MARSH HAWK REVIEW IS FRESH!

Delighted to have a poem from manuscript-in-progress 147 MILLION ORPHANS: A HAYBUN in the just-released Winter 2013 issue of the Marsh Hawk Review, edited by Thomas Fink. You are invited to access it at http://www.marshhawkpress.org/Review%20Frame.html. The editor says, "This is the largest and most stylistically diverse issue of the Review to date-- an auspicious beginning for the new year."

Here are the diverse and stylish contributors:

Vincent Katz
Jane Augustine
Christopher Schmidt
Natsuko Hirata
Daniel Morris
M.D. Johnson
Paul Pines
Kate Lamberg
Susan Terris
Mark Young
Eileen R. Tabios
Jack Lynch
Carole Stone
Lisa Kremens
Mary Mackey
Alan Ramon Clinton
Basil King
Stafford Gregoire
Harriet Zinnes
Raymond Farr
Thomas Fink
Charles Borkhuis
Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Stephen Paul Miller
Sheila E. Murphy
Andrew Levy
Hank Lazer

Obviously I'm biased but this is one of the best reads of literary e-zines I've experienced in recent times...

PREENING OVER BERKELEY!

You know, I haven't patted Moiself on the back lately -- no wonder the universe has felt imbalanced.  To wit, do allow Moi to preen over a missive sent over by a UC Berkeley professor:

hi eileen,
just to let you know, my students read your poems yesterday in class as I am teaching this summer… exceprts from commodities and the mail-order bride poems. they love your work and said that they enjoyed reading your poems because they were funny and yet talked about colonialism, globalization, commodification of women, etc. etc.
among the many many poems we read this summer, they liked your poems best.
they also thought haynaku hilarious!!!!
just wanted you to know how appreciated your work is.
bravo!

My, my: bravo to Moi!  Of course, it's timely to recall why the hay(na)ku is funny!  Remember that it's partly riffed off a childhood rhyme translated to English as:

One
Two Three
Your Dad's bald!

Preeeeeeeeen!

Thank you poets and creative writing teachers who use my work.  Please continue: Moi is really ... funny!

FOR THE 21ST DAY

NaPoWriMo.net: 30 poems in 30 days is featuring the hay(na)ku as its Daily Prompt.

So you're prompted ... for 21st day and beyond!
 

HAY(NA)KU'S LATEST GOLDEN EGG

Vince Gotera helps celebrate National Poultry Month by inventing the

The Hay(na)ku Sonnet

!!! Thanks Vince!!!

The hay(na)ku's eggs still continue to hatch!

MIDDLE SCHOOL HAY(NA)KU IN OAKLAND!

I've always thought the hay(na)ku to be a great teaching tool for poetry. So I was delighted to learn that poet-teacher Oscar Bermeo used the hay(na)ku for Middle Schoolers from East Oakland's St. Anthony School. As samples, the students were introduced to Monica Fauble's wonderful hay(na)ku from THE FIRST HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY co-edited by Mark Young and Jean Vengua! The students have already written some wonderful verse, including:

Oakland
trees shaking
leaves to ground

Shaking
shaking life
is breaking down.
—Ruben


Dead

What
are people
with no soul?
—Luis


Not
the best
place but home.
—Iliana


Wasabi

I
hate wasabi
teriyaki is better

much
better than
wasabi because it’s

like
barbecue sauce
and banana leaf.
—Hiue

Oscar continues to work with the students to help them expand their writings. Their hay(na)ku will be published in a volume produced by the Center for the Art of Translation. Fabulous news! And fabulous job to Oscar!

REVERSE, OR RE-VERSE, HAY(NA)KU

It's so nice to keep seeing the hay(na)ku reach new pockets of the universe. This time, don cunningham and Chris Vola share reverse hay(na)ku in the new issue of twenty20 Journal on poetic forms, edited by Benjamin C. Krause.

A nifty traveler
that ku(na)hay*
hay(na)ku

*after Charles Bernstein

SEARCHING FOR ABSINTHE

Recently enjoyed Mark Young's latest book, GEOGRAPHIES, which shows him, too, to be a master of the deadpan. Though, interestingly, my favorite or one of my favorites is the rare exception to his deadpanness, this hay(na)ku:

Le Pont Mirabeau

His
translations of
Apollinaire reek of

formaldehyde when it's
absinthe we're
after.

A hoot! And here's the rest of my updated Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Note that if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects. And I'm eagerly looking for reviewers to get books offa moi floors and to hit 100 new reviews for the next issue! Yeah! More info on that HERE.


PUBLICATIONS
* ARCTIC POEMS by Vicente Huidobro, Trans. by Nathan Hoks (some gorgeous lines. a real beauty, this one)

GEOGRAPHIES, poems by Mark Young (see above)

SO LATE, SO SOON: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Carol Moldaw (lush, gorgeous, fabulous)

MY LIFE AS A DOLL, poems by Elizabeth Kirschner (the most searing poetic read I've experienced in recent memory)

IN THE MONEY MACHINE, poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt (admirable political lyricism)

NICK DEMSKE, poems by Nick Demske

HELSINKI, poems by Peter Richards

* ACOUSTIC EXPERIENCE, poems by Noah Eli Gordon

LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning (every poet should have their "Barbara Henning"!)

19 NEW AMERICAN POETS OF THE GOLDEN GATE, Edited by Philip Dow (disappointed that Jack Gilbert had to result to bashing another poet to make his points in his intro to his own poems. took more than a bottle to get that sour taste out)

INSIDE THE PAINTER'S STUDIO, visual art interviews by Joe Fig (fabulous!)

THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO HIGH SCHOOL: A PARENT'S HANDBOOK FOR THE NINTH GRADE YEAR by Tim Healey and Alex Carter (do not even think of laughing at Moi!)

A PLACE TO CALL HOME: THE AMAZING SUCCESS STORYOFMODERN ORPHANAGES, study by Martha Randolph Carr

THEY CAGE THE ANIMALS AT NIGHT: THE TRUE STORY OF A CHILD WHO LEARNED TO SURVIVE, autobiography by Jennings Michael Burch

THE ARCHIPELAGO: A BALKAN PASSAGE, memoir-travelogue by Robert Isenberg

ON THAT DAY EVERYBODY ATE: ONE WOMAN'S STORY OF HOPE AND POSSIBILITY IN HAITI, memoir by Margaret Trost

FAREWELL, MY SUBARU: AN EPIC ADVENTURE IN LOCAL LIVING, memoir by by Doug Fine

RETURN TO THE OLIVE FARM, memoir by Carol Drinkwater

LONG QUIET HIGHWAY: WAKING UP IN AMERICA, memoir by Natalie Goldberg

FORWARD FROM HERE, memoir by Reeve Lindbergh

WILLIAM AND KATE: A ROYAL LOVE STORY, biography by Christopher Andersen

FOR MY NEXT ACT ... WOMEN SCRIPTING LIFE AFTER FIFTY, psychology by Karen Baar

DEWEY'S NINE LIVES: THE LEGACY OF THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO INSPIRED MILLIONS, biography by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter

THE SENTRY, novel by Robert Crais

HOSTAGE, novel by Robert Crais

STALKING THE ANGEL, novel by Robert Crais


WINES
2003 Dutch Henry merlot NV
2004 Samuel's Gorge McLaren Vale shiraz
2005 Hobbs Grenache Barossa Ranges
2007 Bramosia Donna Laura Chianti Classico Toscano Sangiovese
2008 Nero Di Avola Sicily
1990 Guigal Hermitage
2009 Dutch Henry pinot noir Mount Veeder
2001 Artadi Vinas De Gain Rioja
2006 Trevor Jones virgin chardonnay (don't ask Moi about that virgin)

WINNING POETRY MONTH

BakitWhy takes the hay(na)ku to new levels with this announcement of a poetry contest judged American Idol style. You peeps crack Moi up. Scroll down the announcement to see what Barbara calls "best. hay(na)ku. ever."

WTF?!

But nice cloud, yeah....

ONE OF THE 9 BILLION PEEPS SPEAKS! WITH A POEM!

I received a poem -- a hay(na)ku! -- this week from someone I've never met but is a Peep who reads my blog. As far as I know, Amanda is one of those came across my blog for other reasons besides poetry, in this case, as an advocate for orphans and someone currently in the process of adopting a Colombian orphan. I'm going to share her hay(na)ku below, but before I do so --

receiving this hay(na)ku from Amanda Mason is so precious to me. For many reasons. One is my interest in making poetry part of the everyday lives of anybody and everybody (not just the lovely choirs already singing poetry's songs). I blog in part to add poetry content to the internet in the hopes that said content becomes relevant -- and thus Poetry become relevant -- to someone who just might e-stumble moi way. It's also why, though this is a "poetics blog," I don't separate out my other interests from this blog (and not just because my poetics is all-encompassing over my interests). So when Amanda's reading of my blog led her to use the hay(na)ku to renew her interest in poetry, I feel so blessed and grateful. I've always considered the hay(na)ku an inviting form, as well as a form of invitation to Poetry. How lovely to see it play out through the following --

Spanglish

Mamå
Tengo hungry
Feed me words

Thank you Amanda! How wonderful to speculate on this hay(na)ku tale's role in your adoption of Jhonatan! May that go well...!

...and Jhonathan would be one more chipped off that estimate of orphans worldwide: 147 Million.

HAY(NA)KU YOUR WAY OVER HERE!

Here's a call from Benjamin C. Krause, publisher of Diamond Point Press (nice name for that press!) for your short forms ... and India!

twenty20 Journal is now calling for submissions for three themed Summer 2011 issues of twenty20 Journal. For Summer 2011 Issue 1, we are solely looking for visual art--the rest is being solicited. Send 2+ pieces of minimalist visual art to submissions@twenty20journal.com. Read below for details on Issue 2 and Issue 3.

Summer 2011 Issue 2: Form
Summer 2011 Issue 2 is devoted to short formal poetry, all short formal poetry (except haiku), and nothing but short formal poetry. No fiction, freeverse poetry, or prose poetry is being considered for this issue. What we are considering are visual art, and poetry in forms like tanka, senryu, Fibs, hay(na)ku, quincouplets, cinquains, single closed heroic couplets, or even your own invented forms. For more information, go to http://twenty20journal.com/submit/summer-2011-issue-2-form/


Summer 2011 Issue 3: All-India
We are VERY proud to announce that Summer 2011 Issue 3 will be devoted to writers from India. By "writers from India" we mean writers with Indian citizenship, whether they currently live in India or abroad. We are even more proud to announce that it will be guest edited by Aju Mukhopadhyay, a renowned poet, critic, essayist, biographer, feature and fiction writer in Bengali and English. Submissions will be considered in any language as always as long as an English translation is provided. For more information, go to http://twenty20journal.com/submit/summer-2011-issue-3-india/

RAPTUROUS REVERENCE!

Speaking of Gertrude Stein (weren't we?), "the thorn in the rosary is as much rosary as the rosary is thorn." That is, very grateful to Arpine Konyalian Grenier for her rapturous engagement with THE THORN ROSARY.

And speaking of THE THORN ROSARY, you can still get a free copy through the Hay(na)ku for Haiti Fundraiser--it's a bargain!

INTRODUCING THE "QUINCOUPLET"

which obviously bears a "found" relationship to the hay(na)ku. The difference between the quincouplet and the hay(na)ku is that the hay(na)ku's one-word first line is a title in the quincouplet. More information is found on the blog/site of Benjamin C. Krause HERE.

PURRING HAY(NA)KU

over this wonderful
review of
Hay(na)ku-for-Haiti

by Allen Bramhall.
Thanks very
much!

HEIFER INTERNATIONAL HELPS OUT WITH HAITI

Dear Peeps who've supported the Hay(na)ku for Haiti fundraising, I'm pleased to report that the proceeds raised through poems received a matching grant from Oenophiles for Poetry and we sent $1,000 to Heifer International for their Haiti program. It's also great to learn that as a result of all moi blather-blogging on this issue, some of you have chosen to make a tax-deductible donation to Heifer this year. As you may have read in the news, fundraising for Haiti can be problematic in terms of knowing that the recipient of funds is effective in using such aid for the direct benefit of the Haitian people. I chose Heifer International because I trust how they manage their charitable programs. THANK YOU to Dan Waber of chapbookpublisher.com for donating time and material for the H for H booklets, and to you poetry-lovers who've shared my faith that Poetry is not an abstract thing and can actually help someone out there in the world.

Last but not least, thank you to the H for H poets who freely gave their poems:

#1: PARTICLE AND WAVE and FROM THE CHAIR, two hay(na)ku sequences by Jean Vengua
#2: On A Pyre: An Ars Poetica by Eileen R. Tabios
#3: Hay(na)ku for Haiti by Tom Beckett
#4: when the earth moves by Lars Palm
#5: After René Depestre’s “My Definition of Poetry”, as translated by Edwidge Danticat, with lines at the end by Lafcadio Hearn by John Bloomberg-Rissman.
#6: Mrs. Quake by Nicole Mauro
#7: Through Having Been, Vol. 1 by William Allegrezza
#8: Through Having Been, Vol. 2 by William Allegrezza
#9: blonde topography: a terse set of tercets by steve dalachinsky
#10: Drop, Portion and Assignment by Peg Duthie
#11: As I Speed to Your Place by Amanda Laughtland
#12: REBIRTH by Cynthia M. Phillips
#13: in articulate concision of appendices by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
#14:from Delicacies in FRACTUS CORPUS by Ric Carfagna (Vol. 1), Hay(na)ku-ed Translations by Eileen Tabios
#15: Last word is the poet’s calling by Aileen Ibardaloza
#16: Times in Rhymes, Ruins by Jon Curley

You can continue to order H for H booklets; this is an open-ended project. Info HERE.

HAY(NA)KU=POETRY'S PASSPORT

It's just wonderful to keep seeing the hay(na)ku make new friends around the world! Here's the LATEST (love how that poem ends!).

Oh my, The Hay(na)ku Postcards continue to grow! Look at that poetic form's latest travel map!

MAP OF LOVE

Ernesto Priego's Hay(na)ku Postcard Project is one of the most loving travelogues I've witnessed....and now I'm glad to be part of it via Achilles. Here's moi dawg looking at reading Ernesto's postcard (and a different shot is up at the Hay(na)ku Postcard blog) while snacking on some left-over Galatea wedding treat cookies!



If you click on each photo of the postcard being read, you'll get to see where around the world the hay(na)ku is traveling! I call it / "Map of / Love"!

LOVE HOW THE HAY(NA)KU CROSSES THE UNIVERSE!

I've said it before and what's a blog for but for repeating moiself: to wit, I wish I was as much as a traveler as the hay(na)ku! e.g., OVER HERE! (Gracias, Ernesto!)

TOWEL OFF WITH MOI!

One of my most special birthday presents this year, from Barbara and Sandy McIntosh, was a set of hand towels embroidered with a hay(na)ku sequence I penned a few years back. What a fabulous idea, and here 'tis!











I love it! And this manifestation also goes hand in hand with an installation I'd always wanted to -- a clothesline where what's clipped onto them are poems. Please do imagine me hanging out the towels to dry and they then provide a poem to a passerby...!

WANNA KNOW WHAT PEEPS ARE TALKIN' 'BOUT?

THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT anthology has garnered some interesting responses to date:

--from Amazon Top Ten Reviewer Grady Harp

--from Allen Bramhall

--from Ariadne Unst

--from Ernesto Priego

--from Jean Vengua

Of course, moi backchannels only reflect lots of love for the project. Check it out through a discounted SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER, and be hip to the hop!

Ah, ye hay(na)ku! How you amuse Moi! To think your inspirations also include a Filipino nursery rhyme: Isa, dalawa, tatlo! Ang Tata'y mo kalbo!

Which loosely translates to: One, two, three. Your dad is ... bald!

Poetry: it can be about anything so it's good you have a sense of humor.

VIZPO ALERT: THE HAY(NA)KU ZUCCHINI!

Do enjoy Michael and Achilles conspiring to present a zucchini hay(na)ku with some recent delectations from my mismanaged garden:



Okay, it also means I'm not quite getting it yet about the best zucchini being the small ones. So for more serious repast, please do go check out Allen Bramhall's thoughtful and witty engagement with THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT; here's an enticing expert:

Our revolutionary educational friend Paulo Freire advocated dialectic over the pressed meat into sausage casing model of education (i. e. lecture lecture lecture into sponge brain ninnies, Sponge Brain Square Bob). These collaborations ruffle appropriate feathers in the demonstrative debate for the poem’s fair creation.

Meanwhile, here's Moi latest here's my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List, heavy on airport reading but also fortunately some blessings from East Coast friendly wine cellars:

SPRING/SUMMER HARVEST:
1 stalk of "miner's weed"
110 stalks of green onion
97 strawberries
2 artichokes
2 cherries
14 zucchini
4 stalks of scallions
12 summer squash
14 cucumbers
438 tomatoes
1 fig
9 bell peppers
35 clumps of basil
3 cucumbers
9 squash blossoms
100 chives
4 red jalapenos
7 green jalapenos


PUBLICATIONS
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, hay(na)ku collaborative poem anthology curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen Tabios (Very SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER here!)

FLUX, CLOT & FROTH, VOL. I (Text), book-length poem by John Bloomberg-Rissman (proofing this future release by Meritage Press. Poem is just under 800 pages -- Yep: I love ambition in poetry! And the covers are done marvelously with vizpo poet-artist Geof Huth!)

FLUX, CLOT & FROTH, VOL. 2 (Apparatus), book-length notes to poem by John Bloomberg-Rissman (Notes comprise a near-250 page book -- Yep: I love ambition in poetry!)

DIWATA, poems by Barbara Jane Reyes (GORGEOUS! I simply INHALED this book. Am so happy and proud of this achievement by Barbara. One of the most stellar achievements of this book is how it ends. The choice of the last poem elevated the all of the book into strength and power(!) -- a point worth noting because much of the words are just so lushly beautiful. To be beautiful is often to be stared at -- with the last poem, the reader suddenly realizes the reader is also being witnessed. The reader is being watched .... as in, I am watching you to make sure the wrongs of history will know: Never Again.)

BECKMANN VARIATIONS & OTHER POEMS by Michael Heller (Very Inspiring.)

SIMPLIFY ME WHEN I'M DEAD, poems by Keith Douglas (breathtaking)

LA VISTA GANCHA, poemas by John M. Bennett

OBRAS PUBLICAS: POEMS, STORIES, ESSAYS, ETC. by Halvard Johnson (enjoyable reading!)

MAN ON EXTREMELY SMALL ISLAND, poems by Jason Koo

OF FRACTURED CLOCKS, BONES AND WINDSHIELDS, poems by Sheela Sitaram Free

HECATE LOCHIA, poems by Hoa Nguyen

JUAN LUNA’S REVOLVER, poems by Luisa A. Igloria

BARROW, poems by Bryan Thao Worra

SEDIMENT, poems by Sandy Tseng

THE HEART'S TRAFFIC: A NOVEL IN POEMS by Ching-In Chen

BRIGHT FELON: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CITIES, poems by Kazim Ali

POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT by Ronaldo V. Wilson

BIRD EATING BIRD, poems by Kristin Naca

THE GINKGO LIGHT, poems by Arthur Sze

THE VEILED SUITE: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF AGA SHAHID ALI

THIS IS A SOUL: THE MISSION OF RICK HODGES, biography by Marilyn Berger

FROM SAKHALIN TO SANTA, memoir by Don Ashley Turlington

THE REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO RAYMUNDO MATA, novel by Gina Apostol (should be required reading along with the canonical texts it references)

RECKLESS, novel by Andrew Gross

SUPREME JUSTICE, novel by Phillip Margolin

THE MEPHISTO CLUB, novel by Tess Gerritsen

TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, novel by Mary Higgins Clark

THE ASSASSIN, novel by Rachel Butler

THE FAITHFUL SPY, novel by Alex Berenson

UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS, novel by Vickie McDonough

A CHRISTMAS CHRONICLE, novel by Pamela Griffin


WINES
2008 Chapellet chardonnay
2007 Peter Michael "Ma Belle Fille" Chardonnay
2009 Cupcake malbec
2009 Chalone pinot noir
2002 Pahlmeyer Chardonnay Sonoma Coast
1989 Clerico Barolo Bricotti Bussia
2003 Standish Barossa Valley
1986 d'Yquem
1978 Monfortino
1992 Puligny Montrachet Les Pucelles
1970 Vega Sicilia
2002 Raveneau Blanchot Chablis
1990 DRC Romanee Saint Vivent
1982 Ch Certan De May

Okay, moi other dawg insists on sequal spotlight time as with Achilles. Here's the no-doubt-soon-to-be-famous zucchini hay(na)ku featuring Gabriela with Michael:



Yep, that zucchini hay(na)ku does look to be on the verge of collapse. Which also is a poetics! Listen to Allen again:

What this means is that verses have a discrete power. The six words team up to maintain a local gravity while spinning around the idea of The Poem. I know, for myself, that the segregation of the regulated 6 words of each verse creates a separation from the larger work, even while supporting that larger work. A centripetal force occurs in tandem with the gravitational pull. I hope that’s not too much science for humanities types.

All / very kewl / and quite delish!