A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Gauri Dixit
Prompter for July: Keith Evetts
openHALL is back!
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, from Friday to Friday, numbered 1 & 2. Post only one haiku in a day, in 24 hours.
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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. haikuKATHA will only consider haiga that showcase original artwork or photos. Post details re: the source of the visual image. If you team up with an artist or photographer, make sure that it’s their original work and that they are not restricted by other publications to share it. We won't be responsible for any copyright issues.
11. Put your name, followed by your country, below each poem, even after revisions.
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 Priti Aisola Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar
Our poets in RED MOON ANTHOLOGY 2024:
1) Susan Burch, vegetables, Issue 19 (haibun)
2) Lorraine Haig, Tasmania . . . Issue 17 (haibun)
3) Lakshmi Iyer, autumn's . . . Issue 18 (haiku)
4) Linda Papanicoloau, stamp . . . Issue 16 (haiku)
5) Padma Rajeswari, ancestral . . . Issue 24 (haiku)
Hearty congratulations to all our poets.
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PROMPT:
30th August
Keith Evetts
openHALL is back for this week!
Share your best cut and floor your editors!! Give us fresh and original poems, you can do it!
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Looking forward to reading your haiku.
Write on! Gauri
1# 9. 9.24
red ribbon
twirling round wrinkled fingers
girly gossips
Jharna Sanyal
Kolkata India
Feedback welcome
06.09.2024
#1
autumn wind
caressing each flower
on my lap
Kalyanee Arandhara
Assam, India
Feedback most welcome
#2 06/09
falling leaves
to next spring
my thoughts jump
Fatma Zohra Habis/ Algeria
feedback welcome 🌹🌺
#2 - 05.09.24
cold soup
on our kitchen table…
take it or leave it
Shruti Patel
Zurich, Switzerland
feedback welcome
#2. 5/9/24
ever-ready to help
a thankless world
autocorrect
Sumitra Kumar
India
Feedback welcome