by Dave Russo on January 31, 2012
Today, one of our technical consultants accidently deleted a folder that should not have been deleted. As a result, some of our applications lost data that was added between Sat Jan 28th at 4AM to Tues Jan 31 at about 12:00 noon.
The Haiku Now! Contest entries are not affected by this data loss.
However, the blog and the forums were affected. Updates before Sat Jan 28th at 4AM are still there in the affected applications. Updates after Tues Jan 31 at 12:00 noon are still there. But updates between these two end points are lost.
I’m sorry for this inconvenience.
by Dave Russo on January 6, 2012
We are pleased to announce the start of our third annual HaikuNow! contest today! Prizes will be awarded for English-language haiku in three categories: traditional, contemporary and innovative. Please see the main HaikuNow! page for deadlines and other requirements.
Our two final judges are Jane Hirshfield and Jim Kacian. Many of you will know Jane from her poetry collections (After), her essays (Nine Gates, Entering the Mind of Poetry) and her translations (Ink Dark Moon, with Mariko Aratani). Haiku poets will be particularly interested in Jane’s Kindle Single called The Heart of Haiku. For months, this little book was Amazon’s highest-selling poetry book or poetry-related book in any format.
We look forward to receiving your poems!
by Billie Wilson on November 16, 2011
Here is an update regarding additions to the Haiku Registry since last report. Each poet’s page is accessible by last name: simply click on that initial in the search index on the opening page.
To submit your own information, click the appropriate link on the Registry’s opening page.
NEW TO THE HAIKU REGISTRY SINCE LAST REPORT: Melissa Allen, Ramesh Anand, Radostina A. Angelova, Janice Bostok (memorial), Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Margaret Chula, Bridget Cougar, Dina E. Cox, Lilia Racheva Dencheva, Curtis Dunlap, Ernesto V. Epistola, D. Claire Gallagher (memorial), Patrick Gallagher, Cara Holman, David Rosen, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Warren Lee Gossett, Sonja Kosler, Robert F. Mainone, Allen McGill, Malvina Mileta, Susan Nelson Myers, Ernesto P. Santiago, Laura Becker Sherman, Sherry Steiner, N V Subbaraman, Alan Summers, Patrick Sweeney, and Cor van den Heuvel.
REMINDER: I am happy to update your registry page as books are published or awards/honors are achieved – so be sure to let me know when your page should be updated: akwilsons [at] gci [dot] net.
by Billie Wilson on October 14, 2011
Our Event Calendars have been updated as of November 11, 2011. These tools are designed to help haiku poets keep track of journal and other submission dates, haiku gatherings, and contest entry deadlines, They are available in either pdf or html versions. The main document has publications, gatherings, contests, and other matters of interest to haiku poets; the other is a contests-only version. They can be used as checklists as well as reminders. Many thanks to everyone who sends information to help us keep the information current and correct. Please continue to send new information, updates, and corrections to calendar/at/thehaikufoundation.org (replacing /at/ with @).
by Gene Myers on September 24, 2011
The Award
The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards Series enters its second year. and includes the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards for 2011. The Touchstone Awards Series is a family of awards designed to recognize and reward excellence in the field of haiku.
The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards will be bestowed annually on published collections of poems, or works of scholarship that present a noteworthy contribution to English-language haiku in the estimation of a distinguished panel of poets, editors and scholars. Any English-language book or other production that is of or about haiku (and related forms) is eligible for the Award. The 2011 Award is open to books published between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011. Each author of an award-winning book will receive an engraved stone with their name and title of their book on it, emblematic of his or her contribution to the foundations of English-language haiku. Winners of the Award for 2010 included Carolyn Hall (How to Paint the Finch’s Song), John Stevenson (Live Again), Allan Burns (Montage), and John Martone (Scrittura Povera). There were also three Honorable Mentions.
The Panel
The panel for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2011 consists of Charles P. Trumbull, editor of Modern Haiku; Professor David G. Lanoue, author of Haiku Guy; Lorin Ford, haiku editor for the online journal A Hundred Gourds; Professor Philip Rowland, editor of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem; and Barbara Louise Ungar, winner of the Gival Press Poetry Prize in 2006.
What Books Are Eligible?
Any individual or publisher whose book has been published within the given time frame may submit their work for consideration. There is no reading fee. If there is some question about your book’s eligibility, please contact the Foundation at the address below for clarification.
How to Submit
To qualify for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award, each poet must initially submit two copies of the book nominated no later that October 15, 2010 (postmark). One copy will be assigned to one of the panelists, the other will become a permanent inclusion in The Haiku Foundation’s permanent hard copy library. Each submitter will be recognized as a donor to the Foundation and cited on the Donation Page of the website. Should your submission be recommended for the short list, we will at that time request four additional copies so the entire panel may consider it. Short list entries and award winners will be cited on The Haiku Foundation website. Nominated volumes should be sent to:
The Haiku Foundation
Touchstone Distinguished Books Award
PO Box 2461
Winchester VA
22604-1661 USA
Enquiries may be directed to this address, or to web.admin@thehaikufoundation.org.
