d’Elaine Johnson, artist
48 pages
184 haiku/senryu
10 tanka
3 haibun (each with 1 poem)
1 linked lines (with 36 poems)
1 renku (with 36 poems)
1 sequence (with 11 poems)
8 art pieces
Letter from the Editor by Francine Porad
Editors’ Choice Awards
Artist Bio: d’Elaine Johnson
Haiku and Senryu
“in lieu of daffodils” linked lines by anne mckay and L. A. Davidson
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“Unknown” haibun by John Stevenson
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“Half Inside, Half Out” renku by H. F. Noyes and Helen J. Sherry
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“Upsidedown Spider” haibun by Emily Romano
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
Untitled haibun by Jeff Parker Knight
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
“The Renga Party: To Boldly Go Where No Link Has Gone Before” sequence by Michael Dylan Welch
Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka
Books Received (14 listings)
Contributors
Favorite poems selected by Anne Elizabeth Laird
spray from the falls—
a wedge of branches
ribbed with ice
Wally Swift
Enjoying the warmth
of autumn sun . . . sharing it
with yellow jackets
Bob Major
from the temple
of her beggar’s shawl
ancient eyes
Marian Olson
Murders in Hollywood!
whole continents disappear
from the evening news
Carl Brennan
passing illegally:
a red sports car with
law school decal
Tom Clausen
Editors’ Choice Awards
fixed
to this Japanese cushion
as I wend my renku-way,
I know origami cranes
have no legs
Sanford Goldstein
seeing in the pond
iced over all winter, one frog
this impulse towards prayer
Geraldine C. Little
Today, at the hospice,
every window
half open.
Jeff Crandall
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Naomi Y. Brown
Tom Clausen
M. D. Clements
Carlos Colón
Pamela Connor
Ann Cooper
Jeff Crandall
L. A. Davidson
Raffael de Gruttola
Hank Dunlap
John Dunphy
Charles Easter
Phil Edwards
V. Egermeier
David L. Elliot
Wilma M. Erwin
Laura Evans
Linda Eymann
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Elizabeth Fenn
Frank Finney
W. E. Fitzpaptrick
Marie Forsyth
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W. S. Galasso
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Elizabeth Howard
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d’Elaine Johnson
Douglas S. Johnson
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Jim Kadan
Jean M. Kahler
Akira Kawano
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Michael Ketchek
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Martin Kirby
Jeff Parker Knight
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James Krotzman
Addie Lacoe
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Shawn Lindsay
Chris Linn
Geraldine C. Little
Matthew Louviere
M. L. Mackie
Makiko
Sharon E. Martin
Robert Major
Florence McGinn
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anne mckay
John Means
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Paul D. Mena
Florence Miller
Lenard D. Moore
Martha H. Nelson
Melissa L. Nelson
Nika
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H. F. Noyes
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William M. Ramsey
William Richmond
Edward J. Rielly
Emily Romano
Ronan
Ce Rosenow
Bruce Ross
Timothy Russell
Tim Scannell
Helen J. Sherry
G. R. Simser
Sara Lee Skydell
Elsie M. Smith
Nancy S. Smith
John R. Soares
E. St Jacques
J. Stevenson
Walter Stolwein
Alan J. Summers
Dave Sutter
Wally Swist
Robert Tannen
R. G. Van Cleave
Irma Wassail
Paul Watsky
Michael D. Welch
Paul O. Williams
Richard Wiman
Jeffrey Winke
Jeff Witkin
Charles Woodruff
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