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hundreds of gourds
Wild celebration and exhaustion at Casa URB this week, because our Kickstarter campaign for Apocalypse Now has reached its goal! It’s still active until noon Central on Monday, and we’re hoping to make enough extra to print 250 extra books, to be able to sell them at some readings we have tentatively planned for Denver and Nashville and maybe some other places, and at the party we’ll be throwing at the AWP conference in March. | ![]() |
If you’re only interested in an ebook copy, this is still a good time to get it, because it’ll cost you $2 less than if you wait until it’s out on Amazon, B&N, the iStore, etc. (Our authors still get their regular royalties despite the discount, so no worries about exploitation. The only entities missing out are the corporations that run the online bookstores, which normally take 30 to 35% of the cover price.)
Apocalypse Now contributor Margaret Atwood was awarded the title of Companion of Literature, the highest honour in the Royal Society of Literature, on November 28th. A recording of her remarks will be available sometime in December in the RSL Library.
Vineland, New Jersey’s Cumberland County College is hosting Joyce Carol Oates as part of their One Book-One College reading campaign, on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. It’s free and open to the public.
A Hundred Gourds has posted their December issue, with lots of 140 And Counting contributors in it: Jim Kacian is pictured at the 2012 Haiku Festival Aotearoa in Tauranga, New Zealand with one of his poems on the Haiku Pathway and in a Katikati pub; the issue contains haiku and tanka by Helen Buckingham (1, 2, 3), Chen-ou Liu (1, 2, 3, 4), Peter Newton (1, 2, 3, 4), and Christina Nguyen (1, 2); and, finally, John McManus has written a review of T.D Ingram‘s haiku ebook Hiss of Leaves.
Other news for 140 And Counting contributors: Miriam Sagan‘s short story “M.I.A.” appeared in issue 4 of Literary Orphans; Darusha Wehm‘s story “The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, v. 2.1” was in Escape Pod on November 15th; and The Haiku Foundation has posted their Video Haiga #7: radium by Jim Kacian:
1 December 2012
Hiss of Leaves
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- Discuss this book at Goodreads and LibraryThing.
Explore the subtle beauty of beetles, trash in the wind, cigar boxes, snail trails, bottle caps, sheets snapping on the line, and more. This contemplative haiku chapbook by T. D. Ingram will help you cultivate a greater awareness of the magnificent in the everyday, and open your heart to the beauty inherent in everything.
From Hiss of Leaves:
silence
heat weights the air
then cricketsfall morning
monarchs fly
with the leaveshiss of leaves
sheets snap
on the line
Poems from the book available online:
These links all open in a new window.
- five haiku at The Haiku Foundation, part of The Haiku Registry and included in THF Haiku App: “hiss of leaves” [originally Editors Choice, South by Southeast 11:1 (2004) and Tinywords (April 21, 2005)]; “last freight car” [originally South by Southeast 14:3 (2007)]; “fall morning” [originally South by Southeast 11:1 (2004)]; “hawk circles” [originally South by Southeast 10:1 (2003)]; “clear evening” [originally South by Southeast 12:2 (2005)].
- “the silence,” A Hundred Gourds 1:1 December 2011.
- “noonday heat,” Red Dragonfly, August 19, 2011.
Reviews:
These poems necessarily embrace the seasons and the natural world, but they also embrace the mundane world of humans. For instance, “bottle capsâ€:
bottle caps
stuck in blacktop
small planetsOne my favorites, “the brightnessâ€:
the brightness
of the full moon
deepens the coldI have yet to experience the snow in the high desert of Oregon to see if this is true here also, but it is certainly true in the Midwest and other places I’ve been. It seems as if the light from the full moon, illuminating the world it shines on, ought make the winter night a little warmer but it has the exact opposite effect. The poet has caught this perfectly.
— Mark Lindner, “Ingram, Hiss of Leaves,” Habitually Probing Generalist, 26 September 2012.
1 comment 11 August 2012
T. D. Ingram

Photo credit Ally Ingram
T. D. Ingram is a retired advertising writer-producer-director who has been writing haiku, senryu, haibun and tanka since 2002. Born and raised in Southern Illinois, he now resides in Texas. His poems have appeared in Ambrosia, Atlas Poetica, Handful of Stones, Notes From the Gean, River of Stones, Seven by Twenty, Sketchbook, South by Southeast and Tinywords. Find him at tdi.posterous.com or on Twitter as Haikujots.
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Contemplative haiku chapbook Hiss of Leaves was released August 2012.
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T. D. Ingram is one of 119 contributors to 140 And Counting.
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2 April 2012