Recent Essays & Interviews

	Bruce Ross, Matsuo Bashō, Suthorn Pho, and Contemporary World Travel Haibun
	Terra Incognita: The Haibun and Tanka Prose World, An Interview with Jeffrey Woodward, Editor of Haibun Today and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose
	A Tribute to Hortensia Anderson: Editor's Tribute to Hortensia Hortensia Anderson's Remains of Myself Hortensia's publications in cho
	John Dunphy, Haibun: Union of Prose and Poetry
	Jamie Edgecombe, Haibun and Realism
	Ken Jones: Interview with Jeffrey Woodward
	Ken Jones, Writing Reality: Fictional Haibun Stories
	Jim Kacian: Interview with Patricia Prime
	Ray Rasmussen, Characteristics of Contemporary English-language Haibun
	Bruce Ross: Interview with Jeffrey Woodward
	Bruce Ross, The Essence of Haiku

Archive of Essays & Interviews on Haibun

	Bruce Ross, On Defining Haibun to A Western Readership, The World Haiku Review, vol 1, no 2, 2002
	Jamie Edgecombe, Beyond Our Borders: Expanding the Potential of Haibun, The World Haiku Review, 2002, vol 1, no 2
	Bruce Ross, Narratives of the Heart: Haibun, Simply Haiku, 2004, vol 2, no 6
	Jamie Edgecombe, The Use of “Sentence Fragments” in contemporary haibun, The World Haiku Review, 2002, vol 1, no 2
	Janice Bostok, What is Haibun: An Interview, Stylus Poetry Journal, 2002
	Michael McClintock, Going on About Haibun, World Haiku Review, vol 2, no 2.

Editors' Thought Pieces

Ken Jones' Corner #1
Ken Jones' Corner #2
Ken Jones' Corner #3
Ken Jones' Corner #4
Evaluating Haibun: Our editors evaluate & suggest revisions to a haibun

Announcements & New Releases of Haibun Books

Patrick Pilarski	Huge Blue, A collection of contemporary haiku, tanka, haibun, tanka prose, senryu, and quatrains, Huge Blue is a poetic tour guide to Canada’s stunning western landscapes. Poems in the book are divided into three sections: Prairie, Mountain, and Coast. To purchase a copy, please contact the publisher: Leaf Press, Box 416, Lantzville, BC, Canada, V0R 2H0, orders@leafpress.ca, http://www.leafpress.ca
Mike Montreuil	Last Away Tournament, a collection of haibun,(artwork by Claudia Coutou Radmore, Bondi Studios, Carleton Place, Ontario, 2009, 19 pages, stapled, ISBN 978-0-9812385-1-7, $4, available from author: mikemontreuil@sympatico.ca
Stanley Pelter	Stanley Pelter's 4th collection of illustrated haibun 'slightly scented short lived words and roses' is now available. It consists of full colour front and back cover, 134 pages and 25 illustrations. In line with his other three collections, until stocks run out, it is available to any interested in the genre for the cost of postage: $10 or £1 UK. Requests for this GIFT to 5 School Lane, Claypole, Newark, Lincolnshire NG23 5BQ, UK
Ken Jones	"Stone Leeks" is Ken Jones's latest 96 page collection of 28 haibun and 59 freestanding haiku, introduced by Jim Kacian. US$ 10 - dollar bills, please, to Troedrhiwsebon, Cwmrheidol, Aberystwyth, SY23 3NB, Wales, UK, or through the Welsh Books Council website http://www.gwales.com UK orders £7 post free, cheques to "K Jones"
Bruce Ross	"Endless Small Waves," HMS Press: 2008, 102 pages, 68 haibun, the majority not published. Ink drawing by author on glossy pale blue cover. Proofbound. 7" X 8 1/2". Available from author, $15 North America, $17 otherwise at: Bruce Ross, PMB 127, 499 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401, USA.
Francis Masat	Francis Masat's new haibun chapbook "Lilacs After Winter" encompasses a story of love, loss, and redemption – more than one might imagine. It is available for $8.95 from Modern English Tanka Press, P.O. Box 43717, Baltimore, Maryland 21236 USA, or through modernenglishtankapress.com
Haiku Foundation	The Haiku Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to archive the accomplishments of the first century of haiku in English and to create greater opportunities for its second, was chartered in the state of Virginia, USA, on 6 January 2009. It is a volunteer organization primarily designed to create and implement projects centered around haiku. Most haiku organizations have privileged the poet and her needs: education, publication, socialization. The Haiku Foundation instead seeks to foster the growth of haiku itself. This is where poets come when they want to give back. We are pleased to announce the public unveiling of our website. We hope you will visit it often and with pleasure. Please tell us how it serves you, and how it might serve you in the future. And most of all, we welcome your participation. Please join us to help us realize our goals.
Writers Workshop:	A group of writers focused on haibun & haiku invites applications for membership
Haibun Links:	Online journals containing haibun

contemporary haibun online is a quarterly journal appearing in March, June, September and December of each year. We are pleased to offer our readers quality haibun style writing and to encourage both the writing and reading of contemporary haibun. Submissions are welcome at any time.

Content Editors Ken Jones, Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross review submissions independently and then collaborate to accept submissions for two categories: I. contemporary haibun, an annual anthology from Red Moon Press and, II. contemporary haibun online. All selections are published in cho, our online journal and the writers are notified as to whether their haibun will also appear in the annual.

Copyright: All contents are the property of the contributors and contemporary haibun online. Contributors are free to publish elsewhere so long as cho is cited as the first place of publication. No content may be published or distributed elsewhere in any form or in any way without permission of the contributors. cho is associated with the print journal contemporary haibun which is published annually and which can be ordered through the Red Moon Press. cho retains the right to republish the contents in the print annual publication: contemporary haibun. The haibun in the Selections for contemporary haibun section will be published in the next print issue of contemporary haibun.

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