Midori Kono Thiel, artist
48 pages
187 haiku/senryu
7 tanka
3 haibun (with 1, 1, and 3 poems)
2 linked verses (each with 36 poems)
1 sequence (with 4 poems)
11 art pieces
Artist Bio: Midori Kono Thiel
Editors’ Choice Awards
Haiku and Senryu
“Bedtime—October 30th” haibun by John Stevenson
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“The Blind Man Steps Onto His Back Porch” haibun by Rich Youmans
Haiku and Senryu
“Temps Perdu” haibun by David Sutter
Haiku and Senryu
“People I’ve Met at ‘Being Alive’” sequence by Marsh Cassady
Haiku and Senryu
“curve into curve” linked lines by anne mckay and suezan aikins
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“plumes” linked verse by Fred Raborg, Jr. and Jim Kacian
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
Books Received (12 listings)
From the Editor by Francine Porad
Contributors
Favorite poems selected by Aidan Castle
again and again
our last words
tangled hairbrush
Stephen Hobson
poster in front
of the failed bank
“Jesus saves”
Michael Dylan Welch
tourists shoot rolls of whales flashing in moonlight
Todd Boss
street person
tears on his face
tattooed
George Klacsanzky
fly in the web,
my professor’s
bawdy joke
Gloria H. Procsal
Editors’ Choice Awards
the turnstone’s cry
amidst the autumn beach-wrack
his cinnabar legs
June Hopper Hymas
her rough cough—
sanding brown wood
a little smoother
Diane Albertina
shrimp
into the hot pan
our argument silenced
Robert Tannen
Contributors
Suezan Aikins
Diane Albertina
Kay F. Anderson
Molly L. Anderson
Ron Asalo
nik bernath
M. L. Bittle-DeLapa
Todd Boss
Janice M. Bostok
Darold D. Braida
Beatrice Brissman
Marikay Brown
Jean Calkins
Marsh Cassady
Carlos W. Colón
Ellen Compton
Pamela Connor
Stephen G. Corn
L. E. Cornelison
Steve Dalachinsky
Pandora Deichert
Hannah Dillon
Richard Doiron
Hank Dunlap
John J. Dunphy
David Elliot
Robert Epstein
J. Ervin
Ida Fasel
B. H. Feingold
Liz Fenn
Heidi Fluhr
Marie Forsyth
Gary Fry
William S. Galasso
Frederick Gasser
Robert J. Gaurnier
William Greenhill
Glenn Gustafson
Rosamond Haas
Y. Hardenbrook
Ken Harrell
Jeanne Harrington
Howard Hartley
Cindy Hasio
Joseph Healey
Nancy Henderson
Stephen Hobson
June H. Hymas
Douglas S. Johnson
Helen V. Johnson
Randal Johnson
Jean Jorgensen
Jerry A. Judge
Jim Kacian
Akira Kawano
Debra Kehrberg
M Patricia Kemery
Michael Ketchek
George Klacsanzky
Eric J. Klosterman
George Knox
Mel Koronelos
Evelyn Lang
Jeff Learned
Nicole LeGrand
Kenneth Leonhardt
Lynn Ann Lewis
Geraldine C. Little
James B. Livingston
Jane Logan
Margaret Longo
Matthew Louviere
Judith Lundin Lowe
Robert Major
Makiko
Daniel T. Manley
Kelly Marty
Janet McCann
anne mckay
D. McLaughlin
Paul David Mena
Daniel P. Merfeld
Tina Moran
Wilma Murray
Bert Noia
Blanche Nonneman
H. F. Noyes
Patricia Okolski
William H. Olson
Margaret Peacock
Federico C. Peralta
Francine Porad
Gloria H. Procsal
Anthony J. Pupello
Frederick Raborg, Jr.
George Ralph
Rengé (David Priebe)
Edward J. Rielly
Emily Romano
Ronan
Ce Rosenow
Bruce Ross
Timothy Russell
Sam Savage
sasoku
David E. Sees
Lonnie J. Shelly
Dennis Sherwood
G. R. Simser
Tom Smith
John Stevenson
Walter Stolwein
Dave Sutter
Kenneth Tanemura
Robert Tannen
Brian Tasker
Midori Kono Thiel
Julia L. Thren
Lequita Vance
Irma Wassail
R. M. Weinraub
Michael D. Welch
Mark A. White
Robin White
Paul O. Williams
Richard Wiman
Jay Woodman
Mary A. Woodruff
Rich Youmans