Stepping into the role of Senior Editor, I want to express my appreciation to Peter McDonald for his fine work overseeing five issues of Juxtapositions. Without his leadership as Senior Editor, the journal would not have had such a solid start and we would not be in the position to continue with Juxtapositions 6.
Our editorial board has undergone additional changes in the past year. Randy M. Brooks and Bill Cooper have stepped down, and I want to extend great thanks for their insights and contributions from the beginning of this journal in 2014 to its current iteration. We have several people joining us, as well. Welcome to the new members of our editorial board: Josh Hawkensmith, Adam Kern, and Crystal Simone Smith. Welcome, also, to our new Book Review Editor, David Grayson. Their energy and ideas are already guiding us toward an exciting Juxtapositions 7 in 2021.
In this sixth issue, readers will fine the continuation of an inquiry into haiku and brain that began with “Knocking on the Doors of Perception” in Juxta 5; an examination of the arrangement of Richard Wright’s haiku; and a consideration of Etheridge Knight’s haiku including the first-time publication of several haiku from the Knight archives. Reviews of Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku and Haiku in Canada: History, Poetry, Memoir, as well as a selection of fine haiga, round out Juxta 6. Thank you to all of our contributors.
Finally, I would like to thank Jim Kacian and The Haiku Foundation for publishing what continues to be the only peer-reviewed journal of haiku scholarship in English.
On behalf of all the editors who worked on this issue, please enjoy Juxtapositions 6.
Ce Rosenow
Senior Editor