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Issue 38 is now UP!!!

One more in the vault!!! Take a look at a great batch of senryu!

www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue38.pdf

Issue 37 is now up! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Some of the strongest haibun I have ever published in this issue. Check it out! Thank you all! We are getting heavy wet snow right now, but I managed to get it up!

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue37.pdf

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue37.pdf

Full Submissions Issue Get them in while they are HOT!

This will be a full issue with a retrospective as well. Get your submissions in I am in the ‘mood’ to read some senryu. Give me your best, and remember I am fine with previously published work. 

Peace

Mike

Three years and still counting!!!

Issue 36 is a milestone in many ways. I never expected to get this far. 24 issues of ShortStuff 17 years ago, and now Failed Haiku Issue 36. About a dozen other publications too in between, so although I may not be famous for my own poems I hope that I get some credit for promoting the poems of others. I want to thank every poet who has submitted their work to me. I hope I have lived up to your expectations. I have enjoyed reading the work of so many fine poets, and it is humbling to think you would trust me with your poems. THANKS!!!

This issue has some surprises like they all do, there are a couple of dozen ‘stunners’ in this one. I hope you enjoy it as much I did putting it together for you.

https://haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue36.pdf

Next month will be a RETROSPECTIVE ISSUE, so hold your submissions for now. My Internet still sucks, and hope is that by this time next year we will have the issues solved with a new system. I will do a much better job of letting people know what is happening this year. But I will still have to leave the house to do much of the work on the site.

Peace

Mike Rehling

Guest Editor and Reichhold Contest!

This month, The Guy Fawkes edition of Failed Haiku, will be ‘guest edited’ by Michael H. Lester! The guidelines for this issue will be as follows:

Any combination of five to ten humorous senryu, kyoka, cherita, haiga, kyoka art, sequences (each poem in a sequence counts as one submission) and short senryu or kyoka prose are okay (each of which will count as three submissions). The general Failed Haiku guidelines also apply. All submissions will be made to editor@failedhaiku.com. Submission for this issue close at Midnight Eastern Time on the 25th of October!

Also, this month we have the Third Annual Jane Reichhold Hiaga Competition!

Check out the Guidelines by CLICKING HERE! Please read the ENTIRETY OF THE GUIDELINES  BEFORE SUBMITTING! Thanks!

 

 

Issue 34 is now UP!

This was a fun issue to edit! Some wonderful haibun, haiga, Kyoka, and Rengay as well! Some of my ‘favorites’ outdid themselves as well, so all in all, I had a blast! My Internet has been very flakey of late and any solution is a year or so away. BUT this issue made me feel a whole lot better. Lots of announcements in the next week so stay tuned.

For now, you have a wonderful issue to read:

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue34.pdf

Thanks to all the poets who have supported Failed Haiku over the last three years. You folks are the best!

Mike

 

The October Issue is ‘Open Season’ Again

This month I am playing ‘Failed Editor’ again and will be enjoying it. No restrictions. BUT, I will have a hard close of the 25th!

The old man is back in the saddle!

Peace

Mike

Issue 33 is now UP!

Thanks to our Guest ‘Failed Editor’ Adjei Agyei-Baah! The theme he chose for this issue was ‘Family’, and I am amazed at the work in this issue, and he made it into a Full Issue with 174 pages! You have a lot to read and enjoy!!!

Read it HERE!

Submission Guide for September Issue!

This months ‘guest’ Failed Editor is Adjei Agyei-Baah!!!!

I would like us to explore the theme of FAMILY by way of senryu and haiga (senryu inclined). I think it will be a fine opportunity to know what has happened or is happening in each other’s lives. The boldness to share one’s life private life publicly in itself alone is a way of healing and preventing suicidal thoughts, while providing the opportunity for haijins and readers to learn from others situations.

You may submit just senryu or senryu based haiga under this theme!

 

 

 

Issue 32 of Failed Haiku is now UP!

Well, I missed you guys!!!!

But here is this months issue, with all my thanks to those who submitted!

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue32.pdf