Eastern Structures No. 23

by R. W. Watkins, Emma Lee, Gail Foster

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 23 features the ghazals of Emma Lee, Gail Foster, Mace Hosseini, Norma Jenckes and Shelli Jankowski-Smith; the sijo of Edward Baranowsky, Sarah Taylor and John Baglow; the tanka of Joshua St. Claire, G. C. Parker and Susan Tamara Darrow; and the haiku and senryu of Priscilla Lignori, James Lignori, Jonathan Aylett, Becka Chester, Lynda Zwinger, Reid Hepworth, Alex Lubman and several others.

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Published October 11, 2022