Eastern Structures No. 17

by R. W. Watkins

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 17 features the ghazals of Alison Stone, Philip Michael Bulman, Eric Torgersen and Mace Hosseini; the sijo of Gareth Writer-Davies; the haiku and senryu of Priscilla Lignori, Danielle Woerner, Sher Ting, Steve Denehan, R. Gerry Fabian, Michael T. Smith and several others; and a series of brief essays on the haiku theories and observations of the late Robert Spiess by Jim Wilson. Issue 18 of Eastern Structures is expected in June of 2021, and submissions of traditionally structured Asian poetry and relevant non-fiction are welcome and encouraged.

31 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2021