Aafaq Hameed

Eastern Structures No. 16 Aafaq Hameed

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 16 features the ghazals of Aafaq Hameed, S. Haina, Alison Stone, William Dennis, John W. Steele, Laura Z. Fairgrieve, Mace Hosseini, and Mike Alexander; the sijo of Michael Wilson; the tanka of Rose Menyon Heflin; the haiku and senryu of Danielle Woerner, Sher Ting, Steve Denehan, Neal Whitman, Priscilla Lignori, James Lignori, Michael Lustbader, and several others; an essay on 'Form and Spirit in Englsig-Language Haiku' by Jim Wilson; and an assessment of the Moonlight Haiku Challenge Anthology by R. W. Watkins. Issue 17 of Eastern Structures is expected in March of 2021, and submissions of traditionally structured Asian poetry and relevant non-fiction are welcome and encouraged.