjska,
Sjedinjene Američke Države, Slovenija,
Srbija i Trinidad i Tobago). Evo rezultata.
First Prize ($ 100)
Prva nagrada (100 američkih dolara)
1. Enes Kišević, Zagreb; Croatia/Hrvatska ****
woman in the dark
tears lit up her weeping face
for a while
ženi u mraku
suze načas osvijetle
uplakano lice
Second Prize ($ 50)
Druga nagrada (50 američkih dolara)
2. Marc Bonetto, France/Francuska ***
snow over snow
silence
after silence
snijeg preko snijega
tišina
nakon tišine
Third Prize (3 x $20)
Treća nagrada (20 američkih dolara)
3. Silva Trstenjak, Štrigova; Croatia/Hrvatska **
one after another
morning sun lights
candles of ice
jednu za drugom
jutarnje sunce pali
svijeće od leda
Honorable Mention (alphabetical order)
Počasno priznanje (abecedni poredak)
Raquel D. Bailey, USA/SAD
Ernest Berry, New Zealand/Novi Zeland
Jim Kacian, USA/SAD
Magdalena Lubomirova Borisova, Bulgaria/Bugarska
Jacek Margolak, Poland/Poljska
Jasminka Nadaškić-Đorđević, Serbia/Srbija
Oana Aurora Posnaines, Romania/Rumunjska
Dragan J. Ristić, Serbia/Srbija
Stjepan Rožić, Ivanić Grad; Croatia/Hrvatska
Ana Ruse, Romania/Rumunjska
Valeria Simonova Cecon, Italy/Italija
Barbara Strang, New Zealand/Novi Zeland
Eduard Tara, Romania/Rumunjska
Željka Vučinić-Jambrešić, Ivanić Grad; Croatia/Hrvatska
Verica Živković, Serbia/Srbija
Zdravko Kurnik
Duško Matas
Boris Nazansky
Zdenko Oreč
Mirko Varga
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