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XXVII:2
June, 2012

LYNX  
A Journal for Linking Poets  
  
   
     
     

 

COLLABORATIVE POETRY

PICNIC IN THE YELLOW WOOD
Vanessa Proctor, Hanne Hansen, Patricia Prime

DE GEUR VAN HYACINTEN
Marianne Kiauta, Paul Mercken

THE SCENT OF HYACINTHS
Marianne Kiauta, Paul Mercken

SKIPPING STONES
Peggy Bilbro, Terri L. French, Christina Nguyen &
Kathy Nguyen

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Jesse Freeman

THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER
        -- Dylan Thomas
Giselle Maya & Jann Wirtz

WINGSONG          
Autumn Noelle Hall & Claire Everett

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich

MOTHER MAIDEN CRONE
Autumn Noelle Hall & Claire Everett

EVER HIGHER
Marcel van de Weghe, Paul Mercken, Pat Prime,Marianne Kiauta,& Fokkina McDonnell

STEEDS HOGER
Marcel van de Weghe, Paul Mercken, Pat Prime, Marianne Kiauta,& Fokkina McDonnell

NAHEINANDER
Heike Stehr, Ramona Linke

CHEEK BY JOWL
Heike Stehr, Ramona Linke

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Reed Altmus

SLOW RAIN
Patricia Prime & Owen Bullock

Graphic by John M. Bennett & SW

HOLES IN THE SAND
Patricia Prime & Owen Bullock

SOMMERVÖGEL
Helga Stania & Ramona Linke

SUMMER BIRDS
Helga Stania, & Ramona Linke

Graphic by John M. Bennett, Baron, & Jim Leftwich

WHERE THE WALL STOOD
Claudia Brefeld & Helga Stania

EAST WIND STEPPING STONES
Claudia Brefeld & Helga Stania

 

SOLO POETRY

GHAZALS

SEARCHING SOLUTIONS
Bernard Gieske

THE PLANET MARS
Bernard Gieske

SKY ARTISTS
Bernard Gieske

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Gyorgy Kostuitski

SYMBIOTIC POETRY

INTO THE SKY
Penny Harter

MAY DAY
Steve Carter

PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Steve Carter

BEFORE A COLD FIREPLACE
Steve Carter

THE PATH NEVER TAKEN
Gerard John Conforti

MAPLE TREES IN MAY
Penny Harter

MILE HIGH
 Ruth Holzer

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Gyorgy Kostuitski

BOUNDARY TREES
Elizabeth Howard

COUNTRY MORNINGS
Roger Jones

IN FULL SUN
Jeanne Jorgensen

FIVE VOYAGES TO JAPAN
First voyage 1964 September  
Giselle Maya

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Gyorgy Kostuitski

A FEAST
Giselle Maya

RUINS
Nobuyuki Yuasa

LIKE HEAVEN
 Ryan Jessup

ISLANDS    
Carol Pearce-Worthington

WHAT HEAVEN 17 SAID (Finally in Sepia)
Brendan Slater

RETHINKING LYRICS
Werner Reichhold

THE MOON GARDEN
r. witherspoon

Graphic by John M. Bennett

 

SEQUENCES

WATER
Jenny Ward Angyal

SEASONAL EMOTIONS
Ramesh Anand

Graphic by John M. Bennett

TANKA FOR FATHER
Owen Bullock

TROUBLE COMES KNOCKING
William Hart

MYSTERIOUS BARRICADES
Ruth Holzer

LIKE HEAVEN II
Ryan Jessup

UNTITLED
Giselle Maya

SUCH A DANCE
Allison Miller

Graphic by John M. Bennett

RAG AND BONE MAN
Brendan Slater

MERCILESSLY CRUSHED
Sosui (Nobuyuki Yuasa)

EARLY GRADUATION:
Tanner Wiens

 

SINGLE POEMS

Don Ammons, Alegria Imperial, Nu Quang, Rita Odeh,ayaz daryl nielsen, Máire Morrissey-Cummins, Rachel Sutcliffe, A.Thiagarajan, Valerie Rosenfeld,

Graphic by John M. Bennett & Baron

 

LETTERS TO LYNX

Konno Mari, Aya Yuhki, Michael Dylan Welch, Ryan Jessup, jeanne jorgensen, Terri Hunter, Amelia Fielden to Dennis Holmes, Nobuyuki Yuasa, Emiko Miyashita and Michael Dylan Welch

CONTESTS OPEN

The ITF SHONAN VILLAGE CENTER Competition
for tanka in English

KATIKATI HAIKU CONTEST 2012

GENJUAN HAIBUN CONTEST 2013

 

CONTEST RESULTS

KATIKATI HAIKU CONTEST 2011
2010 senior haiku winners

UKIAHAIKU FESTIVAL 2012 WINNERS
Jane Reichhold International Prize for Traditional Haiku

TURTLE LIGHT PRESSChapbook Contest

FAVORITE POEMS FROM THE HERON’S NEST

GENJUAN HAIBUN CONTEST
Decorated Works 2012

MAGAZINES

Ribbons, Moonbathing, A Hundred Gourds, Sketchbook, Journal of Renga & Renku, Atlas Poetica, Contemporary Haibun Online, Haibun Today, Notes from the Gean, The Ghazal Page, Haiku-Art

MEETINGS

The 7th International Tanka Festival 2012
Shonan Village Centre, November 28th- 29th, 2012

EVENTS

MEMORIAL FOR VICTUMS OF JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
MARCH 2011

MULTI-MEDIA JAPANESE PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM

UKIAHAIKU FESTIVAL 2012

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Breasts of Snow -- Fumiko Nakajo: Her tanka and her life. Translated  by Hatsue Kawamura And Jane Reichhold. Tokyo, Japan. The Japan Times, Ltd.  [2004] Soft cover 15x21cm.152 pages. ¥2,000 ISBN4-7890-1161-5. Available from AHA Books.

HOSHIJO - ROKKA Snow Crystal * Star-shaped by Konno Mari, Amelia Fielden: English, Zvaigznveida sniega kristals, Victor Kravcenko, Liga Busevica: Latvian, plus CD of Sinobue flute composed and performed by Akihiro Hara, book publisher, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 2-3-3 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8078, Japan. ISBN 978-4-04-652281-8 C0092
 Review by Dennis M. Holmes

Mandrakes Round A Gibbet by Anthony Knight.  (self published 2011, contact knight.pages@hotmail.co.uk for copies).
Review by Dennis M. Holmes

Haiku and Tanka Harvest by Victor P. Gendrano.  Published by Heritage Publishers, Lakewood , California , (2012).ISBN: 9781468017854
Review by Dennis M. Holmes

Connections to this World by Jamese Fowler.  Edited by Leah Maines. Published by Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324ISBN: 978-1-59924-970-4
Review by Dennis M. Holmes

breath by Sandra Simpson. All photographs and poems by Sandra Simpson. Published by Piwakawaka Press, Tauranga, 2011. ISBN: 9780-0-473-19150-4
Review by Dennis M. Holmes

Biglisanje / Song Of A Nightingale by Stjepan Rozic. Edited and translated by Durda Vukelic Rozic. Illustrated  by Ljubomir Radovancevic. Photography by Stjepan Rozic. Published by "Otok Ivanic", 2010.
ISBN: 953-7205-36-2
Review by Dennis M. Holmes

Cantecul Mierlei * Blackbird's Song, Haiku by Oprica Padeanu. Translated to English by Vasile Moldovan. Edited by Tatiana Barbuccanu. Published by Verus, Bucharest, Romania, 2011.
Review by Dennis M. Holmes

 

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS 


Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku
by Turtle Light Press

The Window That Closes
By Graham High
by Turtle Light Press

The Little Book of Yotsumonos by John E. Carley with six other poets from Darlington Richards Press, publishers of Journal of Renga & Renku.

Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka announces the Snipe Rising from a Marsh edited by Rodney Williams of Australia.

Carving Darkness: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2011 is now available on the website www.redmoonpress.com

 

ARTICLES

NEW HAIKU LOOMS SMALLER
Reduced size renders surprising savings, increased efficiency, no losses by Alice K. Adzee, PhD

SENRYU RULES! by Jane Reichhold

THE HAIKU SCENE IN TAMIL by A.Thiagarajan

 

INTERVIEWS

CHEN-OU LIU

EDWARD BARANOSKY

 

This issue of Lynx is dedicated to the memory of

Hatsue Kawamura

February 11, 2012

 

 

COLLABORATIVE POETRY
Where two or three are gathered with pencil in hand. . .

SOLO POETRY
We live alone and die alone and even write poetry. . .

BOOK REVIEWS
What we are reading and want to share with you. . .

ARTICLES
What poets are thinking about poetry . . .

INTERVIEWS
Who we are

LETTERS TO LYNX Your words do not fall on deaf ears. . .

   
     
     

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XVIII:3, October, 2003
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XIX:3 October, 2004

XX:1,February, 2005

XX:2 June, 2005
XX:3 October, 2005
XXI:1February, 2006 
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XXI:3,October, 2006

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XXII:3 October, 2007

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XXIII:3, October, 2008
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XXIV:2, June, 2009
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