Tundra #1 Contents

The following poems and other features appear in Tundra #1, published in 1999. You can also view an alphabetical list of all contributors to the issue. Links lead to selected poems or other material. All content is copyright of each contributor, and may not be reused without the contributor’s permission.

Welcome The Editor

Article “I Am the King’s Son”: On the Poetry of Samuel Menashe

Dana Gioia

Featured Poet Samuel Menashe

Interview Enduring Imagist: An Interview with Janet Lewis (1899–1998)

Catherine J. Kordich and Michael Dylan Welch

Poems

Bill West, Cindy Zackowitz, Mark Arvid White, Dawn E. Powell, Robert Major, John Sheirer, Michael Mulvihill, William M. Ramsey, Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Andrew Shields, Tom Clausen, Gary Hotham, Kemp Gregory, Laura Young

Article Ogiwara Seisensui (1884–1976)

Hiroaki Sato

Poems

Bartolo Cattafi (Italian), Rina Ferrarelli (translator), Nikola Nilic, Anonymous (Irish/Gaelic), Gabriel Rosenstock (translator), Peggy Willis Lyles, Tom C. Hunley, Matthew Louvière, Kemp Gregory, Joyce Odam, Kathryn Rantala, Nina A. Wicker, Marjorie Buettner, Jacquie Bellon, Jenniffer L. Lesh, Charles Rossiter, Martin Lucas, Kemp Gregory, H. F. Noyes, Geoff Bouvier, Barry George, John Brandi, Steve Sanfield, Tavia Cathcart, John Lowther, Jim Kacian, Mike Allen, Rob Cook, John Lowther, Pamela Connor, H. F. Noyes, Tom Clausen, George Knox, Ronan, Jeanne Lupton, Alan Pizzarelli, Zane Parks, Lee Gurga, John Stevenson, Dee Evetts, Robert Epstein, John Sheirer, John Stevenson, Yu Chang, Laura Bell, Fred Donovan, George Knox, R. A. Stefanac, Richard Kostelanetz, Alexey Andreyev, Randy M. Brooks, Robert Spiess, Fay Aoyagi, Leza Lowitz, Ted Kooser, Gray Zeitz, Dick Davis, Matthew Murrey, Carolyne Rohrig, Rene Dumas, Tom Disch, Henry L. Holst, Leonardo Alishan, Carrie Etter, Robert Spiess, Helen J. Sherry, Mike Bazzett, Robert Coats, Barry George, Sharon Lee Shafii, chris gordon, H. F. Noyes, Evelyn H. Hermann, Michael Cecilione, Cyril Childs, Dwight L. Wilson, H. L. Hix, George Held, Sanford Goldstein, Jim Standish, Kevin Arnold, Leatrice Lifshitz, Jenniffer L. Lesh, Jack L. Ford, James Tipton, Paul Watsky, Matthew Murrey, Cherie Hunter Day, Lee Gurga, Rebecca Lilly, Harvey Watson, Patricia Neubauer, James Tipton, Yu Chang, Dee Evetts, Marsh Cassady, Alanna O’Connor, James Tipton, Steve Sanfield, Scott Ross, Susan Terris, Steve Sanfield, Nasira Alma, Yvonne Hardenbrook

Haibun Spring’s Last Light

Matt Morden

Poems

Peggy Willis Lyles, Mary Fran Meer, Rich Krivcher, Gary Hotham, Cyril Childs, John Barlow, Ferris Gilli, Robert Gilliland, Richard Rosenberg, Harry Bose, Doris H. Thurston, John Lowther, chris gordon, Herb Kitson, joan iversen goswell, Timothy Russell, Garry Gay, Paul O. Williams, Alexius J. Burgess, Nina A. Wicker, Harry Bose, Elizabeth Howard, Richard Rosenberg, Donna A. Ryan, Richard Goring, David Elliott, Jimi Weiss, Marshall Hryciuk, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Kusch, Max Gutmann, Carol Purington, Giovanni Malito, Sharon Lee Shafii, J. F. Cole, Richard Goring, Paul M., William M. Ramsey, Marjorie Buettner, H. F. Noyes, Timothy Russell, Barry Goodmann, Donald McLeod, Jim Mullins, Matthew Louvière, Francine Porad, susan delaney mech, Michelle V. Lohnes, Paul M., Edward J. Rielly, Marc Thompson, Bob Carlton, Patsy Kisner, Jeanne Emrich, Alan Harawitz, Doc Dachtler, Bob Heman, James Tipton, Brynne McAdoo, Nikhil Nath, Robert Wilson, Jason Sanford Brown, William M. Ramsey, Virginia Brady Young, George Held, Cor van den Heuvel

Review Robert Spiess’s Noddy

Reviewed by the Editor

Last Laugh Five Clerihews

Max Gutmann