The Virgil Hutton Memorial Chapbook Awards 1998-1999 |
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Haiku collections by Randy Brooks of Decatur, Illinois; Garry Gay of Santa Rosa, California; Robert Gilliand of Austin, Texas; and Ruth Yarrow of Seattle, Washington, captured the four winning chapbooks in the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 1998-1999. A celebration of haiku, as well as a fitting memorial tribute to the late haiku poet, Virgil Hutton, this contest is sponsored by the Hutton family and Saki Press, Normal, Illinois. This first annual haiku chapbook contest had entries from the US, Canada, England, New Zealand, and Australia. |
Saki Press Please note that these chapbooks are not available for sale from Brooks Books. |
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THE HOMESTEAD CEDARS Saki Press Chapbook |
Brooks is a professor of English at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and the publisher of Brooks Books. This is a collection of haiku and senyru integrating the family of past times with the family at present-strong images connecting to the past as one's ancestors continue to live on in present generations through memories, heirlooms, values, and a sense of continuity. her
open Bible . . . "A miniaturized novel suggesting native-soil saga of a long-established family " —W.H. Hutton |
| Gay is a professional California-based photographer
and writer of haiku who created the poetic form called "Rengay,"
This is a solid and tight selection of Garry Gay's favorite work that
showcases his style and "haiku vision." He has skillfully
incorporated a certain flow into the work, yet allowed it breathing
room, which heightens the subtleness of his discovery.
Hole
in the clouds "Illustrates in a striking and dramatic way the parallel coalescence of mathematics and poetry." —W.H. Hutton |
RIVER STONES Saki Press Chapbook |
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mosquitoes and moonlight Saki Press Chapbook |
Gilliland is a medical doctor with psychiatric
specialization, and a former photographer turned haiku poet. He provides
cogent contrasts between sound and silence--sometimes with the silences
of the past providing accentuation to the sounds of the present--which
generate significant overtones of the etherial, almost spiritual, circumstances
of the haiku moment.
rusty
screen door- "An imagistic moment of intuitive realization conveying a sense of nature's sometimes pesky, invading noise contrasted with eternal, silent beauty." —Lenore Hutton |
| Yarrow is a former teacher of the natural environment
in colleges and nature centers throughout the Northeast (and currently
an active environmentalist in the Pacific Northwest). She presents a
collected kaleidoscopic mosaic of earth's seasons interacting with various
serendipitous moments that reflect contrasts around specific edges:
edges of light, form, change, awareness, and survival.
desert
morning "An intricately dainty, yet profound, image—a microcosm of the ongoing enlightening activities of the world and the universe…" --W.H. Hutton |
SUN GILDS THE EDGE Saki Press Chapbook |
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JOGGING THE HAIKU HIGHWAY Saki Press Chapbook |
A new collection of 50 haiku and senyru by the late haiku poet, Virgil Hutton about life and death, light and dark, season in and out,from the runner's keen eye and soles as he perseveres on his ever-changing path . . . The
old jogger-- "The two basics that I strive for in haiku writing are simplicity and profundity. . . One's poems ideally should leave one with a sense of yet undiscovered meanings and nuances."—Virgil Hutton |
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