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XXIV:3, October, 2009

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets 
 
  
   
     
     

COLLABORATIVE POETRY

SUMMER HEAT
Mike Montreuil
Micheline Beaudry

Haiga by Billie Dee & Terry O'Connor

TAN RENGA MIT ANGELIKA WIENERT UND INA MÜLLER-VELTEN
Gerd Börner

ALTE KERBEN     OLD NOTCHES
Claudia Brefeld
Martina Heinisch

Haiga by Wolfgang Beutke & Anne-Dore Beutke

UNBEMALTE HIMMEL    UNPAINTED SKIES
Claudia Brefeld
Martina Heinisch

THE UNSPOKEN
Ramona Linke
Gabriele Reinhard

IN BEWEGUNG
ON THE MOVE
Gabriele Reinhard

Claudia Brefeld

NIGHT SKY
Jane Reichhold
Giselle Maya

BIRD WALK
Patricia Prime
Catherine Mair

Haiga by Shanna Baldwin and Gillena Cox

A SPLASH OF GREEN
Paul Mercken
Alison Williams
Fokkina McDonnell
Paul (& Karen) Smith

GREENER STILL
Jane Reichhold
Giselle Maya

SPITS OF RAIN
Patricia Prime
Catherine Mair

SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST SEA
Ken Wanamaker
Kathy Earsman
Norman Darlington

NOTABLE  UNLEASHED
Werner Reichhold
Jane Reichhold

 

SOLO
WORKS

Haiga by Alan Taylor

GHAZALS

GHAZAL OF THE ELEPHANT
 Steffen Horstmann

 A ROSE IN BENGAL
 Steffen Horstmann

 LATE AT NIGHT
 Steffen Horstmann

ON MY SIDE
Ayat Ghanem

 

SYMBIOTIC FORMS

RESPONSIBILITIES
C W Hawes

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
C W Hawes

MIRRORS
C W Hawes

VIOLA TRICOLOR                       
translated from the German by Celia Brown
Ruth Franke

BLANKENBURG                    
translated from the German by Celia Brown
Ruth Franke

 FROM BADDECK
 Ruth  Holzer

PHAISTOS
Ruth  Holzer

IN MEMORIAM
Larry Kimmel

A KITCHEN FRAGRANCE
Larry Kimmel

REQUIEM
Larry Kimmel

ARE WE THERE YET?
Patricia Prime

THE PAINTING
Patricia Prime

(Untitled)
shirley cahayom

Haiga by Ramona Linke

 

SEQUENCES

AUTUMN TANKA
Don Ammons

CAST OFF WET STONES
Michelle V. Alkerton

UP THE POLE
Michelle V. Alkerton

AGE SHIFTS TIME
Michelle V. Alkerton

EQUILIBRIUM
Nadia Ghanem

TO THE CITY
Ruth Holzer

THE BEEKEEPER’S DAUGHTER
Ed Baranosky

HOT DOG AND BUN: A DUET
(Nathan’s Famous, 2001)
James Roderick Burns

AUSPICIOUS JOURNEYS
Ayat Ghanem

FACE OF ISIS
Elizabeth Howard

WORDS FROM ARIEL
Sylvia Plath

LAND OF SMILING
Claudia Melchior

GAURA LINHEIMERI
john martone 

21 LINES WITH JAW INFECTION
Lorin Ford

SWIFT
Dick Pettit

BUZZ
Dick Pettit

LIMBOLAND
a MS sequence
David Serjeant

EASTER AFTERNOON
Ken Wanamaker

 

SINGLE POEMS

c w hawes
Jose del Valle
Gerd Börner
Joanna M. Weston
Natasha Khrolenko
R.K.Singh
Artur Lewandowski
Violette Rose-Jones

 Haiga by Alan Taylor

ARTICLES

SIGNS OF THE SEASONS: HAIKU AND SIGN LANGUAGE
Presentation by Linda Galloway

 

SOLO KASEN RENGA
Richard Pettit

 

CATCH
Dick Pettit

A REBUTTAL IN DEFENSE OF THE RENGA SCHEMAS 
Jane Reichhold

 

BOOK REVIEWS

DRIPPING GOLDEN LIGHT
An examination of Pamela Babusci’s first collection of tanka, A Thousand Reasons
Marjorie Buettner

Contact: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com.  Pamela A. Babusci 150 Milford St. Apt. 13 Rochester, NY 14615  US Funds $14 plus $2.50 S&H ; Foreign $5 S&H.

KyôkaJapan’s Comic Verse, A MAD IN TRANS LATION Reader compiled, translated, explained and essayed by robin d. gill. Paraverse Press, 2009. Contact: http://paraverse.org Paperback, 8 x 11 inches, 734 pages (not counting the rant at the end). Includes Japanese originals, romanization, a bibliography, poet and poem indexes. Review is written from a reading copy that contained no price.

Stone Mirror, Water Mirror / Oglinda de Piatra, Oglinda de Apa by Clelia Ifrim. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 54 pages, Romanian and English. Illustrated with ten drawings by the author. No price. Available from Clelia Ifrim, Calea Dorobantilor 135-145/ Ap. 5, 010563 Buchar’est, Romania

Delta Blues by Skip Fox. Ahadada Books: 2009. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5,176 pages. No price; contact ahadadabooks.com

Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses by Larry Kimmel. Second Edition with The Temperature of Love. Modern English Tanka Press, www.themetpress.com, 2009. Perfect bound, 6 x 9 inches, 124 pages, $12.95

Elvis in Black Leather by Alexis Rotella. Modern English Tanka Press: www.themetpress.com, 2009. Perfect bound, 4 x 6.5 inches, 44 pages, $9.95.

Dragonfly’s Play / Jocul Libelulei by Oprica Padeanu. Verus, Bucuresti, 2009. Romanian and English. Translated by Vasile Moldovan. Perfect bound, full color cover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 100 pages. Contact: verus@clicknet.ro

slightly scented short lived words and roses by Stanley Pelter. England: George Mann Publications, 2009. Perfect bound, full-color cover, 6 x 9 inches, 132 pages, cover by Izzy Sharpe, Introduction by John Daniel. Illustrations by S. Felton.

THE ONAWA POEMS 1999-2008, EDITED BY PAUL W. MACNEIL. SHIP POND PRESS. PERFECT BOUND 5.5 X 8.5 INCHES, 40 PAGES, $11. COLLECTED HAIKU BY YU CHANG, FERRIS GILLI, GARY HOTHAM, KIRSTY KARKOW, PAUL MACNEIL, PAUL DAVID MENA, PAUL M., JOHN STEVENSON, HILARY TANN, AND PAUL WATSKY.

Greetings from Luna Park by James Roderick Burns. Modern English Tanka Press, www.themetpress.com, 2008. Perfect bound, full-color cover, 5.5 x 9 inches, 100 pages, $14.95.

 

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS

. . .James Tipton's latest book, All the Horses of Heaven/Todos los Caballos del Paraiso

James Tipton's Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el pueblo antiguo

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

A Film of Words by Jane and Werner Reichhold,

Haiku Encounters, by Salvatore Buttaci.

Concrete Seasons, A Collection of Urban Tanka, by Bob Loomis

Symbiotic Art by Werner Reichhold

LETTERS from

Francis Masat, Peggy Lyles, David Serjeant, Larry Kimmel, Tyler Pruette, Dick Pettit, Max Verhart, Curtis Dunlap, Naia, tenzing

CONTESTS

The Heron's Nest

IHS International Haiku Competition 2009

Moonbathing Premier Issue Tanka Contest

SAD NEWS

D. Claire Gallageher

Paul O. Williams

Gruenther Klinge

 

 

Table of Contents

COLLABORATIVE
POEMS

SOLO
POEMS

BOOK
REVIEWS

ARTICLES

LETTERS

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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
XXIV:1 February, 2009

 

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