I S S U E _ 20
10-2010 - $15

Tinfish 20 will be our last issue for at least two years; along with its editor, the journal will go on sabbatical in 2011. Unlike our previous issues, whose covers were made of recycled materials, #20 is perfect bound and relatively thick. While Tinfish does not run themed issues, #20 includes many poems on aging—on being 25, 41, 60 and older—and also on dying. Also included are an engaging mix of poems from Hawai‘i, Guam, Korea, China, and the west coast of North America. Among the poets in issue #20 are Aaron Belz, Caroline Sinavaiana, R. Zamora Linmark, Craig Santos Perez, Lehua M. Taitano, Janna Plant, Eileen Tabios, Juan Gelman, Kenny Tanemura, Linda Russo, Kai Gaspar, Joe Tsujimoto, Stephen Collis and others. This will be the last issue produced under the art direction of Gaye Chan, to whom we owe a debt of gratitude (and good fun) for her many years with Tinfish Press.

Cover Art by Tava Tedesco
Interior Art and centerfold by Allison Uttley
Design by Chae Ho Lee

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10-2009 - $12

Tinfish Tinfish 19 includes parodies of Wallace Stevens by Jill Yamasawa and Gizelle Gajelonia; a letter to the editor in verse by Ryan Oishi; poems from Daniel Tiffany's forthcoming Tinfish volume, Dandelion Clock; landlord poems by Oscar Bermeo and Deborah Woodard; interventions in Maoist indigestion by Kenny Tanemura and Guantanamo by Rachel Loden; as well as poems by such luminaries as Barbara Jane Reyes, Jody Arthur, Jennifer Reimer, Janna Plant, Brandon Shimoda, Mandy Luo, Dennis Phillips, Emelihter Kihleng, Paul Naylor and others. The covers were handmade, the books handbound.

Cover and centerfold by Maya Portner
Design by Chae Ho Lee

TinFish 19 reviewed by Christine Thomas for Honolulu Advertiser, and used as required reading at Cal State San Marcos and California College of the Arts.

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9-2008 / The Long Poem Issue

Tinfish 18 airs it out, offering an issue devoted to the Long Poem. Contributors include Mani Rao, Alysha Wood, Lynn Xu, David Perry, Stephen Collis, Endi Bogue Hartigan, and Norman Fischer, engaging issues of translation, form (including collage, the sonnet sequence, and the elegy), contemporary politics, and more.

Covers by Alan Konishi, Interior Art by Sara Hertenstein, centerfold by Gaye Chan.
Design by Chae Ho Lee

TinFish 18 has been used as required text at Cal State-San Marcos.

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6-2007 / The Bowling Score-card Issue [out of print but available for free]

Tinfish 17 is our largest, most bountiful issue yet, and includes work by R. Zamora Linmark, Shin Yu Pai, Kaia Sand, Sage U`ilani Takehiro, Tiare Picard, Afaa Michael Weaver, Ryan Oishi, Deborah Meadows, Kimo Armitage, Ann Inoshita, Jules Boykoff, Craig Perez, Clint Frakes, Jane Sprague, Paolo Javier, Truong Tran, Normie Salvador, and many others. photos of #17 reading

What are some things you will find in this issue?

--definitions to words like “skin,” “rock,” “bangungot,” “mynah litatur,” “Guam”;
--American epics (undone)
--13 ways and 14 lines
--poems of exile and estrangement, a prayer
--politics and love, together and apart

Covers by Jean Pitman, centerfold by N. Trisha Lagaso Goldberg.
Design by Yoko Hattori

TinFish 17 has been used as required text at Kapi'olani Community College and University of Notre Dame.

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4-2006

Tinfish 16 is a collaborative issue with Trout, an on-line journal out of Honolulu and New Zealand, edited by Robert Sullivan, Anne Kennedy, Tony Murrow, and Brian Flaherty (www.trout.auckland.ac.nz). Both journals specialize in Pacific poetries; some of the authors have appeared in both publications, but most are new to one or the other.

This issue features work by Hinemoana Baker, Cherie Barford, Linh Dinh, Murray Edmond, Kari Edwards, David Eggleton, Glenn Mott, Eileen Myles, Kit Robinson, Hazel Smith, Juliana Spahr, Richard von Sturmer, and Mark Wallace, as well a review of John Kinsella by John Rieder.  And much more! Wonderful translations from the Chinese of Huang CanRan, Shang Qin and others. Each cover of the Tinfish paper version is unique, a slipcover map designed and made by Lee Vanderkooi. Interior art by San Shoppell and centerfold by Thomas Wasson, designer of our roofing paper cover issue 13.
Design by Tomi Ponciano

TinFish 16 has been used as required text at Kapi'olani Community College.

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7-2005

Features a free pencil and interactive "facial fantasy" centerfold. The 15th issue of our journal features work by Kim Hye-sun (who has a forthcoming chapbook from Tinfish Press), Lynh Bacardi, Ida Yoshinaga, Normie Salvador, Jacinta Galea`i, Maged Zaher, Rob Wilson, Meredith Quartermain, Leonard Schwartz, Caroline Sinavaiana, Robert Sullivan and many others. Translations by Don Mee Choi, Linh Dinh. Interior art by Kris Ikegami and Ben Pfister.
Design by Vanessa Oshiro

TinFish 15 has been used as required text at Kapi'olani Community College.

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6-2004

Features recycled and drilled Bank of Hawai`i annual report covers by Jihea Hwang with interior art and centerfold by Yida Wang and Ryuta Nakajima. Poems by Teresia Teaiwa, David Eggleton, Javant Biarujia, kari edwards, Rodrigo Toscano, Steve Carll, Emelihter Kihleng, Pam Brown, and many others. A review of Geraldine MacKenzie's Duty, by John Rieder.
Design by Aaron Lee

TinFish 14 has been used as required text at Kapi'olani Community College.

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9-2003 [out of print but writings, without images, are available for free]

Dirty, Filthy & Mucky. Roofing material cover by Thomas Wasson with art and centerfold by Bradley Capello. Features work by such poets as Ida Yoshinaga, Carrie Takahata, Lee Tonouchi, Steve Carll, Norman Fischer, Adam Aitken, Murray Edmond, Yunte Huang, John Kinsella, Lissa Wolsak and many others.
Design by Stuart Henley

TinFish 13 has been used as required text at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

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2002

Cover is designed by Jung Kim, who momentarily forgot that we westerners read from left to right. So this issue will run both from back to front, and front to back. Features lots of translations from Chinese poetry, as well as the usual mix of Australian, New Zealand, Hawai`i, and west coast innovative poetry.
Design by Stuart Henley, with centerfold by Duncan Dempster and art by Imai Kalahele.

TinFish 12 has been used as required text at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and Kapi'olani Community College.

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Contributors: Lori Lei Hokyo Hunley, Catherine Daly, Rusty Morrison, Bobbie : West, Deborah Meadows, John Kinsella, Bill Luoma, Ken Bolton, Paolo Javier, Linh Dinh, Lee Tonouchi, Cassie Lewis, and others.
Cover by Chris Churchill with centerfold by Gaye Chan. Design by Stuart Henley

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Contributors: Irene Cadelina, Joe Balaz, Aja Couchois Duncan, caroline sinavaiana-gabbard, Liz Waldner, Hsia Yu (translated by Steve Bradbury), Juliana Spahr, Michele Leggott, Eileen Tabios, Ouyang Yu, and others.
Covers by ten different artists to commemorate Tinfish’s 10th issue. Design by Stuart Henley

I S S U E _ 9
[out of print]

Contributors: Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha ,Kaloloahilani Banggo, Lisa Linn Kanae, Normie Salvador, MTC Cronin, Adam Aitken, Bill Marsh, Sarah Mangold, Pam Brown.
Cover by Gaye Chan

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Contributors: Sawako Nakayasu, Lee A. Tonouchi, Zhang Er, Geraldine MacKenzie, Pamela Lu, Steve Carll, Coral Hull, Albert Saijo, Louis Armand, Murray Edmond, and others.
Cover by Courtney Morihiro

I S S U E _ 7
11-1998

Contributors: Ida Yoshinaga , Bill Luoma, Renee Gladman , Bobbie West, Stephen Oliver, Steve Carll, Michael McPherson,, John Olson, Summi Kaipa, Jason Olive, Dan Featherston, Rob Wilson, Hugh Steinberg, John Tranter., Kathy D.K.K. Banggo, Jonathan Brannen, Louis Armand, John Kinsella, Coral Hull, Murray Edmond, Hsia Yu, John Rieder
Cover by Gaye Chan

I S S U E _ 6
3-1998

Contributors: Caroline Sinaivaiana-Gabbard, Joe Balaz, Normie Salvador, William Marsh, John Kinsella, Mary Burger, Daniel A. Kelin, II, Zhang Er, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Gwyn McVay, Gabrielle Welford, Michael Robbins, Kamaka Kanekoa, Ida Yoshinaga, Elizabeth Treadwell, Bobbie West, John Tranter, E. Tracy Grinnell, Liz Waldner, Pam Brown, Karen Kelley, Brian Carpenter, Bill Luoma, Joe Ross, Juliana Spahr
Cover by Gaye Chan and Duncan Dempster

I S S U E _ 5
9-1997

Contributors: Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Banggo, Ida Yoshinaga, Faye Kicknosway, Beth Murray, Tracy Ryan, Eileen Myles, Brian Henry, Kevin Killian, H.T., Mary Burger, David Bromige, Susan Gevirtz, Stephen Oliver, Randolph Healy, Chris Vitiello, David Fox, A.L. Nielsen, Tony Quagliano, Todd Baron, Joe Balaz, Bruce Andrews, John Mateer, Standard Schaefer, Joanne Burns, Rachel Loden, John Tranter, Michelle Murphy, Jonathan Morse
Cover by Duncan Dempster

I S S U E _ 4
1997

Contributors: Kapulani, Murray Edmond, Adam Aitken, Pam Brown, Yunte Huang, Richard Hamasaki, Rebecca Mays Ernest, Paul Hoover, John Noto, Dan Raphael, Gabrielle Welford, Joshua McKinney, Jorge Guitart, John Kinsella, Pam Brown, Susan M. Schultz, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Sue Moss, Murray Edmond, Dan Featherston, Michelle Murphy, Liz Waldner, Cydney Chadwick, Marie Hara, Joshua Harmon, Hazel Smith
Cover by Gaye Chan and Duncan Dempster

I S S U E _ 1 _ T O _ 7

issues 1-7 are archived at the Electronic Poetry Center, Buffalo
epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/tinfish