Meanwhile, there is a lively comments section for others to make their remarks or rise to the writing challenges thrown at them by the two Haibun Gallery editors this time, Shalini Pattabiraman, with whom Tito judged last years’s San Francisco International Haibun Contest, and Vidya Shankar. ...
Haiku Contest: Win Tickets to See Vampire Weekend at a Secret Small New York Show It's year-end list time, and one album that will surely be showing up a lot is Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City, so why not celebrate the closing of 2013 by seeing the band live? On ...
FAILED HAIKU 101Download I would like to give a giant thank you toMarilyn Ashbaugh and John Pappasfor all of their work as judges this year. It was no small task. There was a record number of contest submissions, and the quality of the submissions was fantastic. I would also like to th...
electroshock I read somewhere around 65 books this year, not counting the 90+ poetry books I read this winter and spring when I was judging the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards contest. Most of the 65 were not poetry books because I was pretty much poetried out at that point....
Posted onMay 1, 2024byDWHirschAuthor I’m looking forward to seeing my old haunts when I travel back to Michigan next week. I lived in Michigan for 11 years, my formative married years, as I like to say. Between Ann Arbor, Detroit and Windsor, Canada, I have so many treasured memorie...
September 15, 2024Leave a comment creeping sepia even my iPhone stopped recognizing me Creeping sepia: is a relatively new kigo.Alan Summers, winner of the first modern kigo contest, writes: “A combination of the transition into Autumn (Fall) as Summer fades, and a mixture of climate change...