Released: whiptail Issue 7, which includes a challenge for vertical haiku!

[Kat Lehmann]

Issue 7 of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem is published today. The issue is remarkable in that it is half horizontal single-line poems and half vertical / concrete poems that were submitted in response to our latest whiptail challenge! Special thanks to our cover artist Debbie Strange!

https://www.whiptailjournal.com/issue-7-shape-shifting.html#

As you read the issue, think about which three poems you would like to nominate for the Issue 7 Readers' Choice Award. Nominate your three selected poems before June 15. Any reader can vote! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwY2xBf_umJqKXMxBVaSRbh5a_5dw7h1-7cIher6IzcYlrKw/viewform

For this issue, whiptail received 1153 poems (+art!) from 238 poets. Selections were semi-blind with each editor voting separately. 74 poems were accepted (our goal is 60). About 30% of the issue is poets making their whiptail debut! Our statistics page: https://www.whiptailjournal.com/statistics.html#

Additional news and features:

The results of our first Readers' Choice Awards!

The whiptail One Year+ Anniversary Poetry Reading was lovely! We met on Zoom to create a beautiful river of whiptail poems! The recording of our reading is uploaded for your listening and viewing pleasure along with the list of poems and poets who participated.

WE HAVE A MERCH STORE! Check it out and let us know what your favorite items are!

Stop by the Lizard Lounge to read a host of articles, including essays by Chuck Brickley and Alan Summers, and two articles on reading one-line haiku from The Haiku Foundation's New to Haiku series.

whiptail opens again September 1-10 for an unthemed issue.