August 2024
In This Issue: 20.2
Haiga by Luminita Suse
Quick Links: Articles & Book Reviews • Encore Articles • Haibun • Tanka Prose • Haiga • From the cho Team
Articles & Book Reviews
Featured Writer: Stella Pierides
Article: Two Favorite Haibun: Towards There
By Michele Root-Bernstein
Tribute: Remembering Stuart Bartow
By Barbara Unger, Robin White, Tom Sacramona, Kristen Lindquist, and John Stevenson (with photo by Tom Clausen)
Books in Brief: Before the Rules by John Budan, Four Season Farm by Jeremy Haworth
Reviewed by Tish Davis, Rich Youmans
Books Received: Quietude by Dan Hardison, My Wife and Other Adventures by Bob Lucky, a man on horseback by Joe McKeon, envelopes by Diana Webb
Encore Articles
Encore Selections
By Ray Rasmussen, Encore Editor
Narratives of the Heart
By Bruce Ross
Haibun
About This Issue’s Haibun Editor: Lorraine A Padden
Cynthia Anderson: From Earth to Heaven
Jenny Ward Angyal: The Way of the Mountain
Joanna Ashwell: Mysteries
Jo Balistreri: Red
Caroline Giles Banks: Serendipity Lost
Roberta Beary: 1883 Diary Fragment—Belfast Lunatic Asylum
Susan Burch: Walk of Shame
Pris Campbell: Let Them Eat Cake
Matthew Caretti: Littoral Devotions
Aidan Castle: Porch Lights
Anna Cates: No Condolences
Sandip Chauhan: Kinked Yarn
Glenn G. Coats: Long Since
Julie Constable: Chiang Mai Zoo, 1989
Patricia Darcy: Bumpy Road
Billie Dee: Waders
Edward Dewar: Looney Tunes
Pete Dunstone: Threshold
Judson Evans: Limpkin, GA
Keith Evetts: Smokey
Arvilla Fee: Midnight Maze
Thomas Festa: Every Road Begins with a Door
Mark Forrester: Storm Clouds
Seth Friedman: First Date
Steve Gerson: like snakeskin glistening on the beach
Richard Grahn: what do you want for your birthday?
Reid Hepworth: Calm Before the Storm
Ruth Holzer: Post Street
Anju Kishore: Brim
Gary LeBel: Taki
Anna Lete & Kati Mohr: Napoleones
Kristen Lindquist: Perspective
Ellen Lord: Yearn
Doris Lynch: Being There
Richard L. Matta: Crystalline
Rita Moe: Exposure
Sharon Lask Munson: On the Train to Whittier, Alaska
Brian O’Sullivan: Sea Glass Where the Tide Went Out
Renée Owen: Catch & Release
Tom Painting: Internal Combustion
Bill Pendergraft: The Preacher
Kala Ramesh: The Whole Unseen Third-day Moon
Andrew Riutta: The Opposite of “Resting on Your Laurels” Is Sleeping All Night with Your Dead Dog
Karen Robbie: Home
Tracy Royce: Hard Stick
Janet Ruth: Frangible Beneath the Sun
Shloka Shankar: Triumph
Adelaide B. Shaw: In the Heat of the Day
Joshua St. Claire: Where You’re Planted
Joshua Michael Stewart: Tree Rings
Iliyana Stoyanova: End Credits
Alan Summers: Pulpit to Pipit
Claire Thom: Changeable Weather
Evan Vandermeer: Precipice
Alice Wanderer: Language Matters
Lew Watts: Touching the Void
Diana Webb: “Here’s Flowers for You”
Laurie Wilcox-Meyer: What Will It Be?
Tony Steven Williams: Rephasing
John Zheng: Eyescape
Tanka Prose
Gavin Austin: Erosion
Gavin Austin: Exotica
C.W. Blackburn: after the storm
John Budan: Busted
Susan Burch: Merlin (ID)eal
Anna Cates: Chocolate Shoppe Ghost
David Chandler: Under the Rainbow
Tim Dwyer: Until
Amelia Fielden: Found in Translation
Richard Grahn: Dead Horse
Wendy Gent: Poems She Liked
Jennifer Gurney: Jammin’
Lorraine Haig: Sisters
Marilyn Humbert: Watershed
Rick Jackofsky: The Bloody Axe of Oden
Gerry Jacobson: In Black and White
Gary LeBel: Um Mitternacht
Gary LeBel: Tattoo
Chen-ou Liu: it’s peacful now
Pravat Kumar Padhy: Crown Shyness
Jenny Polstra: In the Photo
Jenny Polstra: Unspoken
Carol Raisfeld: Magic
Carol Raisfeld: Weather or Not
Suraja Roychowdhury: Advice or Opinion
Elizabeth Shack: Homecoming
Richa Sharma: A Sweet Sleep
Richa Sharma: Kismet
Adelaide B. Shaw: All God’s Creatures
Adelaide B. Shaw: Little Mother
Iliyana Stoyanova: In a Heartbeat
Joshua Michael Stewart: Shedding Skin
Geoffrey Winch: Meeting Places
John Zheng: No Loitering
Haiga
Haiga Gallery 20.2
Haiga Showcase: John Burgess
Haiga Showcase: Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
From the cho Team
Tish Davis: On a sun-bleached boulder... (tanka prose)
Terri L. French: Monte Sano (haibun)
Jim Kacian: Influencer (haibun)
Ron C. Moss: Songs from the Afterlife (haiga)
Lorraine A Padden: the tenth muse (haibun)
Ray Rasmussen: The Huts of the Phantom Guest (haibun)
Rich Youmans: Code Blue (haibun)