the body of a dog
thrown away
in the winter river
— Masaoka Shiki
Welcome to Mu. We, here at Mu, are looking for the guts in haiku. Basho once told his students, “Prefer vegetable broth to duck soup.” We miss the vegetable broth in haiku. Send us some broth; we’ll taste it, if we like it, we’ll save the leftovers, if we don’t, we’ll just spit it back out. Nonetheless, if we haikuists don’t stir the brevity broth in some way, we’ll see the haiku world go unMu, and drain itself until it no longer exists. We don’t want to see that happen, we enjoy haiku too much. That’s why we are starting here. Want to know more about vegetable broth? Check out our ISSUE and CONTEST pages.
We look forward to reading your work, so please send away. Good health, peace and good writing to everyone!
— Mu
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Given a melon
with all the heat of the sun
still warm within it
— Seishi Yamaguchi
I go,
you stay;
two autumns
— Buson
Greetings,
Mu issue III
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visit the ISSUE III page
Mu IV
accepting submissions now
Please paste up to ten (original and unpublished) haiku in the body of an e-mail and send it to muhaikujournal@gmail.com. No attachments please.
DEADLINE: AUGUST 31st.
For further submission guidelines please visit the “SUBMISSIONS” page.