Per Diem: Daily Haiku
We Want YOU! to be a Per Diem editor.
The Per Diem feature is our daily poem, and you’ve met our challenge to create a series of monthly themed collections. Response has been overwhelming, and we’re delighted to have so many guest editors on our site. This month’s editor is Christopher Herold, who explores the emotions brought about by the weather and its infinite changes and variations.
Months for 2012/2013 are filling up rapidly, but there’s still some space available. We’d like you to help us by creating your own monthly collection. What we need you to do is:
1) choose a theme
2) provide some idea of how the theme would work
You can get ideas of theme titles and topic sentences from the roster below. A couple rules: editors may not use their own poems, and no collection should be dependent on sequencing (poems will be selected for display by a randomizer, so whatever order you put it in wouldn’t be maintained anyway). That’s about it!
Check the list below to find a month that’s not spoken for, and send your idea to us. Use the Contact page to tell us why and when, and even include a sample poem or two. We look forward to hearing what you have in mind.
Here’s the roster for 2012-13. Once these last few slots are filled, we won’t be taking on new collection ideas until January 2013. We look forward to adding your collection to the list!
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Per Diem for 2012
January (31 poems): A Haiku Bestiary
Poems which capture some essence of the animal named, without anthropomorphization, from A to Z (with a bit of cheating for X, and a couple repeated letters . . . )
Editor: Jim Kacian
February (29 poems): So, How’s the Weather? Inside Out?
Haiku in which emotions and moods are evoked by way of weather terminology juxtaposed to some other image or activity.
Editor: Christopher Herold
March (31 poems): Haiku of the Senses
The multi-modality of sensory experience, as illuminated through haiku.
Editor: Stella Pierides
April (30 poems): Poems from Aotearoa
New Zealand haiku, featuring flora and fauna specific to those favored isles, and human activities, such as Anzac Day (April 25).
Editor: Sandra Simpson
May (31 poems): Northwest Nature
Haiku on nature themes of the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon).
Editor: Michael Dylan Welch
June (30 poems): Sound Bytes
The haiku habit. The inspiration, frustration and joy of the process. Or is it a process?
Editor: Carolyne Rohrig
July (31 poems): The Kindness of Strangers
Haiku and senryu about unexpected human interactions.
Editor: Peter Newton
August (31 poems): Out for Stars
Haiku that engage objects of the celestial sphere (but: not the sun or moon).
Editor: Allan Burns
September (30 poems): The Elements
Haiku of the 4 basic building blocks of the universe according to ancient lore.
Editor: Kala Ramesh
October (31 poems): To Hand
Haiku on the most useful of our appendages.
Editor: Ruth Yarrow
November (30 poems): Even Less of a Good Thing
Examples of outstanding one-line haiku in English over the 40 years of their existence.
Editor: John Barlow
December (31 poems): Children
How children move, exasperate and inspire us to look at life, our surroundings and ourselves.
Editor: Sonam Chhoki
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Per Diem for 2013
January (31 poems): “said the spider to the fly . . .”
A collection of haiku featuring insects and arachnids: the humble and splendid creatures that take us by surprise.
Editor: Cherie Hunter Day
February (28 poems): Working Man’s Haiku
Haiku of the daily grind, the quotidian, and our responses.
Editor: Matthew Paul
March (31 poems): Judeo-Christian Traditions
A haiku consideration of reverent and light-hearted themes suggesting Passover and Easter.
Editor: Carmen Sterba
April (30 poems): Beyond the Senses, Between the Words
Sehnsucht and other indefinable inner-outer landscapes.
Editor: Christopher Patchel
May (31 poems): Look to the Sky!
An exploration of how specific genera of birds make you feel.
Editor: H. Gene Murtha
June (30 poems): Color My World
Haiku that transport us directly to the moment through visual pathways.
Editor: Ron Moss
July (31 poems): Haiku of the Open Road
Haiku of escape, adventure, exhilaration and the feeling that comes only with the illusion of freedom.
Editor: Tom Painting
August (31 poems): Kismet
Poems of fate or chance leading to an unexpected course, for a moment, a day, or even a life.
Editor: Deb Baker
September (30 poems): Dream Speak
Haiku that explore our dream-world, where images are the voice of the soul.
Editor: Kirsten Cliff
October (31 poems): Urban Haiku
Haiku from our new natural environment.
Editor: Peggy Heinrich
November (30 poems): The Art of Communications
The many ways we connect, as presented through haiku.
Editor: John Kinory
December (31 poems): 31 Way of Looking at a Mountain
Nothing moves us like a mountain—here are poems that celebrate that landmass, and that fact.
Editor: Michael McClintock
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