bear creek haiku - poetry, poems and info: October 2014

Sunday, October 26, 2014

'NEIGHBORS The Yard Critters Too' George Held and Joung Un Kim

This welcome opportunity to review a lovely children's book! ('ages 3-11, and above': yes, a must-read for you and I, also)

a longtime friend, poet George Held,
with artist Joung Un Kim, have given us 'Neighbors The Yard Critters Too', second in a series of three children's books -
randomly opening this book, poem and picture were perfect:

'All the time
chanting the name of god,
sweet sparrows singing'
(poem from Don Wentworth's
'Past All Traps')

Christ, alone on the Mount of Olives, moments of anguish just before his crucifixion - "I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top". . .

First book in this series -
NEIGHBORS: THE YARD CRITTERS
second, as above, is NEIGHBORS TOO
and, third, to be published in January 2015, is
NEIGHBORS: THE WATER CRITTERS

We should have all three on our most favorite bookshelf. . .

lovely, and with lovely reviews from many reliable sources. For you, for me, and for our children.

from www.filsingerco.com
(Filsinger & Company, Ltd., 288 W 12th St, (Apt. 2R), New York,
New York 10014)
ISBN: 978-0-916754-26-6
filsingercompany@gmail.com

see you in a moment -

ayaz daryl nielsen darylayaz@me.com

Friday, October 24, 2014

wow! The Frameless Sky, Shemom, Shamrock, Lyrical Passion, Cattails, Cheap Seats, aushcreates!

http://framelesssky.weebly.com

- includes blending our poetics with the creativity of gifted musician Milan Dimitrejevic: born 1984 in Serbia, a leader in the international guitar scene, gold medalist/top prizewinner in numerous major worldwide guitar competitions - he can easily be found on you-tube (and, through Christine, so could we!) (an abbreviated, perhaps trampled, bio)

A rare and gracious opportunity given to us by ingenious editor Christine L Villa- give her our poetic/artistic support. . .

Shemom submissions - corrected mistake, and, here it is again - poetry/haiku/senryu and all worthinesses to:
Shemom

ed. Peggy French

2486 Montgomery Ave Cardiff CA 92007

or pdfrench@cox.net

(a personal favorite)

Cattails has a new submission address, best to visit (The United Haiku and Tanka Society) and review guidelines - submittocattails@gmail.com appreciates more 'traditional' tanka and haiku, 'no need to reinvent the forms'

and! keep poetry flowing to Cheap Seats, Shemom, also, bear creek haiku! (see guidelines below, contact editors/establish friendly bonds). . .

Cheap Seats, Canyon Wren Press. . . new print poetry publication from versifier (friend) p l wick and AlleyKatPoets.blogspot.com - yes, a new print pub! hosannahs! Send letter with SASE for guidelines to -

Cheap Seats/

c/o p l wick at Canyon Wren Press

P O Box 249

Empire CO 80438-0249

or, visit this site’s recent post about Cheap Seats

or/and, just email p l wick at canyon.wren@q.com - engage in lively online dialogue and express your excitement about this fledgeling publication! (Cheap Seats office, a Ford van without tires up on blocks - sweet)

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine - just go to their unique/lovely site, read a few poems and the guidelines for Japanese short form poetry, and/or prose/free verse/rhyming poetry, and/or micro-fiction, they’ve all sorts of international poetic endeavors underway - currently open to submissions - founder/managing editor is R D Bailey, appreciate my interactions with this gentleman

Shamrock Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society. . . edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky (with his own remarkable background) - here’s a scootch of me: the Irish Haiku Society’s international membership voted one of my senryu best of year for 2010 and another of my senryu best of year for 2012: unexpected and deeply appreciated honors

Shemom. . . print pub., ed. Peggy Dugan French (am pleased to know her as ‘friend’) - sub’s with SASE to

Peggy French

2486 Montgomery Ave Cardiff CA 92007

or pdfrench@cox.net

(personal favorite)

Cattails. . . from UHTS, The United Haiku and Tanka Society - international society of poets with representatives in almost every country of the world, submissions to submittocattails@gmail.com -

received a couple of nasty responses, right up there with the well-known editor, long since deceased, bless him, who stated ‘your poetry wouldn’t work on bathroom walls‘ (actually, some of my poems have worked quite well on those walls)

Frosty, stop me!

one last online site -

aushcreates.blogspot.com -ISteve Ausherman - ‘I am a poet, photographer, potter, painter and high school fine arts instructor. In love with my wife. Loves to travel. Loves to read. Can't sit still. Needs nature to balance the insanity of life. Music lover. Cat lover’ Picture of two aunts, of an occasional handmade card - a certain relaxing decentness therein (a bear creek haiku contributor)

will do this again soon, expanding upon above - but, ayaz daryl, quit! stop! (for now) - note: mistakes, misspellings, and all somesuches can be attributed to versifier p l wick and/or peggy dugan french

see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen darylayaz@me.com

Saturday, October 18, 2014

100 HAIKUS FOR PEACE - new international publication: two days to submit your poetry! (deadline Nov 14th)

(two new haiku/senryu publications seeking your poetry)
first, be quick! send your finest haiku/senryu to this fascinating new publication - and be quick about it! (deadline Nov 14th)
Send to : haikuspourlapaix@yahoo.fr

100 HAIKUS FOR PEACE The book will be published : fall 2015

http://www.editions-liroli.net/index.htm

- Up to 5 unpublished haïkus on PEACE in your original language & english

- 3 lines with bio-bibliography facts
- your snail address

Send to : haikuspourlapaix@yahoo.fr

In up to 5 languages : original language, french, german, spanish and english.

Deadline : November 14th, 2014

(Le Conseil Général de la Somme, la Région Picardie & les Editions L'iroli

call for haiku for a book). . .

second: Speed Bump Journal (go to website for full details)
http://speedbumpjournal.wordpress.com/about/

Autumn Moon, Editor in Chief and Head Druid

submit 5-15 of our finest haiku fro consideration, 1-4 line haiku (if it feels like haiku, send it) -

submit work to: speedbumpjournal@cox.net

Use the subject line : SUBSPEEDBUMP only. Submissions without this subject line will not be read. Paste your submissions into the body of your email. No attachments will be opened! Ever! At all! No Kidding!

Please include your locality and haigo or real name, so that we can properly credit your poetry.

- an international poetry site, perhaps the best we have, is:
Whispers in the Wind
editor Karen O'Leary and her remarkable quality/daily publishing endeavors, includes collaborative poetry between poets worldwide (wonder why I took so long to discover it) - and, her genuine excitement as 'new' poets submit their poetry:

We have a world wide audience. If you are currently reading Whispers, please consider submitting a poem for consideration. You may contact Karen at gksm@cableone.net for guidelines. Thank you.
So much poetic 'doing' at Karen O'Leary's site! Yes, you must check it out.

Cattails has a new submission address, best to visit (The United Haiku and Tanka Society) and review guidelines - submittocattails@gmail.com appreciates more 'traditional' tanka and haiku, 'no need to reinvent the forms'

Dead Snakes 'another day at the office' -
yes, a photo of dead snakes, but/and, ed. Stephen Willliams publishes monthly, includes new poets (recently discovered this site, wish I had a long time ago) and always poetry from our finest poets (Alan Catlin, et al.) - haiku/tanka and various diverse formats welcomed -

Submission Guidelines
and! keep poetry flowing to Cheap Seats, Shemom, brass bell, and, bear creek haiku! (see guidelines below, contact editors/establish friendly bonds). . .
well, why not keep your poetry flowing to everyone listed below - if you so choose, let me know just who/what/whereabouts I have missed (a vast loverly majority) - we shall love, nourish and publish our poetry!

brass bell: a haiku journal. . . Zee Zahava is the cool editor/individual (zee@twcny.rr.com) of a new international online journal - peruse the site, and, request future email notifications of upcoming haiku themes, send yours for consideration - (recent issue was one-line haiku)

The Whirlwind Review. . . gracious editor Jill Jepson, author of ‘Writing As a Sacred Path’ - poetry/haiku ‘focusing on spiritual life, broadly defined’ - currently seeking submissions (pays $10 for accepted poetry) - online forum, submission guidelines, payment policies, upcoming themes writingthewhirlwind@yahoo.com

Kind of a Hurricane Press. . . ed. A J Huffman, wanting to ‘do it all’ poetically, and, is succeeding! - plethora of activities includes High Coupe (5-7-5 syllable haiku/senryu), Jellyfish Whispers, Pyrokinection, Mind[less] Muse, themed anthologies, ‘best of’ anthologies, book (poetry) reviews (currently seeking reviewers), obtain print copies of anthologies and ‘best of’ collections, and, much more - ed. Huffman, co-editor April Salazno, ‘seeking submissions of all sorts’

Cheap Seats/

c/o p l wick at Canyon Wren Press

P O Box 249

Empire CO 80438-0249

or, visit this site’s recent post about Cheap Seats

below, more poetry pubs (lions, tigers, and marmots, oh, my!) with the expectation/conviction your poem/poetry will find its/their worthy home(s), the amrita for writer/poet bare bone work(wo)manship -

first, this from dear friend Angelee Deodhar (have been meaning to do a post about this fascinating international poet for months, but, simply haven’t gotten there yet) Dr Deodhar’s haiga graciously includes my poem -

Shamrock Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society. . . one simply appreciates Shamrock, an international online publication, with print anthologies also available (the most recent issue includes translations of two Ukranian poets) - edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky (with his own remarkable background) - so! off you go to an affable revamped site of international haiku/senryu including submission guidelines/timeframes - here’s a scootch of me: the Irish Haiku Society’s international membership voted one of my senryu best of year for 2010 and another of my senryu best of year for 2012: unexpected and deeply appreciated honors

Writers & Lovers Cafe! - “We like haiku, senryu, tanka, and all types of short, Japan-derived or French-imagist poems. We enjoy flash, skinny fiction, and 55-word novels, we dig visual art of all types. We consider mini-book reviews and essays” - holy Ford van on blocks, this site has really evolved technically/otherwhos, and, print copies are also available - once at this extensive site, go to ‘writers and lovers cafe’ for poetry - email submissions to wojnicki@yahoo.com - editors are Tad Israel Wojnicki and Iyza J Caberra (Mr Wojnicki with a picture of his newborn)

Boston Literary Magazine. . . check timeframe of when to send poetry (not listed with submissions, and, if you send any other time, will receive a curt/prefab rebuff) - with that managed, you are with haiku editor Robin Stratton, also editor-in-chief, a warm person who obviously loves her haiku/poetic editorial endeavors - quality haiku other than staid 5-7-5 preferred, but, not a firm requirement - a likable site, much broader than just haiku/senryu, has print copies available, book reviews, et al.

Eye on Life Magazine. . . ed. Tom Rubenoff, also a fine poet (his poetry has a home in bear creek haiku) - publishes up to five poems a week, submissions continually open, go to (it’s obvious) Poetry Unlocked for published poems, and, for submissions, go to - Submissions! Have had quality online/poetic interactions with this gentleman, also

Shemom. . . print pub., ed. Peggy Dugan French (am pleased to know her as ‘friend’) - sub’s with SASE to

Peggy French

2486 Montgomery Ave Cardiff CA 92007

or pdfrench@cox.net

(personal favorite)

Cattails. . . from UHTS, The United Haiku and Tanka Society - international society of poets with representatives in almost every country of the world, submissions to submittocattails@gmail.com A complex site one has to visit and then learn one’s way around, here’s two reasons why we all should so do - first, Cattails is a quality haiku/tanka pub, second, an’ya, principal editor, a caring dynamo (has worked hard at improving a few of my submitted haiku) ok, third reason, co-founder Michael Rehling writes chivalrous, nourishing book reviews, including uplifting reviews of two of mine, ‘tumbleweeds still tumbling’ and an anthology ‘The Poets of Bear Creek’ (I will do another end of year anthology ‘poets of bear creek 2013-14’), alright, fourth and last reason! much more than can be listed here, an example, membership is free, and, take a moment to send an’ya a brief, cheerful note (same email as above)

have got to stop here, this post is slipping beyond me -

you must know about Lilliput Review and its print publishing endeavors, and, Issa’s Untidy Hut, and Wed. haiku (all form Don Wentworth, always the usual worthy suspect) -

and Barbaric Yawp and BoneWorld Publishing, ed John Berbrich, takes awhile to respond, but love ‘em anyway -

newpages.com - submissions. . . my respect for their handling huge volumes of incoming info - they update twice a month (?), I visit there once a month or so and submit poetry to likely victims (30 or more over some years), two acceptances, but, two fascinating acceptances, one the upcoming San Francisco Peace and Hope inaugural print publication - send ‘em some love sfpeaceandhope.info@gmail.com

also received a couple of nasty responses, right up there with the well-known editor, long since deceased, bless him, who stated ‘your poetry wouldn’t work on bathroom walls‘ (actually, some of my poems have worked quite well on those walls)

Frosty, stop me!

one last online site -

see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen darylayaz@me.com

Thursday, October 16, 2014

bear creek haiku: submit poetry

bear creek haiku is:

4 sheets of 8.5" by 14" blue paper, stacked, cut in thirds the long way, fold in the middle, two blue staples along the fold (4 sheets = 48 pages of poetry).

Poets names are listed on the first 4 pages (also hometown and state or country) - this, an uninterrupted flow through a diverse and healthy variety of poetics.

Poetry for consideration is mailed to:

'bear creek haiku'
po box 596
Longmont CO 80502
USA

with an SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope). The SASE is used to mail the issue accepted poems are in to the poet - no poetry accepted? all are returned in the SASE, and! if one or more poems are accepted, the remaining poems are shredded (with dignity).
For a free issue, send an SASE.

many of my long-time poets don't/won't use computers, yet, how far-flung and diverse their published venues!
an example - Jane Stuart, of Greenup, Kentucky, has often had her poetry in Italian anthologies. Jane once stated 'thank you, no, I don't want a cell phone (I thought they meant a jail cell)'

creek haiku haiku accepts poetry via email (encouraged of poets from other countries), stateside (USA) preference is postal submissions, but, email also ok -
darylayaz@me.com

hint - the more poems sent, the more that may be published -
second hint - worthy poems can be sent to several publishing venues in hopes of several acceptances (isn't the opinion of all editors)
third hint - bear creek haiku is far enough off most online and postal grids that poetry accepted here should seek other fine homes.

selected poem(s) are snipped from the page they arrive on (I appreciate how poet's choose to present poetry, including chosen font/hand-written/even some misspellings) - scotch-taped, perhaps a bit of 'artwork' - finally, the abuse of whatever xerox equipment unsuspecting victims allow access to. Stapled.

Poems submitted can be diverse:
include haiku/senryu/tanka/haiga/shorties/artwork/etc. that will fit on a page - usually, an 11 line limit

assistant editor Frosty

mailing address is:

bear creek haiku

po box 596

longmont co 80502

usa

email - darylayaz@me.com, or, darylayaz@gmail.com

blogspot - bear creek haiku poetry, poems and info

above poem by Peggy Dugan French, editor of Shemom, from the cover of bch issue #117 - poetry for print pub Shemom to:

Shemom, ed. Peggy Dugan French
2486 Montgomery Ave
Cardiff California
92007 or, to: pdfrench@cox.net

also! poetry for consideration to:

Cheap Seats Ticket to Ride
Canyon Wren Press
PO Box 249
Empire CO 80438-0249 p l wick - canyon.wren@q.com
(email editor, 'the bard of empire valley', with sundry/mischievous philosophical/poetic thoughts/questions)

see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen darylayaz@me.com

without quite-some-time-ago (25+ years) encouragement from Don Wentworth, Denver Stull and Giovanni Malito, bear creek haiku wouldn't exist - heartfelt memories/appreciation)