Editor's selection:

In this section, one of our editors selects a favorite and comments on it. It is not mean to be a 'best of issue,' but more an account about how one writer's haibun touches one of the editors.

Writer, Susan Nelson Myers, A Pot of Beans (with comments by Ray Rasmussen)

CHO Haibun Selections


Hortensia Anderson, Echoes
Deb Baker, Mindfulness
Christopher Bays, Ripcords
Elizabeth Bodien, Hunting Season
Elizabeth Bodien, The Visit
Shelly Bryant, Creator's Journal
Shelly Bryant, Overcast
Shelly Bryant, Slipping
Owen Bullock, Zennor
Helen Buckingham, Still Life
Sonam Chhoki, Reading the Signs
Glenn G. Coats, Harbor Lights
Glenn G. Coats, In the Hours before School
Glenn G. Coats, Last Week of the Fair
Al DeGenova, Postcard from Berlin
Al DeGenova, Postcard from Milan
Al DeGenova, Postcard from Washington Island, Wisconsin
Jose del Valle, The Wash
Phuoc-Tan Diep, You
Ian Felton, Can't Stop Now
Jim Fowler, Objects in the Mirror Are Farther Than They Appear
Terri French, Pathways
William Gottlieb, What's Eating You?
Autumn Hall, Snow Angel
Autumn N. Hall, Tet Offensive
Jeffrey Harpeng, Henna Birds on the Silk Road
Penny Harter, Driving Home
Michele Harvey, Premonition
Mike Hill, Long Branch
Mike Hill, Long Branch
Jean Jorgensen, Lewy Body Disease
Clyde Kessler, Memorial Procession
Clyde Kessler, Portrait of a Writer Age Ten
Bob Lucky, Poetry
Bob Lucky, Zanzibar
Dennis Magliozzi, Edge of the Woods
Dennis Magliozzi, Fishermen
Johannes Manjrekar, Jacarandas Are a Deep Shade of Blue
Fran Masat, Well Look at All of These
Giselle Maya, Cattail Stalks
Giselle Maya, First Strawberry
Susan Nelson Myers, Woven
Stanley Pelter, Big C
Stanley Pelter, Entangled Bee
Stanley Pelter, Golden Emperor
Ray Rasmussen, Christmas Eve
Susan Richardson, Estuary
Susan Richardson, Fjaerland
Carolyne Rohrig, Burst
Carolyne Rohrig, Foreclosure
Carolyne Rohrig, Stumps
Cynthia Rowe, For Turning
Cynthia Rowe, Unseemliness
G. A. Scheinoha, Now Showing
G. A. Scheinoha, Outsourced
Adelaide B. Shaw, Inishmor
Noel-John Whipps, Stained in White
Erika Lee Williams, Bunkhouse
Erika Lee Williams, Greetings from Belize
Erika Lee Williams, Untitled I
Theresa Williams, Chief Taholah Days
Theresa Williams, Out There
Tad Wojnicki, A Day is Born
Tad Wojnicki, Grabbing a Quickie in the Old Steinbeck Feed Shop
Tad Wojnicki, Surviving on Oranges
Tad Wojnicki, The Way of the Grasshopper
Beth Wyckoff, Place

Haibun by the Editors

Ken Jones, A Plodding Present
Jim Kacian, An Empty Beer Can
Bruce Ross, Six-Pointed Star

* thanks to Garry Eaton for his volunteer help in copy editing this issue.
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