Modern Haiga is an annual journal—both print and digital—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine modern graphic poetry, especially but not limited to, haiku, senryu, tanka, cinquain, cinqku, crystallines, cherita, and sijo. Many writers and artists around the world have generously shared their work in Modern Haiga. Included in the premiere issue print edition are one hundred and one outstanding works of graphic poetry. We are pleased to announce the publication of the print edition of Modern Haiga 2008. The digital edition with all accepted works is available, free, online at www.modernhaiga.com . The print edition includes a subset of the works in the digital edition; specifically, one hundred and one works were included in the case-wrapped hard cover book, one work to a page. The index to the book indicates the poets and artists included.
[INDEX: an’ya; 6. Babusci, Pamela A.; 8, 34, 50. Baker, Ed; 44. Castagna, Robert; 22, 51. Cavalieri, Grace; 83. Constable, David; 52, 98. Constable, Susan; 31, 52, 54, 61, 86, 89, 98, 104. Croteau, Wilfred; 40, 69. Davila, Mary; 13, 74. de Gruttola, Raffael; 22, 40, 51, 69. Deodhar, Dr. Angelee; 30. Downey, Audrey; 56, 65, 92. Flohr, Winnifred; 35. Forrester, Stanford M.; 32. Fraser, Laryalee; 18, 88, 102. Garrison, Denis M.; 20, 27, 39, 48, 62. Gorgone, Judith; 75. Grace, Margaret L.; 26. hoo; 9, 25. Kacian, Jim; 55, 93. Kamakura, Sayumi; 59. Karkow, Kirsty; 38, 68, 100. LeBel, Gary; 24, 45, 84, 95. LeBlanc, Jean; 28, 73, 99. Margolak, Jacek; 19. McClintock, Karen; 15, 23, 33, 63, 81. McClintock, Michael; 23, 33, 63, 81. Millcock, Allison; 41, 82. Miller, Fonda Bell; 46. Moss, Ron; 7. Origa; 5, 36. Papanicolaou, Linda; 14, 49, 57, 85, 101. Pearce-Worthington, Carol; 78. Pilarski, Linda; 16, 47, 90. Prime, Patricia; 96. Raisfeld, Carol; front cover, 10, 53, 64, 87, 97. Rosellini, Elisabetta Ricca; 60. Rotella, Alexis; 11, 30, 37, 42, 58, 72, 83. Rotella, Robert F.; 79. Russell, Claudette; 43, 77. Russell, Frank; 43, 77. Shimizu, Kuniharu; 9, 25, 59, 96. Simonova-Cecon, Valeria; 103. Stevenson, John; 45. Verbeke, Geert; 12. Wilkinson, Liam; 67, 70, 76, 80, 94. Wilson, Robert D.; 21, 29, 71, 91. Woodward, Jeffrey; 17, 66.]

The full-color, hard cover book is priced at $49.95 and is available at our Lulu store, http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and at our MET Press website, www.modernenglishtankapress.com .

Thank you, all the fine poets and artists who submitted their work to Modern Haiga 2008, and to the very hard-working board of editors, which included Alexis Rotella, Liam Wilkinson, Linda Papanicolaou, and Raffael de Gruttola.  Alexis and I have resigned from the board for 2009, so we can have some fresh blood for the new edition. Liam Wilkinson is the new chief editor for MH 2009. We encourage you to send your submissions in to Modern Haiga 2009 - submissions are open and the mailing address is still submissions@modernhaiga.com - it now forwards to Liam.

best wishes and thanks for a great year!

Denis M. Garrison