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juxtaeight is our first themed issue, and our topic is Haiku and Wellness, in the most general sense. It features new scholarship by Scott Mason ("Haiku and Human Flourishing"), Stella Pierides ("Parkinson's Toolbox"), and Madelaine Caritas Longman ("bird tweets turn into an orchestra"); interviews of Robert Epstein (by Jay Friedenberg) and Roberta Beary (by Gideon Young) wherein wellness is the central theme; a new feature to Juxta, the inclusion of a scholarly presentation ("Bash¿'s Haiku Pedagogy as Mindfulness Training", by Sandra A. Wawrytko); a report on The Haiku Foundation's Haikupedia resource, by Stella Pierides; and reviews by Geoffrey M. Sill, J. Zimmerman, Adam L. Kern, and Keith Ekiss. We announce the inaugural Juxta Award, and feature the haiga of our departed colleague Stephen Addiss, including a tribute to him by his long-time friend and student, Josh Hockensmith.