Congratulations to Jim Kacian (f/k/a‘s very first Honored
Guest Poet and godfather), whose poem was recently
awarded 2nd place in the Haiku Society of America’s
unpublish haiku. Here’s jim’s haiku — a great example
that fewer (syllables and lines) can be more:
gunshot the length of the lake
judges’ comments)
Serendipity Alert: I literally just went downstairs and found the newest
annual version of The Red Moon Anthology of English-Languish Haiku
in my mailbox — the most-anticipated annual anthology by many haiku
lovers, including myself. Jim Kacian is the editor and publisher of
Red Moon Press, and the Anthology series has won many awards
and much praise, for assembling “each year the finest haiku and re-
lated forms published around the world in English.”
RMA 2005 is titled inside the mirror (click to see the colorful cover).
The ten co-editors who helped Jim select the poems included in RMA
2005, selected three of Master Kacian’s poems, and here are two
excellent one-liners:
flurries after our argument the need to tell you
the voices I hear aren’t talking to me spring twilight
Let’s celebrate with a few more
haiku from Jim:
a cow comes
out of the barn
half hay
sharp wind
the metal gate bangs shut
bangs shut
three-quarter moon–
imagining she can feel it
move inside her
“moonWaneCres”
the lake laps
all night the same
quiet thoughts
Jim Kacian from Presents of Mind (1996)
except: “three-quarter moon” – mariposa 6; pegging the wind
p.s. You can find a Red Moon Press order form here.
February 6, 2006
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