Posted inAmbulations

FLASH CONTEST: It’s #Haikuween Night on Twitter

[Note: this contest has officially ended. See results at the bottom of this post.] Horror poet Stephanie Wytovich (author of Hysteria and Mourning Jewelry) and I will be live-tweeting horror haiku intermittently on twitter.com throughout Halloween night, from 7pm-11pm eastern. Anyone who retweets one of our poems tagged with #Haikuween (or who posts their own bloody #Haikuween tagged as such) will be entered into a random draw to win the infamous "Poedown" limited lettered CD (in a double-live case, coupled with the Arnzensongs CD). This is a very rare treasure, as only selected backers of the Fridge of the Damned…
October 31, 2014Posted inAmbulations
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

My Zombie Haiku: All Halloween Day and Night Long

  Happy official Halloween day.  I have a lot of work to do this afternoon.  But I'm going to personally challenge myself to write at least one horror haiku poem an hour (at minimum) and post it on my twitter page all day long...till midnight. I'm giving them all a zombie theme, partially inspired by the recent release of the sequel to Ryan Mecum's great Zombie Haiku book from a few years ago:  Dawn of Zombie Haiku and all the great #zombiehaiku he's been publishing on twitter himself over the past few days. To read the zombie haiku, you can…
October 31, 2011Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inData+Errata

2010 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners

The 2010 Halloween Haiku Caption Contest was difficult to judge, and all the entries were fantastic. Thank you for captioning all those weird art pieces!  We'll do it again sometime. It was difficult to pick one, but to me the clear winner is FJ Bergmann (fibitz.com), for penning a gross little number inspired by the art piece, "Fountain of Worm." Bergmann's haiku has dynamic action, impending doom, good reference to the image, and great language use, all telling a unique story in just 17 syllables!: FOUNTAIN OF WORM quivering with need undulating, gorged with blood the gut villi wait --…
November 2, 2010Posted inData+Errata5 Comments
Posted inData+Errata

Halloween Haiku Contest 2010

[Note: this contest is now closed to entries (though comments on the gallery are always welcomed, poetic or not). Winner announced soon. -MAA]. This one's easy. Post a haiku poem related to one of the artpieces on my gallery. Just enter it in the "comments" field, along with your byline (name) and e-mail address. This will automatically publish the poem. All adult language will be censored, so please don't use any -- suggest and evoke, instead. Entries are due by Halloween (Oct 31st) at Midnight. Arbitrary rule: I expect your haiku to be 3 lines long, in a 5-7-5 syllable…
October 28, 2010Posted inData+Errata5 Comments
Posted inData+Errata

Horror-Ku Winners Posted

If you'd like to read a few quick horror haiku, click on over to the Little Blog of Horrors over at Horror-Web.com.  They've posted the top three entries of a horror-ku contest I recently judged.  Congrats to winners CS McBride, Bruce Boston and John Pupo!
February 3, 2009Posted inData+Errata