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XXIV:1
February, 2009

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets 
 
  
   
     
     

SYMBIOTIC POEMS

YEAR OF THE OX
Linda Papanicolaou, US  (Linda)
Kathy Earsman, AU  (Kathy)
Moira Richards , ZA(Moi)
Lynne Reese, UK  (Lynne)
Denis Holmes, US (Chibi)

Haiga by Maya Lyubenova and Colin Stewart Jones

SHE TREADS LIGHTLY
Frank Williams
Vanessa Proctor
Dick Pettit

DEEP-BLACK FRAMED
Silva Ley
Jacques Verhoeven

HAIKU IN TRANSLATION
Volker Friebel – German
Jane Reichhold – English

TRAVELLERS' TALES
Dick Pettit – Denmark
Paul Merken – Holland

Francis Attard –
 Malta

TRACKLESS SHADOWS
Andre Surridge
Owen Bullock

Haiga by Jerry Dreessen and Mark Smith

LOVERS
Mariusz Ogryzko
Jacek Margolak

CREATING OUR WORLD
Mariusz Ogryzko
Jacek Margolak

ROAR
Werner Reichhold as LEATHER
Jane Reichhold as BANDANA

 

SOLO POEMS

GHAZALS

CRICKETS by Yu Chang

FAUSTIAN by Gene Doty

AS IT HAPPENS by James Fowler

CALLS TO ME by c w hawes

SAY by c w hawes

THE TASTE by c w hawes

FRIENDSHIP by Ruth Holzer

Haiga by Frank Williams

 

PROSE AND POETRY

 

WINTER HIBERNATION by Cindy Bell

ROTTING by c w hawes

CHANGING TIMES by c w hawes

SOLITUDE by c w hawes

Haiga by Mary Davila

REINCARNATION by c w hawes

ANY COLOR SO LONG AS IT'S . . . by Linda Papancolou

APPLICATION by Tom Cunliffe

FATHER FROM REST by Tom Cunliffe

THE NEWS by Roger Jones

SNOWSHOES by Patrick M. Pilarski

TIDE LINES by Patrick M. Pilarski

EVENING SHADOWS by Trish Shaw

TAKING THE PLUNGE by Barbara A. Taylor

TRUST by Patricia Prime

CONSTITUTIONAL by James Fowler

ANOTHER ROOM by James Fowler

 

SEQUENCES

 

SUMMER TANKA by Don Ammons

THE BREAKERS by Ed Baranosky

MAROONED by  Ed Baranosky

HAUNTING HER BEDSIDE by Carl Brennan

UNTITLED by Dawn Bruce

FOR LYNX by Gerard John Conforti

WINTER REEDS by Ruth Holzer

UNTITLED by Elizabeth Howard

ILUKO HAIKU by Alegria Imperial

PRISON SEQUENCE by Antonio Laravie

SKELETON RENGA by Dick Pettit

ON EXTENDED LEAVE by Rich Magahiz

BABY BOOK by Jane Reichhold

FULL MOON by R.K.Singh

BETWEEN THE SHOWERS by Barbara A. Taylor

WORLD TOUR by A. Thiagarajan

OFF SEASON by A. Thiagarajan

EARLY DAWN by A. Thiagarajan

FOGGY SUNRISE by A. Thiagarajan

 

SINGLE POEMS

RONDEL by Gene Doty, CONNECTVITY  by Barbara A. Taylor, James Tipton, c w hawes, john martone, John Winfield,  Joanna M. Weston.

Haiga by Dawn Bruce

 

BOOK REVIEWS

White Petals by Harue Aoki. Shichigatsudo Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. ISBN: 978-4-87944-120-1. Perfect bound with glassine dust jacket, 5 x 7.25 inches, Introduction by Sanford Goldstein, 130 pages, ¥1500.

The Unworn Necklace by Roberta Beary, edited by John Barlow. Snapshot Press, P.O Box 123, Waterloo, Liverpool, United Kingdom L22 8WZ: 2007. Trade perfect bound with color cover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 80 pages one haiku per page. US$14; UK£7.99.

Seeing It Now: haiku & tanka by Marjorie Buettner. Red Dragonfly Press, press-in-residence at the Anderson Center, P.O. Box 406, Red Wing, MN 55066. Cover illustration by Jauneth Skinner. Introduction by H.F. Noyes. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5, 44 pages, $15. ISBN:978-1-890193-85-0.

Songs Dedicated to my Mother – Julia Conforti by Gerard J. Conforti AHA Online Books, 2008.

Kindle of Green by Cherie Hunter Day and David Rice. Letterpress on emerald Stardream cover and hand-sewn binding by Swamp Press. Illustrations by Cherie Hunter Day. ISBN: 978-0-934714-36-5, 48 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches, $13 ppd. USA and Canada. $15 for international orders. Write to Cherie Hunter Day, P.O. Box 910562, San Diego, CA 92191.

Because of a Seagull by Gilles Fabre. The Fishing Cat Press. Perfect bound, 8.5 x 5.5, unnumbered pages, two haiku per page. Includes a CD with a French translation of the poems. 2005. ISBN:0-9551071-0-5.

Gatherings: A Haiku Anthology edited by Stanford M. Forrester. Bottle Rockets Book #13.  Published by Bottle Rockets Press, P.O. Box 189Windsor, Connecticut, 06095. Flat spine, color cover, 5 x 6.5 inches, 78 pages, ISBN:978-0-9792257-2-7, $14.

Opening the Pods by Silva Ley. Translation from the Dutch Ontbolstering by Silva Ley. AHA Online Book, 2008.

In the Company of Crows: Haiku and Tanka Between the Tides by Carole MacRury. Edited by Cathy Drinkwater Better. Black Cat Press, Eldersburg, Maryland: 2008. Perfect bound, 140 pages, sumi-e by Ion Codrescu, author and artist notes, $18.

The Japanese Universe for the 21st Century: Japanese / English Japanese Haiku 2008, edited and published by the Modern Haiku Association (Gendai Haiku Kyokai) Tokyo, Japan. Perfect bound, dust jacket, 220 pages, indexed, bilingual with kanji and romaji for each poem. Translation of haiku by David Burleigh and prose by Richard Wilson ISBN:978-4-8161-0712-2, $25.

Haiga 1998 – 2008 Japan Collection by Emile Molhuysen. Binder bound, 8 x 12, unnumbered pages, with a CD included. E-mail for price and shipping.Website.

Haiku, Haibun, Haiga – De la un poem la altul by Valentin Nicolitov. Societatea Scritorilor Militari, Bucuresti: 2008. Translated from Romanian into English and French. Flat-spine, 5.5 x 8 inches, 142 pages. ISBN:978-973-8941-34-2.

Floating Here and There written and translated by Ikuyo Okamoto. Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN:978-4-04-52039-5, US$15. Perfect bound, 4 x 7, 130 pages, bilingual with poems in kanji and English.

So the Elders Say – Tanka Sequence by Carol Purington and Larry Kimmel. Folded 8 x 11 inches single sheet with color photos. Winfred Press, 2008

The Irresistible Hudson: A Haiku Tribute Based on Yiddish Poetry by Martin Wasserman. Honors Press, Adirondack Community College, State University of New York, 640 Bay Road, Queensbury, New York, 12804. Flat-spine, 28 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches. No Price, no web access given.

The Tanka Prose Anthology, edited by Jeffrey Woodward. Modern English Tanka Press, PO Box 43717, Baltimore, MD 21236 USA. Perfect bound, 6 x 9, 175 pages, biographies of contributors, bibliography, $12.95. Available through Lulu.com

Tanka written and translated by Geert Verbeke. Cover photo by Jenny Ovaere taken in Nagarkot Nepal. Printed by Cybernit.net, in Govindpur Colony, Allahabad, India. 2008. Perfect bound with color cover, 5.25 x 8.5 inches, 48 pages, with two poems per page in Dutch and English. Contact Geert Verbeke for purchase information. He often will do a simple trade; send him your book and he will send you his.

NOTES OF OTHER BOOKS AND REVIEWS


Curtis Dunlap has written a book review of Basho The Complete Haiku that you can find at: http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com

/2009/01/basho-complete-haiku-book-review.html

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.

Jack Fruit Moon, haiku and tanka by Robert D. Wilson, Published by Modern English Tanka Press. Available from Lulu.com, from major booksellers, and from the publisher. Complete information and a mail or email order form are available online. Trade paperback price: $16.95 USD. ISBN 978-0-9817691-4-1. 204 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink.

 

LETTERS from

Curtis Dunlap, Christopher Herold, Salvatore Buttaci, Mike Montreuil, Renee Owen, Sheri Files, Linda Papanicolaou, . Rabbi Neil Fleischmann, Robin Bownes, Allison Millcock, Dick Pettit, Patrick M. Pilarski

 

CONTESTS AND CONTEST RESULTS

ukiaHaiku festival 

Kikakuza Haibun Contest - English Section

Pinewood Haiku Contest

 

ADVERTISEMENTS OF MAGAZINES, BOOKS AND WEBSITES

White Lotus – A Journal of Short Asian Verse & Haiga

Wollumbin Haiku Workshop

Rusty Tea Kettle

Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror by James Tipton

The Heron's Nest

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by Gillina Cox

Allison Millcock's blog @ http://millcock. blogspot.com/ 

Curtis Dunlap's blog at Curtis Dunlap

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose,

bottle rockets press

MET 10, Winter 2008, has been published in print and digital editions.

Call for Submissions Modern English Tanka. Issue Vol. 3, No. 3. Spring 2009

Pat Lichen's new website.

Gene Doty's The Ghazal Page. Ghazal blog.

Marlene Mountain

December of CHO issue

website of Isidro Iturat.

Sketchbook

Simply Haiku:

John Barlow Editor, Snapshot Press

The new issue of Shamrock Haiku Journal,

 

ARTICLES

A TALE OF A FESTIVAL
Kate Marianchild

THE FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HAIKU ANTHOLOGY
AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGOT BOLLOCK

Jane Reichhold
Margot Bollock

THE REVOLUTION IS SETTING THE CHILDREN OUT ON THE RAPIDS WHERE THEY KEEP FLOATING ALONG
Werner Reichhold

 

This issue of Lynx is dedicated to two founding fathers of haiku - Mario Fitterer in Germany and William J. Higginson in United States.

 

Mario Fitterer

died on 13. January 2009

 

and

William J. Higginson

1938 - 2008

 

 

 

Table of Contents

SYMBIOTIC
POEMS

SOLO
POEMS

BOOK
REVIEWS

LETTERS

ARTICLE

   
     
     
 

Back issues of Lynx:

XV:2 June, 2000
XV:3 October, 2000
XVI:1 Feb. 2001
XVI:2 June, 2001
XVI:3 October, 2001  
XVII:1 February, 2002
XVII:2 June, 2002
XVII:3 October, 2002
XVIII:1 February, 2003
XVIII:2 June, 2003
XVIII:3, October, 2003
XIX:1 February, 2004
XIX:2 June, 2004

XIX:3 October, 2004

XX:1,February, 2005

XX:2 June, 2005
XX:3 October, 2005
XXI:1February, 2006 
XXI:2, June, 2006

XXI:3,October, 2006

XXII:1 January, 2007
XXII:2 June, 2007
XXII:3 October, 2007

XXIII:1 January, 2008
XXIII:2 June, 2008

XXIII:3, October, 2008

 

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