Crg Hill's poetry scorecard: Hay(na)ku

No Wonder They Seemed So Bitter

I

told Noemi

I now know

why

robins’ bellies

are red–they

gorge

our ripe

strawberries one by

one.

I spied

a male squabbling

with

two females

over a plump

red

berry. He

seized it, flew

away,

leaving them

the green ones.

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Found Hay(na)ku, Almost

-- from Hardy's Tess of the D'Urberville

Tess
and Clare
unconsciously studied each

other
ever balanced
on the edge

of
passion, yet
apparently keeping out

of
it. All
the while they

were
converging, under
an irresistible law,

as
surely as
two streams in

one
vale...
... ... ...

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I Love Small (Tiny) Books

Me mother had a charm bracelet. Wherever she traveled, she bought a charm to commemorate her visit. Epic poetry has been an acquired taste; I was born to love the minature.

So, duh, Tom Beckett's Steps: A Notebook, as presented in Meritage Press' Tiny Book series, was an immediate grab. Here's the cover:

Tom_1

Here's the dedication page:

Here's a page that made me smile, beguiled (it goes without saying that each page will be different, all made by hand):

Again and again, Tabios and Beckett conjugate, tercet and design synergize/intensify:

Bravo Tom & Eileen (the preeminent visual haynaku poet!) and Tiny Books!

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You are cordially invited by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego, and Eileen Tabios to participate in THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT! As authors of single-author poetry hay(na)ku collections, we invite you to collaborate with others to create "chained hay(na)ku" -- a poem based on the hay(na)ku poetic form and created by multiple authors (at least three individual authors). Information on the hay(na)ku are available at:

http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku.htm

http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.htm

http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/

For an example of the Chained Hay(na)ku, please visit the blog, THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT: AN INVITATION at http://chainedhaynaku.wordpress.com/ which features our collaborative poem, "Four Skin Confessions." The poem was written in May 2007 by email, spanning the time zones of London, Cardiff, and California.

We now invite other poets to collaborate with others in creating other chained hay(na)ku. Authors can then contribute their collaborations (including excerpts from such collaborations) for possible publication, which Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com) will release as either a journal, anthology, or hand-made limited edition (the final format will depend on the nature of and number of contributions). Collaborations need not be only in verse form. Visual poetry is welcome, as long as the collaborators number at least three and realize that reproduction is likely to be in black-and-white.

Email Contributions (and queries) to MeritagePress@aol.com

Deadline for Contributions: January 31, 2008 Why not get together with others and chain together a hay(na)ku? It's a poetic form that has always been intended to be an Invitation!

All Best, Ivy Alvarez, author of 1 DOZ. POISON HAY(NA)KU (Big Game Books, 2007) John Bloomberg-Rissman, author of OTAGES (Bamboo Books, 2006) and NO SOUNDS OF MY OWN MAKING (Leafe Press, 2007) Ernesto Priego, author of NOT EVEN DOGS (Meritage Press, 2006) Eileen Tabios, author of THE SINGER AND OTHERS (Dusie, 2007)

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