Brooks Books Haiku

Riverbed Haiku 2008 Anthology

Riverbed Haiku 2008 Antholgy gathers the haiku, essays, and book reviews published online into a perfect bound trade paperback. The goal of Riverbed Haiku is to provide a new voice within the vibrant English-language haiku community.

Brock Peoples & Aubrie Cox, Editors. Riverbed Haiku 2008 Anthology © 2008. Perfectbound, (6" X 9") 108 pages.

ISSN: 1941-434X

Riverbed Haiku is published in four editions online: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. All rights return to authors / creators upon publication. This collection is the 2008 anthology from the four online editions.

©2008 Brock Peoples & Riverbed Haiku

From the Editor's Introduction:

This volume represents the first year of Riverbed Haiku. There are forty-three haijin and four essayists from around the world in these pages, as well as eight book reviews.

Next year, we plan to bring you three print editions as well as the online magazine. Two chapbooks will be published: Solstice: Midsummer, and Solstice: Yuletide. These chapbooks will feature the best haiku from their respective seasons (the first will be made up from submissions for the Spring and Summer issues, the second from submissions for the Autumn and Winter issues).

Finally, we’ll present the Riverbed Haiku 2009 Anthology, which will celebrate all of the work published by Riverbed in 2009.

Brock Peoples, Editor
Champaign, Illinois

midnight . . .
I mosey
along the train track

by Kersten Haile

winter fire—
we teach our daughter
to meditate

by Kristin Kozlowski

her grandmother's teacup
the sun shines through
a crack

by Glenna McKenzie

carillion bells
a girl holds up
her cell phone

by Jennifer Gomoll Popolis

From the Student Intern Editor's Introduction:

When I first came aboard Riverbed, I had had little direct contact with the haiku world outside of the Millikin University haiku community. I had been looking in from the outside and felt ready to jump into the larger community pool with both feet, fully aware that it’s really an ocean. As I stated at the beginning of the Autumn edition online, haiku is versatile—travel-friendly if you will. I think the variety of voices from around the world in this year’s publications emphasize that point.

Riverbed Haiku is gaining more eyes upon it than ever before. I began to see that the reach of the English-language haiku community goes far beyond what I had previously thought, and that it was mingling with others I was not fully aware of until experiencing them first-hand through submissions and review materials. I’m now pleased to see—and I sincerely hope others will be able to see it too—how these reaches shine through in this anthology, and hope that it will continue to show in future editions of the magazine.

Aubrie Cox, Editorial Intern
Blue Mound, Illinois

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