Pull of Sadness

I sense
the pull of sadness
all around me
and tonight
I cannot see the moon

Moonbathing 8, Spring/Summer 2013

Call For Submissions: Moonbathing 8

From the editor of Moonbathing:

 

MOONBATHING

A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

 
EDITOR
Pamela A. Babusci 

PLEASE NOTE SOME CHANGES BELOW:

 

Moonbathing Issue 8 is now accepting submissions. 

I have additional copies of Moonbathing Issue 7, if you wish to purchase a copy(ies) please e-mail me.

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 

Moonbathing will feature only women poets. Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period. Submission deadlines: 

Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline:  May 15th spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only

THIS ISSUE: Spring/Winter In-hand deadline:  May 15th

spring/summer theme ONLY or non-seasonal 

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line, on Facebook/Twitter or on a personal website/blog.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

 

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci:  moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

PLEASE NOTE:

 

All tanka poets who have their work accepted in Moonbathing are required to purchase a copy of the issue they are published in or a year's subscription. Unfortunately, Moonbathing cannot survive without your financial support due to the increase every year with the cost of printing and mailing.  Thank you in advance for your understanding.

DONATIONS MOST WELCOME

DISCLAIMER:

Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.

 

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

NOTE:  I will now be accepting Paypal for foreign poets-PLEASE e-mail me FIRST, so, I can give you the details-thanks!

 

Subscriptions: $12 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $6 for single issue. International: $16

(two issues) $8 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to Pamela A. Babusci

 

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

244 Susan Lane Apt. B    Rochester, NY  14616  USA 

 

 The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com 

 

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any of your female tanka poets that might be interested in submitting-many thanks!
 

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

 

 

Decemeber Haiku Share: The Week That Was #4

The last full week of Cara Holman's December Haiku Share is complete, and we're now on the home stretch. Below are the links to the last seven days of posts, and the haiku, tanka and haiga I've shared along the way. Now that the Christmas rush is over, come and join in for the last few days! You'll find a supportive community of folks sharing their love of haiku and related forms. (Here's the link to the latest prompt - afternoon fog)

December Haiku Share - Day 22

storm clouds . . .
can hope be caught
in a spider’s web?
– Kirsten Cliff

NaHaiWriMo August 2012

December Haiku Share - Day 23

she advises
I’m at high risk
of a relapse
I breathe in air heavy
with crushed dreams
– Kirsten Cliff

Moonbathing 6, January 2012

December Haiku Share - Day 24

first spring day this breeze her hair
– Kirsten Cliff

DailyHaiku Cycle 12, Dec. 12, 2011

December Haiku Share - Day 25 

he creates
a new centrepiece
for the dining table
a size nine shoebox
full of medications
– Kirsten Cliff

Presence #44, June 2011

December Haiku Share - Day 26

on the morning
of her death, I sit
searching
for the small differences
between these wild finches
– Kirsten Cliff

~for Svetlana Marisova
Simply Haiku, January 2012

December Haiku Share - Day 27

(click on image to enlarge)

– Kirsten Cliff  

Notes From the Gean, 3:2, September 2011

December Haiku Share - Day 28

dragon fire . . .
the way he moves me
this night
– Kirsten Cliff

The Language of Dragons, January 2012
(Yay Words! project edited by Aubrie Cox)

Call For Submissions to MOONBATHING 7 and the Moonbathing Annual Contest

From editor Pamela A. Babusci:

 

MOONBATHING

A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

Please note a change in Issue 7's deadline & my change of address 
 
EDITOR
Pamela A. Babusci  

 

Moonbathing Issue 7 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 5 & issue 6 

If you wish to purchase a copy(ies) please e-mail me.

Moonbathing Issue 7 has the Annual Moonbathing Contest
Please send one tanka on the theme of: "moonbathing" however you interpret it with your regular submission. Please label the contest tanka. The winner will receive a year's subscription to Moonbathing.

Please note the change in deadline for Issue 7  from Dec. 15th to Nov. 15th
 

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 

Moonbathing will feature only women poets. Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period. Submission deadlines:  

Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline:  May 15th spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only

THIS ISSUE: Fall/Winter: In-hand deadline:  Nov. 15th

fall/winter theme or non-seasonal only

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line, on Facebook/Twitter or on a personal website/blog. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

 

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci:  moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.

DONATIONS MOST WELCOME

DISCLAIMER:

Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.

 

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

 

Subscriptions: $12 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $6 for single issue. International: $16 (two issues) $8 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to Pamela A. Babusci

 

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

244 Susan Lane Apt. B    Rochester, NY  14616  USA 

 

The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any of your female tanka poets that might be interested in submitting-many thanks!

 

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

 

 

Call for Submissions: MOONBATHING Issue 6‏

MOONBATHING

A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

 

FROM EDITOR
Pamela A. Babusci  

 

Moonbathing Issue 6 is now accepting submissions. 

 

I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 5

If you wish to purchase a copy(ies) please e-mail me.
 

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:   

Moonbathing will feature only women poets.  

Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period. 

Submission deadlines:  

Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline:  May 15th (spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only) 

Fall/Winter: In-hand deadline:  Dec. 15th ( fall/winter theme or non-seasonal only)

 

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line on a personal website/blog.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to:  

Pamela A. Babusci  

PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it. DONATIONS MOST WELCOME

 

DISCLAIMER: Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.

 

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

 

Subscriptions: $12 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $6 for single issue. 

International: $16 (two issues) $8 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to Pamela A. Babusci to:  

 

Moonbathing Editor

150 Milford Street Apt. 13 

Rochester, NY  

14615-1810  USA    

 

PLEASE NOTE: I will be moving into a new apt. by the end of May, so, please check with me for my new address before mailing me-thanks!

The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci 

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

High Risk

          she advises

          I'm at high risk

          of a relapse...

          I breathe in air heavy

          with crushed dreams

Moonbathing #5 (January, 2012)

Tanka & photograph © Kirsten Cliff

October Round-Up - A Surprise Or Two Or Three...

I had a couple of great surprises this month: I was excited to receive a contributor's copy of paper wasp and to find that four of my haiku and four of my tanka were published inside! And I was absolutely ecstatic to be accepted as a contributor for Cycle 12 of DailyHaiku where 28 of my haiku will appear over the next six months. My first week of haiku started on 30 October and can be read here.

Here's how I'm doing on my 2011 goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week:

• week forty - submitted one haiku to the Polish International Haiku Competition (first time submitting here)
• week forty-one - submitted ten tanka (+1 for the contest) to Moonbathing (first time submitting here), one tanka accepted!
• AND submitted ten tanka to Notes from the Gean, one tanka accepted!
• AND submitted one haiga to Yay Words!, which appeared in Aubrie Cox's Tea with Trolls post
• week forty-two - submitted two haiku, two tanka and one haiga to tinywords (first time submitting here)
• AND submitted six small stones to a handful of stones, three accepted!
• week forty-three - submitted two haiku to the Sketchbook Sep/Oct 2011 "cemetery" Haiku Thread
• AND I submitted my second set of ten haiku for Daily Haiku

During the month, my haiku, tanka and haiga appeared online at DailyHaiku, Notes from the Gean, Issa's Untidy Hut, Chrysanthemum, Yay Words! and in paper wasp (print). And there's much more to come this November and December as all my diligence in submitting each week, and trying so many new journals, pays off. Only eight weeks left!

But wait, there's more...

I've left the biggest surprise 'til last...

Cameron and I eloped last week and were married at 2pm on 31 October in Auckland (NZ). Here's our favourite photo from the day, which was taken just after our first kiss as a married couple!

Moonbathing Call For Submissions

MOONBATHING: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

From Editor Pamela A. Babusci - 

Moonbathing Issue 5 is now accepting submissions.

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year:

(Northern) Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Moonbathing will feature only women poets.

Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period.

Submission deadlines:

Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline: May 15th

spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only

Fall/Winter: In-hand deadline Dec. 15th

fall/winter themes or non-seasonal

No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions;

no tanka that has been posted on-line on a personal website/blog.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to:

Pamela A. Babusci 

PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it. DONATIONS MOST WELCOME.

DISCLAIMER:

Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Subscriptions: $12 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada;

$6 for single issue.

International: $16 (two issues) $8 single issue U.S. dollars;

send US cash or international M.O.—payable to Pamela A. Babusci.

Please email for address details.

The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward

to receiving your best tanka.

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci.