Poem Just Accepted for Summer 2013 Issue of Persimmon Tree

I’m delighted to announce that one of the poems I wrote at Peter Murphy’s annual Poetry and Prose Getaway this past January, “After and Because”,  has just today been accepted for the Summer 2013 issue of Persimmon Tree,  a very well respected journal of writing by women over 60.

They do not ordinarily accept poetry submissions. However, two times a year they hold contests and publish the winning poems submitted by poets who live in a specific geographical region.

http://www.persimmontree.org/v2/

I submitted in response to a call for poets living in ten Northeast states (ME, VT, NH, CT, MA, RI, NY, PA, NJ, DE), so the contest was very competitive. I’m thrilled!! I will be sure to let you know when the issue is up and running.

My Haibun “Carolina Home” published in *Notes From the Gean*

I’m happy to report that my haibun, “Carolina Home” is just posted in the current (April 2013) issue of Notes From the Gean (flip to page 25):

http://www.geantreepress.com/Current_Issue.html.

It’s a fine on-line journal of haiku and related genres, published by Colin Stewart Jones. I encourage you to read the whole issue.

Another On-line Review of *One Bowl*

John Barlow, publisher and editor of Snapshot Press, just sent me, at the reviewer’s request, a link to another review of One Bowl. I am grateful to Philip Ellis for his kind words about my work.

http://www.phillipaellis.com/

http://www.phillipaellis.com/review-one-bowl-penny-harter/

So again, here’s a link to One Bowl in a flash version:

http://issuu.com/echapbooks/docs/one_bowl?mode=embed&layout=http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/issuu/snapshotGrey/layout.xml

I am especially happy that One Bowl is getting reviewed because it is an e-chapbook, and I feared that e-books might not get reviewed. But now I’ve gotten two fine reviews, both by reviewers in Australia (all the more reason to go back there again), and that delights me.  I hope you enjoy the following review.

My recent e-chapbook, *One Bowl,* is reviewed in *Haibun Today*

This evening when I opened my email from Jeffrey Woodward this evening, I found a lovely and deeply moving review of my recent e-chapbook of haibun, One Bowl, in the March 2013 issue (just posted) of Haibun Today. I am grateful to Graham Nunn for his kind words about my work. He lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and I’m sorry I didn’t get to meet him during my visit with Australian haiku poets in Melbourne last December. I hope those of you who haven’t read One Bowl yet can do so now by visiting the URL for it at Snapshot Press (England). Below are links to both a “flash” version which downloads quickly, and the PDF file:

http://issuu.com/echapbooks/docs/one_bowl?mode=embed&layout=http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/issuu/snapshotGrey/layout.xml

http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks/One_Bowl.pdf

And here’s the link to Haibun Today for the review:

http://haibuntoday.com/ht71/a_Nunn_Harter.html

Poem Accepted for *Holy Cow! Press* anthology

Just got the news today via good old postal mail that Holy Cow! Press has accepted my poem “Shelling Peas” for their forthcoming anthology The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home, to be published in a paperback edition during October 2013. Since it had been some months since I submitted, I was checking my submissions records and wondering about it earlier today—and then the mail came .

You can visit their web site at: http://www.holycowpress.org/

The press does lovely anthologies. In 2009, I was blessed to have work in an earlier anthology of theirs Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude— a collection which I highly recommend for anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one. I’m so pleased to be included in this new anthology from Holy Cow! Press!

And I want to add that Jama Rattigan at her “Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup” blog was the first to like and feature this poem. You can scroll down to read it again at:

http://jamarattigan.com/2011/06/03/friday-feast-two-poetic-peas-in-a-pod/

Back from Australia, plus two new publications

I just got back night before last from a month’s visit in Australia I stayed with friends in Victoria (a small town near Melbourne) and then went on vacation with them in both Victoria and New South Wales, visiting Sydney, the Blue Mountains, and Canberra.

While there, I also led a ginko in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and visited with various haiku poets in Sydney and elsewhere. Special thanks to Cynthia and Bruce Rowe for the tour of Sydney. What a beautiful landscape! Will share more on all that later—after I recover from jet-lag and organize my many photos.

Meanwhile, this good news, which I couldn’t easily post last week:

My poem “In That Far Haven” appears in Issue Number 3 / Winter 2012 of the *Red Rose Review*: http://roseredreview.org/2012-winter-penny-harter/.

And my haibun, “Once in a Blue Moon” appears in the Winter 2012 issue of *A Hundred Gourds*: http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/ahg21/haibun07.html.

Haibun featured at Jama Rattigan’s *Alphabet Soup* blog :)

I woke to this morning’s blessing, a poem of mine posted so beautifully by the editor it takes my breath away. Her words honor me, and the photographs she found to accompany the piece are stunning. I sent the photo of the bowl, but she found the galaxy and bee hive. . . Feel free to send this link on if you know of anyone who might be interested. Hope you enjoy it!

http://jamarattigan.com/2012/12/07/friday-feast-one-bowl-by-penny-harter/

Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season and a great New Year!