Aholaah Arzah, artist
48 pages
185 haiku/senryu
1 tanka
1 haibun (with 2 poems)
1 renku (with 36 poems)
2 sequences (with 8 and 5 poems)
7 art pieces
Editors’ Choice Awards
Haiku and Senryu
“Unseen Rain” renga by Connie Brannan and Jane Reichhold
“the room of writing” haibun by vincent tripi
Books Received (7 listings)
“A War Diary” sequence by Elliot Richman
Haiku and Senryu
Readers Comment by Christopher Herold and Elizabeth S. Lamb
From the Editor by Francine Porad
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“Adorations (and Tangents Thereto)” (fourth series) sequence by Robert Spiess
Contributors
Favorite poems selected by Dean Summers
eviction notice—
in the empty lot,
our last snow castle
Anthony J. Pupello
old cheyenne woman
bouncing grandchild on her knee
in time with the drum
Jack Ervin
baby’s first summer:
pea seeds bought last spring
still in their packets
Dorothy McLaughlin
My old neighbor’s yard.
Her snow still unspoiled
by footprints.
Laurie Troeger
last skein of wool
wound into a ball
grandma’s story ends
Patricia Neubauer
Editors’ Choice Awards
Girlhood dreams
back and forth . . . the shuttle
of the loom
Jean Jorgensen
matching
its serrated wings
the fish crow’s voice
Wally Swist
in the high grass
the birth steam leads us
to the cow and calf
Andrew J. Grossman
Corrections
Page 20: “Jean Jorgesen” should read “Jean Jorgensen.”
Pages 22 and 23: “1983” should read “1863” five times.
A note from Dean Summers
The poems are arranged with an artist’s attention to color, hue, and texture. The works of art by Aholaah Arzah are neither illustrations nor decorations, but contributions that share the spirit of haiku (though, in a sense, they are illustrations in that they illustrate the haiku way of seeing).
Contributors
Francis W. Alexander
A. Araghetti
Doris Ash
Herb Barrett
Sabra Basler
Cathy D. Better
Robert P. Beveridge
Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa
Chriscinthia Blount
Diane Brandt
Connie Brannan
Naomi Y. Brown
Michael H. Brownstein
Tom Clausen
Christopher Conn
William Cullen Jr.
Brian Daldorph
Edmund J. Daly
Debra Hoffman Decker
Charles B. Dickson
Gene Doty
Jean Dubois
Lora Dunetz
John J. Dunphy
Virginia Egermeier
David Elliot
Jack Ervin
Sr. Mary Thomas Eulberg
Lynda Eymann
Jeff Farrara
Kurt Fickert
Frank Finale
Brandel France
William Scott Galasso
Frederick Gasser
John Grey
Andrew J. Grossman
Ramona Hammerly
Yvonne Hardenbrook
Jeanne Harrington
Jennifer Harrison
William Hart
Sharon L. Harward
Sr. Mary Ann Henn
Christopher Herold
Ruth Holter
Sara Hong
Gary Hotham
Randy Johnson
Bruce Joos
Jean Jorgensen
Jim Kacian
Akira Kawano
Robert Keay
Larry W. Kelts
Adele Kenny
Michael Ketchek
John King
George Knox
Tom Koontz
Christina S. Krause
Renee Luria Leopold
Antoinette Libro
Matthew Louvière
Peggy Willis Lyles
azhiac maratos
Emily Maxwell
anne mckay
Dorothy McLaughlin
Mary Fran Meer
Daniel Mills
June Moreau
R. H. Morrison
Patricia Neubauer
sally l. nichols
Patricia Niehoff
H. F. Noyes
John O'Connor
Ron Offen
Elsie Pankowski
Brent Partridge
Thomas A. Phelan
Gloria Procsal
Anthony J. Pupello
George Ralph
Jane Reichhold
Rengé (David Priebe)
K. Richards
Elliot Richman
Edward J. Rielly
Marlina Rinzen
Andy Roberts
Joseph Romanello
Emily Romano
Cecilia Rosenow
Alexis Rotella
Lawrence Rungren
Lewis Sanders
C. Schendel
Helen J. Sherry
Guy Simser
Sara Lee Skydell
Charlene M. C. Smith
Regina F. Smith
Tom Smith
Morgan Songi
Marcelle M. Soniero
Robert Spiess
Ruby Spriggs
Elizabeth St Jacques
Walter Stolwein
Denver Stull
M. Anne Sweet
Wally Swist
Kenneth Tanemura
Marc Thompson
Richard Thompson
vincent tripi
Laurie Troeger
Frank Trotman
Mitzi Hughes Trout
Yuriko Uematsu
Lequita Vance
John Vukmirovich
Michael D. Welch
Mark Arvid White
Jonas Winet
Peter Yovu
Robert H. Zukowski