Woodnotes — #19

This issue of Woodnotes was a harbinger of things to come when it jumped to 52 pages (the previous high was 36), including 107 haiku and senryu (the previous high was 102) plus six tanka (also a high). Recent issues featured no interior art, but issue #19 included sumi-e illustrations by Kay F. Anderson and Michael Dylan Welch (we were both taking a sumi class together). Results of the 1993 HPNC haiku and senryu contest results were announced, judged by Hal Roth, but there was no tanka contest this year (it would return in 1994). Paul O. Williams offered an important essay, “Engagement and Detachment in Haiku and Senryu.” Six pages of the journal were occupied by “The Woodnotes Survey Summarized” by Michael Dylan Welch, which set out a useful roadmap for both Woodnotes and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. This report noted that we had previously had a two-poem acceptance limit per poet (which a great majority of respondents voted to keep in place) and that Woodnotes received “nearly 800 poems per issue, just under nine percent of which are now tanka” and that “we publish less than 12 percent of poems submitted.”

Staff

• Editor: Michael Dylan Welch

• Associate Editor: Ebba Story

• Typesetting and layout: Michael Dylan Welch

• Cover art: clipart

• Interior art: Kay F. Anderson and Michael Dylan Welch

Pages 52

Haiku/Senryu 107

Tanka 6

Essays 2

Reports 1

Book Reviews 3

Mini-Reviews 9

Editorials 1

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