Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka - Issue 1, Winter 2009
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This is the premier issue of Prune Juice, dedicated solely to the humanity-centered poetic forms, senryu and kyoka, haiku’s and tanka’s snarky cousins. Gathered here are well-known and not so well-known writers sharing their funny and not so funny moments. R.H. Blyth wrote in 1949 in Senryu that “Senryu brings us back to here and now; haiku is that ‘something evermore about to be.’” Perhaps it’s time for us all to come out of hiding, to report what we really see and feel. Every emotion in Prune Juice is welcome and I hope this issue inspires you to step up, to come and mingle with the rest of us—to make a toast with a glass of prune juice in honor of the plum blossoms who, without that delicious metaphorical elixir that gets things moving, would not exist. Your most inner feelings and poems are welcome here; they are our honored guests.