Blo͞o Outlier Journal

  This issue is due out  Summer 2022! Extra special reason for this too! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 submission window is now open ! Please see this link for what I am looking for :  https://bloooutlierjournal.blogspot.com/2021/08/bloo-outlier-journal-issue-3-is-haiku.html The new haiku submission email address : haikutec101@gmail.com Please send submissions of wildlife/nature/wilderness/natural history haiku to this email address only. Please don't rush any submissions, take your time. Submission window open from today: Saturday 21st August to Friday October 1st 2021 Send up to five (5) haiku Theme: wildlife, wilderness, natural history It's also worth looking at the two issues of Muttering Thunder : Just to warn you that they are big files, but highly worth the wait: https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/3087 Make it your experience, past or present, in the wilderness.  Own that wilderness in your own u...

  Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 is the nature special issue! Dedicated to  H. Gene Murtha (19 October 1955 – 9 October 2015) Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue #3 is looking for: wilderness haiku: from birds and clouds to animals and insects, moss, lichen, rivers, streams, the wind and the rocks, the woods and the forest,  nature in unexpected places: to those pockets even in human habitations (towns & cities) where ‘the other nature’ has stayed free, or adapted into a kind of safe or safer symbiosis. What is natural history haiku?  I’ve been asked this a few times regarding the Autumn 2021 issue of Blo͞o Outlier Journal. It could be said they are powerful nature poems, and raw nature poems. It’s capturing nature or rather when nature captures us and we merge. Traditionally haiku are rooted in natural history and the seasons, and make us conspirators with wildlife, as nature half-writes the haiku before we've even put pen to paper. EXAMPLES on my FB page: https://www.f...