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XXI:1 February, 2006

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets   
 
   
 

ARTICLES 

SOLO POETRY

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

BOOK REVIEWS

LETTERS TO LYNX

PARTICIPATION RENGA

 

   

 ARTICLES

REPORT ON NHK TANKA PROGRAM by Amelia Fielden

TO MY READERS by Aya Yuhki

 

SOLO POETRY

GHAZALS

HOME by James Fowler

RAINING by C W Hawes

TO SMELL THE ROSES by C W Hawes

TENDERLY by C W Hawes

IN THE WOODS by C W Hawes

MY BELOVED by C W Hawes

WILL by Ruth Holzer

NOTES FROM THE FUTURIST PROJECT by Tim Jones

MILKWEED POD by Tree Riesener

TOGETHER by Tree Riesener

HAIBUN

RIVER WALK by Lynn Edge

THIS MORNING by C W Hawes

MEMORIES:  LONG AND SHORT by C W Hawes

RESPITE by C W Hawes

SKIING by Larry Kimmel

SPICES by Francis  Masat

COOKIES by Francis  Masat

BUDDY by Zane Parks

HAIKU by

Marita Schrader

SEQUENCES

UNTITLED by an'ya

DOWN EAST by Edward Baranosky

POSTCARDS HOME by Helen Buckingham

OLD FORT by Helen Buckingham

FOR JR by Gerard J. Conforti

BIRTHDAY  COMBO by Andrew Cook-Jolicoeur

JANUARY SECOND by gillena cox

UNTITLED TANKA PAIRS by Janet Lynn Davis

WAITING by C W Hawes

UMBRELLAS IN THE SNOW by Ruth Holzer

A BANNER IN THE BLUE SKY by Elizabeth Howard

HOW WILL IT BE? by Kirsty Karkow

CHRYSALIS by Giselle Maya

SPIDER by R. K. Singh

ROSE by R. K. Singh

THERMAL ENERGIES by Barbara A Taylor

SAND DREAM by Aya Yuhki

 

SIJO by

C W Hawes

Kirsty Karkow

TANKA by

Dawn Bruce

James Roderick Burns

Gene Doty

Sanford Goldstein

C W Hawes

June Moreau

Cindy Tebo

 

GRAPHICS by

John M. Bennett

 

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

MIRROR ROAD by Sheila Windsor (U.K.) & Ron Moss (Tasmania) & Hortensia Anderson (U.S.A)

WINTER TOOTHACHE by Martha Deed & Karen L. Lewis

DHATU by Martha Deed & Karen L. Lewis

TAN RENGA SERIES by C W Hawes & Kathy Earsman

ABOVE THE BULK OF CRASHING by Denis M. Garrison & Gary Blankenship

STREET FAIR by Catherine Mair & Patricia Prime

TIED TOGETHER by Jane Reichhold, Kathy Earman & Zane Parks

NO HAIKU MIND by heather madrone & hortensia anderson 

EASINGTON HYAKIUN RENGA (v1-36)
A short excerpt from a renga written on the renga platform built and maintained by Alec Finley. Passers-by are invited to stop, sit and write renga together. For most, this is their introduction to renga.

BUZZ WORDS #3 by Francine Porad & Marlene Mountain "see-all hear-all"

BUZZ WORDS #4 by Marlene Mountain & Francine Porad "unconfirmed eyewitness"

BUZZ WORDS #5 by Francine Porad & Marlene Mountain "cool-cookie"

BUZZ WORDS #6 by Marlene Mountain & Francine Porad "the last haiku"

FLOTSAM by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

ISLANDS OF THE GULF by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

UNFINISHED PAINTING by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

KILLHOPE HYAKUIN RENGA by Subhadassi, Linda France, Rachel Ogden, Pam, Bill, Sarah, Joy, Janet, Peter, Alex, Ruth, Jackie, Phil, Peter, Ian, and Tasha

FULL FLOWER MOON by Karen L. Lewis & Martha Deed

YELLOW by Martha Deed & Karen L. Lewis

BLUE SMOKE by Larry Kimmel (U.S.A.) & Sheila Windsor (U.K.) 

LEAVING GOLD by Virginia Woolf & Werner Reichhold

GRAPHICS by

John M. Bennett & Reed Altmus  

Scott Macleod & John M. Bennett

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Red Rock Yellow Stone: Journeys from Yellowstone to the Painted Desert. Photographs by Edwin Firmage. Perfect bound, 14 x 11 inches, 80 full color photographs with haiku by Japanese masters and Edwin Firmage. ISBN: 0-9765693-1-0. $34.95. Contact.

The Santoka Versions by Scott Watson. Sasaki Printing and Publishing Co. Sendai, Japan: 2005. Flat-spined, 7 x 9 inches, ISBN: 4-915948-41-2, US$10.00. Contact Boygirl Press, 3-13-16 Tsurugaya-higashi, Miyagino-ku, Sendai 983-0826 Japan.

Jokerman: haibun about playing cards by Geert Verbeke. Published by Cyberwit.net, India: 2005. Perfect bound, glossy gated cover, 5 x 8 inches, 96 pages. Contact.

a river years from here by Larry Kimmel. Winfred Press, 364 Wilson Hill Road, Colrain, MA 01340  :2005. Spiral bound, 8 x 5 inches, 50 pages, ISBN:0-9743856-8-9, $7.50 postpaid (for overseas shipping, add $2).

Liminalog by Tree Riesener. The Inmates Run the Asylum Press: 2005. Saddle-stapled, 5 x 8 inches, 30 pages, full color glossy cover. Contact the author at 211 Poplar Ave., Wayne, PA 19087.

A Piece of the Moon by Marje A. Dyck. Calisto Press:2005. Saddle-stapled, 5 x 8 inches, 42 pages of haiku, tanka and haibun, Foreword by Michael McClintock, ink illustrations by the author, ISBN:0-9739249-0-x, CAN$5. US$7.  Contact Calisto Press, 7 Richmond Place No., Saskatoon, SK Canada, S1K-1A6.

New England Country Farmhouse. Haiku by R.W. Watkins with an introduction by G.B. Jones. The Poetical Perspectives Series by Nocturnal Iris Publications: 2005. Saddle-stapled, 24 pages, 5 x 8 inches, ISBN: 0-9733510-0-4.

As Things Are: Tanka poetry by Kawano Yuhko. Translated by Amelia Fielden and Uzawa Kozue. Ginninderra Press: 2005. Saddle-stapled, 5.75 x 8 inches, 36 pages, US$15. includes air mail postage from Australia. Contact Amelia Fielden, 20A Elouera Ave., Buff Point NSW 2262, Australia. 

Bzz & Miauw by Geert Verbeke. Perfect bound, 4 x 8.50 inches, 160 pages, black and white illustrations, ISBN: 90-77408-10-X. Contact.

Shared Writing: Renga Days by Alec Finlay. An anthology of nijuuin and hyakuin renga and renga days on the renga platform, 2002 –2004. Platform projects by Morning Star, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art. Perfect bound, 4.75 x 7 inches, 128 pages, color photos throughout, ISBN: 0-9546831-4-5. Contact Alec Finlay.

Letters in Time: Sixty Short Poems by Michael McClintock. Hermitage West:2005. Softbound, 5.25 x 6.75, 78 pages, ISBN: 0-9770239-0-X, US$10, CAN$13. Contact.

crumb moves the ant by geri barton. Saki Press:2005. Chapbook, 5.5 x 4.25, 32 pages. A Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest Winner 2004-2005. Saki Press, 1021 Gregory Street, Normal, IL 61761.

Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac. Penguin Poets:2004. $13.
Reviewed by Don Ammons

Haiku Flowers and Trees. Distributed by Kamogawa Shuppan, Published by Win-kamogawa, Kyoto, Japan, 2005. Reviewed by Marjorie Buettner

Fall & Winter 2005 Haiku Harvest - Journal of Haiku in English, Volume 5 Number 1, published - online & print Denis M. Garrison, Editor.

Contemporary Sijo: An Introduction to the Classic Korean Verse Form featuring Marcyn Del Clements, Rynn Jacobs & Kim Unsong. Published by Nocturnal Iris, R.W. Watkins, Editor with Bill West and Kim Unsong as Creative Consultants. Subscriptions: $12 for three issues. Box 111, Moreton's Harbour, NL Canada A0G 3H0.

Michael Dudley's newest book, Pilgrimage, by Red Moon Press, of minimal haiku has been released. ISBN:1-893959-55-4, $16.95.

In The Japan Times, Sunday, September 25, 2005, David Burleigh reviewed Harue Aoki's book A Woman's Life (previously review in Lynx). 

In a letter from Yoshio Koganei, we learned that his Mother, Sumiko Koganei, author of Three Trees, had died in her sleep in the night of December 2nd, 2005. 

 

PARTICIPATION RENGA  

by AB - Alice Benedict; CC - Carlos Colón; CF - Vikki Celeste Fannin; cg  - Cindy Guntherman; CM - Cristian Mocanu, CSK - Carol Stroh Kemp; dht - Doris H. Thurston; DPK -Deborah P. Kolidji, DR - David Rice; DWP - Darrel W. Parry; EF - Eric Folsom; EL - Eva LaVollette, ESJ - Elizabeth St Jacques;  FA - Fay Aoyagi,  FP - Francine Porad;  FPA - Francis (Paul) Attard; GD - Gene Doty; GM - Giselle Maya;  GR - George Ralph;  GV - Geert Verbeke; JAJ - Jean Jorgensen; JC - Jeanne Cassler;  JMB - John M. Bennett; JR - Jane Reichhold; JS - John Sheirer; JSJ - Joyce Sandeen Johnson; KCL - Kenneth C. Leibman; LCG - Larry Gross; LE - Lesley Einer; LJ  - Lael Johnson; meta - metarandom; MHH  - Madeline Hoffer; ML - Minna Lerman; MM - Marianne Marks; MWM   - Mary Wittry-Mason; N - Nika; NA -Nasira Alma; PC - Penny Crosby;  PGC - Pamela Connor; PJS - P.J. Sharpe; PS - Pat Shelley; R - Ronan; RF - Robert Flannery; SCH - Suzette Hains,  SD - Simon Doubleday; SMc - Steve McComas;  TLG - Terri Lee Grell; TSP - Tyler Pruett; TV - Teresa Volz;  TW - Tundra (Jim Wilson) Wind; WEG - Elliot Greig; WR - Werner Reichhold; YH - Yvonne Hardenbrook; ZP - Zane Parks. 

LETTERS TO LYNX

LAST LETTERS by Marianne Bluger &  Jane Reichhold 

LETTERS from: Gary Blankenship, Alex Finlay, Kirsty Karkow, Larry Kimmel, Karen L. Lewis, Angela Leuck, Ellen Olinger, Francine Porad, 

AN OPEN LETTER TO: Michael McClintock by Werner Reichhold

Information on the ukiaHaiku Festival.

 

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This issue of LYNX is dedicated to:

Marianne Sasha Bluger Neily

August 28, 1945 - October 29, 2005

and

Sumiko Koganei

 December 2, 2005

 

 

 

   
   
 

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