Sorry folks, but a surprise snowstorm and in and out Internet have finally caught up with me! After 38 on time issues, this one will be a day or two late. I am not dug out and have spotty Internet but should have it out by the 2nd of March at the latest. Apologies, but this entire effort is done in the cloud and I don’t want to take short cuts that mess up the final result.
See ya soon with Issue 39!!!
One more in the vault!!! Take a look at a great batch of senryu!
www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue38.pdf
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!
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
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.
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
Well, this is an issue Guest Edited by Michael H. Lester! Some absolutely wonderful work that closes all genre. Nicely done, and I am so grateful that he took the time to put together this great collection.
Also in this issue is a link to the results of the Third Annual Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition! Check out this months issue and you will find a link to the results along with commentaries by the judges.
Steve Hodge – Photographic
Lori Ann Minor – Mixed Media
Ron C. Moss – Traditional
I hope you will be as inspired as I was to see their selections! Congratulations to the winners!
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!
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:
Thanks to all the poets who have supported Failed Haiku over the last three years. You folks are the best!
Mike
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!
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