(as the now takes hold by Shloka Shankar)
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A note from the editors:
It occurs to us that the poetry forms highlighted in the first Whiptail Challenges are not regularly written in the current English-language haiku and tanka communities. As such, this issue represents a noteworthy, contemporary repository of English-language one-line tanka and "micro micros" (haiku of four words or fewer and poemwords). We send our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has been a part of this issue by submitting, reading, and sharing it. We hope you enjoy the challenge as much as we do!
-Kat & Robin
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contributors
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Don Baird
Tom Clausen Alvin B. Cruz Jeff Hoagland Kim Klugh Akhila Mohan CG Thomas Powell Rich Schilling Aishwarya Vedula Dhaatri Vengunad & Aishwarya Vedula Susan Yavaniski Brad Bennett
Chuck Brickley Aidan Castle Gillena Cox Cherie Hunter Day Robbie Gamble Lee Hudspeth Mark Miller Julie Schwerin Srini Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta Brad Bennett
Anette Chaney Engin Gülez Ruth Holzer Kristen Lindquist Beverly Acuff Momoi Joanne Morcom Chidambar Navalgund Deepa Patil Julie Schwerin Joseph P. Wechselberger |
Susan Burch
Antoinette Cheung Stefano d'Andrea P. H. Fischer Jill Kessler Michael Nickels-Wisdom Pippa Phillips Richa Sharma Scott Wiggerman Caroline Giles Banks
Anette Chaney LeRoy Gorman Roberta Beach Jacobson Christopher Jupp Julie Bloss Kelsey Daniel Lehan Kati Mohr Christopher Patchel Jo Balistreri
Aidan Castle matthew markworth Tom Sacramona Dan Schwerin Mary Stevens Alan Summers Susan Yavaniski |
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Tom Clausen
Lakshmi Iyer Ash Evan Lippert Robert Miner Daniela Misso m shane pruett Bryan Rickert Shloka Shankar Debbie Strange Steliana Cristina Voicu Marcie Wessels |
Ella Aboutboul
Deborah A. Bennett Arvinder Kaur Kathryn Liebowitz Beverly Acuff Momoi m shane pruett Minal Sarosh Debbie Strange Marcie Wessels |
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An analysis of a one-line tanka from whiptail Issue 4: “a piercing call” by Ryland Shengzhi Li |
We have created a comments blog for folx to leave comments on their favorite poems and support contributors. Give a shout-out and talk about your favorite poem from the issue! |
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Enjoy our new feature in which we ask the poets we've published to share their thoughts and practices writing one-line poems! This series has become a trove of the various ways poets approach this sub-genre with more to come! |
In the interest of transparency, we have created a statistics page, which we welcome you to visit. |
whiptail Issue 5 was edited by Kat Lehmann, Robin Smith, and guest editor Jonathan Roman. All three editors read and selected poems. Kat and Robin made final selections and sequenced the poems for the main issue.
Credits for page titles:
“DIAPHANOUS BLUE” - “to forgive and forget” by Aishwarya Vedula
“WE CHOOSE REDWOODS” - “the silence” by Aidan Castle
“I BECOME PEOPLE” - “moment of arrival” by Chidambar Navalgund
“LOKA” - “but it is not just a name” by Shloka Shankar
“POESY” - “imposter” by Antoinette Cheung
“IF” - “now if ever” by Roberta Beach Jacobson
“WITHOUT A WHY” - “without a why” by matthew markworth
“COMMA” - “still waiting” by m shane pruett
“DIAPHANOUS BLUE” - “to forgive and forget” by Aishwarya Vedula
“WE CHOOSE REDWOODS” - “the silence” by Aidan Castle
“I BECOME PEOPLE” - “moment of arrival” by Chidambar Navalgund
“LOKA” - “but it is not just a name” by Shloka Shankar
“POESY” - “imposter” by Antoinette Cheung
“IF” - “now if ever” by Roberta Beach Jacobson
“WITHOUT A WHY” - “without a why” by matthew markworth
“COMMA” - “still waiting” by m shane pruett
