HAY(NA)KU = INVITATION

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HAY(NA)KU = INVITATION

You are cordially invited

by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego, and Eileen Tabios

to participate in

THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT!

As authors of single-author poetry hay(na)ku collections, we invite you to collaborate with others to create "chained hay(na)ku" -- a poem based on the hay(na)ku poetic form and created by multiple authors (at least three individual authors).

Information on the hay(na)ku are available at:
http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku.htm
http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.htm
http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/

For an example of the Chained Hay(na)ku, please visit the blog,

THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT: AN INVITATION

which features our collaborative poem, "Four Skin Confessions."  The poem was written in May 2007 by email, spanning the time zones of London, Cardiff, and California.

We now invite other poets to collaborate with others in creating other chained hay(na)ku. Authors can then contribute their collaborations (including excerpts from such collaborations) for possible publication, which Meritage Press will release as either a journal, anthology, or hand-made limited edition (the final format will depend on the nature of and number of contributions).

Collaborations need not be only in verse form.  Visual poetry is welcome, as long as the collaborators number at least three and realize that reproduction is likely to be in black-and-white.

Email Contributions (and queries) to MeritagePress@aol.com

Deadline for Contributions: January 31, 2008

Why not get together with others and chain together a hay(na)ku?  It's a poetic form that has always been intended to be an Invitation!

All Best,

Ivy Alvarez, author of 1 DOZ. POISON HAY(NA)KU (Big Game Books, 2007)

John Bloomberg-Rissman, author of OTAGES (Bamboo Books, 2006) and NO SOUNDS OF MY OWN MAKING (Leafe Press, 2007)

Ernesto Priego, author of NOT EVEN DOGS (Meritage Press, 2006)

Eileen Tabios, author of THE SINGER AND OTHERS (Dusie, 2007)