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NEWS AND NOTES... Congratulations to Peter Yovu on his FIRST PLACE WIN in The HSA 2006 Merit Book Awards, as well as for winning The Kanterman Memorial Award of $500 for best first book of haiku -- ALL for his Saki Press first place prize-winning TURN TO THE EARTH chapbook collection of haiku, for which he also won a grand prize cash award of $400 from Saki Press! Saki Press also congratulates Geri Barton for her Second Place win in The HSA 2006 Merit Book Awards for her Saki Press second place prize-winning chapbook collection of haiku, entitled crumb moves the ant...!
SAKI PRESS ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE FOURTH BIENNIAL VIRGIL HUTTON HAIKU MEMORIAL AWARD The fourth winning collection of haiku by Joseph P. McCauley represents a strikingly unique desktop-produced chapbook by McCauley--a new Zen haiku poet with most aesthetic eye(s) for photography, art, and balance with poetic content (which is being distributed by Saki Press). Saki Press will continue with these new directions in offering a Grand Prize Cash Award as well as a fourth place for Best New Developing Haiku Poet Submitting The Most Unique Desktop Self-produced Chapbook (meeting Saki Press criteria for distribution). All four winning chapbook collections for this year's contest illustrate a truly diversified mix of traditional haiku form coupled with some interesting, "new wave" haiku variations and perspectives. Each one, through word images of moments or photographic art images of the moment's time forever captured, celebrates in its own way (or a complementary one) those special "haiku moments" as seen through esthetic eyes in viewing and reacting to anything ranging from ants to the celestial heavens that inspire, move, or profoundly touch us with rare simplicity. The Virgil Hutton Memorial Award Chapbook Contest is sponsored by The Hutton Family and Saki Press, Normal, Illinois, as a tribute to the memory of the late haiku poet, Virgil Hutton. It also celebrates the English language haiku poetry form and its evolving nature. This year's contest marks a new direction with unique haiku appealing to the eye as well as the mind's eye. The Hutton Family and Saki Press are pleased to offer a Grand Prize Cash Award for the first time along with a new category for fourth winning slot. This fourth biennial haiku chapbook contest attracted entries from across the U.S. as well as from Canada, the U. K., Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico. The four winning poets' collections will be hot off the off-set presses and desktop mid-June and are being distributed by Saki Press. Copies 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. The four winning chapbook collections are: Grand Prize Cash Award Winner:
"...A good haiku,
having come through human hands and heart and mind, shows me ways in which a
fellow human being is vulnerable to the world, as I am, and I feel a
connection and all the more human for it."
— Peter Yovu New Hope International Review (British) of TURN TO THE EARTH click here... ***
Geri Barton is a writer and poet born in Bronx, New York, and now lives out on Long Island. Although this is her first published haiku collection, her haiku and renge (written with Tony Pupello as collaborator) have appeared in Dragonfly, van den Heuvel's The Haiku Anthology, Higginson's Haiku World International Almanac and Kato's Four Seasons among other places. Haiku inspires her to express the joy of "'all things lovely and pure,' confirming our oneness with the Creator of all life."
Dedicated to "...the
tiny ant who reminded me [that] it too works hard for its daily bread." —Geri
Barton New Hope International Review (British) of CRUMB MOVES THE ANT click here... ***
Deborah P Kolodji is a poet and writer who lives in Temple City, California, and works in information technology. She holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Southern California but has always been a poet at heart. Her haiku have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, bottle rockets, Acorn, and The Heron's Nest to name only a few places. Deborah was selected to be one of the poets featured in The New Resonance 4: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku due out from Redmoon Press Fall 2005. This is her first published collection of haiku.
The minimal nature of
the haiku form "has helped me focus... in on the essence of a poem and its
moment... I view the world through new lenses and am able to take in the
wonder of small details... overlooked before..." —Deborah P Kolodji ***
Joseph P McCauley of Brooklyn, New York, a computer specialist working in Manhattan, is a Zen poet with an esthetic eye for nature photography, layout and design, and computer art work in this, his first desktop self-produced haiku chapbook collection (being distributed by Saki Press). The haiku, derived from his own experiences, attempt "to illuminate the moment when the beauty of nature's struggle, encompassing the dichotomy of 'elegant austerity,' is revealed" through the haiku form. He holds a degree in Computer Aided Design. Joe enjoys kayaking around Coney Island and Jamaica Bay, which has inspired several of his haiku.
"My haiku attempt to portray a moment of time or an observation of nature without the direct use of metaphor or emotion." —Joseph P. McCauley New Hope International Review (British) of NATURAL HAIKU click here...
ALSO FROM SAKI PRESS . . .
"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
SAKI PRESS RECOMMENDS VISITING:
Wisteria Press The Art of Haiku The Haiku Society of America Website Captain Haiku's Secret
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TURN
TO THE EARTH
crumb
moves the ant...
Seaside
Moon
NATURAL
HAIKU
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.