The latest issue is now UP!!!

Please note the new ESSAY SECTION!!!!

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue14.pdf

Cast List
In order of appearance
(all work copyrighted by the authors)

Alexis Rotella
Margherita Petriccione
Jennifer Hambrick
Chris Cole
Diana Teneva
Elizabeth Crocket
Dave Read
Oscar Luparia
Garry Eaton
Pat Davis
Rachel Sutcliffe
Robyn Cairns
Ana Drobot
Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo
Maria Laura Valente
John Hawkhead
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Jesus Chameleon
Misha Nathani
Ken Olson
Bruce Jewett
Olivier Schopfer
Nika
Nika & Jim Mckinniss
Eufemia Griffo
Margherita Petriccione
Marietta McGregor
Jan Dobb
Terri  L. French
Roberta Beary
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
Eva Limbach
Michael Minassian
Terrie Jacks
Marilyn Ashbaugh
Ramona Linke
Thomas Tilton
David J Kelly
Christina Martin
Lynn Edge
Barbara Tate
Ernesto P. Santiago
Bryan Rickert
David Oates
Anna Cates
Debbie Strange
kenOlson
Gabriel Bates
Ron C. Moss and Simon Hanson
Louise Hopewell
Tsanka Shishkova
W.R. Bongcaron
Chen-ou Liu
Ian Willey
Devin Harrison
Pat Geyer
Hansha Teki
Shloka Shankar
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Christina Sng
Peter Jastermsky
Ed Bremson
Maureen Kingston
Mark Miller
Jennifer Y. Montgomery
Vessislava Savova
Dilyana Georgieva & Vessislava Savova
Caroline Skanne
Rick Hurst
Angela Terry
Gergana Yaninska
Adrian Bouter
S.Radhamani Sarma
Radka Mindova
Elisa Allo
Rebecca Cowgill
Brad Bennett
Tim Gardiner
Ben Moeller-Gaa
Cynthia Rowe
Sharon K Young
Robert Witmer
Martha Magenta
Neha R. Krishna
Anthony Q. Rabang
Antonio Mangiameli
Madhuri Pillai
Maeve O’Sullivan
ola lindberg
Elmedin Kadric
Julie Warther
Precious Oboh
Munia Khan
Michael Stinson
Jill Lange
Poornima Laxmeshwar
Nicholas Klacsanzky
Nina Kovacic
Helen Buckingham
Kwaku Feni Adow
Antonio Mangiameli
Debbi Antebi
Ivan Gaćina
Pris Campbell
Sandi Pray
Sondra J. Byrnes
Melissa Augeri
Gail Oare
Lucia Fontana
Marianne Paul
Bruce H. Feingold
Susan Burch
Ezio Infantino
Salil Chaturvedi
Carol Raisfeld

First, I would sincerely like to thank the many poets and friends who have expressed their kindness and shared their calm understanding with me on the death of my Mother. To lose a loved one at Christmas is hard, but my 96 year old Mom ended my connection with an entire generation of my family. Other than my direct family, my poet friends are some of my dearest connections. Thank you!

I did get behind on my reading in December and now in January, but I am catching up and should be back to what passes for ‘normal’ by the weekend. I appreciate your patience.

Regarding the submission process I have added a note to the Submission Guides page on this site. The two most frequent issues that will affect you as a poet are these:

1. Sending your submission to any email address but:  EDITOR@FAILEDHAIKU.COM! Many of you have my personal email address, BUT submissions addressed to any other email than that above WILL NOT go into my ‘reading folder’, and hence will not be reviewed. I am not being stubborn and rule bound (god knows I never get accused of that by anyone who knows me), but I get hundreds of emails a day at my personal account, and even if I ‘see’ your submission as it flies into my Inbox, when I begin reading from my folder it won’t be there, and I get hundreds of submissions each month so finding it is unlikely.
2. Put you name, as you wish it to appear, in the ‘body’ of the email. If you publish under a nom de plume that is fine, but in parenthesis include your given name. If your name is not in the body of the email it makes my work a lot harder. If I ever make a mistake, contact me and I will make it right, but if I can simply cut and paste from your email than we avoid mistakes, at least by me.

As a poet myself I always review the Submission Guidelines EVERY time I submit to any print or online journal. I would urge you to do the same. Over time, you get friendly with editors, and that is one of the pleasures of this role that I play, but the volume of submissions means any good editor has to have a system so they can keep their own head above water. Help me keep from drowning, and know that it bothers me as much as it bothers you when I miss reading your work.

Peace

Mike

This issue of Failed Haiku is full of some wonderful senryu based poetry in every flavor of the form! This issue has 144 pages of some of the best senryu poets on the planet. Enjoy it, and please take a minute to check out the video of the haiga of Sandi Pray. Each month we will be adding to the videos of haiga artists in all forms.  

You can reach Issue 13 here:  http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue13.pdf

Cast List
In order of appearance
(all work copyrighted by the authors)

Charlotte Digregorio
Alexis Rotella
Veronika Zora Novak
Tricia Knoll
Gregory Longenecker
Maeve O’Sullivan
Bill Kenney
Angelee Deodhar
Eva Limbach
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Marshall Bood
Nicholas Klacsanzky
William Dennis
Elisa Allo
Troy Kody Cunio
Anna Cates
Jan Dobb
Mark Gilfillan
Rachel Sutcliffe
Bruce Jewett
Tom Sacramona
Willie R. Bongcaron
C.R. Harper
Debbie Strange
Jesus Chameleon
Olivier Schopfer
Ramona Linke
Kishor Kumar Mishra
Tyson West
Elmedin Kadric
Jay Friedenberg
ayaz daryl nielsen
Pris Campbell
Garry Eaton
Vishnu P Kapoor
Hazel Hall
Angela Terry
Simon Hanson
Jackie Maugh Robinson
Robert P. Moyer
Carol Dilworth
Christina Martin
Christina Sng
Michael Henry Lee
Madhuri Pillai
Jean Holland
Ian Willey
Nina Kovacic
Radka Mindova & Daniela Targova
Ava C. Cipri
Louise Hopewell
Chen-ou Liu
Marilyn Humbert
Yesha Shah
David J. Kelly
Rebecca Cowgill
Brad Bennett
Dave Read
Margaret Jones
dan smith
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Tsanka Shishkova
Ernesto P. Santiago
Kwaku Feni Adow
Shloka Shankar
Erica Olson
Chase Gagnon
Kat Lehmann
Robert Witmer
Gergana Yaninska & Maya Lyubenova
Barbara Kaufmann
Dr.Indra Neil Mekala
Rick Hurst
Mikels Skele
Ezio Infantino
Susan Burch
Ben Moeller-Gaa
Ivan Gaćina
Amy Losak
Peter Jastermsky
Vessislava Savova
Matt Hetherington
Floki Alexius Moriarty
Anthony Q. Rabang
Pasquale Asprea
Jim Sullivan
Debbi Antebi
Terrie Jacks
Bruce H. Feingold
Dejan Pavlinović
Carol Raisfeld
Billy Antonio
Munia Khan
Kerstin Park
S.Radhamani
Ola Lindberg
Neha R. Krishna
kris moon & tom clausen
Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
Marianne Paul
NANA AMMA ADOMAA ABREFA
Angiola Inglese
Peter Newton
Aron H. Feingold
Julie Warther
Julie Warther & Dan Schwerin
Tricia Marcella Cimera
Sondra J. Byrnes
Lorin Ford
Jim Krotzman
Jill Lange
Leslie Bamford

I will honor all submissions received by Midnight on the 26th of December for inclusion in the January 1 issue of Failed Haiku.

I am behind on reading submissions right now. The illness and death of my Mother yesterday had me preoccupied. I was raised to be punctual, and meet my commitments, so I will catch up on reading submissions in the next couple of days, and we WILL publish promptly at Midnight on January 1.

Thanks to everyone for your kindness to me in this time, and for your continued support of Failed Haiku. It means a lot.

in the quiet
of my own mind
the poems of others

Mike

This issue is 159 pages of goodness in the form of senryu! You can go to the link here:

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue12.pdf

You will find the poems of the following poets:

Alexis Rotella
Michael Schoenburg
Neha R. Krishna
Anthony Q. Rabang
Guliz Mutlu
Eva Limbach
Veronika Zora Novak
Bruce H. Feingold
Bruce Jewett
Richard Heby
Jesus Chameleon
Willie R. Bongcaron
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Pat Davis
Nancy May
Fatma Gültepe
Angelee Deodhar
Skaidrite Stelzer
Dave Read
Jerry Dreesen and Mark Smith
Jan Dobb
S.M. Kozubek
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
Liz Crocket
Garry Eaton
Rachel Sutcliffe
Bernard Gieske
Maureen Sudlow
Ian Willey
Martha Magenta
Lorin Ford
Shloka Shankar
Cynthia Rowe
Chen-ou Liu
Tsanka Shishkova
Danny Blackwell
Phyllis Lee
Anna Cates
Meik Blöttenberger
Diksha Sharma
Debbie Strange
Christina Sng
Marshall Bood
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Joshua Gage
Elizabeth Alford
Radka Mindov
Adam Rehn
Christina Martin
Carol Raisfeld
Julie Warther
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde & Marilyn Humbert
Elmedin Kadric
Billy Tuggle
Margaret Jones
Barbara Tate
Pris Campbell
Barbara Kaufmann
Marietta McGregor
Kim Richardson
Patrick Pineyro
Jo Balistreri
Louise Hopewell
Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
Marilyn Fleming
Paresh Tiwari
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz
Matsukaze
Anna Maris
David J Kelly
Roberta Beary  
Marianne Paul
Carol Dilworth
Debbi Antebi
Robert Epstein
Mark Gilbert
Keitha Keyes
Sarma Radhamani
Nina Kovacic
Muskaan Ahuja
Ron Scully
Angela Terry
Julie Warther & Angela Terry
Ian Mullins
Peter Jastermsky
Gabriel Bates
Kerstin Park
Helen Buckingham
Chèvrefeuille
Francis James Franklin
Bryan Rickert
Celestine Nudanu
Munia Khan
Pat Geyer
Michael Stinson
Sondra J. Byrnes
Susan Burch
Ed Bremson
Robert Witmer
Olivier Schopfer
Sanjuktaa Asopa
Terri L. French
Jim Krotzman
David Oates
Caroline Skanne
Jill Lange
ola lindberg
Bob Lucky
Sandi Pray
Maria Laura Valente
Rick Hurst
Lorin Ford &  Rick Hurst
Jan Benson
Tricia Marcella Cimera
Claire Vogel Camargo
Mike Gallagher
Lucia Fontana

Thanks to all the poets and readers who support Failed Haiku!!!

Mike Rehling

Folks, the December 1 issue is coming along nicely, BUT we will close submissions for this issue on November 25th at Midnight Eastern Time!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Mike

Results of the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition are now available, with winners entries, and links to the Honorable Mentions as well! This was a wonderful way to honor Jane, and the entries were nothing short of stunning! Thanks to our judges as well. Michele Root-Bernstein, Kris Kondo, and Ron C. Moss did a great job, and their write ups are a small instruction book on haiga and the senryu form. Steve Hodge, editor of Prune Juice Journal, which by the way has a new issue out TODAY, and I could not be happier! Congratulations to all the winners and the honorable mentions, and thanks to all who participated!

CLICK HERE for ISSUE 11!!!

With 165 pages to this issue, it is by far the largest ever! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of Failed Haiku!

Mike Rehling

Your ‘Failed’ Editor

P.S.  Check out a great journal of small poems that is becoming a favorite of mine! Hedgerow, a journal of small poems is edited by Caroline Skanne. It comes out every Friday, and a bookmark to this site will let you start your weekend with a smile.

Well, the long awaited ‘Guy Fawkes’ November 5th edition of Failed Haiku will be out at Midnight tomorrow night. This is BY FAR the largest issue we have done, and will be over 160 pages long!

Also, the Winners of the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition, along with Judges Comments, will also be published. Quite a collection of poets in this issue:

Cast List
In order of appearance
(all work copyrighted by the authors)

Well, the results are IN, and the winners and honorable mentions in the Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition have now been notified.  Check your email, and if you have not been notified then you are free to submit your work elsewhere. The entries were all stunning! The winners, and the judges write ups will be published in Prune Juice Journal and Failed Haiku on November 5th!

Submissions for Failed Haiku will CLOSE on November 1st for the November 5th issue! Remember, this is our Guy Fawkes Day edition, so it will be a ‘BANG UP’ issue. It is already larger than any of our past issues, and we still have some time to go, so get your submissions in quickly to be a part of it.

We have thousands of downloads every single month, and with back issues our circulation is booming. Feel free to pass the word!

Mike

This issue is the usual eclectic mix of senryu and senryuish poetry! Lots to like here, and an enjoyable tour of the senryu form in all it’s various colors!

Cast List
In order of appearance
(all work copyrighted by the authors)

Julie Warther
Dan Schwerin and Julie Warther
(Julie Warther and Angela Terry)
Willie R. Bongcaron
Ashish Narain
Gail Oare
Simon Hanson
Eva Limbach
Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
Jerry Dreesen
Pris Campbell
Pat Davis
Maeve O’Sullivan
Garry Eaton
Steve Smolak
Dave Read
Madhuri Pillai
Ian Willey
Jesus Chameleon
Fatma Gultepe
Michael O’Brien
Jo Balistreri
Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Bruce H Feingold
Elmedin Kadric
Rachel Sutcliffe
Debbie Strange
Guliz Mutlu
Bruce Jewett
Olivier Schopfer
Nells Wasilewski
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Marietta McGregor
Lorin Ford
Lynn Edge
Nola Frawley
Nancy May
Chen-ou Liu
Lynette Arden
Angela Terry
Nathan Hassall
Celestine Nudanu
Robert Witmer
Christina Sng
Kwaku Feni Adow
Barbara Kaufmann
Meik Blöttenberger
Barbara Tate
Bob Carlton
David Oates
Christina Martin
Lucia Fontana
RashaadThomas
Ed Bremson
Rob Scott
Helen Buckingham
Ivan Gaćina
Marshall Bood
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
Susan Burch
David J Kelly
Keitha Keyes
Goran Gatalica
Shloka Shankar
Aparna Pathak
Ola Lindberg
Debbi Antebi
Elizabeth Crocket
Bob Lucky
Elizabeth Alford
Chase Gagnon
Peter Jastermsky
Zoran Doderovic
Steve Black
Jill Lange
Bill Kenney
M. Pattison
Myron Lysenko
Jennifer Hambrick
Anthony Q. Rabang
Joe McKeon
Munia Khan
Gabriel Bates
Rick Hurst
Diarmuid Fitzgerald
Eric A. Lohman
Francis James Franklin
Sondra Byrne
Tim Graves

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