Woodnotes — #4
Winter 1990
Submissions picked up with this issue, which included 38 haiku and senryu. For issues #4, #5, and #6, Lequita Vance-Watkins prepared all the covers, supplying clipart images. Notable in issue #4 were two short essays: “The Bones of the Dead” by Tom Tico and “Another Article on Articles” by Jane Reichhold. With this issue, poems by the editors appeared on the journal’s back cover, a practice that continued through to issue #10.
Staff
Editors: vincent tripi and Paul O. Williams
Associate editor, typesetting, and layout: Michael Dylan Welch
Cover art: clipart
Pages 20
Haiku/Senryu 38
Essays 7
Reports 1
Book Reviews 2
Mini-Reviews 1
Contents
“The Bones of the Dead” essay by Tom Tico
“Haiku as Meditation” essay by Carolyn Talmadge
Haiku and Senryu
“Haiku Stops” by vincent tripi, with haiku commentary by Michael Dylan Welch, James Chessing, and Marlina Rinzen
“Another Article on Articles” essay by Jane Reichhold
“Haiku Dissertation” summary by Tom Lynch (describing his PhD dissertation on haiku)
Woodnotes (news)
Book Reviews by Paul O. Williams and Tom Lynch
And the Cat, Too by Kazuo Sato
Tidalwave by Werner Reichhold
Without Haste by Francine Porad
Meeting Report by Paul O. Williams
Selected Poems
my father’s winter
coats still hang
in the closet
Tom Clausen
firefly there
not there
there
Mary Lou Bittle-DeLapa
A wounded bird:
My hands become an empty nest
When it flies away.
James Luguri
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