Hello Haijin!
Sally and Michele are waving at you from lovely Penticton, BC, where we are attending the Wine Country Writers Festival.
It’s great to meet some of you in person and chat about our favourite subject, Haiku!
settling on a twig
the tiny bird has no song
a pointed leaf prods
-Susan Koppersmith
a moment’s hush
with wings and beak poised
to fly away singing
-Jaki Sawyer
summer storm
miles from home-
house wren
-Sally Quon
little bird
stopping by-
standing in stillness
-Anna Dean
stalwart plants stand tall
warriors of the waning season
wait to fight cold winds
-Honey Novick
Member News
Michele Rule had a haiku accepted and posted on The Scarlet Dragonfly. If you subscribe to the site, you will receive three haiku in your inbox every day.
David Brydges will have a haiga appearing in the September 29 edition of Asahi Haikuist Network. Here is a preview of his piece:
Speaking of planets, they all aligned for Sally Quon this week with acceptances from Poetry Pea, First Frost, Tsuri-Doro, and Seashores. Don’t forget to send us your news! sally_quon@yahoo.com or kelownalady@hotmail.com
Guest Essay
Here is the first of a series of essays by Gautam Nadkarni on the art of haiku writing.
What is Haiku Essay by Gautam Nadkarni
Upcoming Deadlines, Openings, and Readings
Upcoming Opportunities
Here is the first of a series of essays by Gautam Nadkarni on the art of haiku writing.
What is Haiku Essay by Gautam Nadkarni
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Really Fun Stuff
Small Lantern is a free to download chapbook of haiga.
Asahi Haikuist Network, is where David’s piece will appear.
Australian Haiku Society is starting a haiku string.
Wee Sparrow Poetry Press zoom readings from contributors to the haiku anthology To Live Here. Two different reading times on September 24.
This Week’s Prompt
It feels like summer is turning to autumn! Write a haiku about the things that tells you autumn has arrived. See if you can include a sound or smell. Send it along to sally_quon@yahoo.com or kelownalady@hotmail.com to be included in our next issue.
“We write to taste life twice,
-Anais Nin
in the moment and in retrospect.”
Sally Quon is a disabled poet and photographer living in the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She is an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets and a member of Haiku Canada. Her work has been published in numerous journals including The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, First Frost, and Time Haiku. She is currently working on her first book of haiku, haibun, and haiga, tentatively titled, “My Valley, My Home.”
Featherstone Creative
Michele Rule is a disabled writer from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele is published in the Asahi Shimbun Haikuist, Pine Cone Review, the Enchanted Garden, Five Minute Lit, Shadow Pond, WordCityLit, and the anthologies F*ck the Patriarchy, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and To Live Here, among others. She is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and Haiku Canada. Michele has been awarded honourable mention twice for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and also for the Haiku Northwest Porad Award. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. Michele lives in a beautiful garden surrounded by people who love her just the way she is.
