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XXI:2 June, 2006

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets   
 
   
 

 

SOLO POETRY

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

BOOK REVIEWS

LETTERS TO LYNX

ARTICLE

PARTICIPATION RENGA

Reminder that the Seventeenth Annual Tanka Splendor Contest 

is now open for your entries. Here are the Tanka Splendor Contest Rules. This is the oldest English-Language tanka contest and the only one in which the participants judge each other's work.

   

SOLO POETRY

GHAZALS

I ALWAYS HAVE THREE EYES by Gene Doty

SHE IS WEEPING by Gene Doty

TO LOVE YOUNGER by Melanie Faith

THE COMING by C W Hawes

SIDEWALK by Royce Icon

UNOBTRUSIVE PERMISSIBLE by Werner Reichhold

HAIBUN

WAITING by Elizabeth Howard

HOLIDAY by Royce Icon

MY FIRST EX-WIFE'S BEST FRIEND by Zane Parks

SEQUENCES

HAUNTING REFRAIN by Robin M Buehler

FOUR TANKA by Rod Burns

FOR TERESA JAMES by Gerard J. Conforti

VISIONS by John Daleiden

YOGA 101 by Janet Lynn Davis

SLOW  SPRING WATER by Melissa Dixon

A FADING SHADOW by Gene Doty

ONE-LINE HAIKU  by tombo (Lorraine Ellis Harr)

ACROSS AZURE SEAS by Elizabeth Howard

ONE-SIDED LOVE by Mrinalini Gadkari

HOW STONE IS MADE by Denis M. Garrison

CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD by Ruth Holzer

WOODPECKER by H. Gene Murtha

SPRING HAIKU by Ashley Rodman

COOLING THE OX by Anna Rugis

BLOOD HYMNODY by John W. Sexton

SINGLE POEMS by

Christopher Barnes
Gerd Börner with 
Kilmeny Niland trans. Melanie Faith
William Hart
CW Hawes
Kristy Karkow
June Moreau
Francine Porad
 R.K. Singh

SYMBIOTIC POETRY


 E[N]TYMOLOGIES by Sprite & Linda Papanicolaou 

ELECTION DAY by Carlos Colón & Alexis K. Rotella

COMING HOME by Laryalee Fraser & Linda Papanicolaou 

HELLO? by Denis M. Garrison, Carol Raisfeld & John Daleiden

BLUE SMOKE by Larry Kimmel & Sheila Windsor 

OFF AND ON by Zane Parks & Gino Peregrini

A FALLING STAR by Alison Williams, Andrew Shimield, Frank Williams, Dick Pettit &
Vanessa Proctor

GRAVITY  by John W. Sexton, Carmen Sterba, Thomas Fortenberry, Nancy Stewart Smith, Gary Blankenship, Moira Richards,  & Jennie Townsend

TEEN STORY by Catherine Mair & Patricia Prime

CARTWHEELS by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

PROPERTY LIST by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

EDDY by Patricia Prime &  Catherine Mair

CROSSROADS by Moira Richards, John W Sexton, Jennie Townsend, Gary Blankenship,
Nancy Stewart Smith, Carmen Sterba & Thomas Fortenberry

ZELKOVA WOOD by Carmen Sterba, Jennie Townsend, Nancy Stuart Smith, Thomas Fortenberry, John W Sexton, Gary Blankenship, & Moira Richards 

ONE POEM FOR SISTER SARAH by Pamela Raintree, W. Macaulay Johnson, Laura Flett, Carlos Colón, Jane Curry, Jim McLain, & Jennifer Jackson 

THE MATH BETWEEN by John W. Sexton & Moira Richards

UPRIGHT STONES by Jane Reichhold, Zane Parks, Norman Darlington, Moira Richards, CW Hawes, H. Gene Murtha, Lorin Ford, & Kathy Earsman 

TAN RENGA by CW Hawes & Lorin Ford

 

GRAPHICS by Sheila Windsor

 

 LETTERS

 from:
Paul Conneally

Melanie Faith

Denis M. Garrison

Larry Kimmel

John W. Sexton

 Dick Pettit

HAIKU AND PLACE  by Don Ammons

ARTICLE

A Poet's Profile of Lorraine Ellis Harr

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Still Swimming by Amelia Fielden. Ginninderra Press: 2006. Perfect bound, color cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 84 pages, ISBN:1-74027-325-7, US$20 (including airmail postage). Order from A. Fielden, 20A Elouera Ave., Buff Point NSW 2262, Australia.

Rustle of Bamboo Leaves: selected haiku and other poems by Victor P. Gendrano. Lulu Enterprises, Inc. Perfect bound, glossy trade cover, 6 x 9 inches, 228 pages, Tagalog and English.

PEACE: haiku, tanka, renga edited by Giselle Maya. Works by an’ya, Ion Codrescu, Christopher Harold, Kirsty Karkow, Mari Konno, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, Angela Leuck, Giselle Maya, June Moreau, Pamela Miller Ness, and Jane Reichhold. Illustrated by Yasuo Mizui and Louis Fulconis. Heavy hand-made paper, hand-tied with linen thread, cover, 6.25 by 10 inches, 36 pages. $18, plus $5.20 airmail postage. Giselle Maya, Koyama Press, 84750 Saint Martin de Castillon, France. Email.

& Y NOT: Haibun by Stanley Pelter. Perfect bound, full color cover, 6 x 9 inches, 146 pages, illustrated. Contact the author at Maple House, 5 School Lane, Claypole, Newark NG23 5BQ, United Kingdom

Encounters in This Penny World by Sanford Goldstein. Inkling Press:2005. Edited by E.D. Blodgett. Perfect bound, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 88 pages, ISBN:0-9737674-0-5. Inkling Press, P.O. Box 52014, Edmonton, AB T6G 2T5, Canada

Haiku Guide to the Inside Passage by Sally Stiles. Peacoat Press:2006 . Perfect bound, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 114 pages, color cover and color photographs throughout, ISBN:1-59872-305-7, $19.95.

Under the Roan Cliffs - A Collection of Renga, 1994 -2001 by Lorraine E. Harr and Brad Wolthers. Mountains and Rivers Press:2005. Saddle-stapled, 8.5 x 5.5, 52 pages, with computer enhanced photographs by Brad Wolthers. Contact  Mountains and Rivers Press, 815 E. 28th Ave., Eugene, OR 97405.

THE LIGHT INSIDE ME WILD - Marjorie Buettner    
Paperweight for Nothing  by vincent tripi, (Tribe press, 42 Franklin Street , Greenfield , MA 01312 ) 92 pgs., on Bembo type on Crushed leaf text, illustrated and hand sewn,
$20 postpaid

TO TASTE THE RAIN -An Examination of White Flower in the Sky
Marjorie Buettner
White Flower in the Sky by Anna Holley and Aya Yuhki, Published by Banraisya Inc. Japan . 2005. 164 pages. ISBN4-901221-15-9, 5”x6.5”, softbound. Available from www.amazon.co.jp and Kinokuniya Bookstores of America Co. , Ltd. $25.

 

PARTICIPATION RENGA  

by AB - Alice Benedict; CC - Carlos Colón; CF - Vikki Celeste Fannin; cg  - Cindy Guntherman; CSK - Carol Stroh Kemp; dht - Doris H. Thurston; DPK -Deborah P. Kolidji, DR - David Rice; DWP - Darrel W. Parry; EF - Eric Folsom; 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; 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; TV - Teresa Volz;  TW - Tundra (Jim Wilson) Wind; WEG - Elliot Greig; WR - Werner Reichhold; YH - Yvonne Hardenbrook; ZP - Zane Parks. 

 

This issue of LYNX is dedicated to:

Lorraine Ellis Harr - "Tombo"
October 31, 1912 - March 3, 2006

The woman, poet, publisher, and educator who most influenced early haiku writing in the English language. May her contributions to Japanese genre literature never be forgotten.

 

   
   
 

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