Steffen Horstmann

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 11 features the ghazals of Steffen Horstmann, William Dennis, Mace Hosseini, Simeon Dumdum Jr., R. W. Watkins, Denver Butson, Norma Jenckes, and Eric Torgersen; the sijo of Edward Baranosky, Tamara K. Walker, Pat Geyer, and Chi Holder; the haiku and senryu of Priscilla Lignori, James Lignori, Susan Tamara Darrow, Steve Denehan, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Clark Strand, Ma. Milagros T. Dumdum, Debra Woolard Bender, JoAnn Passalaqua, Ann Hills, Michael Lustbader, Shelli Jankowski-Smith, John Martucci, Sari Grandstaff, Charles Kramer, and others; the essay 'The Ecology of Formal Haiku' by Jim Wilson; and a review of the recent collection 575: The Haiku of Basho (John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato, Eds.) by Jim Wilson. Issue 12 is expected in December of 2019, and submissions of traditionally structured Asian poetry and relevant non-fiction are welcome and encouraged.

The Complete Eastern Structures / Volume One provides the newcomer an excellent opportunity to own the first five issues of R. W. Watkins's groundbreaking magazine in one handy 8.5" 11" collection. Born out of the ashes of Watkins's Contemporary Ghazals, Eastern Structures is the only English-language print magazine dedicated exclusively to several major Asian verse forms. Always true to form, ES publishes the most accurate representations of the ghazal, sijo, haiku and tanka in English today. Also featuring essays and editorials, this collection offers an excellent cross section of the best work from the past two years by some of the premier poets working in such forms. Among others, Steffen Horstmann, Denver Butson, William Dennis, L. J. McDowall, Priscilla Lignori, Mark Redfearn, Clark Strand and Watkins himself are all well represented. Issues One to Five of Eastern Structures are still available individually from Amazon.

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 4 features the poetry of Steffen Horstmann, Eric Torgersen, William Dennis, Mindy Watson, Li saidh, Chi Holder, Pat Geyer, Priscilla Lignori, James Lignori, Mark Redfearn, Nancy Rullo and Lance Nizami; and the critical essays of R W Watkins and L J MacDowall. Issue 5 is expected in late Autumn or early Winter 2017, and submissions of traditionally structured Asian poetry and relevant non-fiction are welcome and encouraged.