Tag: literary journal
-
Recommendation: This issue PDF is best viewed in 2-page (side-by-side) mode (available in Desktops/Laptops/Tablets) as sometimes the artworks are spread across two pages for aesthetic value. To do that, download the PDF, open it using any browser or Adobe Acrobat Reader & click the 3 dots in the top right after opening the PDF and select “Two page view”. The issue reads just fine even in “One page view”.
Alternatively, if you want to experience 2-page view on your mobile as it is intended with the design of the journal, please download the following version of the issue and read the PDF in landscape orientation: Issue #0 PDF (mobile 2-page version)
Please report any inconsistencies/mistakes in the journal to me by sending a mail to haikuseed@gmail.com, I will fix them and upload the updated issue PDF online.
πππ
Hope you enjoy reading this inaugural issue of Haiku Seed Journal. We would love to hear your thoughts about this issue, good or bad, whatever they are. We would love to see you share your haiku or your favorite haiku from this issue (along with the artwork) on social media. Do tag us, it helps more writers and readers know about us as we are still a new journal trying to find our place in the publishing landscape.
Once again thank you to all the contributors that have submitted haiku to our journal in 2022 and to all the readers who followed the journal closely. I know the submission and them the selection process for the #HaikuSeed prompts and Issue #0 were inconsistent in 2022 and I wish I could select more haiku to publish in Issue #0 but due to many limitations I had to leave out many brilliant haiku. I will run a tighter ship in 2023, so look out for updates and announcements about the journal in upcoming months.
β Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku -
Excited to say that Issue #0 – First Blossoms will be published online on 10 January, 2023 (Tuesday). We could possibly reveal the featured poets a day before, follow us on Twitter and Instagram for more frequent updates as we share short and quick updates there first and later on the website.
Here is the cover art for the upcoming issue:
π
β Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku -
from the tea water
flume also comes…
a firefly– Kobayashi Issa
Translation by David G. Lanoue
π
-
chasing flies
is a two-person job…
widow– Kobayashi Issa
Translation by David G. Lanoue
π
-
night fishing–
the pleading
of a katydid– Kobayashi Issa
Translation by David G. Lanoue
π
-
hey butterfly
move aside!
bath water’s splashing– Kobayashi Issa
Translation by David G. Lanoue
π
-
The #HaikuSeed prompt last week was fog with an additional photo prompt
This week there will be no commentary, sorry! Too busy with work and all. I loved how the haiku captured beautiful moments in nature and brought focus to certain aspects of how fog exists, moves and interacts. Some wonderful senryu again. Perhaps I will add short commentary to a few featured haiku on Twitter over the week as I find time. Hope you enjoy last week’s blossoms.
sunrise
the fog coalesces
into a purple heronAlaka Y
lost
in the fog
but for my footstepsC. X. Turner
rolling fog . . .
shadows deepen
in slow motionDon Baird
driving slowly
with windows down
pea-soup fogJoseph P. Wechselberger
foggy morning
the shuffling gait
of grandpaLorelyn Arevalo
fog map–
the shifting path
of a storyPippa Phillips
Diwali weekβ
motherβs old silks
drape the dining tableRupa Anand
winterβs sun
reluctantly rising
with a sighθ«ι³ (Kaon)
opaque fog –
near becomes
farValentina Ranaldi-Adams
creeping fog
across the battlefield
buried memoryBA France
morning fog
the eerie stillness
of dew pointEavonka Ettinger
harsh winters
now and then
a road loses its wayMeraki
autumn dawn
a heron fishes
the fogKerry J Heckman
harbor fog
i stumble
through goodbyeLuna
midnight fogβ¦
the shadows
of skeletal treesNancy Brady
shrieking chimps
echo across the jungle
fog of warmorning dew . . .
fog of starlings
rolling in and outpetro c. k.
I see my breath
morning’s also
floating over the pondSkyeku
πππ
Footnotes
I’ve started this journal with an idea to see amateur haiku poets like me write more nature-themed haiku, having seen all sorts of topics being written in haiku form by aspiring writers on Twitter and other places on the internet. I’ve been there, I’ve done that. But I’ve grown into a classicist when it comes to haiku as I really looked at what most of the haiku written by masters like Basho, Issa, Buson do. So I’m not too quick to warm up to contemporary haiku. It is an undeniable fact that the haiku form in English has been evolving for decades now and it will continue to. So while I keep this journal to inspire and feature nature-themed haiku, I will occasionally break from it because I see some expertly written haiku that I cannot help but appreciate what the writer has achieved and it makes me rethink the kind of haiku I want to feature here.
HSJ readers and contributors, if you like these feature posts with commentary, we would consider it a great encouragement and would love it if you shared it with others on the social profiles. On Twitter you can tag us at @HaikuSeed_, we are looking to gain audience of both writers and readers as we aim to grow.
Thank you for writing haiku for our prompts and reading the journal. We hope our journal inspires you. Keep writing!
β Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaikuπ πΏ π π π
Copyrights Disclaimer:
- All featured works are copyrighted to the respective writers. We would love it if you cite being our journal if your work is going to be published elsewhere, no obligations though.
- Photos used in our journal are taken by and copyrighted to Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta unless stated otherwise.
-
the trout too
hit their peak young…
Yoshino River– Kobayashi Issa
Translation by David G. Lanoue
π
