{"id":9719,"date":"2008-08-07T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/07\/welcoming-frogponds-online-sampler\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:23","slug":"welcoming-frogponds-online-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/07\/welcoming-frogponds-online-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"welcoming <i>Frogpond<\/i>&#8216;s online sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/08\/heron-logo.jpg\" height=\"80\" width=\"53\" \/>  <strong><em>O<\/em><\/strong>n August 6, 2008, this notice was posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/whats-new.htm\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> page of the Haiku Society of America website:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>HSA launched the online  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/index.html\">Frogpond<\/a><\/em> journal  sampler that will feature some of the best work from each issue of <em>Frogpond<\/em>. It is located at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/index.html<\/a>. 08-06-08<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Frankly, we&#8217;re thrilled (although Prof. Yabut adds, &#8220;It&#8217;s about time!&#8221;).  Jim Kacian, its former editor, has correctly called <em>Frogpond<\/em> &#8220;one of the two most important haiku magazines, along with <em>Modern Haiku<\/em>, of haiku outside Japan in the world.&#8221;  Although all three issues are available each year in hard copy as part of HSA&#8217;s modest annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/join.htm\">membership<\/a> dues (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/previousissues.html\">separately<\/a>), having a nice selection of <em>Frogpond<\/em>&#8216;s content available regularly online is a treat for the haiku-loving public.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Frogpond<\/em>&#8216;s first online sampler covers the latest issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/2008-issue31-2\/index.html\">Vol. 31.2<\/a> (Spring\/Summer 2008).  There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/2008-issue31-2\/haiku.html\">eight haiku<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/2008-issue31-2\/senryu.html\">eight senryu<\/a> presented from Vol. 31.2, along with two haibun and a rengay, a book review (of Marian Olson&#8217;s <em>Desert Hours<\/em>), and more. The poem chosen as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/2008-issue31-2\/museumaward.html\">best unpublished work<\/a> from the prior issue will also be included online.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/07\/frogpondsp08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/07\/frogpondsp08_2_4.jpg\" height=\"88\" width=\"86\" \/><\/a>  Of course, <em>f\/k\/a<\/em> will continue to post works by our Honored Guests that appear in <em>Frogpond.<\/em>  On July 1st, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/07\/01\/a-new-issue-of-frogpond-arrives\/\">we presented<\/a> 8 haiku from Vol. 31.2, and on July 2, we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/07\/02\/senryu-and-more-from-the-new-frogpond\/\">gave you<\/a> six senryu, two haibun, and a rengay collaborative poem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to the internet, <em>Frogpond<\/em>!  Now, please make our cranky editor happy and try to filter out all those pesky <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/06\/03\/too-many-tell-ems-psyku-lower-haiku-quality\/\">psyku<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 6, 2008, this notice was posted on the What&#8217;s New page of the Haiku Society of America website: HSA launched the online Frogpond journal sampler that will feature some of the best work from each issue of Frogpond. It is located at: http:\/\/www.hsa-haiku.org\/frogpond\/index.html. 08-06-08 Frankly, we&#8217;re thrilled (although Prof. Yabut adds, &#8220;It&#8217;s about [&hellip;]<\/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":[1852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haijin-haikai-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2wL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","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=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12213,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}