Cicada Song

cicada song

replaces the heavy traffic

of home

Haiku and photographs © Kirsten Cliff 2011

From Spider's Strand in Lynx: A Journal for Linking Poets

(scroll down to find Spider's Strand: a linked haiku verse with Patricia Prime, Catherine Mair, Margaret Beverland, Steve Cordery, Owen Bullock, Sandra Simpson, George Swede and myself) 

Frogpond Submissions Open for Spring/Summer Issue

The submission period for Frogpond is open from February 15 to April 15.

All submissions must be original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by a print or web-based journal. Full submission guidelines here.

Editor George Swede says via Facebook, "While posts on Internet sites such as Facebook or Twitter are eligible, posts on blogs are not."

I submitted to Frogpond for the first time last week, which was my submission for week 7 of 2011.

Frogpond Submissions Open

Frogpond, the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, is open for submissions for it's Winter Issue. The cut off date is November 15. See full submission guidelines here. And you can connect with the HSA on Facebook.

I had the pleasure of meeting, and writing with, editor George Swede in 2009 when he came to New Zealand. A linked haiku verse that was written over lunch with George Swede, Catherine Mair, Pat Prime, Owen Bullock, Steve Cordery, Margaret Beverland, Sandra Simpson and myself is published in Lynx (scroll down to find 'Spider's Strand').