Purple crocus - part of Luminita Suse haiga

Read Issue 20.2

New haibun, tanka prose, haiga, essays, and book reviews. Featured writer: Stella Pierides.

Stella Pierides

Featured Writer

Stella Pierides reflections on how haibun can re-frame difficult issues and produces “a healing process of transformation.”

Lew Watts

Featured Haibun

“Touching the Void” by Lew Watts: “…later when I was on my own / I’d play the fall over and over / the rope tugging taut…”

Stuart Bartow reading at Wild Graces

Remembering Stuart Bartow

Tributes to the late poet and writer from Barbara Ungar, Robin White, Tom Sacramona, Kristen Lindquist, John Stevenson, and Tom Clausen.

the cab driver's grunt haiga

Haiga Showcase

For his haiga, Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta tries various brushes and brushstrokes and lets them dictate the painting.