Simply Haiku's Summer 2008 issue is live!

The International Japanese Short Form Journal
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Summer Issue
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FEATURING:

An Interview with Jane Reichhold
By Robert D. Wilson

An Interview with Kathy Kituai
By Amelia Fielden
Forgive, But Do Not Forget:
By Itô Yûki talks with Udo Wenzel
Tanka by Kisaburo Konoshima
Newly translated by David Callner

Contemplative Haiku
Curtis Dunlap
Deborah P. Kolodji
Francis Masat
Robert Moyer
Patrick M. Pilarski
Bruce Ross
Dave Russo
Sandra Simpson
Mathew V. Spano

Tantalizing Tanka

Marjorie Buettner
Norman Darlington
Larry Kimmel
Dorothy McLaughlin
John Stone
André Surridge
Peter Yovu

Captivating Haibun:

David Cobb
Tish Davis
Roger Jones
Jim Kacian
Joyce Hildebrand
Ed Markowski
Ray Rasmussen
Adelaide B. Shaw
Josh Wikoff

Haiku in Context
A column by Robin D. Gill

Hot Senryu:
Mykel Board, Clement Hoyt, Barry George,
Arizona Zipper, Kathleen O'Toole, Bob Brill,
Anita Virgil, Stephen Peters, Bill Kenney,
LeRoy Gorman, Carol Raisfeld,
Mankh, M. Franklyn Teaford, Donna Foulke,
D.L. Bachelor, Tom Clausen, Gautam Nadkarni,
Alexis Rotella, Jesse D. McGowan, Al Pizzarelli,
Kala Ramesh, A. Thiagarajan, Efren Estevez,
Karen Sohne, Cor van den Heuvel, Ernest Berry,
Carlos Colón
Upcoming Topics: 
Roberta Beary, Karen Sohne, Anonymous

Sizzling and Innovative Renku:
Junicho: 
   Winter Moon
    ~ Joanna Ashwell, Chris Boultwood,
       John Carley and Colin Stewart Jones
Nijuin: 
   Misty Dawn
    ~ Doreen King and Frank Williams 
Kasen: 
   A Glimpse of Gain
    ~ Francis Attard and Dick Pettit
   A Glimpse of Gain - Commentary and Analysis
       by Francis Attard
      
Innovative Modern Haiga:

Cathy Drinkwater Better
Gillena Cox
Laryalee Fraser
Allison Millcock
Claudette and Frank Russell

Aesthetic Traditional Haiga:
Sara Otto and Mark Smith
Suezan Aikins and Ron Moss

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert D. Wilson:

  Poems of War and Peace:
  Voices from Contemporary Japanese Poets,
    Chikurinkan
  Straggling Into Winter,
    Kathy Kituai
  Cigarette Butts and Lilacs:
    tokens of a heritage,
    Andrew Riutta

Johnye Strickland:
  Poems of Consciousness,
  Richard Gilbert

Marjorie Buettner:
  this hunger, tissue thin
  By Larry Kimmel
And, of course, lots of CONTEST NEWS!
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