Tony A. Thompson, founder of Gin Bender Poetry Review
and host of the Coffee.Tea.Haiku weblog, has announced
publish its first edition in April 2006.
“WisteriaUSDA”
Tony says: “Wisteria is dedicated to publishing original, English-
language, or contemporary haiku, senryu, and tanka. The journal
will be published quarterly (January, April, July & October) begin-
ning in 2006. It will be a small sized (4 1/4 x 5 1/2), desktop pub-
lished, saddle-stapled, card stock cover magazine.”
Writers and readers of haiku, senryu and tanka can still
participate in the launching of Wisteria — click here for
information on Submissions and Subscriptions.
wisteria in bloom–
voices of pilgrims
voices of birds
land of vegetables–
a tea house with blooming
wisteria
the setting place
for the spring sun…
wisteria blossoms
translated by David G. Lanoue
“WisteriaKQatsi”
p.s. Tony’s new hokku enterprise reminds me of my favorite
passage about the significance of haiku. It’s be Lee Gurga:
“Wouldn’t it be great if there were a kind of poetry that could be
written anywhere, anytime, by anyone? A kind of poetry that children
could enjoy yet even accomplished poets needed years to master?
A poetry with the simple aim of making us aware of life’s simple gifts
and everyday joys? An antidote to irony, consumerism, and narcissism?
A kind of poetry in which the best journals invited all excellent work, no
matter who the writer knew or did not know?
“There is: haiku is that kind of poetry.”
Lee Gurga, from Haiku: A Poet’s Guide (Modern Haiku
Press, 2003), from the introduction, “An Invitation to Haiku.”
“WisteriaUSDA”
February 12, 2006
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