The Friday Haiku!
I haven't mentioned this in a while, but I wanted to let everyone know that my email zine, The Friday Haiku, is still publishing new content every week, and we are looking for new haiku poets. As the name implies, the zine publishes haiku poetry every Friday, via email. We have been publishing since February of 2006, and are still going strong. Almost 1,000 total haiku have been published within that time, and we have featured haiku written on every inhabited continent.
If you're interested in subscribing to The Friday Haiku, send an email to friday.haiku@gmail.com to get signed up,. There's only one catch: in order to sign up, you have to write a haiku for inclusion in the zine. We've found that by doing this, we've been able to create a fairly warm, open environment for people to share their poetry with each other.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with haiku as a type of poetry, it is a traditional form of poetry from Japan. Haiku traditionally consists of three lines: the first line containing five syllables, the second line containing seven syllables, and the third line again containing five syllables. Originally haiku were closely tied to nature thematically, but later developments within the genre (especially within the traditional of North American haiku) have expanded the possibilities of it.
I look forward to seeing YOUR haiku soon :o)
If you're interested in subscribing to The Friday Haiku, send an email to friday.haiku@gmail.com to get signed up,. There's only one catch: in order to sign up, you have to write a haiku for inclusion in the zine. We've found that by doing this, we've been able to create a fairly warm, open environment for people to share their poetry with each other.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with haiku as a type of poetry, it is a traditional form of poetry from Japan. Haiku traditionally consists of three lines: the first line containing five syllables, the second line containing seven syllables, and the third line again containing five syllables. Originally haiku were closely tied to nature thematically, but later developments within the genre (especially within the traditional of North American haiku) have expanded the possibilities of it.
I look forward to seeing YOUR haiku soon :o)