December 2020
In This Issue:
Quick Links: Articles, Book Reviews • Encore Articles • Haibun •
Linked Haibun & Tanka Prose • Tanka Prose • Haiga • From the cho Team
Articles, Book Reviews
Featured Writer: Ludmila Balabanova
Book Review: Sunflower Field by Ludmila Balabanova
Reviewed by Patricia Prime
Article: What’s Left Unsaid: Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory & Harriot West’s “Empty Spaces” by Rich Youmans
Article: Rebound and Echo: The Artistry of Repetition in Tanka Prose by Tish Davis
Encore Articles
Introducing Encore, by Ray Rasmussen
Some Personal Ideas about Writing Haibun, by David Cobb
Haibun
Mary Ahearn, September 11
Marilyn Ashbaugh, Southern Comfort
Gavin Austin, Empty
Mary Jo Balistreri, Story from the Blue Ridges
Chris Bays, Under Hailstones
Chris Bays, Hallowed Ground
David Berger, Herring Ball
Peggy Bilbro, Out of the Woods
Peggy Bilbro, Full Moon
John Budan, Time
Matthew Caretti, Bodhisattva
Matthew Caretti, Mostly Not Anything Like Love in the Time of Cholera
Glenn G. Coats, Scent of Lilac
Robert Davey, You should have been there
J Hahn Doleman, Fish Tale
J Hahn Doleman, Slivers
J Hahn Doleman, The Mermaid
Martin Duguay, The Boarder
Andrea Elkridge, Inclusions
Robert Erlandson, I’m an accident
Judson Evans, Stranded
Seren Fargo, Crossing Boundaries
Arvilla Fee, Church Door Shadow
Marilyn Fleming, Taming a Brute
Marilyn Fleming, No Use Crying
Mark A. Forrester, A Visitor
Mark A. Forrester, The Harvest Moon
Richard Grahn, Oh, Canada
Praniti Gulyani, Unsaid
Kinshuk Gupta, Second Innings
Dan Hardison, Drifting Away
Timothy Hawkes, A Life’s Work
Scott Hicks, Footprints Are Shadows
Ruth Holzer, Men at Work
Marilyn Humbert, The Chase
Jonathan Humphrey, The Fishmonger
Jonathan Humphrey, Cold-Blooded, or A River Of Frog’s Blood In My Heart
Ryan Jessup, January Psalm
Deb Koen, Imprint
Neha R. Krishna, becoming the art
Kat Lehmann, Water Cycle
Kristen Lindquist, Neighborhood
Chen-ou Liu, We’re All in This Together
Cyndi Lloyd, Nine Mile Canyon
Antonietta Losito, L’Aquila
Bob Lucky, It Was Over Before It Began
Bob Lucky, Summer Solstice Sale
Doris Lynch, Yogyakarta: First Day
Matthew J. Moffett, Someone to Talk With
Matthew J. Moffett, When Not Enough Is Too Much
Tapan Mozumdar, The Other Ayodhya
Gautam Nadkami, A Wealth of Flaws
Maeve O’Sullivan, Posted Overseas
Renée Owen, Betty Crocker Nights
Renée Owen, A Closetful
Tom Painting, Chain Reaction
Tom Painting, Repertoire
Zane Parks, How Vast the Dark
Zane Parks, Ain’t No Sunshine
Keith Polette, Late Night Sounds West of El Paso
Keith Polette, West of Pocatello
Sandi Pray, 5 o’clock
Joan Prefontaine, Notes in a Bottle
Joan Prefontaine, Listening in the Dark
K. Ramesh, Strands
Dian Duchin Reed, Seeing the Point
Bryan Rickert, Family Planning
Bryan Rickert, Stranger Danger
Cynthia Rowe, Confinement
Suraja Roychowdhury, Sugar and Spice
Bona M. Santos, Coexistence
Yesha Shah, ABYSS
Adelaide Shaw, Inspiration or Lack Thereof
Madhu Singh, On Vasuki’s hood
Ian C. Smith, In Dock
Barbara Tate, Parallel Universe
Lew Watts, Deposition
Diana Webb, The Prize
Michael Dylan Welch, My Favourite Movie
Elaine Wilburt, Overfull
Linked Haibun & Linked Tanka Prose
Lew Watts & Rich Youmans, The Horizon’s Curve
Terri L. French & Jane Reichhold, Her Dance Card Full
Amelia Fielden & Jan Foster, Voices Fading
Tanka Prose
Jenny Ward Angyal, The Filly
Gavin Austin, Another Summer
John Budan, Familiar
Kanjini Devi, On Children
Amelia Fielden, In the Eye of the Beholder
Richard Grahn, Snapshots
Richard Grahn, A Brush with Fate
Jeffrey Harpeng, Medicate the Anthropocene
Marilyn Humbert, Emus
Gerry Jacobson, The Dance of Denial
Gary LeBel, Brings to Life
Gary LeBel, Scales
Kat Lehmann, The Blue Estuaries
Bob Lucky, Eve, the Orchard Years
Bob Lucky, Wise Guy
Don Miller, Neighborhood View
Pravat Kumar Padhy, Wheelchair
Dru Philippou, Step by Step
Kala Ramesh, Inward Flowering
Kala Ramesh, The Artist
Ignatius Tan, light on bark
Charles D. Tarlton, In the Valley View
Michael Dylan Welch, Wake-Up Call
Geoffrey Winch, Losing Sight
John Zheng, Sick
John Zheng, The Existence of Time
Haiga
Haiga Gallery, Selected Artists
Haiga Showcase: Gary LeBel
Haiga Showcase: Dian Duchin Reed
Haiga Showcase: Elisa Theriana
Haiga Showcase: Jane Williams
From the cho Team
Tish Davis, Above the Tree Line
Terri L. French, Of Messiahs and Single Malts (see also Her Dance Card Full, a linked haibun with Jane Reichhold)
Jim Kacian, Okay
Ron C. Moss, Slow Time
Patricia Prime, Lu Di Yan
Ray Rasmussen, Ancient Competition: England vs. Denmark
Rich Youmans, As If (linked haibun with Lew Watts)