LYNX XXI:3,October, 2006


XXI:3 October, 2006		LYNX A Journal for Linking Poets



	SOLO POETRY SYMBIOTIC POETRY BOOK REVIEWS LETTERS TO LYNX PARTICIPATION RENGA The Seventeenth Annual Tanka Splendor Contest is open for your entries until September 30. Deadline for tanka and tanka sequences is by e-mail at your midnight on September 30, 2006 Here are the Tanka Splendor Contest Rules. This is the oldest English-Language tanka contest and the only one in which the participants judge each other's work.	SOLO POETRY HOLDING YOUR HAND by CW Hawes RETURNING by CW Hawes GIFT by CW Hawes LAST NIGHT by Michael Helsem PASSING by Dustin Neal GHAZAL FOR A DULL DAY by Laurence W. Thomas HAIBUN ASCENSION SUNDAY by Gillena Cox A HAIBUN FOR SUSANNAH by CW Hawes ORIGAMI by Elizabeth Howard SCHOOL'S OUT by Roger Jones TRAVEL HAIBUN by Larry Kimmel COMMON THEME by Sheila E. Murphy MONITOR THE MORNING by Sheila E. Murphy DOVE LIGHT by Sheila E. Murphy COME THE REVOLUTION by Zane Parks I SWEAR by Zane Parks SEQUENCES JUST THIS MORNING by Ed Baker FOR REV. BEN BORTEN by Gerard John Conforti A WHITE HORSEMAN by John Daleiden SUMI-E by Margarita Engle VISIT TO A PETTING FARM by Laryalee Fraser THE SIREN AGAIN by CW Hawes WHAT CAN BE TAUGHT by Michael Helsem ALLOTROPES OF REASON by Michael Helsem IN ASSISTED LIVING by Elizabeth Howard SKIPJACK SEQUENCE by M. Kei AMONG TAPERS by karina klesko THE TENDER SPOTS by Richard Magahiz YARD SALE – by Francis Masat WILDLIFE CENTER – by Francis Masat TO LORRAINE ELLIS HARR by Vasile Moldovan THE WIND by June Moreau A THIN WASH by Jane Reichhold LARVAL IN WAITING by Werner Reichhold SILENCE by R. K. Singh SUN by R. K. Singh AMONG FLOWERS by Sue Stanford SPRING 2006 by Ella Wagemakers SINGLE POEMS by Gerd Boerner Karen J. Briggs Sonia Cristina Coman Sanford Goldstein Barry Goodmann Ruth Holzer Jeanne Lesinski Sheila E. Murphy SYMBIOTIC POETRY WHO-WHOOING TO THE STARS by Ann Piet Anderson, Francis Fike, & Marchiene Vroon Rienstra A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska &Ion Codrescu A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Angela Leuck A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Vasile Moldovan A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Jadran Zalokar A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & Yudit Vihar A HOUSE ON THE BANK by Ginka Biliarska & David Prater "WHOEVER BROUGHT ME HERE WILL HAVE TO TAKE ME HOME" A quote from D. Rumi by Sandra Casares & Dietmar Tauchner STREET MUSICIANS by Carol Purington & Larry Kimmel SCIFABULENGA: MIND-BODY MASHUP by Rich Magahiz & John W. Sexton IN THE TOILET by Zane Parks & CW Hawes THE SAW-TOOTH FENCE by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair VIEW FROM THE HILL by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair BETWEEN US by Jane Reichhold & Werner Reichhold TIME'S APHASIA by Cindy Tebo & Suhni Bell DATURA NOIR by sheila windsor, hortensia anderson, & ron moss LETTERS Rich Magahiz Ginka Biliarska Gino Peregrini Geert Verbeke Denis M. Garrison Michael McClintock Peter Schmideg M. Kei, Sandy BOOK REVIEWS: GUEST BOOK REVIEWS My Tanka Diary, by Yuko Kawano, translated by Amelia Fielden. Ginninderra Press: 2006, 213 pages, ISBN:1740227 361 3, US $20 (US bills preferred, cost includes postage). Can be ordered from A. Fielden, 20A Elouera Avenue, Buff Point, NSW 2262, Australia. by Sanford Goldstein, Shibata-shi, Japan *A Book Review A Hindi Translation of Masaoka Shiki’s – If Someone Asks . . .by Dr. Angelee Deodhar. Written by* Kala Ramesh, Pune, India. If Someone Asks ... Masaoka Shiki’s Life and Haiku, published December 2005; English translation by The Shiki-Kinen Museum English Volunteers, Hindi translation by Dr. Angelee Deodhar, 156 pages. This book is not for sale but copies can be requested from: Dr. Angelee Deodhar, House No. 1224, Sector - 42 B Chandigarh -160 036 India. *Haiku: Anthologie du poème court japonais.* Selection and translation by Corinne Atlan and Zéno Bianu. Editions Gallimard: 2002. Colour cover, 242 pages, ISBN:2-07-041306-3, available for under $13 from www.amazon.ca by Norman Darlington, Bunclody, Ireland Book Announcements *SWEEPS OF RAIN* - a haibun book about dementia (in het Nederlands: Vegen van Regen) Year: 2006 by GEERT VERBEKE (°31-05-1948). ISBN - 81-8253-06-87, Pages: 128, Format: Paperback A5. Language: English. Publisher mail: Dr. Santosh Kumar Website: Cyberwit India PRICE: 18 us$ on bank account. Mud On The Wall, Selected Haiku, Senryu & Tanka Poems of Jörgen Johansson , Sweden - River Man Publishing Co. ISBN 91-976430-0-9. 79 Poems, all in English! 2003-2006, picked by Heron´s Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, Mainchi News, Simply Haiku. Ltd edition of 100 numbered copies, price, $6 + $4 Airmail, payment thru cash in a well concealed airmail letter OR Paypal. CHO is a quarterly journal edited by Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross. Featured in this issue: Selections for Contemporary Haibun [The Yearly Print Journal]. Haiku For Peace – In Memory of Sadako Sasaki by Mevsimsiz Publishing House in Turkey is planning to publish “1000 Haiku for Peace” anthology in memory of Sadako Sasaki in August 6, 2007 in English and Turkish. We are looking for 100 haiku and senryu poets in order to help us to make this project real. All over the world who believes the peace; all over the world, who would like to stop the war in Palestine , Lebanon , Africa .Each haiku and senryu poets shall have 10 haiku or senryu in the anthology. TANKA FIELDS A Chapbook of Tanka by Robert D. Wilson, With a Forward by Michael McClintock, White Egret Press (c)2006. Featuring 75 tanka written by the award winning poet and owner/managing editor of Simply Haiku, Robert D. Wilson. $6.00 U.S. & Canada : $2.00 P&H International: $4.00 P&H. Checks and/or money orders are to be made out to: Robert D. Wilson, 20734 Hemlock Street , Groveland, CA 95321 USA *July's FireWeed* i*s complete and ready for your inspection: Poetry, interview, Houdini , Scotland , experimental, War, Peace and Everything in between supplemental, and feature - Jon Hayes. Terrie Relf, editor, invites you to come on over and enjoy. And also go to the blog. The blog owner's (Michelle Buchanan) goal is to post a memorial poem to each of the military killed during the Iraq war - 2615 as of the end of June. Please add yours. Gary Blankenship Gary's book, A River Transformed. HAIKU HARVEST* — Journal of Haiku in English, Spring & Summer 2006, Volume 6 Number 1 Print & Digital Editions. Denis M. Garrison, Editor. The German web site Haiku heute (Haiku Today) appears monthly. It contains a juried collection of 15 to twenty haiku chosen from about 150 to 200 haiku submitted monthly, plus commentary, haibun, renku, interviews and essays. PARTICIPATION RENGA by AB - Alice Benedict; CC - Carlos Colón; CF - Vikki Celeste Fannin; cg - Cindy Guntherman; CSK - Carol Stroh Kemp; dht - Doris H. Thurston; DPK -Deborah P. Kolidji, DR - David Rice; DWP - Darrel W. Parry; EF - Eric Folsom; ESJ - Elizabeth St Jacques; FA - Fay Aoyagi, FP - Francine Porad; FPA - Francis (Paul) Attard; GD - Gene Doty; GM - Giselle Maya; GR - George Ralph; GV - Geert Verbeke; JAJ - Jean Jorgensen; JC - Jeanne Cassler; JMB - John M. Bennett; JR - Jane Reichhold; JS - John Sheirer; JSJ - Joyce Sandeen Johnson; KCL - Kenneth C. Leibman; LCG - Larry Gross; LE - Lesley Einer; LJ - Lael Johnson; MHH - Madeline Hoffer; ML - Minna Lerman; MM - Marianne Marks; MWM - Mary Wittry-Mason; N - Nika; NA -Nasira Alma; PC - Penny Crosby; PGC - Pamela Connor; PJS - P.J. Sharpe; PS - Pat Shelley; R - Ronan; RF - Robert Flannery; SCH - Suzette Hains, SD - Simon Doubleday; SMc - Steve McComas; TLG -Terri Lee Grell; TV - Teresa Volz; TW - Tundra (Jim Wilson) Wind; WEG - Elliot Greig; WR - Werner Reichhold; YH - Yvonne Hardenbrook; ZP - Zane Parks. Note: The activity in the participation renga has fallen so low that we are considering dropping this long-time feature of Lynx. Unless at least five persons respond to the current links, the next issue will be the last one to have the Participation Renga.



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