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. ( Read more... )

http://murverse.com/category/writing/poughkeepsie-writing/

Every day, Mur Lafferty (who, for the record, is the most famous person to ever comment on my journal) takes a new idea and posts it on her website for other people to take and use.

In Mur's own words:
"I get a lot of email from people who are afraid to join peer writing groups because they’re ( Read more... )

So, I'm starting the year off with two new writing projects that I hope to be working on throughout 2008.  The first one is this:

http://haiku365.blogspot.com/

Which is going to be my attempt to write and publish a haiku per day for all of 2008.  Hopefully this won't end up as a 'quantity-only' project, and I'll end up with at least a few haiku I can ( Read more... )

I was just working on preparing The Friday Haiku for this week, and wrote a haiku that will no doubt be considered an abomination in some circles:

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overheard today:
"Leafs might win the Cup this year"
sign of summer's end.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to make sure that everyone was up-to-date with a couple of the ongoing projects I'm spearheading.

First up is the as-yet-untitled chain writing project, which will be starting on January 3rd. I'm sure everyone is familiar with this type of storytelling - one person (me) starts a story, and then a second person will ( Read more... )

I wrote some haiku on the bus on the way to work this morning, thought I'd share it with you all ( Read more... )

I "cheated" and wrote my friday haiku on Thursday this week, so to make up for it I've got a bonus haiku:

mixing energies;
two thoughts melding into one
synchronicity!

The Friday haiku
a chance for reflection
throughout the new year

I pledge to myself
personal evolution
must become better

some haiku that I wrote up for a class lesson I was going to do on haiku, but then decided against doing at the last moment ( Read more... )