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Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review https://www.callofthepage.org
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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 21d
Our first video feedback haiku course!
Video & audio combined is a great way for Alan Summers to comment on your haiku poems, for him to hone in really clearly on specific lines and words in real time.

www.callofthepage.org/courses/haik...

#haiku #callofthepage #course #courses #writing #poetry
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Robert J. Tiess @robertjtiess.bsky.social · 1d
Here's something I often tell poets asking me how they might refine their work:

* READ YOUR POEMS OUT LOUD. *

Or ask someone to read them aloud.

It can be a revelation. Try it!

Once I started to do that regularly, I wanted more meter and musicality in my poems.

#poetry #poets #writing #reading
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2
spring deepens
my uncombed afro
full of cherry blossoms

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Heron's Nest, June 2022
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 3
learning
to
become
no
one
firefly

- Deborah A. Bennett
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line
Poem, Issue 4
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 5
how to explain a gun
to the small child singing
to the plum trees at dawn

- Deborah A. Bennett
Frogpond Journal 47:1
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 8
as if all
were right with the world
magnolia blooms

- Deborah A. Bennett
Amethyst Review, September 2022
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 29d
the thing that falls away
is myself
spring moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Plum Tree Tavern,
The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 22d
not
dying
yet
pierced
through
saguaro
moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line
Poem, Issue 7
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 3d
fresh spring breeze
picking dandelions
from the child's teeth

- Deborah A. Bennett
Shadowpond Journal, Issue IV
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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 1d
crisp blue sky
a pair of chuck taylor's
hanging from a wire

- Deborah A. Bennett
Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25
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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 1d
Make it fresh, make it interesting, push not pull at boundaries.
#haiku
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 1d
wake up babe
new generational James Joyce exhibition just dropped
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University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social · 1d
🥳 Now open 🎉

Discover rarely-seen letters and artefacts from the personal archive of beloved author James Joyce in James Joyce: Enigmas & Puzzles.

Explore Joyce's social network of friends and artists, his family life, his inspirations, and the adjustments he made to work despite ill-health.
James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles. 7 October - 9 February 2026. Uni of Reading Special Collections.
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AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social · 1d
the autumn fly
becomes a letter
in the headline

--Saō Murakami

秋の蝿見出し一字になりきって　村上沙央

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
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Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 1d
The #BranfordBoaseAward, 'a barometer of developments in children’s books' opens for submissions today with the announcement of this year's panel of judges. They will be led by 2025 winner Margaret McDonald. #writing #editing #KidLitUK

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Graphic with photographs of the four judges of this year's Branford Boase Award, awarded to author and editor of the year's outstanding debut novel for children and young people. They are Anjali Patel, Katherine Woodfine, Margaret McDonald and Stephen Dilley. The award is supported by ALCS and Walker Books.
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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 1d
vodka
and orange juice
curled up reading

#senryu
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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 1d
snog marry avoid
I win again
at solitaire

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid)
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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne @pi-and-anne.bsky.social · 1d
Sea gulls.
Water heaving less
in the far-off ocean,
more in the flotsam
he picked up for me.

#tanka #poem #magneticpoetry #magneticpoem

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 10d
You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away
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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 2d
The 2nd leg of our journey Shetlandwards y'day took in the fab long-staying Marsh Sand' at Musselburgh & an adult WR Sand' on the Eden Estuary, finishing with a great seawatch off the Northlink ferry, incl'g 2 apiece of Leach's & Storm Petrel, Bonxie, 3 Arctic Skuas & double figures of Sooty Shear's
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Freya Pickard @freyapickard.bsky.social · 2d
I love this poetry!
october eve (30/9/25) meonomous.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/o...
october eve (30/9/25)
October’s evewhere do wego from here?into the heartof darknesschasing ghostsfunereal hosts,things can onlyget better,or equally,things can onlyget worse,stealing the lightfrom out of the mouthof th…
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Anne @annemorrigan.bsky.social · 2d
I celebrate halloween year round cuz I always be ghosting 👻🤦‍♀️
today's #haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #prompt is

crow

👉 check my pinned post for more info
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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 2d
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a midnight gloss shaking feathers into aurora
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#haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #crow #prompt
#monostich #monoku #corvid
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freshoutmag.bsky.social @freshoutmag.bsky.social · 2d
#monoku #senryu by returning contributor, Peter Jastermsky ( @pjastermsky ). Author of 10 books of haiku-based writing, Peter lives among the Joshua trees in So.Cal., USA. Learn more at peterjastermsky.com. #poetry #haiku #micropoetry #poetrylovers #guitar #autumn #poetrycommunity #california
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completeTheHaiga @completethehaiga.bsky.social · 3d
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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 3d
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#completethehaiga 119 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #duostich #haiku
A 2-line haiku written in response to a haiga illustration by Josiah the artist
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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 3d
別れ来て一気に熟柿吸いつくす

After parting—
in one breath, I suck down
a ripe persimmon

- Shinko Tokizane

#senryu
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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 3d
くやしゅうて玩具の兵隊を並べ

Out of spite,
I line up
the toy soldiers

- Shinko Tokizane

#senryu
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