Rattle #87, Spring 2025 - Tribute to the Haibun?

Spring 2025 Conversation with Lew Watts The Spring 2025 issue features what might be the most dynamic form in contemporary poetry—the haibun. Developed by Basho in 17th-century Japan as a way to combine haiku with travel journals, the variations on the form have exploded in the English-language haiku community over the last few decades, revealing how important a sense of movement is to poetry. The issue features a conversation with haibun poet Lew Watts, along with a large selection of open poetry. Haibun Roberta Beary A Short History of the Birds and Bees Katie Beswick What Did You Call Me? Tim Cremin Act IV Amy Dougher-Solórzano After the Overdose Seth Friedman Trenches Engin Gülez Absence Kat Lehmann Category 5 Bob Lucky At the Cemetery, the Church of St. James, Porto Annette Makino Migration Hemat Malak Aerodynamic Drag Tanya McDonald Fourth of July Debra Murphy Left Fielder Ginel Ople What Remains True after the Golden Anniversary Lorraine A. Padden Reading the Room J.B. Penname Leprosy Carla Schwartz Impact Alan Summers The Moon Is in My Torch Namratha Varadharajan Threadbare Lew Watts Mannequin Michael Dylan Welch Step Quota Valorie B. Woerdehoff Clean-up on Aisle 4 Rich Youmans Brain Teaser .. Open Poetry Kim Addonizio Pima Canyon Nancy Beagle Second Time Going Jim Burrows The Elevator Susan Cohen Self-Portrait Surrounded by Doves Arlene DeMaris Seventeen Sonia Greenfield Storage Spaces David Kirby The Queen of Quirk Says Goodbye to Her Not-Me Lance Larsen Why I Petted the Cat Michael Lavers There Is a Fire Dominic Leading Fox Down in the Gully Matt Mason I Owe You a Poem Chelsea McClellan Sestina Sophia Joseph Mills Guttering Richard Prins Natural History Kelly Sargent Haiku and Senryu Prartho Sereno Almost Carrie Shipers Things I Found While Cleaning Out My Parents’ House .. Conversation Lew Watts .. Cover Art Kimberly Kelly Santini (web)