New Simply Haiku is online

Exciting Issue! New features!
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The International Japanese Short Form Journal
read by over 6,000 people worldwide

SIMPLY HAIKU:

       "The  Showcase for
Japanese Short Form poetry"

http://www.simplyhaiku.com/

Hot Summer Issue!!
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FEATURING:

A Definition of the ideal form of traditional tanka
written in English
 by Amelia Fielding, Denis Garrison, and Robert D. Wilson

Tanka by Kisaburo Konoshima
 Newly translated by David Callner

An Interview With Babak Gray, the Director of Bashō
and the Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones

 Interviewed by Robert D. Wilson


INSPIRING HAIKU:


Jim Kacian, Featured Poet

Solo
Patrick Pilarski, Merrill Gonzales, Anthony Marcoff,
Dave Young, Lilia  Racheva, Don Baird, Neal Whitman, 
Jyothirmai Gubili, Frank  Williams

Duo, Trio 1
Kala Ramesh, Jo  McInerney, Susan  Constable, Diana
Webb, John Barlow, Garry Eaton, Horst   Ludwig

Duo, Trio 2 
Linda Pilarski, Colin  Stewart  Jones, Tyrone
McDonald, Raquel D. Bailey, William Cullen  Jr,
Scott  Metz

Assemblage
ed  markowski, Dietmar Tauchner, 
Peter Yovu, Dick Whyte, Peggy  Lyles, Tyler Pruett
 
George Hawkins
Clare McCotter

TANTILIZING TANKA:

 Dave Bacharach
 Jeanne Emrich
 Martin Grenfell
Marilyn Hazelton
 Carole MacRury
 Carol Raisfeld
 Andrew Riutta
 Carmel Summers
 

CAPTIVATING HAIBUN:

Simply Haiku Haibun Challenge:
  Tish Davis—'Pentimento'
  Bob Lucky—'Cowboy'
  John W. Sexton—'The Cattle Yard in Brosna'

David Cobb
Laryalee Fraser
Joyce Hildebrand
Bob Lucky
Ed Markowski
Dru Philippou
-kala
Ray Rasmussen
Barbara Taylor

 
HOT SENRYU:
Carlos Colón, Featured Poet
Senryu ~ s/he loves me, s/he loves me not
Act I:
~ Anita Virgil, Alexis Rotella, Jodie Hawthorne, Mykel Board,
Cor van den Heuvel, Carol Raisfeld, Cheryl Daytec-Yangot,
Tanya McDonald, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Tanya McDonald,
Al Pizzarelli, Donna Beaver, Christopher Herold
 
Act II:
~ Kala Ramesh, Bob Brill, stephen a. peters, Paul O. Williams,
Cheryl Daytec-Yangot,  Carol Raisfeld, Michael McClintock, W.F. Owen,
Dee Evetts, A Thiagarajan, Ed Higgins, Anita Virgil, Alexis Rotella


SIZZLING INNOVATIVE RENKU:

 Twisty Chunks: Kasen 
~ Twisty Chunks ~ Keith Kumasen Abbott
~ Remarks on Twisty Chunks ~
   Keith Kumasen Abbott
 
One Set of Footprints: Junicho 
   One Set of Footprints ~ Diana Webb
   Solo Renku ~ Diana Webb
 Our Neighbor's Tree: New Shisan 
   Our Neighbor's Tree ~ Karen Cesar
   A Beginner's Solo Renku ~ Karen Cesar
 
 Eulalia Waves Us: Shisan 
 ~Eulalia Waves Us ~ Kris Kondo, Eiko Yachimoto,
     Yoshiko Uchiyama, Sousui Yuasa (Nobuyuki Yuasa),
      Kikuyo Sugiura, Tateshi Tsukamoto 
~ Tomegaki for Eulalia Waves Us ~ Eiko Yachimoto

 Private View: Nijuin 
 ~ Private View ~ Max Verhart, Vanessa Proctor,
     Frank Williams, Paul Smith 
 ~A Renku Perspective ~ Frank Williams

Beneath Thin Snow: Triparshva
  
 ~ Beneath Thin Snow ~ Carole MacRury, Colin Stewart Jones,
     Gerald England, Alison Williams, Susan Shand, Kathy Earsman,
     Norman Darlington, Mary White
 ~ Beneath Thin Snow: Notes ~ Carole MacRury, Alison Williams,
     Susan Shand, Kathy Earsman, Norman Darlington, Mary White,
     Gerald England


INSPIRED MODERN HAIGA:

 Gillena Cox
 M. Frost
 David Giacalone
 Jacek Margolak
 Alexis Rotella
 Robert D. Wilson
 Ashley Wood


AESTHETIC TRADITIONAL HAIGA:

In Memoriam: Joyce Maxner
an'ya
Woodblock Exhibit~Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
Naia


BOOK REVIEWS
 
Robert D. Wilson:            
    Walden by Haiku by Ian Marshall
 
   The Heart Takes Wing: Selected Poems from Straggling into Winter
       by Kathy Kituai, music by Nitya Bernard Parker
 
   Doorway To The Sky by Noriko Tanaka
 
   Contemporary Haibun, Volume 9
       edited by Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross, and Ken Jones

   Tanka From The Edge by Miriam Sagan


 Johnye Strickland: 
     Streetlights: Poetry of Urban Life in Modern English Tanka
      edited by Michael McClintock and 
      Denis M. Garrison

    Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka
     edited by M. Kei, Sanford Goldstein, Pamela A. Babusci,
     Patricia Prime, Bob Lucky, and Kala Ramesh
 
    Blue Night & The Inadequacy of Long-stemmed Roses
      by Larry Kimmel

 
REPRINTS:

What Makes Eve Different?
 Patricia Prime Interviews Miriam Sagan
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