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Welcome to Jane Reichhold's world of poetry that will make you say, "Ah ha!" as you discover and explore the many short form genres of poetry. May your time on this site be blessed. The February issue of has emerged from the snow for your reading pleasure. Thanks so much to everyone who loaned their work to make this such an exciting issue! ~*~ The October issue of is open to you! Thanks to everyone who contributed! ~*~
Blake More did a radio interview with Jane on July 7th, 2011.You can access it at http://www.ladybuglive.com/cartwheels.htm with a Windows Media Player. Thanks Blake for so much fun! and all you do for poetry. ~*~
Here you will find, can click on, download, print or save 14 lessons on how to write haiku. If you have been unable to really understand this poetry form, surely these lessons will help you.
~*~ Tonight, March 28, I will be Blake More's guest on Womens' Voices on radio station KZYX 90.7 Philo at 7:oo pm. We will be taking calls the last 20 minutes. You can hear the interview on the web.
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The marvelous folks on the Ukiah Poet Laureate Committee had my workshop on haiku video-taped so teachers not able to get to the meeting could see what they missed. You can also access it online: The ukiaHaiku Festival contest ends March 11 so you can still enter. ~*~ February issue of Lynx is now up for your reading pleasure. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this great issue. Truly, it has many delightful surprizes. ~*~ HAPPY NEW YEAR! Just added Janick Belleau's contributions to Those Women Writing Haiku in Chapter Four. You can read the talks Women and Haiku in French, Thematic Evolution, talk for Haiku Canada, 2008 and Canadian Haiku Women and Inner Thoughts; talk for Haiku Canada, 2009.
~*~ AHA Books announces two new books that are very special and yet have no haiku or tanka in them. In 2001 Jane became interested in a system of daily prayer known as a "Divine Office" - getting business-like and serious about prayer. Inspired by Jim Wilson's Zen Book of Hours, Jane created for herself A Book of Hours for the Grateful Heart that is non-denominational; it is for the spiritual. This project is now available for others in
an 8 x 11 coil-bound book of 118 pages. It is like a workbook so that the prayers are completely individualized with your concerns and your friends and family. Because doing the Liturgy or Divine Office usually involves the use of the Psalms, Jane found she could not pray them because of the ideas of violence and retribution given to the idea of God. Also knowing that the Psalms are some of the most magnificent poetry, she set the lines free of chapter and verse to return them to being verses as they were intended. In Psalms As New Testament God is returned to the New Testament idea of being loving and compassionate part of our lives.
Psalms has 300 pages in 6 x 9 perfect-bound, cover - by Heidi Vetter!. Both books are available at Lulu.com Blessed be! ~*~ The newest is now up for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this a very special issue. ~*~
Symbiotic Art, Book 2, by Werner Reichhold, 2010. 8,5:11", 96 pages,77 pages in full color. ISBN: 978-0-944676-88-2. $ 25,- post paid. ~*~
This issue of Ribbons contains the article, "Teika's Ten Tanka Techniques" which you can read here. ~*~
This is the latest book of tanka and haiku from AHA Books with an outstanding difference! Hans-Peter Goettsche, of Berlin Germany, a friend of Werner's since their days at art school, has added his marvelous artwork. In 1990 the Pickle Family Circus came to Bower Park outside of Gualala. The poems written that day were sent to Hans-Peter and these are the drawings he made for those poems plus his own thoughts and memories of circus events he had known. Poetry and drawings to tickle your funny bone and put a tear in your eye as you survey the human condition. Perfect bound, 10 x 7 inches, 86 pages, ~*~ The book, White Letter Poems by Fumi Saito, has been out-of-print for several years. So as of today it is now on the web for your enjoyment. Re-reading her tanka has certainly enriched my day. I hope you will click through and read or download the poems.
~*~ The newest issue of Lynx is now online
~*~ The copies of Twenty Years Tanka Splendor went out around the world by mail as the prizes for this year's Award winners. It contains the winning poems from 2009 and a listing of all the winners of the 20 years of this contest. In the Afterword, in the history of this contest, is the news that this is the end of this project. That is one more reason to get a copy of this book. Perfect bound, 85 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, $10 ppd from AHA Books.
~*~ Symbiotic Art is Werner's new book of art collages.
~*~ Finally got the copies of A Film of Words! $12 each postpaid from AHA Books This contains all of the online version plus the play "Roar" which is an excellent deal for those of you who are interested in multi-genre collaborative writing.
~*~ Got my copy of the 25 year Anniversary Edition
It is now on sale in Japan ~*~ The Ahctober issue of is now online for your ahtumn viewing pleasure!
~*~ Devin Jones is the winner of the ~*~ The "Haiku Book River"
14 ft. x 12 ft with 9 pounds of silver-lined beads on gauze ~*~ ~*~
Tanka as you didn't know tanka could be. Racy, modern and a far cry from Japanese ancestors. Order from Lulu.com
~*~ The June, 2009 issue of LYNX is now online. ~*~ Jane spoke at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on April 23, 2009. The talk was videotaped and is online http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Haiku_of_Master_Basho_Jane_Reichhold
See you do count! E-mail: jane@ahapoetry.com AHA! POETRY is the glove on the hand of AHA Books of Gualala, California. The material in AHA!POETRY is Copyright © by Jane Reichhold, 1995 - 2008. All rights of poetry by other authors remains in the copyright of the writer listed. These poets have loaned their works to AHA!POETRY for your pleasure. If you borrow a poem, please give credit to the author. If you wish to distribute the works of others, you must ask permission. AHA!POETRY appeared on the Web on December 7th, 1995, through the generosity and technical help from Carolanne Reynolds and George Pajari of Faximum -- Fax for UNIX®. The counter is courtesy of World Wide Digits. This site has been awarded a Blue Web'n by the Knowledge Resources at PacBell . And it was selected by merit to be in Poetry Month Project. Thank you. Blessed Be! The sending of any unsolicited email advertising messages to this domain will result in the imposition of civil liability in accordance with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code Section 17538.45. |
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