*Publisher’s Note:

Arrow (oil painting on sanded Plexiglass panel, with four sanded Plexiglass fasteners and hexagonal cadmium-plated steel bolts) by American minimalist painter Robert Ryman (1930-2019) is one of 21 artworks which the artist donated in 2017 to the permanent collection at the Dia Art Foundation in New York.

A medium-sized image may be viewed at artist Greg Colson’s website.

A small photograph of Arrow also appears in this article by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker (13 December 2015):
Shades of White: A Robert Ryman Retrospective

Bob Lucky

is a regular contributor to haiku, haibun, and tanka journals. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Flash, Rattle, Modern Haiku, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, SurVision, Haibun Today, The Haibun Journal, and Contemporary Haibun Online (the latter for which he served as content editor from July 2014 thru January 2020).

His chapbook of haibun, tanka prose, and prose poems, Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), was an honorable mention in the Touchstone Book Awards. His chapbook Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018) was a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. He is also the author most recently of a collection of prose poems, haibun, and senryu, My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019); and an e-chapbook, What I Say to You (proletaria.org, 2020).

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ A Posthumous Lesson From My Mother and The Party, two haibun by Bob Lucky which were nominated by MacQ for the Red Moon Anthologies, and selected for publication in Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022).

⚡ Featured Poet: Bob Lucky in Issue 10 of MacQ