HAIKUsutradhar : 16th August 2024

A FRIDAY FEATURE

Host: Gauri Dixit Prompter for August: Keith Evetts

OUR MISSION

1. To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt.

2. To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Post a maximum of two verses per week, from Friday to Friday, numbered 1 & 2. Post only one haiku in a day, in 24 hours.

2. Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.

3. Only post original verses.

4. For each poem you post, comment on one other person’s poem.

5. Give feedback only to those poets who have requested it.

6. Do not post a variety of drafts, along with a request for readers to choose which they like most. Only one poem is to appear in each original post.

7. Post each revision, if you have any, above the original. The top version will be your submission to haikuKATHA. Do not delete the original post.

8. Do not submit found poetry or split sequences.

9. Do not post photos, except for haiga.

10. haikuKATHA will only consider haiga that showcase original artwork or photos. Post details re: the source of the visual image. If you team up with an artist or photographer, make sure that it’s their original work and that they are not restricted by other publications to share it. We won't be responsible for any copyright issues.

11. Put your name, followed by your country, below each poem, even after revisions.

Poems that do not follow the guidelines may be deleted.

Founder/Managing Editor of haikuKATHA Monthly Journal: Kala Ramesh

Associate Editors: Ashish Narain Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar

Our poets in RED MOON ANTHOLOGY 2024:

       1) Susan Burch, vegetables, Issue 19 (haibun)

       2) Lorraine Haig, Tasmania . . . Issue 17 (haibun)

       3) Lakshmi Iyer,  autumn's . . . Issue 18 (haiku)

       4) Linda Papanicoloau, stamp . . . Issue 16 (haiku)

       5) Padma Rajeswari, ancestral . . . Issue 24  (haiku)

Hearty congratulations to all our poets.

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PROMPT:

16th August

Keith Evetts

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Although there are many haiku poets with an education in scientific disciplines, and although science and technology play a huge part in our everyday lives, there are comparatively few haiku and senryu written concerning such matters. For example, these past two years the development of artificial intelligence has been a hot topic and an extremely important and debatable one. Yet there have been just a handful of verses published on the theme.

raindrops

playing Chopin

the AI

—Helga Stania

artificial intelligence

the heron

and its reflection

(HSA members' anthology 2024)

computers and me

I choose

the red one

— Helene Guojah

This week, please focus on any aspect of science and technology, as it affects you, or as you have engaged with it or observed it. This week we'll relax the month's constraints on well-worn themes, and on hackneyed emotional or nostalgic trigger words. It seems to me that cross-fertilisation with science and tech might offer possibilities to reinvigorate them...

lonely Sunday

my sunlit hometown

my desktop wallpaper

— Timothy Daly

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Looking forward to reading your AI haiku.

Write on! Gauri