April 2023
In This Issue: 19.1
Haiga by Emma Alexander Arthur
Quick Links: Articles & Book Reviews • Encore Articles • Haibun • Tanka Prose • Haiga • From the cho Team
Announcement
Red Moon Press publishes 18th edition of contemporary haibun print anthology
Articles & Book Reviews
Featured Writer: J Hahn Doleman
Article: Two Favorite Haibun: The Importance of a Good Story
By Kristen Lindquist
Article: The Sound of the Song: Commentary on Patricia Prime’s Tanka Prose “Red & White”
By Tish Davis
Book Review: Longevity: Poems in the Key of Helen by Richard Grahn
Reviewed by Jenny Ward Angyal
Book Review: Soundings by Keith Polette
Reviewed by Rich Youmans
Books in Brief: A Kiss by Gerry McDonnell, The Angel’s Wound by George Marsh, Slipping Between by Diana Webb
Encore Articles
Encore Selections 19.1: Honoring Ray Rasmussen
By Rich Youmans, Guest Encore Editor
Characteristics of Contemporary English-Language Haibun
By Ray Rasmussen
A Title Is a Title Is a Title, or Is It?
By Ray Rasmussen
The Role of Modeling in Haibun Composition
By Ray Rasmussen
Haibun
Cynthia Anderson, An Open Heart
Joanna Ashwell, By Heart
Gavin Austin, Contained
Gavin Austin, Shades of Grey
Ludmila Balabanova, Life with a Diagnosis
Roberta Beary, A Hamster Wheel Spins at the Funeral
Mona Bedi, The Stoic Way
Peggy Hale Bilbro, Sea Change
E.L. Blizzard, At times grief is worn on the back
Matthew Caretti, An Open Letter to Jack
Aidan Castle, Lines
Salil Chaturvedi, Cumulus
Margaret Chula, On the Pacific Crest Trail
Glenn G. Coats, The Pale of Late Summer
Vera Constantineau, Rooms in old houses are never square
Bryan Cook, Food Chains
Alvin B. Cruz, Intersection
Alvin B. Cruz, Joyride
Cherie Hunter Day, A Bell Rings Every Hour
Rebecca Drouilhet, Where Angels Fear to Tread
Arvilla Fee, Left Field
Thomas Festa, Beyond the Pass
P.H. Fischer, This Never Happened
Ruth Holzer, The Hanging Gardens Café
Edward Cody Huddleston, Semi-Automatic Writing
Edward Cody Huddleston, Spelling Lesson
Jonathan Humphrey, Pistil, Stamen, Steady, Steady
Alexander Jankiewicz, Venus and Mars
Anju Kishore, Oasis
Kat Lehmann, Unraveling
Kathryn Liebowitz, a length
Kristen Lindquist, Dreams of Drowning
Bob Lucky, Lisbon and Thereabouts, a Haibun
Bob Lucky, True Adventure
Doris Lynch, Ice Fishing on Thanksgiving Eve
Doris Lynch, Village Mail Plane
Kate MacQueen, Legerdemain
Kate MacQueen, Where the sun keeps shining
Marietta McGregor, Another Life
Tyler McIntosh, Intimacy
Joanne Morcom, Silver Threads Among the Gold
Peter Newton, Two Rocks
Renée Owen, Waking Up
Tom Painting, Rite of Passage
Dru Philippou, “Breadline Blues”
Keith Polette, The Boy Speaks
Dian Duchin Reed, Lhasa
Jacob D. Salzer, A Gate Left Open
Neena Singh, Birding
Xenia Tran, What Walks with Us
Evan Vandermeer, This Too
Lew Watts, Forty Years. . . Same Gray Doors
Lew Watts, Stalker
Tanka Prose
Margi Abraham, Getting Wet
Jenny Ward Angyal, False Horizon
Gavin Austin, City Song
Gavin Austin, Homeward
Mirela Brailean, Inseparables
John Budan, Eviction
Dave Chandler, The Lake
Gauri Dixit, Afternoon
Rebecca Drouilhet, The Weight of Water
Robert Erlandson, Don’t make a mess
Robert Erlandson, No word for it
Amelia Fielden, Eau de Nil
Richard Grahn, Exponential
Marilyn Humbert, Manoeuvres
Gerry Jacobson, The Garden of Eden in a Plague Year
Alexander Jankiewicz, Lullaby
Gary LeBel, For Abraham & Ruth
Gary LeBel, Titus
Michael Lester, You Can Never Go Home Again
Chen-ou Liu, Loud… and Louder
Bob Lucky, Holiday Routine
Bob Lucky, 7 on the Beaufort Scale of My Life
Richard Magahiz, The 8,192 names of Fatima
Richard L. Matta, Dancing in the Breeze
Vicki Miko, Uncle Lenny
Don Miller, Grey Matter
Sean O’Connor, Floating
Dru Philippou, Under the Clamor
Carol Raisfeld, The Mountains Live On
Kala Ramesh, Kaala
Kala Ramesh, Rebuttal
Bryan Rickert, Middle of the Road
Suraja Roychowdhury, Invisible Threads
Richa Sharma, How to Return
Tom Staudt, Heavyweight
Diana Webb, Bedtime Whisper
Simon Wilson, The Shadow Mill
John Zheng, The First Day of Re-Education in the Cultural Revolution
Haiga
Haiga Gallery 19.1
Haiga Showcase: Katja Fox
Haiga Showcase: Luminita Suse
From the cho Team
Tish Davis, View from an Overlook (tanka prose)
Terri L. French, Athene noctua (haibun)
Jim Kacian, In a dream (haibun)
Ron C. Moss, Endless heat (haiga)
Ray Rasmussen, Close Encounters of an Italian Kind (haibun)
Rich Youmans, Wind Cell (haibun)