 SAKI PRESS - HAIKU POETRY PUBLISHER  The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest Sponsor/Publisher Website - 1998/1999 IN CELEBRATION OF
HAIKU - ANNOUNCING THE
WINNERS OF Haiku poetry collections by Randy Brooks of Decatur, IL; Garry Gay of Santa Rosa, CA; Robert Gilliland of Austin, TX; and Ruth Yarrow of Seattle, WA, captured the four winning places in The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 1998-'99. A celebration of haiku as well as a fitting memorial tribute to the late haiku poet Virgil Hutton, the contest was sponsored by The Hutton Family and Saki Press, Normal, Illinois. This first annual haiku chapbook collection contest had entries from the U.S.A., Canada, England, New Zealand, and Australia. The four winning poets' collections will be published in March of 1999 by Saki Press, Normal, Illinois, with distribution scheduled for April 1999. The published haiku chapbook collections will be contributed for placement in The American Haiku Archives, California State Library, Sacramento, California. Limited numbers of review copies will also be distributed by the publisher. The four winning collections are:
"Like a
miniaturized novel suggesting *** RIVER STONES haiku by Garry Gay (Saki Press Chapbook, ISBN # 1-893823-01-6), a professional California-based photographer and writer of haiku who created the poetic form called "Rengay," is a solid and tight selection of Garry Gay's favorite work that showcases his style and "haiku vision." He has skillfully incorporated a certain flow into the work, yet allows it breathing room, which heightens the subtleness of his discovery.
"Illustrates in a striking and dramatic way the parallactic coalescement of mathematics and poetry." --W.H. Hutton *** mosquitoes and moonlight, a haiku collection by Robert Gilliland of Texas (Saki Press Chapbook, ISBN# 1-893823-02-4), a medical doctor with psychiatric specialization, and a former photographer-turned-haiku- poet, provides cogent contrasts between sound and silence--sometimes with the silences of the past providing accentuation to the sounds of the present-- which generate significant overtones of the etherial, almost spiritual, circumstances of the haiku moment.
"An imagistic moment of intuitive realization conveying a sense of nature's sometimes pesky, invading noise contrasted with eternal, silent beauty..." --Lenore Hutton *** SUN GILDS THE EDGE by Ruth Yarrow (Saki Press Chapbook, ISBN# 1-893823-04-0), a former teacher of the natural environment in colleges and nature centers throughout the northeast-- and currently an active environmentalist in the pacific northwest, presents a collected kaleidoscopic mosaic of earth's seasons interacting with various serendipitous moments which reflect contrasts around specific edges--edges of light, form, change, awareness, and survival.
"An intricately dainty, yet profound, image--a microcosm of the ongoing enlightening activites of the world and the universe..." W.H. Hutton
ANOTHER SAKI CHAPBOOK DUE MARCH/APRIL 1999 Virgil Hutton's JOGGING THE HAIKU HIGHWAY (ISBN: 1-893823-05-9). A collection of 50 haiku and senyru about life and death, light and dark, season in and season out from the runner's keen eye and soles as he perseveres on his ever-changing path:
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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