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issue 5: as the now takes hold

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(as the now takes hold by ​Shloka Shankar)
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A note from the editors:
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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



​contributors
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diaphanous blue
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​
we choose redwoods
Brad Bennett
​Chuck Brickley
Aidan Castle
Gillena Cox
Cherie Hunter Day
Robbie Gamble
Lee Hudspeth
Mark Miller
Julie Schwerin
​Srini

Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
I become people
 Brad Bennett
Anette Chaney
Engin Gülez
​Ruth Holzer
​Kristen Lindquist
Beverly Acuff Momoi
Joanne Morcom
Chidambar Navalgund
​Deepa Patil
Julie Schwerin
Joseph P. Wechselberger
poesy - micros challenge
Susan Burch
Antoinette Cheung
Stefano d'Andrea
P. H. Fischer
Jill Kessler
Michael Nickels-Wisdom
Pippa Phillips
Richa Sharma
​Scott Wiggerman

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iF - micros CHALLENGE
Caroline Giles Banks 
Anette Chaney 
LeRoy Gorman
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Christopher Jupp
Julie Bloss Kelsey
Daniel Lehan
Kati Mohr
Christopher Patchel
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WITHOUT A WHY - micros CHALLENGE
Jo Balistreri
Aidan Castle
matthew markworth
​Tom Sacramona
Dan Schwerin
Mary Stevens
Alan Summers
​Susan Yavaniski



LOKA - TANKA CHALLENGE
COMMA - MICROs challenge
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

LIZARD LOUNGE - FROM THE ISSUES
comments for contributors


​​An analysis of a one-line tanka from whiptail Issue 4: “a piercing call” by Ryland Shengzhi Li

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​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!

contributor interviews
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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:
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“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

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Our gracious thanks to Raghav Prashant Sundar for his work producing our numerous lizard graphics. Designs by Kat Lehmann & Robin Smith.


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