Issue 5 is now online! This one is jammed full of senryu, haiga, haibun, a sequence or two, and a few kyoka. This one was particularly fun to edit since the work took some unusual turns in a few places. As always, there is something for everybody. Check out the link at:

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue5.pdf

Also, don’t forget that as a PDF file all issues of Failed Haiku can be loaded into your Kindle device or on you PC/Mac with their free software download. Then you can ‘search’ each issue for particular poems, and read it offline in any location.

Enjoy this issue, and look for an announcement soon about a new Senryu Contest coming in May!

Peace

Mike

As most of you know who have submitted your work here, I LOVE reading your senryu, your haibun, haiga, and anything else related to senryu. It is a wonderful trick that I have played on you all to get poets to send their work to me! I love reading your poetry, and this is no work at all for me. What a great job I have!

That said, I want to serve you the best that I can, and for that to happen I need to have a system so that your work gets to me. Since I receive hundreds of personal emails a day, I set up EDITOR@FAILEDHAIKU.COM for ALL submissions. All emails sent there go directly into a special ‘Reading Folder’ that I use to make selections for the next issue. I do this in ‘order’ of receipt, hence generating the ‘Cast List, in order of appearance‘ for the next issue. The first poet listed is first to submit for that issue!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE submit only to the correct email address. I absolutely hate leaving someone out due only to a clerical error such as sending to my personal email, where I don’t see the work, and it does not go into the Reading Folder. I am not being stuffy or procedural, but I sincerely don’t want to miss seeing your work. The contributors are our lifeblood, and I don’t want to disappoint any of you.

When I submit my own work to other journals I always go to their Submissions page, each and every time, and review and comply with their submissions guidelines. Having ‘played’ the role of Editor myself many times now I know that these ‘systems’ are setup to organize submissions so that nothing is lost or missed in the process. I would ask you before submitting to just take a minute and go to the Submissions Guides link of FailedHaiku.com and read it again.

I am committed to being the kind of Editor that I have admired over the years, and missing a truly worthy submission is something I want to avoid at all costs. Disappointing a poet is not on my agenda, and petty ‘rules’ always were off putting to me, but I assure you I WANT to see your work, and I will treat it, and the poet who wrote it, with respect.

Thanks to all the poets who have made Failed Haiku a success!

Peace

Mike

I figured I had tapped into something with the response to the initial issue, but we now have almost 100 pages of senryu in Issue 4. Thanks to our poets, who have amazed me with their support we are growing. Don’t fear! I love doing this, and as big as it gets it gets. If I have to do Failed Haiku twice a month I will do it, I don’t want to make it too much of a chore for our readers, who also have been astounding. We are setting records every month for downloads. So our poet’s work is being READ! The new issue is here:

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue4.pdf

Feel free to share this link with others, post it on your blogs or Facebook pages, or Tweet it to your Followers as well. We want the word to get out. Be sure to follow our Twitter feed:@SenryuJournal, and our Facebook page as well.

Thanks to the poets and artists without whom we would have nothing!!!

Mike

Another large issue of Failed Haiku is shaping up for April 1! I will close reading for this issue on the 28th of March at Midnight EDT. So, if you have been waiting for the last minute, you know the deadline.

Mike

Another large issue of Failed Haiku! This project is all about the poets, and that is what it has become for me, showing them in the best light possible. Included in this issue are some of the very best senryu/haiku poets, as well as some poets that are new to me. The most fun I have every month is reading the work of these fine poets, many of whom are my idols!

A wonderful group of haiga in this issue, some highly creative haibun, and some of my favorite poets. What could be better? Here is the link to the new issue:

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue3.pdf

Feel free to share this link with others, post it on your blogs or Facebook pages, or Tweet it to your Followers as well. We want the word to get out. Be sure to follow our Twitter feed:@SenryuJournal, and our Facebook page as well.

Thanks to the poets and artists who feed the machine!!!

Mike

Well, the 3rd issue is a doozy, and for a short month we set another record! I want to thank everyone who reads, but particularily the poets who submit. You inspire me, and it is NO WORK at all to read your work . It truly is an honor when you share your work with me. The 3rd Issue will be posted at Midnight Eastern Time on March 1st. Thanks again to everyone who has helped me in this project.

Cast List for Issue 3

Dave Read
Gregory Longenecker
Kashu
Jesus Chameleon
Ella Wagemakers
Devin Harrison
Meik Blöttenberger
Ramona Linke
Rachel Sutcliffe
Julie Warther
Reka Jellema
Mohammad Azim Khan
Elaine Andre
David J Kelly
Bhet Naieem
Lovette Carter
Elmedin Kadric
Ken Sawitri
Chen-ou Liu
Olivier Schopfer
Sandi Pray
Martha Magenta
Gergana Yaninska
Madhuri Pillai
Ola Lindberg
Catherine LoFrumento
Tatjana Debeljacki
Helen Buckingham
Archana Kapoor Nagpal
Mary White
Polona Oblak
Maya Lyubenova
Lynette Arden
Terri L. French
Nina Kovačić
Pat Geyer
Mark Gilbert
Yesha Shah
Eva Limbach
Myron Lysenko
Shloka Shankar
Marianne Paul
Sandip Chauhan
Roberta Beary
Sondra J. Byrnes
Duncan Richardson
Bruce Jewett
Marietta McGregor
Bob Lucky
Michael Schepers
Willie R. Bongcaron
Keith Woodruff
Joe McKeon
Jan Benson
Matthew Moffett
Jens Petter Kollhøj
Debbie Strange
Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy
Barbara Kaufmann
Mary Kendall
Robyn Cairns
Samar Ghose
Steve Hodge
Elizabeth Alford
Jill Lange
Christine L. Villa
Roman Lyakhovetsky

With this issue we have greatly expanded in size, adding thirty more pages for your viewing and reading. There are many repeat poets, for which we are very appreciative, and some new poets for which we are equally thrilled!

You can go to this link to download: http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue2.pdf

Feel free to share this link with others, post it on your blogs or Facebook pages, or Tweet it to your Followers as well. We want the word to get out. Be sure to follow our Twitter feed: @SenryuJournal, and our Facebook page as well.

I want to thank all of our readers, and most certainly our poets who have provided a mix of high quality and eclectic senryu for this issue. Submissions are now OPEN for Issue Three, so read our Submission Guide on the header above. We would love to read your work!

Mike

Well, I have put a ‘lid’ on this issue. Any submissions from here on out will be for Issue 3. Issue 2 will be at least 150% larger than the first issue, and the number of poets is up at least that much.

We have had over 2800 ‘downloads’ of the first issue, and over 11000 views of the page. The 2800 people who downloaded is more than subscribe to MH and Frogpond combined!!! Now many also emailed, posted it on their websites, and viewed it online as well. I guess we answered any questions about the ‘need’ for another journal. I want to thank you all, readers, poets, and ‘interested’ parties who participated in any way in this launch issue.

We will be posting for your reading pleasure Issue 2 on February 1st at 12:01 AM. You can get the link on our Facebook Page, in our Twitter Feed (@SenryuJournal), or at http://www.failedhaiku.com.

See ya all then!!!

Mike

First, let me wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Our first issue exceeded my own expectations. I am very thankful for all the poets who submitted their work for this new effort. Senryu is a form that can often be ignored, and is considered by some a ‘poor cousin’ to the haiku. Not so!

You will find 53 pages of senryu in this our first issue. I actually hope to grow that number in the future. Failed Haiku is published in PDF format. You can read it online by bookmarking the URL below, download it to your own computer and create a folder for this and future issues, and have access to the work published here whenever you wish. You are also encouraged to share this link with anyone, and help spread the word to others. We will also be Tweeting the poems so that others can read the work as well in that medium. So many people don’t understand senryu, and this is one small way we can expose them to the form in English. I am not the type of editor who wants to ‘control’ the product, rather I would like it to be READ by the largest number of people! By using all the means available on the Internet we are shooting for a circulation in the tens of thousands for each issue over time. Help me get it ‘out there’!

Currently I am accepting submissions for the next issue out February 1, 2016. We look forward to reading your work.

I hope you enjoy this issue, and any comments or suggestions you may have are welcome. You can reach me best at:  editor@failedhaiku.com.

You can read or download the fist issue here:  http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue1.pdf

Mike Rehling– ‘Failed’ Editor