heat shimmers across the endless plains
black clouds rumble rain
coyote howls float in the electrified air
prickly pear bloom in an emerald sea
suddenly I hear
“the sound of one hand clapping”
Because a substantial number of my readers seem to like haiku, I thought I would provide this information. Â Two journals exist to which writers can submit haiku. Â The first is “Haiku Journal” at http://www.haikujournal.org. Â If you are not an expert, but want to try your hand at getting your attempts at haiku published, you probably will have a better chance here. Â Their main criteria is the 7-5-7 syllable count and not the other aspects of haiku. Â Some claim this really is not haiku and that the syllable count may work in Japanese but not in English. Â See the comments by Michael Dylan Welch. Â He claims it is the content, not the syllable count that matters.
The other is the journal, “Modern Haiku”, at http://www.modernhaiku.org. Â Their criteria for publication are much more stringent than in “Haiku Journal”. Â If you are interested in publishing in either, I suggest taking a look at work already published to get an idea regarding what they like. Â Supposedly, “Haiku Journal” publishes the first fifty submissions as long as they meet their criteria which basically appears to be the correct syllable count.
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