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XXII:1 February, 2007

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets   
 
   
 

 

SOLO POETRY

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

ARTICLES

BOOK REVIEWS

LETTERS TO LYNX

PARTICIPATION RENGA

   

SOLO POETRY

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

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

WHEN VENUS IS ENOUGH  by suhni bell & hortensia anderson

BANDANA UITATA – FORGOTTEN BANDANNA by Cristian Mocanu, Dana-Maria Onica &
Daniela Bullas 

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

ARTICLES

 CIRCLING THE PIVOT AGAIN by Jane Reichhold

 LETTERS

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.

The Pinewood Haiku Contest DEADLINE: Received by February 14th, 2007

 

BOOK REVIEWS

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.

17 Minutes by Matthew Hupert. Neuronautic Press, 332 E 74th Street, Suite 5B, New York City, NY 10021 USA. Paper, saddle-stitched, 18 pages, 4.25 x 5.5 inches.

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 "
a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3,000 haiku, waka, senryū and kyōka about a major theme from I.P.O.O.H. (In Praise Of Olde Haiku). By Robin D. Gill. Paraverse Press 0-9742618-6-6 13 digit 978-0-9742618-6-7 Perfect bound. 740 pages, $39.

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
If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, please let me know by e-mail.

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

 

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 

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
Watercolor by Francine Porad © 2004

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
the shaky hand      painting mountains    Jane Reichhold

flora
fauna
francine     Carlos Colón

 

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