Haibun Selections

Hortensia Anderson, Cameo
Hortensia Anderson, Platinum Print
Shelly Bryant, Project
Andrea Cecon, Untitled
Marcyn Clements, At Kerry & McConnell
Susan Constable, Someone’s Daughter
Cherie Hunter Day, Surge
Billie Dee, Beatitude
Billie Dee, Salzburg
John Dunphy, Fish for Dinner
John Dunphy, Hell Freezing Over
John Dunphy, Working Abroad
Gary Eaton, A Chalk Mandala
Lynn Edge, Mother’s Dress
Judson Evans, A Museo dei Barbari
Jerry Gill, Untitled
Graham High, Blister Pack
Graham High, Driftwood
Joyce Hildebrand, Starry Eyed
Colette Jonopulos, 3009
Clyde Kessler, Screech Owl
Ellen Lindquist, Jane Austen Dawn
Giselle Maya, A Huguenot
Giselle Maya, Campredon
Giselle Maya, Le Foyer
Michael McClintock, An Account to a Friend about My Life in the West
Michael McClintock, Courage in November
Albert Melear, Extinction
Renee Owen, Amtrak
Renee Owen, Hattie’s Funeral
Renee Owen, Love Happens
Linda Papanicolaou, Dreamcatcher
Patricia Prime, Challenging Landscape
Patricia Prime, Windsurfers
Kala Ramesh, The Threshold
Ray Rasmussen, Endings
Ray Rasmussen, The Folding Knife
Cynthia Rowe, Sun Music
Adelaide Shaw, Lab Test
Barbara Strang, A Lack of Honesty
Barbara Strang, The Visitant
Beverly Tift, Mermaids
Beverly Tift, Sea of Lost Ships
Lisa Timpf, Winter Solstice
Diana Webb, Firmament
Diana Webb, Midwinter Dream
Liz Wells, East
Jeffrey Winke, “No” Without Hesitation
Jeffrey Winke, Sweet Doomed Angels

Haibun by the Editors

Ken Jones, Power Play, Role Play, Love Play
Jim Kacian, Fluidity
Bruce Ross, Paul Klee

Essays & Interviews by Editors

Bruce Ross, The Essence of Haiku
Ken Jones: Interview with Jeffrey Woodward
Jim Kacian: Interview with Patricia Prime
Bruce Ross: Interview with Jeffrey Woodward
Ken Jones, Writing Reality: Fictional Haibun Stories
Ray Rasmussen, Characteristics of Contemporary English-language Haibun
Other Essays & Articles on Haibun

Editors' Thought Pieces

Ken Jones' Corner #1
Ken Jones' Corner #2
Ken Jones' Corner #3
Ken Jones' Corner #4
Evaluating Haibun: Our editors evaluate & suggest revisions to a haibun

Announcements

Ken Jones Release	"Stone Leeks" is Ken Jones's latest 96 page collection of 28 haibun and 59 freestanding haiku, introduced by Jim Kacian. US$ 10 - dollar bills, please, to Troedrhiwsebon, Cwmrheidol, Aberystwyth, SY23 3NB, Wales, UK, or through the Welsh Books Council website http://www.gwales.com UK orders £7 post free, cheques to "K Jones"
Bruce Ross Release	"Endless Small Waves," HMS Press: 2008, 102 pages, 68 haibun, the majority not published. Ink drawing by author on glossy pale blue cover. Proofbound. 7" X 8 1/2". Available from author, $15 North America, $17 otherwise at: Bruce Ross, PMB 127, 499 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401, USA.
Francis Masat Release	Francis Masat's work has often appeared in cho. His "Lilacs After Winter" is a chapbook of haibun that encompasses a story of love, loss, and redemption – more than one might imagine. It is available for $8.95 from Modern English Tanka Press, P.O. Box 43717, Baltimore, Maryland 21236 USA, or through modernenglishtankapress.com
Writers Workshop:	A group of writers focused on haibun & haiku invites applications for membership
Haibun Links:	Online journals containing haibun

contemporary haibun online is a quarterly journal appearing in March, June, September and December of each year. We are pleased to offer our readers quality haibun style writing and to encourage both the writing and reading of contemporary haibun. Submissions are welcome at any time.

Content Editors Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross review submissions independently and then collaborate to accept submissions for two categories: I. contemporary haibun, an annual anthology from Red Moon Press and, II. contemporary haibun online. All selections are published in cho, our online journal and the writers are notified as to whether their haibun will also appear in the annual.

Copyright: All contents are the property of the contributors and contemporary haibun online. Contributors are free to publish elsewhere so long as cho is cited as the first place of publication. No content may be published or distributed elsewhere in any form or in any way without permission of the contributors. cho is associated with the print journal contemporary haibun which is published annually and which can be ordered through the Red Moon Press. cho retains the right to republish the contents in the print annual publication: contemporary haibun. The haibun in the Selections for contemporary haibun section will be published in the next print issue of contemporary haibun.

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