The summer quarterly issue of Haibun Today is now online for your reading pleasure at http://haibuntoday.com

Contributors to this issue include Melissa Allen, Belinda Broughton, Matthew Caretti, Steven Carter, Marcyn Clements, Glenn G. Coats, Katherine Cudney, Cherie Hunter Day, Eduardo del Valle, Amelia Fielden, Terri L. French, Brieanna Hall, Charles Hansmann, Jeffrey Harpeng, Michele L. Harvey, Ruth Holzer, Colin Stewart Jones, Ken Jones, Ingrid Kunschke, Gary LeBel, Chen-ou Liu, Bob Lucky, Victor Maddalena, Giselle Maya, Andrew Shattuck McBride, Michael McClintock, Carol Pearce-Worthington, Dru Philippou, Patricia Prime, Ray Rasmussen, Lynne Rees, Mark Ritchie, Cynthia Rowe, Miriam Sagan, Adelaide B. Shaw, Lucas Stensland, Charles D. Tarlton and Harriot West.

This issue also features critical essays, personal memoirs and book reviews. Charles Hansmann, in “Haibunesque,” compares examples of his own writing in its various transmutations as haibun and linear poems. Jeffrey Harpeng explores the haiku and tanka genres, in “The Jazz of Pilgrimage,” and concludes that their principle is that of a journey through time or space. Ingrid Kunschke and Patricia Prime contribute personal reflections on their own writing of tanka prose while Bob Lucky, Lynne Rees and Michael McClintock, respectively, review Stanley Pelter’s An Abundance of Gifts, Charles Hansmann’s The Loneliness Jacket and Contemporary Haibun 12.

Writers are now invited to submit haibun, tanka prose and articles for consideration in the September 2011 issue of Haibun Today. Consult our Submission Guidelines at Haibun Today. Forward any submissions by email to Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, at haibun.today@gmail.com