Eastern Structures No. 13

by R. W. Watkins, Priscilla Lignori, William Dennis

The world’s premier publisher of Asian forms in English, Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now in addition to Korean sijo and Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka – rendered exclusively in the 5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structures. Issue 13 features the ghazals of Mohammad Zahid, Eric Torgersen, William Dennis, Mace Hosseini, Denver Butson, and R. W. Watkins; the sijo of Debra Woolard Bender, Edward Baranosky, and several others; the haiku and tanka of Priscilla Lignori, Susan Tamara Darrow, Steve Denehan, Kiersta Recktenwald, Christina E. Petrides, and others; and R. W. Watkins’s interview with longtime poet and former World Haiku Review editor Debra Woolard Bender.

31 pages, Paperback

Published March 27, 2020