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WHChaiku
EDITORIAL TEAM:
DIRECTOR, WHC:
Susumu Takiguchi, UK
EDITOR, WHR:
Susumu Takiguchi
PROOFREADERS:
Jay Santini, US
Deborah Humphreys, US
Kate Steere, US
TECHNICAL
EDITOR:
Sean Kent, US
2005 SPECIAL
FEATURE IMAGE:
Moebius Strip II (Red Ants)
Woodcut (1964) by
Maurits
Cornelis Escher
(1898-1972), NL
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EDITOR'S
WELCOME
Reflecting the six different
categories of haiku which are now all in place at WHR's haiku selections, we
are having a welcome variety of works in terms of form, style and content.
'World-haiku' is still only sixty years old. This must be set against the
background of about five hundred years' history of Japanese
haikai literature and the poetic tradition before that which naturally
flowed into it. It is, therefore, far too premature for anyone to be so
boastful or complacent as to say that world-haiku has now been accomplished
in any particular way. Within such particular way, people often point out
that there are so many different kinds of haiku that no one knows what haiku
is. The reality, however, seems the opposite. This 'particular way' has only
served to narrow world-haiku, as Professor Haruo Shirane has implied, into a
small and inflexible compartment. And it is no more than a compartment. From
the point of view toward the rich potential for haiku in the world, one
realises that, far from being accomplished, world-haiku is still
under-developed. The seeming confusion caused by seemingly different kinds
of haiku is not only a welcome development, but a necessary one in order for
world-haiku to go through natural and healthy evolution. In this sense, we
are nowhere near being confused enough, or having enough kinds of haiku. Let
us see the current situation as a creative chaos, and therefore let us be
much more confused and have even more kinds of haiku, at least during our
lifetime.
Readers of World Haiku Review
are invited and encouraged to be more ambitious, more innovative and more
creative in composing haiku and sharing them with us.
For those
readers who would like to submit
their original haiku toward the Autumn issue (5-2), the kigo category will
be the autumn season word: "solitude", and the themed category will be: "leaves
turning colour".
Susumu Takiguchi
Editor WHChaiku, WHR
POETS IN THIS
ISSUE'S CATEGORICAL SELECTIONS
Steve Addiss, US
Dave Bacharach, US
Nancy Barbara, US
DW Bender, US
Pris Campbell, Us
Jasminka Nadaskic Diordievic, YU
Elizabeth Fanto, US
Carlos Fleitas, UY
Lorin Ford, AU
Laryalee Fraser, CA
Gary Gach, US
Denis M. Garrison, US
Victor P. Gendrano, US
Olga Hooper (Origa), US
Elizabeth Howard, US
Betty Kaplan, US
Willow Katsumi, USA
Bill Kenney, US
Deborah P Kolodji, California, US
Carole MacRury, US
Vinodh Marella (yajushi), IN
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Ruzica Mokos, HR
Polona Oblak, SI
Hisanori Ohgane, JP
Paul Pfleuger, Jr, TW
Zhanna P. Rader, US
Narayanan Raghunathan, IN
Carol Raisfeld, US
Terrie Leigh Relf, (semi) US
Brenda Roberts, US
Bruce Ross, US
Ann K. Schwader, US
John W. Sexton, IR
Adelaide B. Shaw, US
Andrew Shimield, UK
Nancy Stewart Smith, US
Marie Summers, US
Allen M. Terdiman, US
Florence Vilen, SE
Bette Wappner (b'oki), US
Carmel (Lively) Westerman, US
Ethel Yanova, US |
for more haiku, be sure to visit our
International
Language columns,
TREETOPS,
WHChaikujunior,
WHCbeginners
and
WHChaikumultimedia columns, our regular and
special features (see Contents
Page);
for further vanguard style poetry, see
WHCmarlenemountain.
HARD / VANGUARD HAIKU:
Some of the contents herein contain elements which some readers may find offensive.
They have been created within the framework of the intended aims of a WHC forum
or project for study purposes and purely as a work of literary pursuit, being a
part of arts and not as a pursuit of anything else such as political or
religious act. They are presented here as such for those wider audience who may
find them interesting. Therefore, those who are likely to find them offensive
are free to opt them out.
World Haiku Club and its magazine, the World Haiku Review, are not
associated with any formal political, social, psychological, religious or
philosophic organisation or party of any kind.
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