From "the pebble creek filling into laughter" to "sunset cows grazing shadows," the new haiku magazine, Writers & Lovers Café: Fall 2013 issue
offers autumnal haiku by brilliant haiku writers from the far-flung corners of the globe, including Sandip Chauhan, Rita Odeh, Mark Brager, Paul David Mena, and Susan Diridoni; tanka writers like Kath Abela Wilson, Jayashree Maniyil, Gary Blankenship, and Amanda Dcosta; and haiga creators like Irena Iris Szewczyk, Claire Everett, and Caroline Skanne. The special section of the new magazine titled, "Tanka Classics" celebrates the art of Pamela A. Babusci.
You Are My Star by Iyza Wojnicki
a romance novel which was considered for
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award,
came out in 2013 from Writers and Lovers Studio
Robert D. Wilson is co-owner of the English-language Japanese
short-form poetry journal, Simply Haiku. His poetry has been
analyzed as exemplary by leading scholars including Steven D. Carter,
Michael Marra, David Landis Barnhill, David Lanoue, and Sanford Goldstein.
Wilson's essays on haiku aesthetics are impacting contemporary perception of haiku
internationally.