December 2021
In This Issue: 17.3
Quick Links: Articles & Book Reviews • Encore Articles • Haibun • Haiga • Tanka Prose • From the cho Team
Articles & Book Reviews
Featured Writer: Lew Watts
Book Review: Fragmentations by Sean O’Connor
Reviewed by Patricia Prime
Book Review: A Way of Looking by Jianqing (John) Zheng
Reviewed by Rich Youmans
Book Review: The Forest I Know by Kala Ramesh
Reviewed by Tish Davis
Book Review: Grandmother’s Pearls: An Anthology of Dream Poems by Alexis Rotella & Friends
Reviewed by Rich Youmans
Books Received: The Cottage of Visions (Genjuan Haibun Contest Anthology) and Lure of the Threshold by Sonam Chhoki
Encore Articles
Encore Selections, by Ray Rasmussen (Encore Editor)
Toward a Theory & Practice of Tanka-Prose, by Charles D. Tarlton
Twenty-five Examples of Tanka Prose, & an Editor’s Thoughts on Tanka Prose, by Bob Lucky
Haibun
Jenny Ward Angyal, Insight
Debbi Antebi, Playtime
Marilyn Ashbaugh, Mock Trial
Marilyn Ashbaugh, Up on the Roof
Mary Jo Balistreri, The Treasure Hunt
Mary Jo Balistreri, Turf Wars
Caroline Banks, Round and Roundabout
Stuart Bartow, 21 Grams
Peggy Hale Bilbro, DNA Spiral
Peggy Hale Bilbro, Persistence
John Budan, “What am I doing here?”
Claire Vogel Camargo, A Sure Thing
Matthew Caretti, A View to My Old Match.com Profile
Matthew Caretti, Sunday Bells
Anna Cates, End of Days
Glenn G. Coats, American Jerusalem
Bryan Cook, Nature’s Way?
J Hahn Doleman, Contra Coo
J Hahn Doleman, Feeding Souls
Janice Doppler, Freedom
Rebecca Drouilhet, The Better Half
Martin Duguay, Love Is Like Oxygen
Robert Erlandson, Blue Hour
Gabriel Ertsgaard, Marvel Marathon
Arvilla Fee, Transient
P.M. Fischer, There is no number one
Richard Grahn, Light as Air
Benedict Grant, Nocturne
John S Green, Sharing
Jennifer Hambrick, Film at 11
Dan Hardison, What Lies Ahead
Ruth Holzer, Retrospect
Marilyn Humbert, Trilby Station Camp
Jonathan Humphrey, A Currency of Shovels
Jonathan Humphrey, Fever Dream of a Modern Reindeer
Lakshmi Iyer, Simple Things
Ryan Jessup, Lightning in Autumn
Susan King, Alter Ego
Neha R. Krishna, sepia prints
Gary LeBel, The Tailor’s Tape
Michael Henry Lee, golden child
Kat Lehmann, New Greening
Kat Lehmann, Scenic Route
Kristen Lindquist, Natural History
Kristen Lindquist, Salt Air
Chen-ou Liu, Seeking Enlightenment
Bob Lucky, Apathy
Bob Lucky, Oneiric Event #2
Doris Lynch, Climate Grief
Doris Lynch, Tundra Walking
Tanya McDonald, Halcyon
Gerry McDonnell, Seeking Favors
Marietta McGregor, Fast Fashion
Ian Mullins, Nameless
Peter Newton, For Now
Sean O’Connor, Noeile
David Oates, Burn
Renée Owen, 5 A.M.
Tom Painting, Evolution
Tom Painting, Partial Clearing
Alan Peat, Trace Fossils
Keith Polette, Painting the Roof with Basho
Keith Polette, Window Fan
Kala Ramesh, Quicksilver
Michael Rehling, See that my grave’s kept clean
Bryan Rickert, Inheritance
Bryan Rickert, Treasures
Andrew Riutta, An Ex-Lover’s Birthday
Andrew Riutta, Note to My Daughter
Michele Root-Bernstein, Homage to Last Chances
Michele Root-Bernstein, How Charlotte Yearns to Sear Her Soul
Alexis Rotella, Mercury Retrograde
Cynthia Rowe, Mind Jousting
Yesha Shah, Nyctophilia
Adelaide B. Shaw, Legacies
Madhu Singh, The Third Gender
Neena Singh, Memento Mori
Tom Staudt, Revelation
Guy Stephenson, Infusions
Lew Watts, Fledgling
Lew Watts, Nictinasty
Diana Webb, The Ornithologist
Rafal Zabratynski, We, the Selfie Stick
Haiga
Haiga Gallery 17.3, Selected Artists
Haiga Showcase: Lakshmi Iyer
Haiga Showcase: Oscar Luparia
Haiga Showcase: Debbie Strange
Tanka Prose
Jenny Ward Angyal, Earthbound
Gavin Austin, Adrift
Michelle Brock, Biding Time
John Budan, Last Stop
Anna Cates, From a Distance
Claire Everett, Hourglass
Amelia Fielden, Talking the Walk
Amelia Fielden, That Old Chestnut
Richard Grahn, The Climb
Hazel Hall, I Almost Hear Tom Waits
John Hawkhead, A Tea Party
Marilyn Humbert, Lockdown Monotony
Gerry Jacobson, Narrow Road to a Far Suburb
Keitha Keyes, Oblivion
Liz Lanigan, Where Are You?
Gary LeBel, from A Copy of a Copy
Pravat Kumar Padhy, A War in Silence
Dru Philippou, Pioneers of Different Colors
Kala Ramesh, Filter Bubble
Adelaide B. Shaw, Give Me Entertainment
Christine Shook, Old Friends
Madhu Singh, Lapis Lazuli
Charles D. Tarlton, Anselm Kiefer, the Sixth Trumpet
Simon Wilson, The Bridge at Bakewell
Geoffrey Winch, Amdramaturg
John Zheng, Hanging Memories
From the cho Team
Tish Davis, The Red Vineyard (Tanka Prose)
Terri L. French, Tongue-tied (Haibun)
Jim Kacian, WYSIWYG (Haibun)
Ron C. Moss, Super Moon (Haiga)
Patricia Prime, The Face in the Window (Haibun)
Ray Rasmussen, Layers of Memory (Haibun)
Rich Youmans, Cross Words (Haibun)