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GHAZALS THE SADDEST BIRTHDAYS IN DECEMBER by Sammer Al-Mashaqbeh CRUMBS by CW Hawes MACCRIMMON'S LAMENT by Ruth Holzer THE DARKNESS OF A DEEP WELL by Kevin Paul Miller BUTTERFLY TATTOO DREAM by Kevin Paul Miller SUCH by Jane Reichhold HAIBUN AVE MARIA by CW Hawes TRESPASS by Gary LeBel SIGNALS by Roger Jones COMMON THEME by Sheila E. Murphy DOVE LIGHT by Sheila E. Murphy MONITOR THE MORNING by Sheila E. Murphy MIMI by Zane Parks COMMUTE by Zane Parks A MINUTE’S PAUSE by Patricia Prime TE WHAHAPU BAY by Patricia Prime SEQUENCES PISA by Gemma Bristow ENTER JULIA ALOFT by Christopher Barnes ENEMY NO.1 by Christopher Barnes THE QUARREL by John Daleiden AUF WIEDERSEHEN by John Daleiden IN THE YEAR OF THE DOG by Amelia Fielden HOLY COMMUNION by Amelia Fielden GREEN FLASH by Ruth Holzer YEAR OF THE FAWN by Elizabeth Howard THE PATRIARCH by Thomas Land NEW YEAR'S DAWN by M. Kei CARVE AN EXISTENCE by Sharon Cooper NEEDS CHOKE by Sharon Cooper SILENCE OF WINTER by Sharon Cooper RIVER BEND by Linda Papanicolau TWENTY-FOUR HOURS by Werner Reichhold FOUR SEASONS OF LOVE by Natalia L. Rudychev MARITAL TENSION by R.K. Singh WINTER MEETS SPRING by Barbara A Taylor UNTITLED by robert d. wilson BOTTOM OF THE BARREL by Jane Reichhold SINGLE POEMS ELEGY FOR ALAN GINSBERG by Christopher Barnes AGE by R.K.Singh CW Hawes, Jeanne Emrich, Sanford Goldstein, Giselle Maya, June Moreau, Kevin Paul Miller, Gautam Nadkarni WHEN VENUS IS ENOUGH by suhni bell & hortensia anderson BANDANA
UITATA – FORGOTTEN BANDANNA by Cristian Mocanu, Dana-Maria Onica & WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY HEAD? by Norman Darlington, Kala Ramesh, Moira Richards, Brian Zimmer & Ranzan AFTER FIREWORKS by Carol Purington & Larry Kimmel A BLOSSOM RETURNING TO ITS BRANCH by Betty Kaplan, Max Verhart & Moritake GNATS by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair CYBERCAFE by Zane Parks, Lorin Ford & CW Hawes SPIDER WEBS by Alexis Rotella & Carlos Colón SILENT EXPLOSIONS by Joan Payne Kincaid & Sundiata Acoli POST GONDWANA: A CHAIN REACTION by Moira Richards & Barbara A Taylor FACING THE TRUTH by Barbara A Taylor & Moira Richards FOOD FOR THOUGHT by Barbara A Taylor, Shayla Mollohan & Moira Richards A RIPPLE OF SHADOWS by Frank Williams & Andrew Shimield PAST THE BROKEN GATE by Frank Williams & Doreen King CIRCLING THE PIVOT AGAIN by Jane Reichhold From: Connie Hutchison, Raffael de Gruttola, Johnny Baranski, Lenard D. Moore, Michael Dylan Welch, Alexis Rotella, Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper, Kokkie-san aka Ed Baker, Gilles Fabre, M. Kei, Michael McClintock, Denis M. Garrison , Gary Blankenship , Haiku Constantza Society- Ms Laura Vaceanu, Gino Peregrini, Jörgen Johansson, John J. Dunphy, Beverley George, Peter Schmideg, Ken Jones, Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross, Mariko Kitakubo, Larry Kimmel, Denis Garrison, Jim Kacian, Tony A. Thompson CONTEST INFORMATION 2007 ukiaHaiku Festival. Deadline March 17 THE HAIKU CALENDAR COMPETITION 2007 by Snapshot Press deadline for submissions arrival is April 30, 2007 Check the website.
Special for this issue: Vogeline the complete English translation of Silva Ley's book of haiku and tanka, Vogeline published in Dutch in 2006 by A3 Books. BOOK REVIEWS by M. Kei Slow Spring Water: The Life Poetry of Melissa Dixon by Melissa Dixon. Introduction by Michael McClintock. Slowspringpress, 213-2075 Milton Street, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8R 1N8. ISBN 0-9780815-0-1. Perfect bound, 61 pages 5.25 x 7.5 inches, $10.00 US / $12.00 Canada. Modern English Tanka, 1:1, Fall, 2006. 252 pages, trade
paperback, color covers, b/w interior art. Denis M. Garrison, editor;
Michael McClintock, contributing editor. Available through Lulu.com. but then you danced. Jeanne Lupton. Oakland, CA: 2006. Saddle-stitched 4.25 x 5.5 in., 60 pages, black and white cover with an interior illustrations by the author. Blue Night & The Inadequacy Of Long-Stemmed Roses by Larry Kimmel. Winfred Press, 364 Wilson Hill Road, Colrain, MA 01340. Comb-bound, 6 x 9 inches, 95 pages, $11.95 USD. ISBN: 978-0-9743856-9-3. Utamaro: A Chorus of Birds. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Akamatsu no Kinkei, ed. Kitagawa Utamaro, illus. James T. Kenny, trans. New York: Viking Press, 1981 [Tokyo, 1790]. Accordion fold art book, color interiors, unpaginated. Out of print. Perhaps available online as used or rare book. Obon: The Festival of the Dead by Terry Watada. Thistledown Press, 633 Main Street, Saskatoon, SK S7H 0J8 Canada, ISBN 978-1-897235-14-0, $15.95 CDN / $14.95 USD. Perfect bound, 94 pp 5.5 x 8.5 inches. BOOK REVIEWS by Jane Reichhold Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka translated by Kozue Uzawa and Amelia Fielden. Cheng & Tsui Asian Literature Series: 2006. ISBN: 0-88727-494-3. Perfect bound, 5 x 8 inches, 132 pages, bilingual Japanese & English with biographies. The Pleiades at Dawn: A tanka Collection by Jeanne Emrich. Lone Egret Press, Edina Minnesota: 2006. Perfect bound, 5 x 8 inches, 72 pages, US$14; Canada $16, add $2 for postage and handling in USA and Canada; $4 elsewhere. BOOK ADVERTISEMENTS Sweeps Of Rain a haibun book about dementia, published in the Nederlands as Vegen van Regen by Geert Verbeke. Now available in English ISBN - 81-8253-06-87. Paperback A5, 128 pages, US$ 18. Publisher Dr. Santosh Kumar Website: India. Geert Verbeke, Leo Baekelandlaan 14, B-8500 Kortrijk , Flanders - Belgium - Europe. Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces Of The Human Heart. Edited by M. Kei. Trade paperback, 160 pages, $14.95 USD. Available from Lulu.com or M. Kei, P. O. Box 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922-1118 or major booksellers. Cherry Blossom Epiphany " the poetry and philosophy of
a flowering tree " Tree Reisener's new chapbook, Liminalog a collection of ghazals and sijo, is now available. If you'd like Liminalog as a free e-book, just visit the website and blog with her. You can read Silva Ley's complete translations of her book, Vogeline, first published in Dutch as a supplement to this issue of Lynx. BOOKS WANTING REVIEWERS Growing Late by Tom Clausen Tanka Fields by Robert D. Wilson Opal by Sue Stanford Blue Smoke - a two voice improvisation by Sheila Windsor and Larry Kimmel. The Embrace of Planets: 111 haiku by Ban'ya Natsuishi and translated into Romanian by Vasile Moldovan Flori de tei - Lime-tree flowers a collection of haiku from Romania on the subject of Lime Trees that is bilingual with translations by Vasile Moldovan. Amber: dementia - haiku by Geert Verbeke in Dutch and English In the Grip of Sirens: Renegade Renga, Tenacious Tanka, Outlaw Haiku by R. W. Watkins / Robin Tilley Firepearls: Short masterpieces of the Human Heart edited by M. Kei Raffaello's Azure by Ruri Hazama, assisted by Amelia Fielden. All I Can Do by Aya Yuhki Reeds: Contemporary Haiga 2006, editor Jeanne Emrich Wazowski Himself and other poems by Ed Baranosky On This Same Star, selections from the tanka collection Will by Mariko Kitakubo translated by Amelia Fielden The Solitude of Cities by Ruth Holzer Things Just Come Through by Ed Baker
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 FRANCINE PORAD She was the former president of the Haiku Society of America, founder of the Haiku Northwest group, longtime editor of the haiku journal Brussels Sprout, painter, poet, and friend, was a major force in haiku, tanka, and renga poetry. We will miss her buoyant, encouraging, and nurturing spirit.
Detail of "Sunlight Comes and Goes"
#4 You can read her renga in past issues of Lynx done with Marlene Mountain or her many renga listed in the index of Werner Reichhold's online book, Symbiotic Poetry. In this issue, in the Participation Renga, Carlos Colón had this link in her honor in the poem "Blackout"
food bowl cat’s date of birth added
in calligraphy Francis P. Attard flora
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