Woodnotes — #24

With this issue Woodnotes welcomed Kenneth Tanemura as a new associate editor, and Helen K. Davie as our new cover and interior artist. They would both continue in these roles for four issues, ending with issue #27. This issue had the greatest number of tanka yet, which was 28, including six in an innovative thematic collaboration that Kenneth Tanemura called a “triple tanka string,” for which he provided a brief introduction. The latest Gavel Award for 1994 went to June Moreau, with an appreciative write-up by Christopher Herold. This issue also featured two rengay, plus an announcement of HPNC’s new rengay contest. Another telling item in the ”Woodnotes” news section was “Haiku on the Internet,” still a bit of a novelty, announcing the “Shiki-L” online haiku discussion group, which would prove to be influential in the years ahead. Also announced was the first-ever “electronic haiku journal,” Dogwood Blossoms, edited by Gary Warner and Andreas Schöter [still available on Haiku World and archived at the Haiku Foundation]. I would also join their staff as a columnist and contributor. Another announcement was that Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America, “now has an email address,” enabling poets to submit to the journal electronically for the first time. The times were a-changin’.

Staff

• Editor: Michael Dylan Welch

• Associate Editor: Kenneth Tanemura

• Typesetting and layout: Michael Dylan Welch

• Cover and interior art: Helen K. Davie

Pages 44

Haiku/Senryu 87

Tanka 28

Haibun 1

Rengay 2

Essays 1

Reports 1

Mini-Reviews 11

Editorials 1

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