{"id":7304,"date":"2007-01-03T23:35:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T04:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/01\/03\/yes-her-again\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:53","slug":"yes-her-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/01\/03\/yes-her-again\/","title":{"rendered":"yes, her again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"sunglassesG\"\u00a0\u00a0It often seems that Your Editor spends much of his time congratulating Roberta Beary<\/strong><\/a> for receiving one haiku honor or another — or merely noting her pre-eminent stature among the tiny complement of lawyers who write haiku poetry.\u00a0 Tonight, I am happy to report on one more, especially noteworthy, competition won by Roberta.\u00a0 “The Unworn Necklace<\/em>,” her first manuscript of collected haiku and senryu, has been awarded the grand prize winner in the Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition 2006<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 As part of the prize, Snapshot will publish The Unworn Necklace<\/em> in August 2007 (pre-order it here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The following poems will be among those included in the upcoming volume:
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third blizzard\u2014
\nthe untuned piano’s
\nmiddle C<\/p>\n

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from here
\nto there
\nmother’s silence<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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the sound of the name
\ni used to have
\nsoft falling snow<\/p>\n

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\nfirst date\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 \"necklaceG\"
\nthe little pile
\nof anchovies<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

all day long
\ni feel its weight
\nthe unworn necklace<\/p>\n

. . . . by Roberta Beary<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"BearyRoberta\"\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\"fishingPole\"As you may recall from our posting<\/a> in October 2005, our Honored Guest Poet Carolyn Hall<\/strong><\/a>, shared the Snapshot Haiku Collection Award 2004.\u00a0 Here are two recent poems by Carolyn and two from Water Lines<\/em>, the winning volume of her work published\u00a0in December 2006\u00a0by Snapshot (which you can order here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

New Year\u2019s Day
\nthe center of the chocolate
\nnot what I expected<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don\u2019t know
\na soul at this picnic \u2014
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 damselflies<\/p>\n

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baiting one fish
\nwith another
\nautumn dawn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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twilight
\nthe poultry truck returns
\nwith empty cages<\/p>\n

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. . . . by Carolyn Hall<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"fishingPole\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“New Year’s Day” – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (June 2006<\/a>)
\n“I don’t know” – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (Dec. 2006<\/a>)
\n“baiting one fish” – Water Lines<\/em> (Snapshot Press 2006)
\n“twilight” – Water Lines<\/em> (Snapshot Press 2006)<\/p>\n

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