Active Medium Publications
Poetry Publications 2021
This article contains a list of publications that include poetry, are currently active, and are accepting new writers.
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American Haiku is edited by Jenny Justice, Heidi Franklin, Sarah E. Sturgis, Tapan Avasthi, and Pierre Trudel.
A definition of “American Haiku”
The American Haiku is not exactly the Japanese Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined to seventeen syllables but since the language structure is different I don’t think American Haikus (short three-line poems intended to be completely packed with Void of Whole) should worry about syllables because American speech is something again…bursting to pop…. I propose that the ‘Western Haiku’ simply say a lot in three short lines in any Western language. Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella. — Jack Kerouac (reprinted from American Haiku)
