HAIKUsutradhar. weekly prompts
A FRIDAY FEATURE
25th August
Host: Kala Ramesh
Group Mentor: Lev Hart
Prompter for August: Sangita Kalarickal
OUR MISSION:
1) To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt.
2) To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Post a maximum of two verses per week, numbered 1 & 2.
2. Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.
3. Only post original verses.
4. For each poem you post, comment on one other person’s poem.
5. Give feedback only to those poets who have requested it.
6. Do not post a variety of drafts, along with a request for readers to choose which they like most. Only one poem is to appear in each original post.
7. Post each revision, if you have any, above the original. The top version will be your submission to haikuKATHA. Do not delete the original post.
8. Do not submit found poetry or split sequences.
9. Do not post photos, except for haiga.
10. With haiga, post details re: the source of the visual image.
Poems that do not follow the guidelines may be deleted.
Founder/Managing Editor of haikuKATHA Monthly Journal: Kala Ramesh
Associate Editors:
Ashish Narain
Firdaus Parvez
Hemapriya Chellappan
Priti Aisola
Sanjuktaa Asopa
Shalini Pattabiraman
Suraja Menon Roychowdhury
Vandana Parashar
Vidya Shankar
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Prompt 4: openHALL Welcome back! to this space, where we create our own prompt, own verse!
Today is the third Friday of this month! and we offer openHALL to open up your muse.
In the last three weeks, we have brought you some beautiful flowers.
And for now, you are also welcome to freewheel as that is what openHALL is all about!
Have fun!
Give us your best cut!