New site linktree and new Babylon Sidedoor haibun!

 

Submissions to Babylon Sidedoor:

https://babylonsidedoor.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-babylon-sidedoor-submission.html

Signs of Other Times 

by Pris Campbell with Russian translation from Russell H. Ragsdale

Tanka chūmon (短歌注文)

https://babylonsidedoor.blogspot.com/2022/02/tanka-chumon-signs-of-other-times-by.html

POLYGLOT

A HAIBUN BY CAROLINE GILES BANKS

https://babylonsidedoor.blogspot.com/2022/01/polyglot-haibun-by-caroline-giles-banks.html

Separations, a haibun by Lynne Jambor

https://babylonsidedoor.blogspot.com/2022/01/separations-by-lynne-jambor.html

"GETTING IT WRONG" A HAIBUN BY MARGARET WALKER (BABYLON SIDEDOOR WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE)

https://babylonsidedoor.blogspot.com/2022/01/getting-it-wrong-haibun-by-margaret.html

https://linktr.ee/haikutec:

https://linktr.ee/haikutec

The Haiku Reader Anthology submission details for haiku published throughout 2022

 

The Haiku Reader (anthology series)

editor-in-chief Alan Summers

The Haiku Reader submission guidelines: 

How does it work?

https://thehaikureader.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-haiku-reader-submission-guidelines.html

Frequently Asked Questions:

https://thehaikureader.blogspot.com/2021/12/frequently-asked-questions-faqs.html

About The Haiku Reader Editor-in-Chief: 

Alan Summers

https://thehaikureader.blogspot.com/2021/12/about-haiku-reader-editor-in-chief-alan.html

Alan Summers

founder, Call of the Page

https://www.callofthepage.org

The Royal Photographic Society and Photography and Haiku Poetry with Alan Summers and Karen Hoy

 

Photography 

and 

Haiku Poetry 

with 

Alan Summers 

and Karen Hoy

DATE AND TIME

Wednesday March 30th 2022

7pm - 8.30pm

[To book this event click here]

VENUE ADDRESS

Virtual Meeting

Further information:

https://rps.org/events/regions/east-midlands/2022/march/photography-and-haiku-poetry-with-alan-summers-and-karen-hoy/

More about The Royal Photographic Society

(founded in 1853)

https://rps.org/about/

More about Karen and Alan 

and Call of the Page

www.callofthepage.org

Bath Spa University Student Magazine Article

Please click onto images to get larger text.

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Article & images©Aesthetics Magazine 2007

Please click onto image for large text format.

Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 submission guidelines - nature, wildlife, natural history, wilderness haiku only!

 

Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 submission window is now open!

photo©Alan Summers

Please see this link for what I am looking for: 

https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com/2021/08/bloo-outlier-journal-issue-3-is-haiku.html

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!

The new haiku submission email address:

haikutec101@gmail.com

Please send submissions of wildlife/nature/wilderness/natural history haiku to this email address only.

Please don't rush any submissions, take your time.

Submission window open from today:

Saturday 21st August to Monday October 1st 2021

Send up to five (5) haiku

Theme: wildlife, wilderness, natural history

It's also worth looking at the two issues of Muttering Thunder:

Just to warn you that they are big files, but highly worth the wait:

https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/3087

photo©Alan Summers

Make it your own experience, past or present, 

in the wilderness. 

Own that wilderness in your unique way.

Good luck!

Alan

Alan Summers

Editor-in-chief

Blo͞o Outlier

https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com 

New to Haiku: Advice for Beginners – Alan Summers

 

New to Haiku: Advice for Beginners 

– Alan Summers

https://thehaikufoundation.org/new-to-haiku-advice-for-beginners-alan-summers/

Alan is founder of Call of the Page: www.callofthepage.org

founding editor of two online journals:

https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com

 

https://mahmighthaikujournal.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-mahmight-introduction-to-new-haiku.html

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The Haiku Foundation Librarian’s Cache: Poet of the Month – Alan Summers

 

Librarian’s Cache: 

Poet of the Month – Alan Summers

by Dan Campbell

https://thehaikufoundation.org/librarians-cache-poet-of-the-month-alan-summers/

I am delighted to be given the honor of being Poet of the Month by The Haiku Foundation.

 

Last Train Home: an anthology of contemporary haiku, tanka, and rengay

Launched on February 26, 2021 by Jacqueline Pearce  (editor) 

LAST TRAIN HOME is an international collection of haiku and related poetry about trains and train travel. Edited by award-winning Canadian poet and children's book author Jacqueline Pearce, the anthology features close to 600 haiku, tanka, rengay, and haiku sequences by 193 poets from 22 different countries.

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Train-Home-anthology-contemporary/dp/1999180801/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=last+train+home&qid=1617702851&sr=8-3

This is a gorgeously produced book that is not only for fans of trains, stations, and travel by rail, for adventure or romance, or both, but anyone who misses the sheer atmosphere of a train racing through cities and countryside!

Here are a few of Jacquie's newer haiku about trains (lately, they are more about her local transit trains):

 

heat wave

the night train rumbles

into my wakefulness

 

Skytrain whine

my thoughts become

white noise

 

subway tunnel

a waft of warm air

takes me back

 

And one of Jacquie's own favourite haiku (by her) from the anthology:

 

warm prairie breeze

the porter plays harmonica

in the open door

 

Jacquie says:

"I like it because it takes me back to my first long-distance train trip across Canada with my brother in the early 1980s (with our VIA Rail youth passes). We were on a quiet branch line between Calgary and Edmonton that no longer exists, and it felt like we were travelling through the Old West—passing rolling prairie, roaming cattle, a bleached steer skull beside the tracks, the carriage doors left open to the warm September air as we travelled, the lonely sound of the harmonica…."

 

The photo by Jacqueline Pearce is from a similar part of the country, on a different train trip.

I'm fortunate to have a few of my own haiku in there, here's one:

train station

the heat of the platform

in my blood

Alan Summers

NHK World TV, Japan:

Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey (September 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS36AGVI6s