 SAKI PRESS - HAIKU POETRY PUBLISHER  The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest Sponsor/Publisher Website IN CELEBRATION OF
HAIKU - February 2000 SAKI PRESS ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS
OF THE SECOND VIRGIL HUTTON Haiku poetry collections by Del Doughty of Huntington, IN; Jim Kacian of Winchester, VA; Peggy Willis Lyles of Tucker, GA; and Chris Pusateri of Mexico City, Mexico, snared the four winning spots in The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 1999-2000. To continue the celebration of haiku poetry in this new millennium, which has spawned global focus on the form, the contest was sponsored by the Hutton Family and Saki Press, Normal, Illinois, as a tribute to the memory of the late haiku poet, Virgil Hutton. The second haiku chapbook memorial award contest attracted entries from the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, England, New Zealand, and Australia. The four winning poets' collections will be published in March of 2000 by Saki Press, Normal, Illinois, with distribution scheduled for April 2000. The published chapbook collections will be contributed for placement in The American Haiku Archives, California State Library Special Collections, Sacramento, California, and the Tokyo Museum of Haiku Literature in Japan. Limited numbers of review copies will also be distributed by the publisher. The four winning chapbook collections are:
"An
image of the speed with which the 'prime of life' happens..." New Hope International Review (British) of THE SOUND OF BREATHING click here... ***
"Written on
the occasion in this format as a thank you for the many
responsible..." New Hope International Review (British) of IN CONCERT click here... ***
"...recognizing
contemporary haiku as a global literature--democratic,
inclusive, richly varied, and capable of nurturing great
poets for the 21st century." New Hope International Review (British) of THIRTY-SIX TONES click here... ***
"No matter
where we are, our sense of home follows us--we carry it
with us everywhere we go." New Hope International Review (British) of MAGNETIC NORTH click here...
ALSO FROM SAKI PRESS APRIL 2000:
"The two basics that I strive for in haiku writing are simplicity and profundity... One's poems ideally should leave one with a sense of yet undiscovered meanings and nuances." --Virgil Hutton New Hope International Review (British) of HAIKU HARVEST click here...
To view announcement and information about other Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Chapbook Award Contests, click one of the following links: Winners of the Fourth Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 2004-2005 Winners of the Third Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 2001-2002 Winners of the Second Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 2000 Winners of the First Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 1998-99 |
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the sound of breathing
by Del Doughty (Saki Press Chapbook ISBN: 1-893823-06-7),
an assistant professor of English at Huntington College
in Huntington, Indiana, is a textured collection of haiku
and senryu which explores the tension between convention
and tradition on the one hand, and singularity and
perception on the other.
IN CONCERT by Jim
Kacian (Saki Press Chapbook ISBN: 1-893823-07-5), a
writer and tennis professional living in Winchester,
Virginia, who is currently editor of Frogpond and
operator of Red Moon Press, presents a score of haiku
contrasting image, form, and sound from a magical Turkish
night's concert in the ruins of the ancient town of
Ephesus.
THIRTY-SIX TONES by
Peggy Willis Lyles (Saki Press Chapbook ISBN: 1-893823-08-3),
a former college teacher and poetry editor of a regional
Georgia journal whose own haiku have been widely
published, provides an inventive utilization of kasen
renku conventions in arranging a selection of her
favorite haiku--each one celebrating a moment of genuine
experience and resonating from its particular emotional
tone.
MAGNETIC NORTH by
Chris Pusateri (Saki Press Chapbook ISBN: 1-893823-09-1),
a teacher of Business English for Professional Language
Services in Mexico City, Mexico, points to the strong
influence of "home" and returning to it, even
if only in our dreams, recollections, and writing.
HAIKU HARVEST (Saki
Press Chapbook ISBN: 1-893823-10-5), a new compilation of
50 haiku and senryu by the late haiku poet, Virgil
Hutton, gathered from his private files and journal
notes, the collection presents some of his personal
favorites plus a few works in progress.