Monthly Archives: August 2022

This week’s Carrot Ranch Collection was to write about shame as follows in this prompt: August 22, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story exploring shame as an emotion or theme. Consider how to use … Continue reading →

Alan Summers’ Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Issue #3 is now out. It is chock full of natural history haiku from haiku poets from around the world. The haiku are generally presented four or five haiku to a page, and the journal … Continue reading →

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams’ August issue of her journal, Stardust Haiku #68: Poetry With a Little Sparkle has just been published. Poets from nine different countries had haiku selected for publication this month. The poets hail from Belgium, Canada, Finland, India, Iran, … Continue reading →

and parallelism. The prompt for the weekly column of the Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, was to write haiku illustrating the literary device of parallelism, and expanded by the guest editor, Alex Fyffe, to include repetition. Haiku poets from twenty-five different … Continue reading →

This week’s prompt at Charli Mills’ Carrot Ranch for the 99-word (no more, no less) stories was as follows: August 15, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that uses the idea or phrase, “floppy … Continue reading →

This past week’s prompt from Carrot Ranch’s Charli Mills came about because of her encounter with a not-so-happy ghost and brought about the following prompt: August 8, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about … Continue reading →

This week’s Haiku Foundation’s weekly column, Haiku Dialogue, dealt with the literary device of allusion. The guest editor, Alex Fyffe, describes allusion like this: “I’ve heard that we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants, building upon the work of … Continue reading →

Charli Mills’ prompt for this week’s 99-word (no more, no less) story at Carrot Ranch was as follows: August 1, 2022, prompt: Write a story that features someplace remote in 99 words (no more, no less). It can be a … Continue reading →

This week’s prompt at the Haiku Foundation’s weekly column, Haiku Dialogue, was to write haiku which used the literary device known as personification. Briefly, according to the guest editor Alex Fyffe, personification is attributing human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, … Continue reading →

The British haiku journal, Presence #73, has finally arrived in my mailbox. Edited by Ian Storr, the journal is jam-packed with haiku, tanka, haibun (a combination of prose and haiku), other haiku-related forms, and a few reviews of haiku books. … Continue reading →