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Left Coast Right Watch (LCRW) is an investigative journalism outlet dedicated to covering politics and extremism.

Voert Digitial champions Sound Art,the Avant-garde, photography, along with experimental music and art.

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new forms of haiQu:

tanQa

haiQa

should be self-explaining but deets to come...

UbuWeb, which we've just added to our blogroll, is an incredible archive, resource, and service. This is from their site description:

UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts

Here are the categories listed on the home page:

• Film & Video
• Sound
• Dance
• Papers
• Historical
• Visual Poetry
• Conceptual Comics
• Conceptual Writing
• Contemporary
• Aspen Magazine
• Outsiders
• /ubu Editions
• 365 Days Project
• Ethnopoetics
• Electronic Music Resources

UbuWeb is a top contender for my desert island website list.

haiQu is:

• bad haiku
• experimental writing
• senryū
• micro-poetry
• flarf
• protest poetry
• algorithmic sabotage
• antifa
• wabi sabi
• dada
• surrealism
• a way of life
• fun to write

If you are interested in any of the above, I hope you'll join the movement. One of my dreams is to get enough people involved that we can form a Renga group and make collaborative haiQu.

Here is an Introduction to haiQu, and here's a slightly longer description, How to Write haiQu.

I am also writing haiQu in the following forms: haiga; haibun. I guess these will be called haiQa and haiQun...