New issue of Lynx

The new issue of Lynx is online featuring:

COLLABORATIVE POETRY


SUMMER HEAT

Mike Montreuil

Micheline Beaudry


Haiga by Billie Dee & Terry O'Connor


TAN RENGA MIT ANGELIKA WIENERT UND INA MÜLLER-VELTEN

Gerd Börner


ALTE KERBEN OLD NOTCHES

Claudia Brefeld

Martina Heinisch


Haiga by Wolfgang Beutke & Anne-Dore Beutke


UNBEMALTE HIMMEL UNPAINTED SKIES

Claudia Brefeld

Martina Heinisch


THE UNSPOKEN

Ramona Linke

Gabriele Reinhard


IN BEWEGUNG

ON THE MOVE

Gabriele Reinhard

Claudia Brefeld


NIGHT SKY

Jane Reichhold

Giselle Maya


BIRD WALK

Patricia Prime

Catherine Mair


Haiga by Shanna Baldwin and Gillena Cox


A SPLASH OF GREEN

Paul Mercken

Alison Willia

Fokkina McDonnell

Paul (& Karen) Smith


GREENER STILL

Jane Reichhold

Giselle Maya


SPITS OF RAIN

Patricia Prime

Catherine Mair


SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST SEA

Ken Wanamaker

Kathy Earsman

Norman Darlington


NOTABLE UNLEASHED

Werner Reichhold

Jane Reichhold


SOLO WORKS


Haiga by Alan Taylor


GHAZALS


GHAZAL OF THE ELEPHANT

Steffen Horstmann


A ROSE IN BENGAL

Steffen Horstmann


LATE AT NIGHT

Steffen Horstmann


ON MY SIDE

Ayat Ghanem


SYMBIOTIC FORMS

RESPONSIBILITIES

C W Hawes


SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

C W Hawes


MIRRORS

C W Hawes


VIOLA TRICOLOR

translated from the German by Celia Brown

Ruth Franke

BLANKENBURG

translated from the German by Celia Brown

Ruth Franke


FROM BADDECK

Ruth Holzer

PHAISTOS

Ruth Holzer


IN MEMORIAM

Larry Kimmel


A KITCHEN FRAGRANCE

Larry Kimmel


REQUIEM

Larry Kimmel


ARE WE THERE YET?

Patricia Prime


THE PAINTING

Patricia Prime


(Untitled)

shirley cahayom


Haiga by Ramona Linke


SEQUENCES


AUTUMN TANKA

Don Ammons


CAST OFF WET STONES

Michelle V. Alkerton


UP THE POLE

Michelle V. Alkerton


AGE SHIFTS TIME

Michelle V. Alkerton


EQUILIBRIUM

Nadia Ghanem


TO THE CITY

Ruth Holzer


THE BEEKEEPER’S DAUGHTER

Ed Baranosky


HOT DOG AND BUN: A DUET

(Nathan’s Famous, 2001)

James Roderick Burns


AUSPICIOUS JOURNEYS

Ayat Ghanem


FACE OF ISIS

Elizabeth Howard


WORDS FROM ARIEL

Sylvia Plath


LAND OF SMILING

Claudia Melchior


GAURA LINHEIMERI

john martone


21 LINES WITH JAW INFECTION

Lorin Ford


SWIFT

Dick Pettit


BUZZ

Dick Pettit


LIMBOLAND

a MS sequence

David Serjeant


EASTER AFTERNOON

Ken Wanamaker


SINGLE POEMS


c w hawes

Jose del Valle

Gerd Börner

Joanna M. Weston

Natasha Khrolenko

R.K.Singh

Artur Lewandowski

Violette Rose-Jones


Haiga by Alan Taylor


ARTICLES


SIGNS OF THE SEASONS: HAIKU AND SIGN LANGUAGE

Presentation by Linda Galloway


SOLO KASEN RENGA

Richard Pettit


CATCH

Dick Pettit


A REBUTTAL IN DEFENSE OF THE RENGA SCHEMAS

Jane Reichhold


BOOK REVIEWS


DRIPPING GOLDEN LIGHT

An examination of Pamela Babusci’s first collection of tanka, A Thousand Reasons

Marjorie Buettner

Contact: moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com. Pamela A. Babusci 150 Milford St. Apt. 13 Rochester, NY 14615 US Funds $14 plus $2.50 S&H ; Foreign $5 S&H.


KyôkaJapan’s Comic Verse, A MAD IN TRANS LATION Reader compiled, translated, explained and essayed by robin d. gill. Paraverse Press, 2009. Contact: http://paraverse.org Paperback, 8 x 11 inches, 734 pages (not counting the rant at the end). Includes Japanese originals, romanization, a bibliography, poet and poem indexes. Review is written from a reading copy that contained no price.


Stone Mirror, Water Mirror / Oglinda de Piatra, Oglinda de Apa by Clelia Ifrim. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 54 pages, Romanian and English. Illustrated with ten drawings by the author. No price. Available from Clelia Ifrim, Calea Dorobantilor 135-145/ Ap. 5, 010563 Buchar’est, Romania


Delta Blues by Skip Fox. Ahadada Books: 2009. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5,176 pages. No price; contact ahadadabooks.com


Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses by Larry Kimmel. Second Edition with The Temperature of Love. Modern English Tanka Press, www.themetpress.com, 2009. Perfect bound, 6 x 9 inches, 124 pages, $12.95


Elvis in Black Leather by Alexis Rotella. Modern English Tanka Press: www.themetpress.com, 2009. Perfect bound, 4 x 6.5 inches, 44 pages, $9.95.


Dragonfly’s Play / Jocul Libelulei by Oprica Padeanu. Verus, Bucuresti, 2009. Romanian and English. Translated by Vasile Moldovan. Perfect bound, full color cover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 100 pages. Contact: verus@clicknet.ro


slightly scented short lived words and roses by Stanley Pelter. England: George Mann Publications, 2009. Perfect bound, full-color cover, 6 x 9 inches, 132 pages, cover by Izzy Sharpe, Introduction by John Daniel. Illustrations by S. Felton.


THE ONAWA POEMS 1999-2008, EDITED BY PAUL W. MACNEIL. SHIP POND PRESS. PERFECT BOUND 5.5 X 8.5 INCHES, 40 PAGES, $11. COLLECTED HAIKU BY YU CHANG, FERRIS GILLI, GARY HOTHAM, KIRSTY KARKOW, PAUL MACNEIL, PAUL DAVID MENA, PAUL M., JOHN STEVENSON, HILARY TANN, AND PAUL WATSKY.


Greetings from Luna Park by James Roderick Burns. Modern English Tanka Press, www.themetpress.com, 2008. Perfect bound, full-color cover, 5.5 x 9 inches, 100 pages, $14.95.


BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS


. . .James Tipton's latest book, All the Horses of Heaven/Todos los Caballos del Paraiso


James Tipton's Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el pueblo antiguo


James Tipton, Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror,


A Film of Words by Jane and Werner Reichhold,


Haiku Encounters, by Salvatore Buttaci.


Concrete Seasons, A Collection of Urban Tanka, by Bob Loomis


Symbiotic Art by Werner Reichhold


LETTERS from


Francis Masat, Peggy Lyles, David Serjeant, Larry Kimmel, Tyler Pruette, Dick Pettit, Max Verhart, Curtis Dunlap, Naia, tenzing


CONTESTS


The Heron's Nest


IHS International Haiku Competition 2009


Moonbathing Premier Issue Tanka Contest


SAD NEWS


D. Claire Gallageher


Paul O. Williams


Gruenther Klinge