Check out the latest post on The Haiku Foubdation blog:
http://thehaikufoundation.org/2009/06/20/gendai-haiku/
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Long-Time NCHS Member, Ruby Shackleford, Passes Away
Richard Straw provided this sad news.
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Long-time member of North Carolina Haiku Society, Ruby Shackleford, passed away on Friday, March 27, 2009. Her obituary is in the March 28th issue of The Raleigh News & Observer, p. 9B (see below and http://www.legacy.com/newsobserver/Obituaries.asp?Page=SEARCHRESULTS).
Rebecca Rust, in her book, The Outside of a Haiku (Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC: North Carolina Haiku Society, 1984), included several of Ruby’s haiku (pp. 12, 24, and 27):
A turtle goes “plunk”
rings in the green-brown water
undulating. . .
Cows cropping clover
on the hillside by the fence,
blackberry picking
An old man, toothless,
walking among his melons
deftly thumping
In 1987, Ruby wrote and illustrated a book of cinquain titled Rosewood (Wilson, NC: Self-Published), which was reviewed in the Summer 1988 issue of Pine Needles: Quarterly Newsletter of the North Carolina Haiku Society, pp. 14-16. Several cinquain from the approximately 60 included in her book were quoted in the review, including the following:
Sunburst
of irised spray,
*you tremble on that roar
of folded and fluted water,
tumbling. . .
*Niagara [Ruby’s footnote]
Ruby also wrote a haiku on Niagara Falls and included it in another of her books, The Bamboo Harp:
deafening the drop
of Niagara’s waters
to silent rainbows
Two more cinquain from Ruby Shackleford’s Rosewood:
A ghost
she met each day
turned her circle of friends
into marionettes who
flattered her
THESE FOUR
return no more:
Time and chance wasted,
Spoken words, roads untraveled, lost
childhood
Richard
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Shackleford, Ruby Virginia
Ruby Virginia Paschall Shackleford, 95, died Friday, March 27, 2009 at her home.
Mrs. Shackleford a native of Wilson County lived in Wilson County, on Contentnea Creek for the past 60 years.
She was a graduate of Greensboro Women's College and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mrs. Shackleford taught for over 60 years including Saratoga, Black Creek, Atlantic Christian College, and Wilson Technical Community College.
Mrs. Shackleford was awarded "The Order of the Long Leaf Pine" in 2000. She authored seven books of poetry, numerous articles and poems and was an accomplished artist whose work has been exhibited throughout Wilson County. She mentored many young aspiring writers and artists throughout Eastern North Carolina.
Mrs. Shackleford was a member of numerous honorary and educational organizations, including the NC Poetry Society and The Order of the Eastern Star. She was a long time member of the Black Creek United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday School and participated in numerous church committees throughout her life.
Mrs. Shackleford was the wife of the late Richard W. Shackleford, and daughter of the late Joshua, and Sallie Paschall, and stepdaughter of the late W.C. Hollowell. She was one of seven children and is survived by numerous nieces, and nephews as well as longtime employee and companion, Naman Horne.
Visitation 2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009 followed by 3:00 p.m. funeral at Thomas-Yelverton Funeral chapel with Rev. Rani Woodrow officiating. Entombment at Evergreen Memorial Park.
Memorials are suggested to The Ragan Writing Center at Barton College or the Black Creek United Methodist Church 200 Church Street, Black Creek 27813.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.thomasyelverton.com
Arrangements are entrusted to Thomas-Yelverton at Evergreen Memorial Park 2704 Nash Street North Wilson, NC 27896.
Published in The News & Observer on 3/28/2009
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Long-time member of North Carolina Haiku Society, Ruby Shackleford, passed away on Friday, March 27, 2009. Her obituary is in the March 28th issue of The Raleigh News & Observer, p. 9B (see below and http://www.legacy.com/newsobserver/Obituaries.asp?Page=SEARCHRESULTS).
Rebecca Rust, in her book, The Outside of a Haiku (Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC: North Carolina Haiku Society, 1984), included several of Ruby’s haiku (pp. 12, 24, and 27):
A turtle goes “plunk”
rings in the green-brown water
undulating. . .
Cows cropping clover
on the hillside by the fence,
blackberry picking
An old man, toothless,
walking among his melons
deftly thumping
In 1987, Ruby wrote and illustrated a book of cinquain titled Rosewood (Wilson, NC: Self-Published), which was reviewed in the Summer 1988 issue of Pine Needles: Quarterly Newsletter of the North Carolina Haiku Society, pp. 14-16. Several cinquain from the approximately 60 included in her book were quoted in the review, including the following:
Sunburst
of irised spray,
*you tremble on that roar
of folded and fluted water,
tumbling. . .
*Niagara [Ruby’s footnote]
Ruby also wrote a haiku on Niagara Falls and included it in another of her books, The Bamboo Harp:
deafening the drop
of Niagara’s waters
to silent rainbows
Two more cinquain from Ruby Shackleford’s Rosewood:
A ghost
she met each day
turned her circle of friends
into marionettes who
flattered her
THESE FOUR
return no more:
Time and chance wasted,
Spoken words, roads untraveled, lost
childhood
Richard
________________________________________
Shackleford, Ruby Virginia
Ruby Virginia Paschall Shackleford, 95, died Friday, March 27, 2009 at her home.
Mrs. Shackleford a native of Wilson County lived in Wilson County, on Contentnea Creek for the past 60 years.
She was a graduate of Greensboro Women's College and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mrs. Shackleford taught for over 60 years including Saratoga, Black Creek, Atlantic Christian College, and Wilson Technical Community College.
Mrs. Shackleford was awarded "The Order of the Long Leaf Pine" in 2000. She authored seven books of poetry, numerous articles and poems and was an accomplished artist whose work has been exhibited throughout Wilson County. She mentored many young aspiring writers and artists throughout Eastern North Carolina.
Mrs. Shackleford was a member of numerous honorary and educational organizations, including the NC Poetry Society and The Order of the Eastern Star. She was a long time member of the Black Creek United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday School and participated in numerous church committees throughout her life.
Mrs. Shackleford was the wife of the late Richard W. Shackleford, and daughter of the late Joshua, and Sallie Paschall, and stepdaughter of the late W.C. Hollowell. She was one of seven children and is survived by numerous nieces, and nephews as well as longtime employee and companion, Naman Horne.
Visitation 2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009 followed by 3:00 p.m. funeral at Thomas-Yelverton Funeral chapel with Rev. Rani Woodrow officiating. Entombment at Evergreen Memorial Park.
Memorials are suggested to The Ragan Writing Center at Barton College or the Black Creek United Methodist Church 200 Church Street, Black Creek 27813.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.thomasyelverton.com
Arrangements are entrusted to Thomas-Yelverton at Evergreen Memorial Park 2704 Nash Street North Wilson, NC 27896.
Published in The News & Observer on 3/28/2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Haiku Journey Game: One Hour Free Play
In 2006, Hot Lava Games (www.hotlava.com), a video/computer game creator based in Midlothian, Texas,contacted Michael Dylan Welch and asked him to be the editor for a haiku game project. Michael's job was to collect a number of haiku in English. At that time, Michael described the game this way: "As players travel through the seasons in Japan, they encounter lines of seasonal haiku and gradually discover the entire poem (and the name of the poet)."
Recently, a copy of this game became available for download at the following location.
NOTE: This is a "try before you buy" link. You can play the game for free for 1 hour.
http://wordgamedownload.blogspot.com/2009/01/haiku-journey-free-word-game-download.html
Check it out ;-)
Recently, a copy of this game became available for download at the following location.
NOTE: This is a "try before you buy" link. You can play the game for free for 1 hour.
http://wordgamedownload.blogspot.com/2009/01/haiku-journey-free-word-game-download.html
Check it out ;-)
Monday, January 05, 2009
From the Heron's Nest site . . .
"We are now accepting orders for Volume X, the fourth annual paper edition of The Heron’s Nest. It will be a perfect-bound book containing the quarterly web issues of 2008 in their entirety. It will also include the results of the Readers’ Choice Awards voting for Heron’s Nest haiku published in 2008. The annual paper edition will be shipped early in April of 2009. The cost is $17 in the United States, u.s.$19 in Canada or Mexico, and u.s.$21 elsewhere. Please make checks or money orders payable in U.S. funds to John Stevenson and send to:
The Heron’s Nest
John Stevenson, Ed.
P. O. Box 122
Nassau, NY 12123"
"We are now accepting orders for Volume X, the fourth annual paper edition of The Heron’s Nest. It will be a perfect-bound book containing the quarterly web issues of 2008 in their entirety. It will also include the results of the Readers’ Choice Awards voting for Heron’s Nest haiku published in 2008. The annual paper edition will be shipped early in April of 2009. The cost is $17 in the United States, u.s.$19 in Canada or Mexico, and u.s.$21 elsewhere. Please make checks or money orders payable in U.S. funds to John Stevenson and send to:
The Heron’s Nest
John Stevenson, Ed.
P. O. Box 122
Nassau, NY 12123"
Friday, December 12, 2008
Video and Photos from the HSA Meeting in Winston-Salem
We have photos and video from the Haiku Society of America quarterly meeting on December 5-7, 2008, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Video: Blogging Along Tobacco Road (Readings) (you might have scroll down a bit to find the HSA readings)
Photos: Photos from the 2008 4th Quarterly Meeting of the HSA
Video: Blogging Along Tobacco Road (Readings) (you might have scroll down a bit to find the HSA readings)
Photos: Photos from the 2008 4th Quarterly Meeting of the HSA
Monday, December 08, 2008
Snapshot Press Would Like to Hear from You
Passing this along from John Barlow of Snapshot Press . . .
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Dear haiku, tanka and poetry friends
I’m afraid 2008’s end-of-year missive has an all-too-familiar ring to it: times are tough, for all of us. And while that’s a constant state of affairs for a one-man-band hand-to-mouth small press, as we enter our twelfth year it seems that it has never been more so. We need to sell books to survive, and if there’s no realistic demand for those books, there’s no realistic reason for us to exist. So, if you like what the press does, and would like to see more of it, please consider getting a treat for yourself, or someone else, this holiday season.
In all other ways 2008 has been a great year for the press. In April, Roberta Beary’s debut collection of haiku and senryu, The Unworn Necklace, was honored as a Finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Awards; and, along with Matt Morden’s second collection, Stumbles in Clover, was also honored in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards.
September saw the publication of Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku, with launches at the Poetry Society’s HQ in London and at Mr B’s, the current British Independent Bookshop of the Year. Thanks to the dedication of Alan and Karen Summers of With Words, these events were packed and greatly enjoyed by all. (Photos can be seen at a new section on the Wing Beats site, www.wingbeats.co.uk/news.html.) Described by the late, and much-missed, Bill Higginson as “a very important book”, and by the eminent writer and naturalist Mark Cocker as “a triumph of seeing, expression and poetic control”, I can honestly say that Wing Beats has been a delight to everyone who has seen it, whether their interest is in haiku, birds . . . or neither of the above! (Please see www.wingbeats.co.uk/the_book/comments.html.)
But don’t believe the hype? Why not get a copy of one of these (or any of our) books for yourself, or as a gift for someone else, and make your own mind up! And then tell me what you (or they) like, what you don’t like, and what you would like to see more of from the press. I may not always be able to reply to every comment or suggestion, especially at busy times, but feedback is always welcome.
Another ‘new’ publication, now in its tenth annual ‘edition’, is The Haiku Calendar 2009. And, if I’m to continue fighting my natural aversion to marketing, this really does make a great Christmas or New Year gift – and not only for haiku poets. It’s perfect for sparking an interest in haiku, or for instilling some understanding in baffled relatives and friends – and it’s far easier to ‘show’ than ‘tell’! For further details please see www.snapshotpress.co.uk/the_haiku_calendar/2009.htm.
There’s still time for Christmas orders. The last order date for the US and Canada is Tuesday December 9; for western Europe it’s Thursday December 11; and for the UK it’s Friday December 19. Orders to the rest of the world may get there if they are placed soon, but aren’t now guaranteed by the postal service. If you would prefer not to order online, get in touch and let me know your payment is forthcoming, and I’ll don the elf suit and make sure the order is sent out immediately.
And, to close: with various haiku commitments November passed me by in blur, but I was honoured to be the featured poet for the month on Mann Library’s Daily Haiku at Cornell University in New York state. So, something for free! 30 haiku (and many, many more by some excellent poets besides) at: http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/john-barlow
now and again
through wind-flattened grasses the tips
of the hare’s ears
a half moon
all my change
in the beggar’s hand
There are a few tentative plans for the years ahead (please see www.snapshotpress.co.uk), but, as I said, please get involved, and let me know what, in general, you would like to see the press doing.
In the meantime, thank you again for your ongoing support of the press (which, being completely independent, couldn’t otherwise exist).
All the very best for the holiday season, and happy writing and reading in 2009
John
John Barlow
Editor, Snapshot Press
e: info@snapshotpress.co.uk
w: www.snapshotpress.co.uk / www.wingbeats.co.uk
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Dear haiku, tanka and poetry friends
I’m afraid 2008’s end-of-year missive has an all-too-familiar ring to it: times are tough, for all of us. And while that’s a constant state of affairs for a one-man-band hand-to-mouth small press, as we enter our twelfth year it seems that it has never been more so. We need to sell books to survive, and if there’s no realistic demand for those books, there’s no realistic reason for us to exist. So, if you like what the press does, and would like to see more of it, please consider getting a treat for yourself, or someone else, this holiday season.
In all other ways 2008 has been a great year for the press. In April, Roberta Beary’s debut collection of haiku and senryu, The Unworn Necklace, was honored as a Finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Awards; and, along with Matt Morden’s second collection, Stumbles in Clover, was also honored in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards.
September saw the publication of Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku, with launches at the Poetry Society’s HQ in London and at Mr B’s, the current British Independent Bookshop of the Year. Thanks to the dedication of Alan and Karen Summers of With Words, these events were packed and greatly enjoyed by all. (Photos can be seen at a new section on the Wing Beats site, www.wingbeats.co.uk/news.html.) Described by the late, and much-missed, Bill Higginson as “a very important book”, and by the eminent writer and naturalist Mark Cocker as “a triumph of seeing, expression and poetic control”, I can honestly say that Wing Beats has been a delight to everyone who has seen it, whether their interest is in haiku, birds . . . or neither of the above! (Please see www.wingbeats.co.uk/the_book/comments.html.)
But don’t believe the hype? Why not get a copy of one of these (or any of our) books for yourself, or as a gift for someone else, and make your own mind up! And then tell me what you (or they) like, what you don’t like, and what you would like to see more of from the press. I may not always be able to reply to every comment or suggestion, especially at busy times, but feedback is always welcome.
Another ‘new’ publication, now in its tenth annual ‘edition’, is The Haiku Calendar 2009. And, if I’m to continue fighting my natural aversion to marketing, this really does make a great Christmas or New Year gift – and not only for haiku poets. It’s perfect for sparking an interest in haiku, or for instilling some understanding in baffled relatives and friends – and it’s far easier to ‘show’ than ‘tell’! For further details please see www.snapshotpress.co.uk/the_haiku_calendar/2009.htm.
There’s still time for Christmas orders. The last order date for the US and Canada is Tuesday December 9; for western Europe it’s Thursday December 11; and for the UK it’s Friday December 19. Orders to the rest of the world may get there if they are placed soon, but aren’t now guaranteed by the postal service. If you would prefer not to order online, get in touch and let me know your payment is forthcoming, and I’ll don the elf suit and make sure the order is sent out immediately.
And, to close: with various haiku commitments November passed me by in blur, but I was honoured to be the featured poet for the month on Mann Library’s Daily Haiku at Cornell University in New York state. So, something for free! 30 haiku (and many, many more by some excellent poets besides) at: http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/john-barlow
now and again
through wind-flattened grasses the tips
of the hare’s ears
a half moon
all my change
in the beggar’s hand
There are a few tentative plans for the years ahead (please see www.snapshotpress.co.uk), but, as I said, please get involved, and let me know what, in general, you would like to see the press doing.
In the meantime, thank you again for your ongoing support of the press (which, being completely independent, couldn’t otherwise exist).
All the very best for the holiday season, and happy writing and reading in 2009
John
John Barlow
Editor, Snapshot Press
e: info@snapshotpress.co.uk
w: www.snapshotpress.co.uk / www.wingbeats.co.uk
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
October issue of World Haiku Review
From Susumu Takiguchi . . .
Dear Kuyu,
The October issue of World Haiku Review is now online. Please visit . . . http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/ . . . and click on the current issue, Volume 6, Issue 4.
Enjoy!
Susumu
World Haiku Review
Managing Editor & Acting Editor-in-Chief: Susumu Takiguchi
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Kala Ramesh
Technical Editor: Rohini Gupta
Dear Kuyu,
The October issue of World Haiku Review is now online. Please visit . . . http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/ . . . and click on the current issue, Volume 6, Issue 4.
Enjoy!
Susumu
World Haiku Review
Managing Editor & Acting Editor-in-Chief: Susumu Takiguchi
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Kala Ramesh
Technical Editor: Rohini Gupta
Alexis Rotella's Haiku on YouTube
Now available on your desktop: a reprise of Alexis Rotella's haiku and short mystical poems set to sound by Terra Infirma in 1991.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCc7_uQRVU
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5uq2vKA3E4
Rotella recently published two collections of poems with Rosenberry Books in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCc7_uQRVU
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5uq2vKA3E4
Rotella recently published two collections of poems with Rosenberry Books in Carrboro, North Carolina.
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