Here's an announcement about a new online haiga publication...
Haiku and haiga enthusiasts will have an opportunity to explore these forms in a new way, with the launch of DailyHaiga. DailyHaiga is an edited online journal of contemporary and traditional haiga, available online at www.dailyhaiga.org Following the format of sister publication DailyHaiku this journal will present a new piece each day from one of their contributors. Those new to the form will find that haiga moves beyond the boundaries of written verse – pairing haiku with an image that expands or juxtaposes the moment explored in the haiku.
Over the next few months, DailyHaiga will feature work from renowned invited artists, including: an’ya, Susan Constable, Billie Dee, Lary Fraser, Allison Millcock, Sakuo Nakamura, Linda Papanicolaou, Carol Raisfeld, Ray Rasmussen, Emily Romano, Alexis Rotella, and Liam Wilkinson. The site features sophisticated archiving and search functions with easy navigation between current and previous haiga. DailyHaiga also syndicates content, and is available through your favorite RSS or Atom feedreader.
General submissions opened on 1st July. Guidelines for email submissions can be found at www.dailyhaiga.org. In addition to new haiga, we will also consider haiga that pair new images with previously published literary components (eg haiku and related poetic forms). We will not consider haiga that have previously appeared online in any form. DailyHaiga staff can be contacted at dailyhaiga@gmail.com – Editor: Linda M. Pilarski (ISSN: 1918-851X)
Knowing that this will not consider previously published material caveat is a contentious issue (we think it is a ludicrous affront to creative artists and poets) we tackled Linda Pilarski on this point. She replied "The previous publication is perhaps an issue but we go far beyond nearly everyone else in that we encourage use of previously published poetry. Nobody else allows that and it precludes use of some of the best haiku and other forms. We don't want to be an anthology, though anthologies are certainly good things, but people remember images and get bored if they keep seeing things that have already seen before. The online haiga are there forever and can easily be found on a search. We want our content to be fresh and new for people. Some journals do not even allow work that has been workshopped for that reason, but we do consider workshopped pieces. I guess it is always a balance."
Readers should note this definition will also hit any haiga you may have published on your own websites or blogs. We say this indicates a lot of publishers have yet to grasp the reality of online publishing in the age of digital media – they should stick to their postage stamps and fountain pens.
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Sunday, July 19
New online haiga journal launched
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 19 Jul 2009 06:23 PM BST
Sunday, July 12
What kind of haiku monkey are you?
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 12 Jul 2009 11:00 AM BST
We've just had this note in from Mike Dershowitz, which we reproduce in full...
I wanted to announce to you the launch of MonkeysTapping.com – a haiku poetry, collaborative writing, self-expression, writing game experiment. Our intent is to spur ordinary people – who might not otherwise be so inclined – to read, write, and share haiku, as a form of social interaction and self-expression. Users can enter their first haiku right on the home page. They’ll be asked to sign up and become Author-Monkeys – a process that takes about 20 seconds, and then their haiku will appear at the top of the Newest Haiku tab. After signing up, users will notice that all actions taken on the site earn Bananas and by clicking on the Top Monkeys tab, users will see the top 10 Author-Monkeys based on the number of bananas they’ve earned. One of the unique features we think you'll be most interested in is that users can branch a haiku – in other words, create a new version of the haiku based on the first line (or first two lines) that a previous author wrote. This feature makes it possible to create a virtually infinite number of haiku based on a single starting line. Just like monkeys tapping at a typewriter, we're harnessing the crowd-sourcing potential of the Internet to generate literature, in the form of a fun, slightly competitive, easy, yet intellectually stimulating game. And, the community defines quality at MonkeysTapping.com where each haiku can be voted on by guests (Critic-Monkeys) and registered Author-Monkeys alike. Users can see not only which haiku are getting recent votes, but also which haiku have the most votes on the site. So how about it... are you a Critic-Monkey, or an Author-Monkey? What kind of monkey are you? Thank you very much in advance! Mike Dershowitz Site-Monkey – for more details visit www.monkeystapping.com Tuesday, July 7
Ink Sweat editor visiting Australia
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 07 Jul 2009 07:09 PM BST
Ink Sweat & Tears editor Charles Christian is
visiting Australia at the end of this month to do a couple of seminars
with software vendors with the day-job. He
flies into Sydney on the morning of Monday 27 July – will be in
Melbourne for part of 29th/30th – and departs mid-day Saturday 1st
August. In between the jetlag, seminars and (hopefully) partying, he's
available for meetings, readings, performances and whatever – he's particularly good at whatever.
Wednesday, July 1
IS&T readership for June
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 01 Jul 2009 10:33 AM BST
Latest Ink Sweat & Tears visitor traffic figures for June show our monthly readership is now 6400 and that our total number of page views has hit a record high of 30,000. Once again, a big thank you to all our readers and contributors.
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