Edited by Michele L. Harvey
a waterfall,
translucent against
this mountain . . .
your face as you slip
beyond the veil
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Sunday, July 06, 2025
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #28, July/August 2025
bending time
the scent of hay
in a barn's carcass
Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 44, June 2025
My thanks to the editors for including the following haiga:
The Heron's Nest, Volume 26, 2024
snow crater
the waterfall sculpts
its own geology
boreal shadows
we follow the sunbursts
of lichen
Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2025
Honoured to have the following vispo (visual poetry), "Departure", shortlisted and selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith (15 works selected from 80) for this year's gallery:
This 12 X 9 landscape collage features handpainted papers and a found poem culled from H. Albert Hochbaum's "To Ride the Wind."
Password: Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 2.2, June 2025
prairie thunderheads the not quite here of grief
Humana Obscura, Issue Number 13, Summer 2025
beach grasses
sand settles in the dunes
of my body
hymnography
the wind and waves
know how
moonwake
the path I chose
to follow
The Singing Sands
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, June 2025
Curated by Eric. A. Lohman
Featured Artist: June 26, 2025
(note: this monoku first appeared in Password Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 2.1, Feb/2025)
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 10, Number 110, July 2025
Thrilled to have the following collaborations and translations included in this issue:
German Translations and Images by Claudia Brefeld (senryu by me):
Köcherfliegen
das Abstreifen der Hülle
von dem, was war
ikterischer Himmel
das Baby, das es nicht
nach Hause schafft
Kyoka collaboration with Graham Bates:
shark teeth . . .
infinite regeneration
is just
the remedy for which
I have been looking!
(note: not long after we wrote this, human teeth were grown in a lab for the first time ever.)
Australian Haiku Society, 2025
Winter Solstice 2025 AHS Haiga Kukai
solstice prayer
one tree holds onto
the last light
(note: poem written in response to a photograph by Wanda Amos)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Geppo: The Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haku Society, Volume XLIX:4, November 2024
August - October 2024
leaf confetti
a child's face daubed
with mud
corn snow
squirrels talking smack
outside the window
the house
where we were born . . .
bull thistles
circling hawks
the earth tilts
on its axis
Autumn Challenge Kigo: Milky Way, amanogawa
sea shanties
the Milky Way snagged
in our rigging
Honoured to know that "leaf confetti" and "circling hawks" were included among Dojin Hiroyuki Murakami's favourites!
Also honoured that "circling hawks" was chosen for commentary in the subsequent issue:
Dojin's Corner:
This haiku reminds me of the famous haiku by Japanese poet Ueda Gosengoku (1933-1997), migrating birds / I became smaller / instantly." The author's mind must be in harmony with the hawks in the sky to create a haiku from this perspective. Magnificent and free, it is an excellent haiku that shows empathy for animals.
—Hiroyuki Murakami
I think the poet is seeing earth from the hawk's point of view. They have risen so high they can see the earth's tilt!
—Patricia J. Machmiller
The haiku reveals the fact that hawks are responsible for the earth circling on its axis.
—Emiko Miyashita
I was also thrilled to know that Janice Doppler included the following haiku in her article "Pondering Zōka". This haiku was also selected for her book "One Thread: Zōka in Contemporary Haiku (2024):
peat fire
the scent markings
of other worlds
Frogpond 46:3 (2023)
Best of Geppo: 1978-2024, 2025
Grateful to have the following photograph included in this lovely anthology:
Bespangled
(note: this photograph was included among my featured artist selections in Geppo XLVII:2, 2022)
World Haiku Association, Number 21, 2025
Translated into Japanese
vespers
the mantis begins
to sway
fledged robins
a discarded kettle
lined with mud
beaver dam
salmon seek refuge
from the drought
Note: these haiku previously appeared in Akitsu Quarterly
Suspect Device Punkzine, Number 16, June 2025
Turning Japanese : Crossroads
My thanks to the editor, Tim Gardiner, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:
autumn winds
a shift in the balance
of power
Shadow Pond Journal, Issue 5, June 2025
theme: love
golden anniversary the moonflower's heart-shaped leaves
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, June 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
June 3, 2025
(note: this haiga first appeared in colour in Failed Haiku 9:106, January 2025)
June 25, 2025:
(note: this haiku received 3rd Place in the 2018 Irish Haiku Society International Competition)
Mariposa, Number 52, Spring/Summer 2025
wolf willow
our horses spook
in the wind
prairie gumbo
the year of the lilies
that weren't
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