Francine Porad, artist
44 pages
114 haiku/senryu
1 haibun (with 6 poems)
1 sequence (with 3 poems)
12 art pieces
From the Editor by Francine Porad
Editors’ Choice Awards
Haiku and Senryu
Haikudos by Alexis Rotella
Books Received (6 listings)
Favorite Haiku by vincent tripi, Frederick Gosser, and H. F. Noyes
“Gender” essay by Marlene Mountain
Haiku and Senryu
Artist Bio: Francine Porad
Haiku and Senryu
Nicholas A. Virgilio (in memoriam)
“Journey to Camden” haibun by Charles D. Nethaway, Jr.
Haiku and Senryu
“HOO” sequence by Emily Romano
Contributors
Haiku Northwest Meetings Become Regular
This issue provided the following announcement that made Haiku Northwest meetings regular, even if the group had not yet adopted the “Haiku Northwest” name: “NORTHWEST HAIKU MEETINGS will be held every other month on a regular basis. Next one is scheduled at the Bellevue Public Library on Thursday, May 18, 1989, 7:00–9:00 p.m.”
Favorite poems selected by Dianne Garcia
first warm spring day
a rainbow of jackets
on the schoolyard fence
Patricia Neubauer
on the basketball hoop—
a dragonfly . . . the child
delays his shot
Zhanna P. Rader
the way shadows fall
across the bronze buddha
his smile comes & goes
Gloria Procsal
a wrecked car
my brother’s memory
still trapped in
Dean Frommelt
dawn fog imagining the mountain top
Kenneth C. Leibman
Editors’ Choice Awards
Winter night
a semen of stars
among bare limbs
Herb Barrett
the size of a fist,
an old nest shreds
in the March wind
Ellery Lyon
the waterfall
finally
free
Elizabeth St Jacques
Contributors
Bernard S. Aaronson
Addie Adam
Aholaah Arzah
Doris Ash
Lynn Balmer
Francine Banwarth
Herb Barrett
Eve J. Blohm
Raffael de Gruttola
Charles B. Dickson
Mike Dillon
Father Michael Doyle
John J. Dunphy
Charles H. Easter
David Elliot
Christopher Erickson
Winnie E. Fitzpatrick
Jean L. Franko
Elizabeth Chen Frech
Dean Frommelt
Frederick Gasser
Howard Gofreed
Larry Gross
Andrew J. Grossman
Ramona Hammerly
Yvonne Hardenbrook
Mary Ann Henn
Elizabeth Hillman
Stephen Hobson
John King
Bruce Krause
Kenneth C. Leibman
Leatrice Lifshitz
Matthew Louvière
Ellery Lyon
Beverly McDougald
Jerry McGinley
anne mckay
Estelle McLachlan
Donald McLeod
Margaret Molarsky
Joanne Morcom
Marlene Mountain
Charles D. Nethaway, Jr.
Patricia Neubauer
H. F. Noyes
Joe Nutt
Brent Partridge
Edgar W. Pope
Francine Porad
Gloria Procsal
Anthony J. Pupello
Zhanna P. Rader
Barbara Ressler
Elliot Richman
Edward J. Rielly
Emily Romano
Alexis Rotella
Lewis Sanders
Charles Scanzello
Anthony J. Schuster
Rob Simbeck
Sara Skydell
Karen Sohne
Elizabeth St Jacques
Kay Stewart
Ira F. Stone
George Swede
Mike Taylor
Virginia L. Thorn
Sue Stapleton Tkach
vincent tripi
Anita VirgiI
Nick Virgilio
Timothy N. Washburn
Diane Webster