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.. “white lies<\/em>: Red Moon Anthology 2008<\/a>” (by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Press Editorial Staff, January 2009; ISBN: 1-978-893959-80-4; 182-pages, $17.00)<\/p>\nW<\/strong><\/em>e’ve said it before<\/a>: the publication of the annual Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku is a much anticipated event in the haijin community.\u00a0 The annual “RMA” attempts to collect \u201cthe best English-language haiku and related writings from around the world\u201d published in the prior calendar year, as selected by Red Moon Press<\/a> owner Jim Kacian and a distinguished panel of editors.\u00a0 Poets and readers of the genre love to see which poems and essays have been included.\u00a0 Lately, there has even been some welcome controversy about the contents of RMA.<\/p>\n .. Because we do not yet have a copy of RMA 2008 in hand, we can’t offer an overview nor yet present all of the works written by our Honored Guest Poets that were selected for inclusion in white lies<\/em>.\u00a0 I’m hoping that members of our f\/k\/a<\/em> family of poets will let me know which of their poems have been chosen for this year’s RMA.\u00a0 Here are the selected poems that I know about right now; I’ll add to this list as I learn of others.<\/p>\n to-do list done …. by Billie WIlson \n funeral dirge \u2013 ….. by\u00a0 David Giacalone (in mem. Arthur P. Giacalone) \n the cool kids \n hunger moon – winter dusk\u2014 … by Roberta Beary a cold cup \n equinox \n \n the smoothness ….. by Peggy Willis Lyles — you’ll find more poems from white lies<\/em> in our posts “quickies and white lies<\/a>” (Feb. 3, 2009); “GAL’s alternative universe<\/a>” (Feb. 5, 2009; \u201cstein and hull and more white lies<\/em><\/a>\u201d (Feb. 9, 2009) —<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" .. “white lies: Red Moon Anthology 2008” (by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Press Editorial Staff, January 2009; ISBN: 1-978-893959-80-4; 182-pages, $17.00) We’ve said it before: the publication of the annual Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku is a much anticipated event in the haijin community.\u00a0 The annual “RMA” attempts to collect \u201cthe best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1852,555,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haijin-haikai-news","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2JV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12054,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2006\/11\/RMPlogo.gif\")
<\/a> .. The f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang was, therefore, very pleased to learn yesterday that the 13th volume in the RMA series is now available, “white lies<\/em>: Red Moon Anthology 2008<\/a>.”\u00a0 It contains “133 poems, 18 linked pieces and five critical works which encapsulate the very best writing of the haiku world in English this year.”\u00a0 Jim Kacian has held the line again on price, which is still $17.00.<\/p>\n
\nthe day softens
\ninto dusk<\/p>\n
\norig. pub. Upstate Dim Sum<\/em> 2008\/II<\/p>\n
\nwe bury the one
\nwho could carry a tune<\/p>\n
\norig. pub. Frogpond<\/em> – Spring 2008 (Vol. 31: 2)<\/p>\n
\nwalk arm-in-arm
\n. . . wild narcissus<\/p>\n
\nthe words
\ni meant to say<\/p>\n
\nwhen dad
\nwould phone<\/p>\n
\n“the cool kids” – pub. credit: the heron’s nest<\/em> 9:11
\n“hunger moon” – pub. credit: Haiku Ireland Kukai<\/em> 10
\n“winter dusk” – pub. credit:\u00a0 Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Contest 2008<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nfrom a cold cupboard
\nmorning moon<\/p>\n
\na new teacher
\nadjusts the globe<\/p>\n
\nof a river stone
\nslow-moving clouds<\/p>\n
\n“a cold cup”– Acorn<\/em> 20
\n“equinox” – Acorn<\/em> 21
\n“the smoothness” – Valley Voices<\/em> 8:1<\/p>\n