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XXI:3 October, 2006

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets   
 
   
 

 

SOLO POETRY

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

BOOK REVIEWS

LETTERS TO LYNX

PARTICIPATION RENGA

 

The  Seventeenth Annual 
Tanka Splendor Contest
 

is open
for your entries
until September 30.
Deadline for tanka and tanka sequences is by e-mail at your midnight on

September 30, 2006

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

HOLDING YOUR HAND by CW Hawes

RETURNING by CW Hawes

GIFT by CW Hawes

LAST NIGHT by Michael Helsem

PASSING by Dustin Neal

GHAZAL FOR A DULL DAY by Laurence W. Thomas

HAIBUN

ASCENSION SUNDAY by Gillena Cox

A HAIBUN FOR SUSANNAH by CW Hawes

ORIGAMI by Elizabeth Howard

SCHOOL'S OUT by Roger Jones

TRAVEL HAIBUN by Larry Kimmel

COMMON THEME by Sheila E. Murphy

MONITOR THE MORNING by Sheila E. Murphy

DOVE LIGHT by Sheila E. Murphy

COME THE REVOLUTION by Zane Parks

I SWEAR by Zane Parks

SEQUENCES

JUST THIS MORNING by Ed Baker

FOR REV. BEN BORTEN by Gerard John Conforti

A WHITE HORSEMAN by John Daleiden

SUMI-E by Margarita Engle

VISIT TO A PETTING FARM by Laryalee Fraser

THE SIREN AGAIN by CW Hawes

WHAT CAN BE   TAUGHT by Michael Helsem

ALLOTROPES OF REASON by Michael Helsem

IN ASSISTED LIVING by Elizabeth Howard

SKIPJACK SEQUENCE by M. Kei

AMONG TAPERS by karina klesko

THE TENDER SPOTS by Richard Magahiz

YARD SALE – by Francis Masat

WILDLIFE CENTER – by Francis Masat

TO LORRAINE ELLIS HARR by Vasile Moldovan

THE WIND by June Moreau

A THIN WASH by Jane Reichhold

LARVAL IN WAITING by Werner Reichhold

SILENCE by R. K. Singh

SUN by R. K. Singh

AMONG FLOWERS by Sue Stanford

SPRING 2006 by Ella Wagemakers

SINGLE POEMS by

Gerd Boerner

Karen J. Briggs

Sonia Cristina Coman

Sanford Goldstein

Barry Goodmann

Ruth Holzer

Jeanne Lesinski

Sheila E. Murphy

 

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

WHO-WHOOING TO THE STARS by Ann Piet Anderson, Francis Fike, & Marchiene Vroon Rienstra 

A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska &Ion Codrescu

A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Angela Leuck

A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Vasile Moldovan

A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Jadran Zalokar

A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Yudit Vihar

A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & David Prater

"WHOEVER BROUGHT ME HERE WILL HAVE TO TAKE ME HOME" 
A quote from D. Rumi by Sandra Casares & Dietmar Tauchner

STREET MUSICIANS by Carol Purington & Larry Kimmel

SCIFABULENGA: MIND-BODY MASHUP by Rich Magahiz & John W. Sexton

IN THE TOILET by Zane Parks & CW Hawes

THE SAW-TOOTH FENCE by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

VIEW FROM THE HILL by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair

BETWEEN US by Jane Reichhold & Werner Reichhold

TIME'S APHASIA by Cindy Tebo & Suhni Bell

DATURA NOIR by sheila windsor, hortensia anderson, & ron moss 

 

 

 LETTERS

Rich Magahiz

Ginka Biliarska

Gino Peregrini

Geert Verbeke

Denis M. Garrison

Michael McClintock

Peter Schmideg

M. Kei, 

Sandy

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

GUEST BOOK REVIEWS
My Tanka Diary, by Yuko Kawano, translated by Amelia Fielden. Ginninderra Press: 2006, 213 pages, ISBN:1740227 361 3, US $20 (US bills preferred, cost includes postage). Can be ordered from A. Fielden, 20A Elouera Avenue, Buff Point, NSW 2262, Australia.
by Sanford Goldstein,
Shibata-shi, Japan

A Book Review A Hindi Translation of Masaoka Shiki’s – If Someone Asks . . .by Dr. Angelee Deodhar. Written by Kala Ramesh, Pune, India. If Someone Asks ... Masaoka Shiki’s Life and Haiku, published December 2005; English translation by The Shiki-Kinen Museum English Volunteers, Hindi translation by Dr. Angelee Deodhar, 156 pages. This book is not for sale but copies can be requested from: Dr. Angelee Deodhar, House No. 1224, Sector - 42 B Chandigarh -160 036 India.

Haiku: Anthologie du počme court japonais. Selection and translation by Corinne Atlan and Zéno Bianu. Editions Gallimard: 2002. Colour cover, 242 pages, ISBN:2-07-041306-3,  
available for under $13 from www.amazon.ca by Norman Darlington, Bunclody, Ireland

Book Announcements

SWEEPS OF RAIN - a haibun book about dementia (in het Nederlands: Vegen van Regen) Year: 2006 by GEERT VERBEKE (°31-05-1948). ISBN - 81-8253-06-87, Pages:  128, Format: Paperback A5. Language: English. Publisher mail: Dr. Santosh Kumar    Website: Cyberwit India  PRICE: 18 us$  on bank account.

Mud On The Wall, Selected Haiku, Senryu & Tanka Poems of Jörgen Johansson , Sweden - River Man Publishing Co. ISBN 91-976430-0-9. 79 Poems, all in English! 2003-2006, picked by Heron´s Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, Mainchi News, Simply Haiku. Ltd edition of 100 numbered copies, price, $6 + $4 Airmail, payment thru cash in a well concealed airmail letter OR Paypal.  

CHO is a quarterly journal edited by Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross. Featured in this issue: Selections for Contemporary Haibun [The Yearly Print Journal].

Haiku For Peace – In Memory of Sadako Sasaki by Mevsimsiz Publishing House in Turkey is planning to publish “1000 Haiku for Peace” anthology in memory of Sadako Sasaki in August  6, 2007 in English and Turkish. We are looking for 100 haiku and senryu poets in order to help us to make this project real. All over the world who believes the peace; all over the world, who would like to stop the war in Palestine , Lebanon , Africa .Each haiku and senryu poets shall have 10 haiku or senryu in the anthology. 

TANKA FIELDS A Chapbook of Tanka by Robert D. Wilson, With a Forward by Michael McClintock, White Egret Press (c)2006. Featuring 75 tanka written by the award winning poet and owner/managing editor of Simply Haiku, Robert D. Wilson. $6.00 U.S. & Canada : $2.00 P&H International: $4.00 P&H. Checks and/or money orders are to be made out to: Robert D. Wilson, 20734 Hemlock Street , Groveland, CA  95321 USA  

July's FireWeed is complete and ready for your inspection: Poetry, interview, Houdini , Scotland , experimental, War, Peace and Everything in between supplemental, and feature - Jon Hayes. Terrie Relf, editor, invites you to come on over and enjoy. And also go to the blog. The blog owner's (Michelle Buchanan) goal is to post a memorial poem to each of the military killed during the Iraq war - 2615 as of the end of June. Please add yours. Gary Blankenship Gary's book, A River Transformed.

HAIKU HARVEST — Journal of Haiku in English, Spring & Summer 2006, Volume 6 Number 1 Print & Digital Editions.  Denis M. Garrison, Editor.

The German web site Haiku heute  (Haiku Today) appears monthly. It contains a juried collection of 15 to twenty haiku chosen from about 150 to 200 haiku submitted monthly, plus commentary, haibun, renku, interviews and essays.

 

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. 

Note: 

The activity in the participation renga has fallen so low that we are considering dropping this long-time feature of Lynx. Unless at least five persons respond to the current links, the next issue will be the last one to have the Participation Renga. 

 

   
   
 

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