Woodnotes — #18
Autumn 1993
Woodnotes #18 had a lower number of poems, and (a rarity) no essays. But it featured an eight-page report I wrote titled “A Perspective on Haiku North America 1993.” In 1991, HNA was a one-off event, with no initial plan to hold it again, but with its revival in 1993, and with plans to have the 1995 conference in Toronto, HNA became a tradition—another major influence of Haiku Poets of Northern California members on the national (and international) haiku scene. The conference also produced a bumper crop of books, and this issue sports no less than 23 short reviews of new haiku books. These and hundreds of other reviews from Woodnotes by Michael Dylan Welch are available on this website’s Reviews page. Ebba Story contributed a report on the latest Two Autumns reading and its commemorative anthology, Morning Snow, edited by Patricia Neubauer, featuring Kay F. Anderson, Christopher Herold, Tom Lynch, and Patricia Machmiller. In addition, Kay F. Anderson offered a haibun, “Looking into Silence,” which indeed is the source of many haiku.
Staff
Editor: Michael Dylan Welch
Associate Editor: Ebba Story
Typesetting and layout: Michael Dylan Welch
Cover art: clipart
Pages 36
Haiku/Senryu 66
Tanka 3
Haibun 1
Reports 3
Mini-Reviews 23
Editorials 1
Contents
“A Note from the Editors”
Woodnotes Award, won by Peggy Willis Lyles
“A Perspective on Haiku North America 1993” report by Michael Dylan Welch
Haiku and Senryu
Tanka
“A Reading by the Sea” Two Autumns reading report by Ebba Story
“Looking into Silence” haibun by Kay F. Anderson
Woodnotes (news)
Of Books and Things, with notes by Michael Dylan Welch
Meeting Report by Tom Lynch
Woodnotes Award
November mist—
wood smoke scents
the jogger’s way
Peggy Willis Lyles
Selected Poems
autumn mist
taking its color
from distant hills
Patricia Neubauer
first sumi-e lesson—
what I need
is the teacher’s brush
Kay F. Anderson
rain . . .
a book left behind
on the café table
Jerry Kilbride
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