HSA Newsletter, Listing of Issues on Hand.

This post consists of a listing that will eventually include all the issues of The Haiku Society of America Newsletter, to give it its formal title, in my collection, most recent at the top. For a post that describes a particular issue, please see my review of issue 22:4. Links to other individual issues will [...]

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Haiku Canada Review, Listing of Issues on Hand.

This post consists of a listing that will eventually include all the issues of Haiku Canada Review in my collection, most recent at the top. For a post that describes a particular issue, please see my review of issue 2:1. Links to other individual issues will be added to the table as they appear in [...]

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Haiku Canada Review, 2:1 (February 2008).

Edited by LeRoy Gorman.
Comes with membership in Haiku Canada (details below).
Well, thing pile up while you’re distracted, as I have been for the past several months, with work (that brings in the wherewithal to keep going) doing one of the things I most enjoy, working with students and teachers to improve their writing and [...]

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Magna Poets, Premiere Issue (January 2008).

Aurora Antonovič, Editor-in-Chief.
With thanks to the editors/publishers.
This first issue of what promises to be a semiannual journal contains an interview with recent-past U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky (held office 1997–2000); a brief review of Pinsky’s most recent poetry collection by Antonovič; six pages of poems headed “Free Verse and Form” (22 poems); ten pages of [...]

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Mayfly, Issue 44 (Winter 2007).

Edited by Randy and Shirley Brooks.
Thanks to Brooks Books.
Published twice yearly, Mayfly typically has 16 numbered pages, one haiku each except for pages 1 and 2. As the highest-paying market explicitly for single haiku that I know of in English, it certainly gets my attention, and I have to say that over the years, pound [...]

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Kaitei 海程 (list of periodical issues)

This post consists of a listing that will eventually include all the issues of Kaitei in my collection, most recent at the top. For a post that describes a particular issue, please see Kaitei (海程), no. 437 (2007:11). Links to other individual issues will be added to the table as they appear in the blog.
Bill

Issue [...]

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The Haiku Society of America Newsletter, 22:4 (November 2007)

Edited by Johnye Strickland.
One of the great benefits of HSA membership, since Doris Heitmeyer started expanding her secretary’s report in the 1980s, has been this Newsletter, now a pamphlet of some 40 pages packed with news from all over the English-language haiku world. This issue contains:
p. 1. The “President’s Letter” in which Pamela Miller Ness [...]

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moonset: the newspaper

Vol. 3, issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2007). Edited by An’ya.
With thanks to Carole MacRury.
The front page of this tabloid-newsprint publication lists the creators of “Over 300 Verses and Works of Art in this Issue!”–along with countries of origin. These are mostly people from the USA, but there is a good number of Canadians and Europeans, with [...]

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South by Southeast: Haiku & Haiku Arts, 14:3 (2007)

Edited by Stephen Addiss, Angier Brock, Angela Detlev, Josh Hockensmith, Phil Rubin, Kelsey Rubin-Detlev; published by The Richmond Haiku Workshop.
With thanks to the editors.
A slender pamphlet (current is 36 pp.), each issue of SxSE invariably contains some fine haiku. One “Editor’s choice” from this issue:
stray dog
my tongue chases ice cream
around the cone
Lynne Steel
. . . [...]

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Kaitei (海程), no. 437 (2007:11)

With thanks to Tohta-sensei for this contribution.
This is the Japanese haiku magazine of Master Tohta Kaneko’s group. Each monthly issue features new haiku by Tohta-sensei and members of his far-flung group that spans all of Japan and many overseas contributors. Here is one of Tohta-sensei’s haiku from this issue (tr. wjh):
政治家が喋り疲れて青蛙
seijika ga shaberitsukarete aogaeru
the [...]

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