contemporary haibun online is a quarterly journal published in March, June, September and December of each year. It is associated with the print journal, contemporary haibun, an annual anthology from Red Moon Press.

cho has three aims:

1. to publish high quality writing by practitioners of modern English language haibun.
2. to encourage the practice of haibun composition by providing a strong publication venue.
3. to provide reference materials, good examples, and lessons in haibun and haiku composition.

The quill and inkwell logo serves as a reference to the ancientness of the tradition of haibun composition. In Japan, the haibun style of writing was initiated by monks like Basho Matsuo (1644 ~ 1694) who is also cited as the initiator of haiku poetry. Basho, of course, would have composed his famous haibun journals with brush and ink using Japanese characters.

Content Editors:

Jim Kacian is a past editor of Frogpond (the international membership journal of the Haiku Society of America, and the largest haiku magazine outside of Japan), is past president of the Haiku Society of America and was a co-founder of the World Haiku Association. He has had over 1000 haiku published in English-language journals and magazines in more than 20 countries and was winner most recently of the prestigious James Hackett Award (2002). He has published 7 books, all of which have won major awards; is author of 'How to Haiku', a major market primer for English-speaking poets, as well as numerous articles on haiku form and praxis. He and owns and operates Red Moon Press, the largest publishing house dedicated to haiku in the world.

Bruce Ross is a past president of the Haiku Society of America. His haiku, haibun, collaborative renga, haiga and articles have appeared in haiku journals worldwide. He authored Journey to the Interior, American Versions of Haibun (1998) and How to Haiku, A Student's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms (2001). He has published three collections of original haiku: thousands of wet stones (1988), among floating duckweed (1994) and Silence: Collected Haiku (1997). His latest publication is summer drizzles (2006), a collection of haiku and haibun.

Ken Jones contributes regularly to UK Haiku magazines and is represented in British and American anthologies. For his contribution to Pilgrim Foxes: Haiku and Haiku Prose, co-authored with Jim Norton and Sean O'Connor, Jones was awarded the Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai. In 2005 his "Travellers"took first place in the annual English Language Haibun Contest. His other collections include: Arrow of Stones (British Haiku Society, 2002); Stallion's Crag (Iron Press, 2003); The Parsley Bed: A collection of Haiku and Haibun (2006) . In 2002 he acted as UK judge for the first Nobuyuki Yuasa International Haibun Contest. Jones is a Zen practitioner of thirty years standing, and author of books on socially engaged Buddhism.

Technical Editor:

Ray Rasmussen designed and manages the cho website. His haiku, haiga, haibun and articles have appeared in Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun, Heron's Nest, Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online, Haigaonline, tinywords, Haiku Harvest, the World Haiku Review and LifeSherpa. His web page designs are currently also used by Simply Haiku and Roadrunner haiku journals.  Ray's web site is: http://raysweb.net/haiku/