Deadline coming up! April 15th

The IRS has generously given you until April 17th to complete your taxes this year, so your only concern for April 15th should be to send your best haiku, senryu, haiga and haibun to SxSE for consideration.*

Submission guidelines and both the email and snail mail addresses to send them to are on the right, under "About South by Southeast". Thank you -- as always we look forward to reading your work!

Editors' choices for issue 19:1

The deadline for our next issue is coming up on April 15th. For some inspiration, here are the Editors' Choices from the last issue:




garbage night --
i hesitate
with the moon


-- Tyrone McDonald




yellow leaf dangling from the snowman's lip


-- Bill Cooper





SHARK TOOTH

dark clouds scudding by --
a giant squid vanishes
with a sucking sound

the old whaler laid to rest
his hands on a scrimshaw cross

an ancient shark tooth
100 miles from the sea --
wind ripples the grass

a mermaid tattoo
on the young tree planter's calf --
the sound of reggae

again the falconer scans
the empty horizon

the day care pirate
slashes with a toy cudgel --
afternoon stories


-- by Allan Burns and Ron Moss

Issue #19:1 is hitting mailboxes

Our new issue is just out -- the first issue of South by Southeast's 19th year. We current editors have only been on board for 12 of those years, but it's still hard to believe we've been at it for that long. Thanks for all of your support, with both subscriptions and submissions.

Check back soon for the Editors' Choice selections from the issue!

Editors' choices from v.18: no.2

Our next deadline is right around the corner (Sept. 15th!), so here are the Editors' Choice poems from last issue to help to inspire your new submissions.




fall fog
sea and sky
the same sound


          - Michelle Root-Bernstein



                                                                      the cold
                                                                      stars leaf
                                                                      the trees


                                                                                - LeRoy Gorman



returning from war                                       Povratak iz rata.
on the ashes of my house                             Na zgaristu moje kuce
a dog's skull                                                     lobanja psa.


                                                                  - Tomislav Z. Vujcic (Serbia)

Issue 18:2 now out!

The latest issue of South by Southeast is reaching mailboxes now. It features haiku, senryu, haiga and haibun by Stanford Forrester, LeRoy Gorman, Elizabeth Howard and many others. In addition we publish an essay about haiku and artists' books by Josh Hockensmith, and an essay on traditional Japanese senryu by Steve Addiss. We'll post the 3 haiku selected as Editor's Choice winners on this blog soon.

In the meantime, if you don't subscribe yet and you'd like to see it please email us at saddiss at richmond dot edu. Single issues may be purchased for $6 in the US, $9 abroad. A year's subscription (3 issues) is $16 in the US, $25 abroad. Two-year subscriptions cost $25 in the US, $45 abroad.

Deadline coming soon: April 15th

Just a quick reminder that the next deadline for submissions to SxSE is coming up. Please send us your work by April 15th -- guidelines are available to the right!

Editors' Choices

At deadline time at South by Southeast, there are six of us who read through the submissions and give our opinions about what to publish in the upcoming issue. Although we've shared, workshopped, and debated haiku for years, it's rare that we all agree. In the "Editors' Choices" section of each issue we feature several haiku and senryu that we most agreed on.

Here are the four poems featured as Editors' Choices in the latest issue (Vol.18, No.1):




   spring breeze a spider line floats in morning sun


   - Lee Giesecke





                                    winter clouds
                                    the walnut tree's
                                    reaching hand


                                    - Lee Giesecke




first frost
on both sides
of the fallen leaf


- Gretchen Graft Batz




                                                                        homeless men
                                                                        shopping for sleep
                                                                        on Black Friday


                                                                        - Patricia Carragon




Our next deadline is coming up in a few weeks: April 15th. As you're preparing for Tax Day, don't forget to stop, breathe, and send us a few of your best haiku. (For those of you not in the U.S., please happily disregard the taxes part...)