Homes For Your Poems

ass't. ed's Tama and Frosty with a 

Memorial Day request (ok, demand): 

Let's do all we can to 

get our own poets' poetry memorialized!"

(published). . .  noble 

suggestion, feline 

companions!  We'll 

share publications (print 

and/or online) that 

have nourished our own 

poetic endeavors (with treats afterwards!)

Frosty: "You haven't started yet?"

Tama adores Whispers in the Wind, constantly active online and known worldwide- visit at whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com

Tama, Frosty, let's pick up our pace, or we won't 
have treats until midnight!
                                                                                                "Get going!" from Frosty. . .

Two extensive worldwide resources for publishers/lovers of haiku and related forms:  New Zealand Poetry Society - Haiku, Tanka, Haiga and Haibun (FreeXpresSion, which first published our poems 20+ years ago, is listed here, as is Poetry Quarterly)

Database of Small Presses and Publishers | Poets and Writers Hundreds of homes for poems, chapbooks, et al. (one quickly learns how to navigate through the plethora therein, also! Each new issue is online with an update of calls for poetry manuscripts and submissions)

From Tama: All poets should have extended interactions with World Literature Today, from the U of Oklahoma (one of the last issue's features was 'women poets of Azerbaijan')

Shemom   print pub., poetry to dear friend 
Peggy Dugan French:  pdfrench@cox.net

Trajectory  Writing That Illuminates  another lovely print pub., guidelines at www.trajectoryjournal.com (postal submissions)

bear creek haiku  yup, that's us, guidelines 
in last post (May 1st)

Cheap Seats  unique/worthy print pub., contact ed. p l wick 
(the Han-shan of Colorado) for guidelines
Canyon.Wren@Q.com

The Stray Branch, online, ed. Debbie Berk:
thestraybranchlitmag@yahoo.com - am especially fond of this pub., a home to dear friend/poet/artist Rex Sexton

Ascent Aspirations Magazine  online, ed. David Fraser now focuses on 'Friday poems', very actively seeking poetry

Origami Poetry Project  www.origamipoems.com  ed. Laura Burke and staff know how to honor your poetry with their micro-chapbooks, you'll receive ten copies and other print copies can be downloaded online (my micro-chapbook is proof of love) A genuine sweetness emanates from their endeavors

Holy you betchas, it's midnight!  Tama and Frosty, asleep (and without their treats! We'll just have some with breakfast!) - and we have more to share with you, so we'll create another post tomorrow...


see you in a moment


ayaz daryl nielsen


                                                                                                                darylayaz@gmailcom
                                          (and/or)
                                          darylayaz@me.com

submitting poems to bear creek haiku (anna yin, jo balistreri, don wentworth, karen o'leary, john mcdonald, kelley jean white, and! patricia carragon!)

    Today, thirty-some postal poetry submissions arrived in one big bundle, forwarded from our old post office address (some sent seven months old, but, warmly welcomed) A fair number of my poets do not use email, and, if they haven't submitted recently, or, a poet read about bear creek somewhere without an updated address - it's all understandable

    70% of our poems are sent by postal delivery, and the correct address is: bear creek haiku, p.o. box 596, longmont, co 80502 USA (SASE's are appreciated)  

    If from another country, email is best: darylayaz@gmail.com, and/or, darylayaz@me.com  (do include your postal mailing address)

    American poets/friends, prefer submitting by email? You know 

                                it's all loverly.  

         Enough!                                                

         Tama and Frosty, a few 

         of their favorite poets from

         bear creek haiku #134. . .

  
haiku in Shakespeare

hidden in sonnets                         baby asleep
who art thou?                              in a sunbeam:
winds flip pages                           wrapped in light years

shaking against cold                      (john mcdonald
yellow leaves lament                      edinburgh  scotland) 
the ashes of youth

(anna yin   mississauga  ontario)


                                                                                
                      Each morning I arise
                      roll back the stone of sleep
                      walk into the light
                      as if I myself am the source.
                    
                  (jo balistreri   genesee depot  wisconsin)
                    a photo of Jo arising in the morning:

  

anonymous blossom

  signing its work

    precisely             (don wentworth   pittsburgh  pennsylvania)



o
n
e. . .
the beginning
of all                    (karen o'leary   west fargo  north dakota) 
  

                   

                   snow blowing off the roof all day

                   cat

                   in the window
                   
                           (kelley jean white   laconia  new hampshire)


frosty - "finally, a cat poem!  'bout time!"
tama - "how about one more before treats?". . .
     yes, fearless ass't. ed's, one more, then, treats for everyone!

                 (patricia carragon   brooklyn  new york)




see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen