Moonset: Literary Newspaper, ed. 5, # 1. Spring-summer issue. Three haiga in collaboration:    --   Мунсет: Литературная газета, вып. 5, № 1, весна-лето. Мои иллюстрации к трём стихам:


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Part I  --  http://origa.livejournal.com/159674.html  ;   Part II  --  http://origa.livejournal.com/159935.html

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Part I  --  http://origa.livejournal.com/159674.html  --  Часть I

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These are all the haiku in English and Russian. Some statistic, as always: 151 poems by 65 poets from 19 countries. It's our record to date -- THANK  to all of you, dear haiku friends!  Please take your time to read and discuss all the poems, choose your favorites, make new friends, and enjoy yourselves :) I will post the RESULTS in about two - ( Read more... )

New issue of the World Haiku Review (Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009) is online -- read the issue here: http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/worldhaikureview5   Two of my haiku in the Neo Classical Haiku section:

Neo Classical Haiku

Other Haiku of Merit

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The beginning of our party is here ...     --     Начало вечеринки здесь ...

This is our new collaboration, the second one with the Japanese scirpt. This haiga is as traditional as it gets :)   --   Вот результат нашего нового совместного творчества в создании хайга в чисто традиционном стиле с использованием японской каллиграфии.

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Dear friends, welcome to the HAIKU PARTY " Crane -- tsuru 鶴 ". Some of you may remember that we had such haiku parties before in this LJ -- see it under the tag. Crane is a kigo for different seasons, and this one is a Landing Crane -- let's consider it a spring kigo, in Japan it's called hikizuru 引鶴 (cranes going back). There is even a haiku group ( Read more... )

Spring is a chaotic time.  At once, so many things come up, and all plans are screwed... That was on March 10th, the article from Spaceweather.com  http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=03&year=2009 :    --    Весна у меня всегда какая-то особенно хаотичная. Всё вдруг сваливается на голову невесть откуда, все планы летят к чертям ( Read more... )

Prize-Winning Haiku magazine from 13th Kusamakura International Haiku Competition arrived yesterday:   http://www.jonet.ne.jp/kusamakura/gaikokugo.html   --  Вчера наконец пришёл журнал победивших хайку с 13го международного конкурса хайку  Кусамакура:


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Talented Russian haijin Alexey Grohotov ag_yukki  died one year ago today.


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