Echoes Across the Cascades

First published in Woodnotes #21, Summer 1994, page 34.

Echoes Across the Cascades, edited by Connie Hutchison, Robert Major, and Mary Fran Meer. Haiku Northwest, 1994, 32 pages, paperback, 5½ by 8½ inches. $7.00 postpaid from Mary Fran Meer, 1128-108th Avenue SE, Bellevue, Washington 98004 [address no longer correct]. A regional collection of 52 poems (mostly two per page) by 28 members of the Northwest region of the Haiku Society of America. Includes papercut artwork by Carol Edson. Nice to see some emerging voices! One selection from Randal Johnson:

up a mountain pass

mistaking the first snow patch

for litter