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Frogpond
''Frogpond'' is a haiku magazine published by the Haiku Society of America. It is published eletronically three times per year and consists of English-language haiku and senryu, linked forms including sequences, renku, rengay, and haibun, essays and articles on these forms, and book reviews. Submissions may come from members and nonmembers. The first issue was published in February 1978. Each issue of ''Frogpond'' features a $100 Best of Issue Frogpond Award sponsored by the Museum of Haiku Literature. Past presidents * Cor van den Heuvel Past editors * Jim Kacian *Alexis Rotella Alexis K. Rotella (born January 16, 1947, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and artist. She has written poems in several of the traditional styles of Japanese poetry, including haiku, senryū, renga, and haibun. Biography Alexis ... *Lilli Tanzer References External links *{{Official website, https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html Poetry magazines published in the U ...
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Jim Kacian
James Michael Kacian (born July 26, 1953) is an American haiku poet, editor, publisher, and public speaker. He has lived in London, Nashville, Bridgton (Maine) and now resides in Winchester, Virginia. Life and brief chronology Kacian was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, then adopted and raised in Gardner, Massachusetts. He wrote his first mainstream poems in his teens, and published them in small poetry magazines beginning in 1970. He also wrote, recorded, and sold songs under the name Jim Blake while living in Nashville in the 1980s. Upon his move to Virginia in 1985 he discovered English-language haiku, for which he is best known. He set himself the task of writing a thousand such poems before seeking publication, and between 1985 and 1987 accomplished this feat. Since 1988 he has published thousands of his poems in hundreds of locations in dozens of languages, with the preponderance of them being published in the United States, but with substantial numbers also appearing ...
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Haiku Society Of America
The Haiku Society of America is a non-profit organization composed of haiku poets, editors, critics, publishers and enthusiasts that promotes the composition and appreciation of haiku in English. Founded in 1968, it is the largest society dedicated to haiku and related forms of poetry outside Japan, and holds meetings, lectures, workshops, readings, and contests, throughout the United States. The society's journal, ''Frogpond'', first published in 1978, appears three times a year. As of 2022, the HSA has over 1,000 members. Activities The HSA web site includes information on how to get involved with its regional chapters, as well as information on contests, society meetings, and publications including ''Frogpond''. The society also publishes a monthly email newsletter with news on regional, national, and international haiku events. The Haiku Society of America is well known for its annual contests for haiku, senryū, haibun, renku, and renga, as well as the Merit Book Awards for th ...
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Alexis Rotella
Alexis K. Rotella (born January 16, 1947, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and artist. She has written poems in several of the traditional styles of Japanese poetry, including haiku, senryū, renga, and haibun. Biography Alexis received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where she wrote a thesis on Zen Buddhism. She also received a master's degree in Classical Acupuncture from The Academy for Five Element Acupuncture (formerly The Worsley Institute, Hallandale, Florida) as well as a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy (American Institute of Hypnotherapy, Santa Ana, California). In 1984, she served as the President of the Haiku Society of America and edited its haiku journal ''Frogpond'' the same year. In 2009, she founded ''Prune Juice'', an English-language journal for senryu. Rotella is the 2019-2020 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento. Personal life A ...
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Literary Magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History ''Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the '' Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The Spectator'' (1828), and ''Athenaeum'' (1828). In the Unite ...
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Haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or seasonal reference. Similar poems that do not adhere to these rules are generally classified as ''senryū''. Haiku originated as an opening part of a larger Japanese poem called renga. These haiku written as an opening stanza were known as ''hokku'' and over time they began to be written as stand-alone poems. Haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century. Originally from Japan, haiku today are written by authors worldwide. Haiku in English and haiku in other languages have different styles and traditions while still incorporating aspects of the traditional haiku form. Non-Japanese haiku vary widely on how closely they follow traditional elements. Additionally, a minority movement withi ...
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Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus '' Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , ...
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Renku
, or , is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ''ushin'' renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae. Initially ''haikai no renga'' distinguished itself through vulgarity and coarseness of wit, before growing into a legitimate artistic tradition, and eventually giving birth to the haiku form of Japanese poetry. The term ''renku'' gained currency after 1904, when Kyoshi Takahama started to use it. Development The oldest known collection of haikai linked verse appears in the first imperial anthology of renga, the ''Tsukubashū'' (1356–57).Shirane, Haruo (2012). ''Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600''. Columbia University Press. p. 522. Traditional renga was a group activity in which each participant displayed his wit by spontaneously composing a verse in response to ...
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Haibun
is a prosimetric literary form originating in Japan, combining prose and haiku. The range of ''haibun'' is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem, short story and travel journal. History The term "''haibun''" was first used by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, in a letter to his disciple Kyorai in 1690.Shirane, Haruo. ''Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō''. Stanford University Press, 1998. . p212 Bashō was a prominent early writer of ''haibun'', then a new genre combining classical prototypes, Chinese prose genres and vernacular subject matter and language. He wrote some ''haibun'' as travel accounts during his various journeys, the most famous of which is ''Oku no Hosomichi'' (''Narrow Road to the Interior''). Bashō's shorter ''haibun'' include compositions devoted to travel and others focusing on character sketches, landscape scenes, anecdotal vignettes and occasional writings written to honor a ...
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Museum Of Haiku Literature
The Association of Haiku Poets ( ja, 俳人協会) is a Japanese professional association of haiku poets and enthusiasts. It was founded in 1961 by a group of haiku poets that separated from the Modern Haiku Association. The association manages the Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo. Past presidents * Nakamura Kusatao (1961-1962) * Shūōshi Mizuhara Shūōshi Mizuhara (水原秋桜子; October 9, 1892 – 1981) was a Japanese ''haiku'' poet and physician. Shūōshi Mizuhara was born on October 9, 1892, in Tokyo. Shūōshi's father was a doctor and raised Shūōshi to follow in his footsteps ... (1962-1978) * Rinka Ohno (1978-1982) * Atsushi Azumi (1982-1987) * Kin'ichi Sawaki (1987-1993) * Tetsunosuke Matsuzaki (1993-2002) * Takaha Shugyo (2002-2017) * Akira Ohkushi (2017- ) Museum of Haiku Literature A library specializing in haiku books was completed in Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo in 1977 at the initiative of the Haiku Poet Association. The main purpose is to colle ...
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Cor Van Den Heuvel
Cor Van den Heuvel (born March 6, 1931) is an American haiku poet, editor and archivist. Biography Van den Heuvel was born in Biddeford, Maine, and grew up in Maine and New Hampshire. He lives on Long Island near his niece and still spends time writing and exploring natrure. He first discovered haiku in 1958 in San Francisco where he heard Gary Snyder mention it at a poetry reading. He returned to the East Coast the following year and continued composing haiku. He became the house poet of a Boston coffee house, reading haiku and other poetry to jazz musical accompaniment. In 1971 he joined the Haiku Society of America and became its president in 1978. Work Van den Heuvel has published several books of his own haiku, including one on baseball. He is the editor of the three editions of ''The Haiku Anthology''; the original Haiku Anthology published in 1974 by Doubleday, the second edition published in 1986 by Simon & Schuster, and the third edition published in 1999 by Norton. Hon ...
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Poetry Magazines Published In The United States
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger River, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian language, Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Classic of Poetry, ''Sh ...
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