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Friday, November 13
New haiga by Pamela Babusci
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 13 Nov 2009 04:04 PM GMT
 * Pamela A. Babusci is an award winning haiku, tanka, poet and haiga artist. Some of her most recent awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award and 1st place in the Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2009. Pamela has illustrated several books, including Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka 2008, the haiku chapbook Chasing the Sun and her first tanka collection A Thousand Reasons 2009. You can visit her solo exhibit listed under archives at www.threelightsgallery.com She was also the sponsor and judge for the First International Erotic Tanka Contest in 2008. This haiga first appeared in Haiga-on-line.
Friday, November 6
Four haiku for a Friday - by Neal Whitman
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 06 Nov 2009 11:14 AM GMT
appleful for home
swinging a tote in each hand
fall Farmers Market
Yorkie off the leash
garden party commotion
the first guest to leave
tall brown grass bending
toward the row of apple trees
late afternoon winds
What's the big fuss?
two jays and just one acorn
first frost
* Neal Whitman is a member of various haiku societies in the US. His haiku has been chosen for Simply Haiku, Bear Creek Haiku and Geppo. The online journal Getting Something Read regularly features his seasonal haiku. He also teaches (gratis only) a workshop Haiku for Anyone, for Everyone.
Thursday, November 5
New haiga by Ed Baker
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 05 Nov 2009 03:20 PM GMT
 * Here's a new haiga – Rectory/The Goddess of Puzzles – by one our regular contributors Ed Baker.
Friday, October 30
Four haiku for a Friday - by Sue Gee
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 30 Oct 2009 04:49 PM GMT
I waited for him
On the corner of the street
Like a sad hooker.
Stuck inside again
Trapped by chicken pox and germs
Unable to fly.
Captain Hook is bad
But his hook is pretty cool
And what a hairstyle!
I can’t believe it
Just when I thought it was safe
Another salesman.
* Sue Gee says "My four haiku were inspired by being stuck inside with poorly children. I live in Stockport, England. I have just finished a literature degree. I blog at www.concreteandflowers.blogspot.com
Thursday, October 29
New haiga by Jeff Winke
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 29 Oct 2009 06:00 PM GMT
 * Jeffrey Winke is a haiku/haibun/haiga poet and public relations counselor. Recent publications include That Smirking Face, a haiku-art broadside collaboration with Matt Cipov (Milwaukee: Distant Thunder Press, 2008) and PR Idea Book: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work (Denver: Outskirts Press, 2006). www.jeffwinke.com
Friday, October 23
Four haiku by Alexis Rotella
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 23 Oct 2009 04:27 PM BST
long-distance relationship
on the telephone
we gaze at the same autumn moon
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The doctor tells me
I'm old
like I had no idea
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
they once moved
among the stars
elk antlers in the snow
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
clock shop
the owner
asks if I have a minute
* Alexis Rotella is a regular contributor on haikai (haiku, senryu, tanka and haiga) to IS&T
Friday, October 16
Melinda Moore would like to protest
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 16 Oct 2009 03:29 PM BST
 * Born in Wales, Melinda Moore is terminally indecisive and has already been a ballet dancer, model, clothes designer and political aide. She is now a writer and artist, and has published a variety of work including poetry, photography and prose.
This picture (part of a second year project on a degree course at Norwich School of Art & Design) was taken as part of a protest at the banning of Size Zero models when obesity is actually a far greater health issue – although the image also works as a modern haiga.
Sunday, October 11
Contributor news - new poem & collection by Larry Kimmel
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 11 Oct 2009 07:25 PM BST
Propriety
In silhouette, the large, dark eye
of the girl from India seemed
not to belong to the face at all,
but rather like a great, black beetle
attached to blind porcelain
and, maybe, about to crawl—
and the luscious lashes of unusual length,
closed & opened, closed & opened,
suggesting a butterfly's pulsing wings
clipped to a black-eyed Susan, say—
and for one tingling moment, I felt
I would reach out and possess this exotic
creature, this exquisite Agassiz humbug
and might have, but for propriety.
* Larry Kimmel is a US poet of both haikai and mainline forms. His most recent books are this hunger, tissue-thing and Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses. (Modern English Tanka Press).
And, to round off the picture, here are some more details about his latest collection, including a short review...
Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses (2nd Ed, with The Temperature of Love) by Larry Kimmel. Price: $12.95 USD. ISBN 978-1-935398-02-8 Trade paperback.132 pages, 6" x 9". Modern English Tanka Press, PO Box 43717, Baltimore, Maryland 21236 USA. www.modernenglishtankapress.com
"Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses is truly a distinguished collection of some of the finest of Larry Kimmel's poems. His skill with words and images, with rhythm and mood, are on elegant display from the opening work to the final page. Whether in the ancient form of tanka or in the very new structure of cherita, which he helped midwife, emotional and verbal content are effectively matched to the chosen pattern.
"Above all, a compilation of this kind has lasting value only when the poet’s personality is evident in each phrase and every setting, and Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses certainly could not have been written by anyone except Larry Kimmel of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, of Colrain, Massachusetts, and of many places in between. Kimmel possesses, in addition to a poet’s ear, the eye of a painter, and so it is not a small matter that these wonderful poems are now appropriately and permanently showcased. All the details of the physical presentation – the splendid cover painting, page design, font – work beautifully together. A book any poet could be proud of." ...review by Carol Purington
Saturday, October 10
New haiga by Alexis Rotella
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 10 Oct 2009 03:36 PM BST
 * Alexis Rotella is a regular contributor of haiga to IS&T
Saturday, October 3
New haiga by Pris Campbell
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 03 Oct 2009 08:02 PM BST
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Pris Campbell is a regular IS&T contributor who has published her
haiga and free verse in numerous online and print journals. She has
three chapbooks out, and now a full length poetry book – Sea Trails – by
Lummox Press (www.lummoxpress.com). She lives in the greater West Palm
Beach, FL, with her husband and a cat who sits on her poetry drafts. See her website at www.poeticinspire.com
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