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haijinx IV:1 released!

Shimi — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:31:19 +0000

Please enjoy haijinx IV:1, our first issue of 2011 and perhaps the largest and most vibrant issue of haijinx so far.

Including special sections and the news, there are over 200 poems from over 50 poets in this issue. The main section consists of 25 pages of haiku, 8 of haibun & 4 of haiga. There’s 6 pages of news, three haikai articles, four reviews & a multi-part special on NaHaiWriMo. Art from kris moon throughout.

Contributors to this issue include Don Baird, Helen Buckingham, Marjorie Buettner, Ellen Compton, Cherie Hunter Day, Frank Dullaghan, Curtis Dunlap, Lorin Ford, Carolyn Hall, Michele L. Harvey, Jim Kacian, Michael Ketchek, Jacek Margolak, Michael Morell, Peter Newton, Kala Ramesh, Miriam Sagan, Shimi, Kuniharu Shimizu, Michael Dylan Welch, Billie Wilson, Robert D Wilson, & more.

Editors for the issue included Mark Brooks, Alan Summers, Carmen Sterba, Roberta Beary, kris moon, Melissa Allen and our guest Tom Clausen. Special section on NaHaiWriMo from Aubrie Cox. Special thanks to Karen, Dylan & Casey Brooks for their assistance and support during this issue.

http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/

Next issue’s guest editor will be Aubrie Cox and kris moon will start as renga/renku editor for that issue too. Open for submissions now through May 21.

http://www.haijinx.org/submissions/

Thanks!

Mark Brooks
creator of haijinx

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haijinx III-1 released

Shimi — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:16:43 +0000

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Book: wind by Kuniharu Shimizu

Shimi — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:06:46 +0000

wind by Kuniharu Shimizu

see haiku here • haiga book series 1
65 color plates of haiga artwork for haiku poems by 58 haijin (poets)

E-book in PDF format • Price: $ 6 (US)
download sample book

from the site

wind is the first haiku book fully illustrated, and will give you good idea of what is going on in haiku scene in the world.

Kuniharu was the original artist-in-residence of haijinx. For more information, visit Kuniharu Shimizu’s blog, see haiku here.

Place your order for wind here.

wind is also available through Lulu.

@haijinx tweets from April 11th

Shimi — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:55:00 +0000

Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 04.10 Takashi Goto http://bit.ly/9TIyMk #
Event: #haiku The North Carolina Haiku Society’s 31st annual Haiku Holiday: April 24; workshops, talks and walks &c. http://bit.ly/bcMjI6 #
Event: #haiku The Eighth Annual ukiaHaiku festival 2010, California, April 18 http://bit.ly/cu6Atu #
Book: #haiku #haiga Wind by Kuniharu Shimizu, see haiku here haiga book series 1 announced; authors pls contact artist http://bit.ly/cVGe52 #
Pub: Frogpond, Haiku Society of America, takes #haiku #senryu #rengay #renku #haibun &c due 04.15, non-members may sub http://bit.ly/bwBgV5 #
Pub: Sketchbook, a journal for Eastern & Western short forms, takes #haiku #senryu #rengay #renku &c subs due 04.20 http://bit.ly/9BMHqf #
Kukai: #haiku #senryu Shiki Kukai, April kigo Emerging Animals, entries due 04.17 http://bit.ly/bNbLpk; March results http://bit.ly/cBKL5o #
Contest: #haiku Kaji Aso Studio Haiku Contest 2010, $2/haiku, no limit, in hand by 04.15 so mail ASAP, recommended http://bit.ly/boXsV6 #
Contest: #haiku 2010 Haiku Pen Contest, $2/haiku or $7 for 5, no limit, postmarked by 04.15 http://bit.ly/9fASyM #
Contest: #haiku Katikati Haiku Contest 2010, NZ, $2/haiku or $5 for 3, no limit, in hand by 04.16, mail ASAP http://bit.ly/bjt6HR #
Pub: A Dozen Tongues 2000, Global Children’s Haiku translated to 12 languages, free via artist Kuniharu Shimizu’s site http://bit.ly/c2vw7J #
Pub: #haiku #haiga haijinx quarterly accepts #haibun #renku &c, submissions due by 05.20, details & archived issues http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
#haiku Blogging Along Tobacco Road by Curtis Dunlap; 04.11: 3 Questions: Nora Wood http://bit.ly/aO1QgV #
Blog: #haiku Blogging Along Tobacco Road, Curtis Dunlap, 04.11: Issa, renku & other news http://bit.ly/a4un13 #
Blog: #haiku David G Lanoue’s Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, 10 year anniversary in May, come by to celebrate http://bit.ly/9qdlmP #

@haijinx tweets from March 30th

Shimi — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Pub: Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku, submissions due 05.31, print & PDF, editor Denis M. Garrison @dengary http://bit.ly/ajHivk #
Pub: CONCISE DELIGHT Magazine of Short Poetry, submissions due 07.31, print & PDF, editor Denis M. Garrison @dengary http://bit.ly/a9Dubn #
Pub: #haiku Mainichi Daily News: Haiku in English: Best Haiku of 2009, editor Isamu Hashimoto http://bit.ly/ayrkdi #
Pub: Notes from the Gean (online) accepts #haiku #senryu #tanka #haiga #haibun & now #renku #renga due today! http://bit.ly/9CrNDH #
Pub: #haiku To Laugh Or To Cry by Janice Bostok, an essay on haiku and humor, part of her haijinx II:1 spotlight http://bit.ly/9gDEE7 #
Pub: #haiku DailyHaiku submission period ends 03.31, seeking six haiku poets for upcoming cycle, 10 unpublished haiku http://bit.ly/cRe1ws #
Event: #haiku #renga & more: Bath Japanese Festival (UK) @bathjfestival May 12-23, co-organizer Alan Summers of haijinx http://bit.ly/ct4YUz #
Event: weekend #haiku Sakura-Con April 2-4, Haiku Northwest table & panel, Wash. State CC, Seattle http://bit.ly/cxbtDW http://bit.ly/d7NODt #
small-town museum – / every sign written / by the donor | #haiku Mark Brooks, Tundra 2 ed. Michael Dylan Welch; my AHOP http://bit.ly/bpJj0B #
Contest: #Haiku Now! 2010 The Haiku Foundation @haikufound judges Billy Collins & Jim Kacian; no fee limit 3, due 03.31 http://bit.ly/cvjHJa #
Pub: #haiku #haiga haijinx quarterly accepts #haibun #renku &c, submissions due by 05.20, details & archived issues http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Book: #haiga see #haiku here: Kuniharu Shimizu update about his upcoming bi-lingual e-book of Bashô’s Oku no Hosomichi http://bit.ly/9BOvge #
Book: #haiku #haibun hortensia anderson’s collected #haibun The Plenitude of Emptiness, intro Jim Kacian, on Lulu http://bit.ly/dtfCsM #
Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 03.30 Go Nakada http://bit.ly/aidBqq #
Pub: #haiku Want to join in the fun? haijinx seeks an artist-in-residence, experienced #haiga artists please DM for info http://haijinx.org/ #
Pub: #haiku Want to join in the fun? http://haijinx.org The first new columns @haijinx start in April. Have an idea for one? Please DM Mark #
Contest: Kids Count for #Earthday 5-7-5 #Haiku Contest, entries 4.22 to 5.22, ages 7-15, one free entry per student http://bit.ly/b2EHX2 #

@haijinx tweets from March 29th

Shimi — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Blog: #haiku #haiga see haiku here by Kuniharu Shimizu! original haijinx artist-in-residence, 03.29 Kikko Yokoyama http://bit.ly/9BOvge #
Pub: #haiku DailyHaiku submission period ends 03.31, seeking six haiku poets for upcoming cycle, 10 unpublished haiku http://bit.ly/cRe1ws #
Pub: #haiku To Laugh Or To Cry by Janice Bostok, an essay on haiku and humor, part of her haijinx II:1 spotlight http://bit.ly/9gDEE7 #
Pub: #haiku The Haiku Sensibilities of E. E. Cummings by Michael Dylan Welch @captainhaiku from Spring (1995) http://bit.ly/brRBut #
Pub: #haiku Two new haijinx columns begin in April, still accepting column proposals, please DM @haijinx with proposals http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Event: #haiku Sakura-Con April 2-4, Haiku Northwest table & panel, Washington State CC, Seattle http://bit.ly/cxbtDW http://bit.ly/d7NODt #
Event: #haiku #renga & more: Bath Japanese Festival (UK) @bathjfestival May 12-23, co-organizer Alan Summers of haijinx http://bit.ly/ct4YUz #
Contest: #Haiku Now! 2010 The Haiku Foundation @haikufound judges Billy Collins & Jim Kacian; no fee limit 3, due 03.31 http://bit.ly/cvjHJa #
gently touching / her epidural scars / short night | #haiku temps libres (& fr trans) http://bit.ly/9PAous in my book http://bit.ly/bpJj0B #
Pub: #haiku Selection from Speculations of Robert Spiess, long time editor of Modern Haiku http://bit.ly/c1jF0R #
Pub: haijinx quarterly accepts #haiku #haiga #haibun #renku &c, submissions due by 05.20, details & archived issues http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 03.29 Mizue Yamada http://bit.ly/8ZM97T #
Pub: #haiku Roadrunner X:1, ed. Scott Metz, Scorpion Prize 19, Yasui Kōji trans by Eric Selland, others from Fay Aoyagi http://bit.ly/b34o23 #
Blog: Area 17 by Alan Summers @haikutec of haijinx, new #haiga for his excellent “summer wind” #haiku from Dru Marland http://bit.ly/bRixW4 #

@haijinx tweets from March 28th

Shimi — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:15:00 +0000

Pub: Robert D Wilson’s Simply Haiku back in April, call for submissions of #haiku #tanka #haiga #haibun http://bit.ly/dkA4gn #
Event: #haiku #renga & more: Bath Japanese Festival (UK) @bathjfestival May 12-23, co-organizer Alan Summers of haijinx http://bit.ly/ct4YUz #
Pub: Notes from the Gean (online) accepts #haiku #senryu #tanka #haiga #haibun & now #renku #renga due 03.30 http://bit.ly/9CrNDH #
Pub: #haiku What’s So Funny? by Peggy Willis Lyles, an essay on haiku and humor, part of her haijinx II:1 spotlight, http://bit.ly/clXke3 #
Resource: #haiku public domain articles, book drafts, & class notes by Harold J Isaacson & Helen Shigeko Isaacson http://bit.ly/dnrfEI #
Pub: #haiku Two new haijinx columns begin in April, still accepting column proposals, please DM @haijinx with proposals http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Contest: #Haiku Now! 2010 The Haiku Foundation @haikufound judges Billy Collins & Jim Kacian; no fee limit 3, due 03.31 http://bit.ly/cvjHJa #
withering wind / the fence-builder pulls a nail / from his lips | First Prize, Mainichi 2001, more #haiku from my book: http://bit.ly/bpJj0B #
Pub: Beyond the #Haiku Moment: Basho, Buson and Modern Haiku myths by Haruo Shirane for Modern Haiku XXXI:1 (w-s 2000) http://bit.ly/bicSyK #
Pub: haijinx quarterly accepts #haiku #haiga #haibun #renku &c, submissions due by 05.20, details & archived issues http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Blog: #haiku Blogging Along Tobacco Road by Curtis Dunlap; 03.28: 3 Questions – Mark Brooks http://bit.ly/atA2Nj #
Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 03.28 Tokiyo Hirota http://bit.ly/dcnnnP #
Blog: Essence #2 by Carmen Sterba (one of the haijinx editors) at The Haiku Foundation @haikufound #haiku http://bit.ly/a4w99W #

@haijinx tweets from March 27th

Shimi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Blog: Akita International #Haiku Network: Haiku by Lars Palm with Japanese translations by Hidenori Hiruta http://bit.ly/drCZgR #
Pub: #haiku DailyHaiku submission period ends 03.31, seeking six haiku poets for upcoming cycle, 10 unpublished haiku http://bit.ly/cRe1ws #
Pub: #haiku What’s So Funny? by Peggy Willis Lyles, an essay on haiku and humor, part of her haijinx II:1 spotlight, http://bit.ly/clXke3 #
Pub: Notes from the Gean (online) accepts #haiku #senryu #tanka #haiga #haibun & now #renku #renga due 03.30 http://bit.ly/9CrNDH #
Pub: #haiku Two new haijinx columns begin in April, still accepting column proposals, please DM @haijinx with proposals http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Book: Open Window, #haiku and photographs by Michael Dylan Welch @captainhaiku, 2000, free web book from Brooks Books http://bit.ly/9BHnw2 #
Event: #haiku #renga & more: Bath Japanese Festival (UK) @bathjfestival May 12-23, co-organizer Alan Summers of haijinx http://bit.ly/ct4YUz #
Resource: #haiku One Exercise by Timothy Russell, from an older blog & originally posted to the Shiki mailing list http://bit.ly/dyquXB #
Pub: #haiku #haiga Want to participate in haijinx? Seeking our next artist-in-residence! DM @haijinx for details http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms #
Contest: #Haiku Now! 2010 The Haiku Foundation @haikufound judges Billy Collins & Jim Kacian; no fee limit 3, due 03.31 http://bit.ly/cvjHJa #
Seuss’s birthday / a dad and two lads plant / a plant in a planter | #haiku found in Bill Higginson’s intro to my book http://bit.ly/bpJj0B #
Book: #haiku Montage: The Book, The Haiku Foundation anthology @haikufound, 1113 English-language haiku, donate $50+ http://bit.ly/bdyZkN #
Pub: #haiku haijinx quarterly returns this June, call for submissions http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms, subs due 05.20; accepts #haiga #haibun #renku &c #
Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 03.27 Noriko Yuki http://bit.ly/bnFLJd #
Pub: Our man, Mr. Pound by Edan Corkill, Japan Times 03.28, covers Ezra Pound’s work for Japan Times in 1939 & #haiku http://bit.ly/bH6E7Y #

@haijinx tweets from March 26th

Shimi — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Pub: Robert D Wilson’s Simply Haiku back in April, call for submissions of #haiku #tanka #haiga #haibun http://bit.ly/dkA4gn #
Event: #haiku Sakura-Con April 2-4, Haiku Northwest table & panel, Washington State CC, Seattle http://bit.ly/cxbtDW http://bit.ly/d7NODt #
Pub: Notes from the Gean (online) accepts #haiku #senryu #tanka #haiga #haibun & now #renku #renga due 03.30 http://bit.ly/9CrNDH #
Pub: #haiku Humor in Haijin by Dhugal Lindsay, Nakaniida Grand Haiku Prize winner, haijinx I:2 archive, http://bit.ly/9JdLAy #
Book: endgrain, #haiku by Dee Evetts, 1997, free PDF courtesy of The Haiku Foundation @haikufound, http://bit.ly/a6XpfJ #
Event: #haiku #renga & more: Bath Japanese Festival (UK) @bathjfestival May 12-23, co-organizer Alan Summers of haijinx http://bit.ly/ct4YUz #
Contest: #Haiku Now! 2010 The Haiku Foundation @haikufound judges Billy Collins & Jim Kacian; no fee limit 3, due 03.31 http://bit.ly/cvjHJa #
autumn mist / my neighbor goes inside / without a word // Snapshots 9, RMA 02 & my #haiku book, A Handful of Pebbles http://bit.ly/bpJj0B #
Pub: #haiku Mishima Yukio & Haiku by Hiroaki Sato for Roadrunner IX:3 (Aug 2009) http://bit.ly/cQR7qm #
Pub: #haiku haijinx quarterly returns this June, call for submissions http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms, subs due 05.20; accepts #haiga #haibun #renku &c #
Pub: #haiku Want to participate in haijinx? We seek a new artist-in-residence. Experienced #haiga artists please DM @haijinx for details. #
Pub: #haiku Want to participate in haijinx? Two new regular columns start next month. We’d like more. Please DM @haijinx with proposals. #
Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 03.26 Seiha Kobayashi http://bit.ly/bxFKsn #
Book: Where We Go: #haiku and #tanka sequences and other concise imaginings by Jean LeBlanc, lulu pdf MET Press http://bit.ly/acjdBf #

@haijinx tweets from March 25th

Shimi — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Event: #haiku #renga & more: Bath Japanese Festival (UK) @bathjfestival May 12-23, co-organizer Alan Summers of haijinx http://bit.ly/ct4YUz #
Pub: Notes from the Gean (online) accepts #haiku #senryu #tanka #haiga #haibun & now #renku #renga due 03.30 http://bit.ly/9CrNDH #
Pub: #haiku Humor in Haijin by Dhugal Lindsay, Nakaniida Grand Haiku Prize winner, haijinx I:2 archive, http://bit.ly/9JdLAy #
Pub: Kigo – their use in Modern Japan and a proposition by Dhugal J. Lindsay, In Due Season, Acorn Supplement #1 (2000) http://bit.ly/aqi5cm #
a plume of smoke / from the opium incense . . . / Sunday siesta // WHR I:2 & my #haiku collection, A Handful of Pebbles http://bit.ly/bpJj0B #
Contest: #Haiku Now! 2010 The Haiku Foundation @haikufound judges Billy Collins & Jim Kacian; no fee limit 3, due 03.31 http://bit.ly/cvjHJa #
Pub: #haiku haijinx quarterly returns this June, call for submissions http://bit.ly/9tI7Ms, subs due 05.20; accepts #haiga #haibun #renku &c #
Blog: daily #haiku translated from Japanese into English; Blue Willow Haiku World (Fay Aoyagi); 03.25 Minoru Ozawa http://bit.ly/czdLEn #
Book: Among Wildflowers, a collection of #haibun & #haiku from the Central Valley Haiku Club, free PDF http://bit.ly/aj2SlW #