Alan Summers
thehaikutec.bsky.social
Alan Summers
@thehaikutec.bsky.social
Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review
https://www.callofthepage.org
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Our first video feedback haiku course!
Video & audio combined is a great way for Alan Summers to comment on your haiku poems, for him to hone in really clearly on specific lines and words in real time.

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Call of the Page - Haiku Playback
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Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025

by Kati Mohr

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November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Read the beautiful poemword or one word poem in the latest Issue of Whiptail.

November 2025 Issue 14 Whiptail.pdf share.google/O70bDsceWeKl...

Consider writing your own poemword.

Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem | The MIT Press Reader share.google/ZcGOhk4WteuA...
Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem
“In effect the single word is a new reading process; like electricity — instant and continuous.”
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December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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everything turned off the stars tonight

by Dylan Stover

Whiptail Journal, Issue 14, November 2025

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem. Dedicated to single-line poetry. Publishing one-line poems: haiku, senryu, one-line tanka, lyrical, monostich, or experimental and in horizontal, vertical, d...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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We are thrilled to share our nominations! Part 1: The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards (Poem and Haibun)!

Our sincere gratitude for the writers and readers of exceptional one-line poetry who have made it a fun and exciting year for us at whiptail! Your support means everything to us.
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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More award nominations from your favorite journal of one-line poetry!
Part 2: Pushcart Prize. Good luck!
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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between branch and branch
the spaces where flowers were
filling with moonlight
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
the mountain
inside each mountain
goose feather snow

Alan Summers
Award Credit: Commendation
The 15th Polish International Haiku Competition 2025

"goose feather snow":
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#haiku #snow  #winter #writing
wild wanderer on Instagram: "Cornflake / goose feather snow is the best, I do not make the rules, get out there and frolic! It’s still calendar winter! Enjoy it!! #wildwanderer #wildwanderermt #colum...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A #haiga from the latest @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social edited by @pippaesque.bsky.social and Orrin Prejean:

more than Ωhms the strength of resistance

#haiku #senryu #resist
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Goldfinches (the European species) in the winter’s morning sunshine. Ink and watercolour.
#artAdventCalendar
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December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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sun in a puddle
the painful cold of last night
soaking through my shoes
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thanks! A hundred hours or more, but needed to curate the edition just so! 😀
Love the design and the fabulous collection of haikus in this issue. Congratulations to editor Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social
and many thanks for including my two haikus in this.

#Oulens #haiku #senryu #tanka
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thank you!
black belt exam
his best keikogi
fully transparent

🙏 to editor extraordinaire Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social for including this one in PHR6
The Pan Haiku Review 6th edition with its journal and a bonus arts feature by Tim Roberts: www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
#haiku #haiga
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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cold night blues -
an owl adds its cry
to the hue

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (cold night)
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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And finally a found #haiga that made it into #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i... . Yay!

more clearly, along the shores a lot of weight

—Makoto
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Pan Haiku Review 6th edition with its journal and a bonus arts feature by Tim Roberts: www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...
#haiku #haiga
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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a surprise: I painted this at a different orientation, turned it, & blinked a couple of times —here is Spirit of the Raven.

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#artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #art #womensartbluesky #abstractartist #blueskyart #artist #oregonartist #oregon
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wonderful responses!!!
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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all of human existence condensed in a poetic line—senryu #senryu
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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#tankaprose by new contributor Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India @haiku_vaishnavir #poetry #tanka #poetrylovers #cat #micropoetry #haiku #india #prose #amwriting #moon #poetrycommunity
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Very proud to be part this poetic conversation from @yaffles-nest.bsky.social

‘over 250 pages filled with a chain of poetry that started out as lots of smaller chains, exemplified by the gorgeous cover photo.. webs are fragile and strong, vulnerable and powerful.’
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Pink-footed Goose this morning on the Mill Pool at Hill Hook NR was a probably a site first (certainly a first for me); also added to house list. Also 2 Cormorant, 2 Shoveler (m+f) & an impressive 115 BHG; 2 Little Egret + 3 Cormorant present yesterday @ecorecord.bsky.social @ruthnewby.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Next event, 5 Dec 6.30pm, is our annual festive get-together - an online festive evening of words and music, come along to share, enjoy and celebrate! @nbissell.bsky.social @dauvitf.bsky.social

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Festive Evening Celebration
Get ready for a night of joy at our Festive Evening Celebration - it's going to be a virtual party you won't want to miss!
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November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Headshots, a cooperative Great Blue Heron. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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American film noir “NO WAY OUT”(1950) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, controversially known for its “graphic representation of racial violence” saw the feature film debuts of Sidney Poitier & Mildred Joanne Smith with Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell & S. McNally

🎬 20th Century-Fox
🎞 #Noirvember
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM