Woodnotes — #7

Autumn 1990

This issue of Woodnotes appears to be the first one to include tanka—two of them, by Brent Partridge and Catalina Cariaga (tanka would not appear again until issue #12, but they appeared in every issue after that). This was also the longest issue yet, ballooning to 28 pages and 75 haiku and senryu. Two essays also appeared, “Zen and the Art of Direct Seeing: Cultivating the Haiku Moment” by me and “Tones of Haiku: Yugen” by Tom Arima. Tom, who also used the pen name Manzen, would contribute one other essay to Woodnotes (in issue #9) on Japanese aesthetic terms that he called tones in haiku. Plans for Woodnotes to publish additional essays from Tom on the tones of haiku were unfortunately never fulfilled.

Staff

Editors: vincent tripi and Paul O. Williams
Associate editor, typesetting, and layout: Michael Dylan Welch
Cover art: June Moreau
Interior art: Doris Heitmeyer

Pages 28

Haiku/Senryu 75

Tanka 1

Essays 3

Reports 1

Book Reviews 1

Book Listings 15

In Memory (Roberta Stewart, Lee Richmond, and Bernard S. Aaronson)
Two Autumns event report by Catalina Cariaga
Haiku and Senryu
1990 HPNC San Francisco International Haiku and Senryu Competition (Ross Figgins, judge)
“Haiku Stops,” with haiku commentary by Garry Gay, Brent Partridge, Jim Boyd, Lequita Vance, vincent tripi, and Tom Tico
“Zen and the Art of Direct Seeing: Cultivating the Haiku Moment” essay by Michael Dylan Welch [shown below]
“Tones of Haiku: Yugen” essay by Tom Arima
Woodnotes (news)
Book Listings by vincent tripi
Book Review by Michael Dylan Welch