3LIGHTS Winter 2010 has been published. This season’s edition includes featured poet Michael Dylan Welch as well as new work from such poets as Sanford Goldstein, M. Kei, Lorin Ford, Old Pyjamas and many others.
Click here to read 3LIGHTS Journal of Haiku & Related Forms : Winter 2010.
We are now accepting submissions of haiku and related forms for 3LIGHTS Issue 2 : Spring 2010. The theme for the issue will be MUSIC. See our submissions page for details. The closing date for all submissions is March 1st 2010.
Issue 1 will be released January 2010.
Issue 2 will be released April 2010.
Modern Haiga annual journal is dedicated to publishing and promoting fine modern graphic poetry. Writers and artists around the world have generously shared their work in Modern Haiga. Whether traditional or modern, delicately minimal or vibrantly complex, hand-crafted or digitally produced, the quality of contemporary haiga continues to astound … It is still a rare delight to discover a true haigaa visual moment in which poem and image seem to work with equal strength to create that spark for which we all strive. This 2009 final edition of Modern Haiga is a firework display of this year’s sparks, each produced by artists who not only exhibit distinct control over their words and pictures but also over their understanding for what marries the two art forms in order to create another.
The poets and artists included in this issue are: Marnie Brooks, Mary Davila, Audrey Downey, M. Frost, Judith Gorgone, Dan Hardison, John Hawkhead, Colin Jones, Jacek Margolak, Ruth Mittelholtz, Elena Naskova, Linda Pilarski, Carol Raisfeld, Sarah Rehfeldt, Violette Rose-Jones, Alexis Rotella, Manoj Saranathan, and Liam Wilkinson.
The full-color, letter-size, perfect bound paperback book is priced at $34.95 and is available at our Lulu store, http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and at our MET Press website, www.themetpress.com/bookstore/journals.html
Thank you, all the fine poets and artists who submitted their work to Modern Haiga 2009, and to the very hard-working board of editors, Liam Wilkinson (chief editor), Linda Papanicolaou, Raffael de Gruttola, Carol Raisfeld, and Ron Moss. This is the final issue of Modern Haiga. It has been a great experience!
After three successful years of presenting open and solo exhibitions of haiku, senryu and tanka it has been decided that 3Lights Gallery will close at the end of 2009. However, 3Lights will reopen at http://3lights.wordpress.com and will present a digest of haiku and related forms in the shape of a quality quarterly e-zine, presented for free courtesy of scribd.com.
The quarterly editions of the 3Lights Journal will not be dissimilar to the exhibitions that we have previously presented, with the importance placed on the visual aspect of haiku and related forms. Each edition will be illustrated and will also present a ‘featured poet’ section. We hope that by presenting our seasonal exhibitions in the form of an ‘ebook’, free of charge and using the latest e-reading technology, we will have the opportunity to share a greater amount of quality short-form poetry in a more user-friendly format.
For those poets who have already submitted work for our ‘3years’ exhibition, or for those who intend to do so, each of the successful poems will feature in our first edition of the new 3Lights Journal as a celebration of three very happy and successful years of our online venture.
We are now taking submissions of haiku, senryu, tanka and kyoka on any theme for our first edition of the 3Lights Journal, to be published online in January 2010. Please send up to ten unpublished poems to threelightsgallery [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk, along with a brief biography.
Previous exhibitions presented at the 3Lights Gallery will no longer be accessible online, but we are already working on a special ‘best of 3Lights’ ebook, which we hope to release next year.
We hope that submissions will continue to pour in and that you’ll visit our new website at http://3lights.wordpress.com to experience the new and improved 3Lights. More information will follow soon.
With very best wishes,
Liam and Diane Wilkinson
Autumn 2009
The 3Lights Gallery is still open at http://threelightsgallery.com but will close on December 31st 2009. Please visit today to see work by Lorin Ford and Peter Joseph Gloviczki.
