{"id":4374,"date":"2006-02-12T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/02\/12\/wisteria-the-journal-is-comin"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:10","slug":"wisteria-the-journal-is-coming-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/02\/12\/wisteria-the-journal-is-coming-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisteria (the Journal) is coming in April"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tony A. Thompson, founder of <\/EM><\/FONT>Gin Bender Poetry Review<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and <\/FONT>host of the <\/FONT>Coffee.Tea.Haiku<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> weblog, has announced <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that <\/FONT>Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka<\/A><\/EM> will <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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publish <\/FONT>its first edition <\/FONT>in April 2006. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“WisteriaUSDA” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Tony says: “Wisteria is dedicated to publishing original, English-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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language, or contemporary haiku, senryu, and tanka.  The journal <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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will be published quarterly (January, April, July & October)<\/EM> begin-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ning in 2006. It will be a small sized (4 1\/4 x 5 1\/2), desktop pub-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lished, saddle-stapled, card stock cover magazine.” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Writers and readers of haiku, senryu and tanka can still <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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participate in the launching of Wisteria<\/EM> — click here<\/A> for <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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information on Submissions and Subscriptions. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wisteria in bloom–
voices of pilgrims
voices of birds<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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land of vegetables–
a tea house with blooming<\/FONT>
wisteria<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the setting place
for the spring sun…
wisteria blossoms<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Issa<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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translated by <\/FONT>David G. Lanoue<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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                                                                                                                 “WisteriaKQatsi”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p.s<\/STRONG><\/EM>. Tony’s new hokku enterprise reminds me of my favorite <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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passage about the significance of haiku.  It’s be Lee Gurga:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    “Wouldn’t it be great if there were a kind of poetry that could be <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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written anywhere, anytime, by anyone?  A kind of poetry that children <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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could enjoy yet even accomplished poets needed years to master?  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A poetry with the simple aim of making us aware of life’s simple gifts <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and everyday joys?  An antidote to irony, consumerism, and narcissism?  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A kind of poetry in which the best journals invited all excellent work, no <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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matter who the writer knew or did not know?<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    “There is: haiku is that kind of poetry.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Lee Gurga<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, from <\/FONT>Haiku: A Poet’s Guide<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (Modern Haiku   <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Press, 2003), from the introduction, “An Invitation to Haiku.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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“WisteriaUSDA”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Tony A. Thompson, founder of Gin Bender Poetry Review  and host of the Coffee.Tea.Haiku weblog, has announced that Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka will publish its first edition in April 2006.   “WisteriaUSDA”   Tony says: “Wisteria is dedicated to publishing original, English- language, or contemporary haiku, senryu, and tanka.  The journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-18y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12783,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/12783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}