Welcome to contemporary haibun online, a quarterly journal appearing in March, June, September and December of each year. We are pleased to offer our readers quality haibun-style writing and to encourage both the writing and reading of contemporary haibun.

Editors Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross review submissions independently and then collaborate to accept submissions for both contemporary haibun [the yearly print journal] and for contemporary haibun online.

Haibun Selections

Francis W. Alexander, Still Sheltered
Jason Sanford Brown, Monsoon
Katherine Cudney, Consolation
Katherine Cudney, Return to Sender
John J. Dunphy, Battlefield Memento
Lynn Edge, Recollection
Jamie Edgecombe, Coiled Wire
Margarita Engle, The Peace Dove
Gary Ford, A Polished Stone
David Gershator, Swan Song in the Rampos
C. W. Hawes , Early September
Ed Higgins, Houdini’s Final Escape
Ed Higgins, The Letter
Graham High, Three Brothers
Colette Jonopulos, Returning
Colette Jonopulos, Walking Toward Death Mountain
Ellen Kombiyil, The Parting of the Sun and Moon
Louise Linville, A Death in the Family
Francis Masat, Amended Dreams
Francis Masat, Sly No More
Allen McGill, Distant Places
Allen McGill, White Light
Ron Moss, Paper Smile
Ron Moss, Mountain Zen
H. Gene Murtha, Batteries Not Included
Graham Nunn, A Heavy Rhythm
Lane Parker, Preparations
Zane Parks, Bob
Kala Ramesh, Arranged Marriages
Kala Ramesh, Anamika
Ray Rasmussen, The Bathrobe
Ynes Sanz, Mt Glorious
Adelaide B. Shaw, A Seasonal Change
Adelaide B. Shaw, Untitled
Carolyn Thomas, Here
Zinovy Vayman, Haibun for Joe Amick
Geert Verbeke, In Memoriam
Beth Vieira, Cottage in Winter
Bill Wyatt, Maen Llia
Brian Zimmer, Reflecting March

Haibun by the Editors

Ken Jones, Clinker
Jim Kacian, The Fire
Bruce Ross, Veterans Day

Copyright: All contents are the property of the contributors and contemporary haibun online. Contributors are free to publish elsewhere so long as cho is cited as the first place of publication. No content may be published or distributed elsewhere in any form or in any way without permission of the contributors. cho is associated with the print journal contemporary haibun which is published annually and which can be ordered through the red moon press. cho retains the right to republish the contents in the print annual publication: contemporary haibun. The haibun in the Selections for contemporary haibun section will be published in the next print issue of contemporary haibun.