{"id":4362,"date":"2006-02-06T16:38:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/02\/06\/winners-from-jim-kacian\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:11","slug":"winners-from-jim-kacian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/06\/winners-from-jim-kacian\/","title":{"rendered":"winners from jim kacian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congratulations to <\/FONT>Jim Kacian<\/FONT><\/A> (f\/k\/a<\/EM>‘s very first Honored <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Guest Poet and godfather), whose poem was recently <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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awarded <\/FONT>2nd place<\/FONT><\/A> in the Haiku Society of America’s <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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2005 Harold G. Henderson <\/A><\/FONT>Memorial Competition<\/FONT><\/A> for best <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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unpublish haiku.  Here’s jim’s haiku — a great example <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that fewer (syllables and lines) can be more:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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gunshot the length of the lake        <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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          <\/FONT>Jim Kacian<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>  (2nd Place, <\/FONT>HSA<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT>Henderson Award 2005<\/FONT><\/A>,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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             judges’ <\/FONT>comments<\/FONT><\/A>)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Serendipity Alert<\/EM>:  I literally just went downstairs and found the newest <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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annual version of <\/FONT>The Red Moon Anthology of English-Languish Haiku<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in my mailbox — the most-anticipated annual anthology by many haiku <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lovers, including myself.  Jim Kacian is the editor and publisher of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Red Moon Press<\/FONT><\/A>, and the Anthology series has won many awards <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and much praise, for assembling “each year the finest haiku and re-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lated forms published around the world in English.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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RMA 2005 is titled inside the mirror<\/A><\/EM> (click to see the colorful cover).  \"InsideTheMirrorG\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The ten co-editors who helped Jim select the poems included in RMA <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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2005, selected three of Master Kacian’s poems, and here are two <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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excellent one-liners:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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flurries after our argument the need to tell you<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                    \"threeQuarterMoon\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the voices I hear aren’t talking to me spring twilight<\/FONT> <\/DIV>
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\"kacianSelf\"  Let’s celebrate with a few more <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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haiku <\/FONT>from Jim:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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   a cow comes<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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      half hay<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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          sharp wind<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the metal gate bangs shut<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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three-quarter moon–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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imagining she can feel it<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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move inside her<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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“moonWaneCres”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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   the lake laps<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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all night the same<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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   quiet thoughts<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Jim Kacian<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> from <\/FONT>Presents of Mind<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> (1996)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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except: “three-quarter moon” – mariposa<\/EM> 6; pegging the wind<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p.s<\/STRONG>. You can find a Red Moon Press order form <\/EM><\/FONT>here<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>.<\/EM><\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                                          \"InsideTheMirrorN\"<\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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Congratulations to Jim Kacian (f\/k\/a‘s very first Honored Guest Poet and godfather), whose poem was recently awarded 2nd place in the Haiku Society of America’s 2005 Harold G. Henderson Memorial Competition for best  unpublish haiku.  Here’s jim’s haiku — a great example that fewer (syllables and lines) can be more:   gunshot the length of the lake           […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-18m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}