LYNX XXIII:1, February, 2008

A CUP OF COLD WATER
Richard Straw
Curtis Dunlap

WAITING FOR THE TOOTH FAIRIES
Barbara A Taylor, Australia
Moira Richards, South Africa

LUNCH IN THE PLAZA
Frank Williams, England
Doreen King, England

ANOTHER AUTUMN
Pamela A. Babusci
Alexis Rotella

INVISIBLE SHIELD
Alexis Rotella
Pamela A. Babusci

CURIOUS
Dorothea Penn
William A. Poppen

THE QUICK WAY
Anne-Marie Culhane (master poet)
Paul Conneally (host poet)
Catherine Naysmith
Oonagh Desire
Jo Salter
Dave Jones
Jenny Stanton
Anita Joice
Joseph Conneally
Colin May
Becky Didlick
Gaby Hock

AUGUST ISLAND
Eric D. Lehman
Amy Nawrocki

HAIGA

Alexis Rotella and Angelee Deodhar

TAN RENGA

Raihana Dewji
CW Hawes

SUMMER MORNING
Gene Doty

THE LOVER OF ALL LOVERS
CW Hawes

FAMOUS
Ruth Holzer

GHAZAL OF THE STARTLED SILENCE
Steffen Horstmann

ACROSS THE BAY
Steffen Horstmann

A DREAM OF PERSEPHONE
Steffen Horstmann

GUZZLE OR CHUG
Shelleen A. McQueen

HAIBUN

HOLIDAYS
CW Hawes

POLYNESIA
CW Hawes

SEAMING
Tracy Koretsky

UNTITLED
John Martone

ARE YOU. . .
Linda Papanicolaou

BMISERERE MEI
Linda Papanicolaou

SACRAMENT
Linda Papanicolaou

STRATEGIC MOMENTS
Patricia Prime

PUBLICATION
Patricia Prime

CATALOG
Ray Rasmussen

PEEPHOLE
Richard Straw

PLATO'S CAVE
Richard Straw

DOLOR
Richard Straw

HERE AND THERE
Barbara A. Taylor

NEIGHBORS
Jeffrey Woodward

GLASS LAKE
Jeffrey Woodward

SOUVENIR
Jeffrey Woodward

SEQUENCES

NEAR MISSES, SUNDAY MORNING
James Roderick Burns

ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD
Ruth Holzer

UNTITLED
Elizabeth Howard

THEN BED
Shelleen A. McQueen

WATERMAN'S SPRING
M. Kei

UNTITLED SKY POEMS
June Moreau

JUMP IN THE CALM SEA
Tomislav Maretic

SNAKES
R.K. Singh

UNTITLED
A. Thiagarajan

37 EXTRA HAIKU, AS CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES...
Geert Verbeke

REWORKING AN OLD POEM
Ella Wagemakers

TOWARDS HEPTONSTALL
Liam Wilkinson

SINGLE POEMS

PELT
Christopher Barnes

1968
Carl Brennan

KENSHI
Carl Brennan

Sanford Goldstein

Martin Grenfell

CW Hawes

Artur Lewandowski

Barbara A. Taylor

SHROVE TUESDAY
Carl Brennan

Business in Eden by David Cobb. Equinox Press: Braintree, Essex, England, 2006. ISBN: 0-9517103-5-4. Perfect Bound, 5” x 6 1/2“, 96 pp., £7.95 UK Available, also, through British Haiku Society Bookshop.

Water Shining Beyond the Fields: Haibun Travels Southeast Asia by John Brandi. Tres Chicas Books: El Rito, NM, 2006. ISBN: 1-893003-09-4. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 7”, 190 pp., $14.00 US.

Table Turning: BHS Haibun Anthology 2005. Edited by David Cobb and Ken Jones. BHS Bookshop. ISSN: 0-952230-78. Saddle-stapled, 5 ½” x 8”, 40 pp., £5 UK.

Shorelines: Haiku, Haibun and Tanka by Kirsty Karkow. Black Cat Press: Eldersburg, MD, 2007. ISBN: 0-9766407-5-9. Perfect Bound, 5” x 6 ½”, 132 pp., $15.95 US.

Gathering Peace by Carol Purington. Winfred Press: Colrain, MA, 2007. ISBN: 0-9766407-4-0. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 8”, 100 pp., $15 postpaid within US – ordering details and prices outside USA.

Lip Prints: Tanka and Other Short Poems, 1979-2007 by Alexis Rotella. Modern English Tanka Press: Baltimore, MD, 2007. ISBN 978-0-6151-6501-1. Perfect Bound, 6 x 9 inches, 160 pp., $21.95 US.

The Tao of Water, edited by Giselle Maya. Koyama Press, France, 2007. Limited Edition, hand-sewn, 8 x 11 inches, 52 pp. Send $26 US plus $9.60 US postage or 20E plus 7.20E postage to G. Maya, Koyama Press, 84750 Saint Martin de Castillon, France.

A Piece of the Rainbow by Fujiko Sato. Nihon Bungakukan: Tokyo, Japan, 2007. ISBN: 978-4-7765-1448-0. Perfect Bound, 5” x 7 ½”, 118 pp., $12 US or 1,200 yen.

Poets Behind Barbed Wire. Edited and translated by Jiro Nakano and Kay Nakano. Bamboo Ridge Press: Honolulu, HI, 1983. ISBN: 0-910043-05-1. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 8”, 88 pp., $8 US.

Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology. Edited and translated by Jiro Nakano. Bamboo Ridge Press: Honolulu, HI, 1995. ISBN: 0-910043-38-8. Perfect Bound, 6” x 9”, 128 pp., $10 US.

Reeds: Contemporary Haiga 2007. Edited by Jeanne Emrich. Lone Egret Press, 6566 France Avenue South, Suite 1210, Edina, MN 55435. ISBN: None. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 8”, 102 pp., $16 US.

Geert Verbeke: An enigma, a modern master and a spellbinder.Literary criticism of the poetry and prose of Geert Verbeke (Flanders-Belgium), based upon “Brother Buddha”, 2007, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 978-81-8253-094-2; “Frogs Croak”, 2007, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 978-81-8253-091-1; “Rain”, 2005, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 81-8253-021-0; “Jokerman”, 2005, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 81-8253-038-5; and “Sweeps of Rain”, 2006, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 81-8253-068-7.

Stepping Stones: a way into haiku, Martin Lucas
192 pp., ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6, £12 + £1.50 p&p British Haiku Society. Order from: Stanley Pelter, Maple House, 5 School Lane, Claypole, Lincs. NG23 5BQ Overseas orders, enquire.

Wall Street Park, A Concrete Renku, by Raffael Gruttola and Carlos Colón, including text about Links & Linkages by the authors. PiXeLaRt Press, Upton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2007. $ 8.00 pp. Order from: Carlos Colon, 185 Lynn Ave., Shreveport, LA 71105


XXIII:1 February, 2008		LYNX A Journal for Linking Poets



	Table of Contents SYMBIOTIC POETRY SOLO POETRY BOOK REVIEWS ARTICLES LETTERS	SYMBIOTIC POETRY A CUP OF COLD WATER Richard Straw Curtis Dunlap WAITING FOR THE TOOTH FAIRIES Barbara A Taylor, Australia Moira Richards, South Africa LUNCH IN THE PLAZA Frank Williams, England Doreen King, England ANOTHER AUTUMN Pamela A. Babusci Alexis Rotella INVISIBLE SHIELD Alexis Rotella Pamela A. Babusci CURIOUS Dorothea Penn William A. Poppen THE QUICK WAY Anne-Marie Culhane (master poet) Paul Conneally (host poet) Catherine Naysmith Oonagh Desire Jo Salter Dave Jones Jenny Stanton Anita Joice Joseph Conneally Colin May Becky Didlick Gaby Hock AUGUST ISLAND Eric D. Lehman Amy Nawrocki HAIGA Alexis Rotella and Angelee Deodhar TAN RENGA Raihana Dewji CW Hawes SOLO WORKS GHAZALS SUMMER MORNING Gene Doty THE LOVER OF ALL LOVERS CW Hawes FAMOUS Ruth Holzer GHAZAL OF THE STARTLED SILENCE Steffen Horstmann ACROSS THE BAY Steffen Horstmann A DREAM OF PERSEPHONE Steffen Horstmann GUZZLE OR CHUG Shelleen A. McQueen HAIBUN HOLIDAYS CW Hawes POLYNESIA CW Hawes SEAMING Tracy Koretsky UNTITLED John Martone ARE YOU. . . Linda Papanicolaou BMISERERE MEI Linda Papanicolaou SACRAMENT Linda Papanicolaou STRATEGIC MOMENTS Patricia Prime PUBLICATION Patricia Prime CATALOG Ray Rasmussen PEEPHOLE Richard Straw PLATO'S CAVE Richard Straw DOLOR Richard Straw HERE AND THERE Barbara A. Taylor NEIGHBORS Jeffrey Woodward GLASS LAKE Jeffrey Woodward SOUVENIR Jeffrey Woodward SEQUENCES NEAR MISSES, SUNDAY MORNING James Roderick Burns ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD Ruth Holzer UNTITLED Elizabeth Howard THEN BED Shelleen A. McQueen WATERMAN'S SPRING M. Kei UNTITLED SKY POEMS June Moreau JUMP IN THE CALM SEA Tomislav Maretic SNAKES R.K. Singh UNTITLED A. Thiagarajan 37 EXTRA HAIKU, AS CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES... Geert Verbeke REWORKING AN OLD POEM Ella Wagemakers TOWARDS HEPTONSTALL Liam Wilkinson SINGLE POEMS PELT Christopher Barnes 1968 Carl Brennan KENSHI Carl Brennan Sanford Goldstein Martin Grenfell CW Hawes Artur Lewandowski Barbara A. Taylor SHROVE TUESDAY Carl Brennan BOOK REVIEWS Business in Eden by David Cobb. Equinox Press: Braintree, Essex, England, 2006. ISBN: 0-9517103-5-4. Perfect Bound, 5” x 6 1/2“, 96 pp., £7.95 UK Available, also, through British Haiku Society Bookshop. Water Shining Beyond the Fields: Haibun Travels Southeast Asia by John Brandi. Tres Chicas Books: El Rito, NM, 2006. ISBN: 1-893003-09-4. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 7”, 190 pp., $14.00 US. Table Turning: BHS Haibun Anthology 2005. Edited by David Cobb and Ken Jones. BHS Bookshop. ISSN: 0-952230-78. Saddle-stapled, 5 ½” x 8”, 40 pp., £5 UK. Shorelines: Haiku, Haibun and Tanka by Kirsty Karkow. Black Cat Press: Eldersburg, MD, 2007. ISBN: 0-9766407-5-9. Perfect Bound, 5” x 6 ½”, 132 pp., $15.95 US. Gathering Peace by Carol Purington. Winfred Press: Colrain, MA, 2007. ISBN: 0-9766407-4-0. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 8”, 100 pp., $15 postpaid within US – ordering details and prices outside USA. Lip Prints: Tanka and Other Short Poems, 1979-2007 by Alexis Rotella. Modern English Tanka Press: Baltimore, MD, 2007. ISBN 978-0-6151-6501-1. Perfect Bound, 6 x 9 inches, 160 pp., $21.95 US. The Tao of Water, edited by Giselle Maya. Koyama Press, France, 2007. Limited Edition, hand-sewn, 8 x 11 inches, 52 pp. Send $26 US plus $9.60 US postage or 20E plus 7.20E postage to G. Maya, Koyama Press, 84750 Saint Martin de Castillon, France. A Piece of the Rainbow by Fujiko Sato. Nihon Bungakukan: Tokyo, Japan, 2007. ISBN: 978-4-7765-1448-0. Perfect Bound, 5” x 7 ½”, 118 pp., $12 US or 1,200 yen. Poets Behind Barbed Wire. Edited and translated by Jiro Nakano and Kay Nakano. Bamboo Ridge Press: Honolulu, HI, 1983. ISBN: 0-910043-05-1. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 8”, 88 pp., $8 US. Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology. Edited and translated by Jiro Nakano. Bamboo Ridge Press: Honolulu, HI, 1995. ISBN: 0-910043-38-8. Perfect Bound, 6” x 9”, 128 pp., $10 US. Reeds: Contemporary Haiga 2007. Edited by Jeanne Emrich. Lone Egret Press, 6566 France Avenue South, Suite 1210, Edina, MN 55435. ISBN: None. Perfect Bound, 5 ½” x 8”, 102 pp., $16 US. Geert Verbeke: An enigma, a modern master and a spellbinder.Literary criticism of the poetry and prose of Geert Verbeke (Flanders-Belgium), based upon “Brother Buddha”, 2007, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 978-81-8253-094-2; “Frogs Croak”, 2007, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 978-81-8253-091-1; “Rain”, 2005, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 81-8253-021-0; “Jokerman”, 2005, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 81-8253-038-5; and “Sweeps of Rain”, 2006, Cyberwit (India), ISBN: 81-8253-068-7. Stepping Stones: a way into haiku, Martin Lucas 192 pp., ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6, £12 + £1.50 p&p British Haiku Society. Order from: Stanley Pelter, Maple House, 5 School Lane, Claypole, Lincs. NG23 5BQ Overseas orders, enquire. Wall Street Park, A Concrete Renku, by Raffael Gruttola and Carlos Colón, including text about Links & Linkages by the authors. PiXeLaRt Press, Upton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2007. $ 8.00 pp. Order from: Carlos Colon, 185 Lynn Ave., Shreveport, LA 71105 ARTICLES Calling All Haiku Kate Marianchild Natural Rhythm Jim Wilson LETTERS from: *Tree Riesener,* *Sanford* *Goldstein, Gino Peregrini, Ed Baranosky, Dave Morice, Alexis Rotella, Robin G. Gill, Paul Conneally, Eric D. Lehman, Richard Kostelanetz, First Thought, Shelleen McQueen,* M. Kei, 5th International Haiku Contest: 'Klostar Ivanic 2008', Croatia. Beverley George, Contemporary Haibun Online, Karina, Simply Haiku, Haiku heute



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