Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa, artist
44 pages
170 haiku/senryu
1 haibun (with 3 poems)
2 linked verses (each with 36 poems)
8 art pieces
From the Editor by Francine Porad
Editors’ Choice Awards
Haiku and Senryu
“still we listen” linked lines by anne mckay and Jean Dubois
“afterimages” linked lines by anne mckay and George Swede
Books Received (9 listings)
Favorite Haiku by H. F. Noyes
Haiku and Senryu
Artist Statement: Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa
"Warm Night, Cool Lights" haibun by Emily Romano
Haiku and Senryu
Contributors
Favorite poems selected by Diane Wallihan
school days again
shirts waiting to be ironed
outgrown
Yvonne Hardenbrook
piano lesson:
the pianissimo
fortissimo
Anthony J. Pupello
moving day
the heaviest boxes filled with
her diet books
John J. Dunphy
icicle’s slow drip
in close accord with
the intravenous . . .
Emily Romano
crowding the drummers
technicians with recorders
capture ancient songs
J. Ervin
Editors’ Choice Awards
Candle in my cell,
flame pulsing
to the tree frog
Daniel Mills
old woman's lined face—
another name crossed out
in her address book
Dorothy McLaughlin
willow shadows
in and out of my cup . . .
tea leaves settling
Christopher Herold
A note from Diane Wallihan
Seeing “SASE” on the title page brought a bit of nostalgia [this refers to the necessity of including a self-addressed stamped envelope to receive a reply to postal submissions]. I felt some poems had words and subject matter more commonly used in the 1980s and 1990s, adding an historic quality to the volume. A few of the 5-7-5 poems would probably be trimmed for today’s journals.
Contributors
Suezan Aikins
Diane Albertina
Francis W. Alexander
Kay F. Anderson
A. Araghetti
Deborah Arnold
Holly Arrow
Ron Asato
Joyce Bagley
Francine Banwarth
Cathy D. Better
M. L. Bittle-DeLapa
Marianne Bluger
Carl Brennan
Liz Brown
Marikay Brown
William C. Burns
Jean Calkins
Tom Clausen
Ion Codrescu
Christopher Conn
Jon Contorines
Kimberly Cortner
Edmund J. Daly
Mike Dillon
Jean Dubois
Lora Dunetz
Denis J. Dunn
Dorothea L. Dunning
John J. Dunphy
Marje A. Dyck
David Elliott
Margarita M. Engle
J. Ervin
Jeffrey Ferrara
K. E. FitzMaurice
Patrick Frank
Gary Fry
William S. Galasso
Frederick Gasser
Lee Giesecke
LeRoy Gorman
Larry Gross
M. Hamilton
Yvonne Hardenbrook
Christopher Herold
Ruth Holter
randy johnson
Jean Jorgensen
Jim Kacian
Robert Keay
Larry W. Kelts
Michael Ketchek
Herb Kitson
George Knox
Tom Koontz
Evelyn Lang
Carolyn Locke
Peggy Willis Lyles
Evan S. Mahl
Makiko
Allan Marshall
anne mckay
D. McLaughlin
Florence Miller
Daniel Mills
Patricia Neubauer
Sue Nevill
Bert Noia
H. F. Noyes
Tom Painting
Brent Partridge
Francine Porad
Gloria H. Procsal
Anthony Pupello
George Ralph
Werner Reichhold
Eric Roalson
Charles B. Rodning
Emily Romano
Mike Romoth
Charles Scanzello
M. A. Schaffner
Helen J. Sherry
George B. Sieck
G. .R Simser
Sara Lee Skydell
Marion H. Smith
Regina F. Smith
D. Spann-Wilson
Robert Spiess
Elizabeth St Jacques
Dean Summers
Dave Sutter
George Swede
Wally Swist
Kenneth Tanemura
Robert Tannen
Marc Thompson
Richard Thompson
Tom Tico
vincent tripi
Dann R. Ward
Mark A. White
Arthur Young
Peter Yovu