This haiga video, comprised of previously published poems, was created to celebrate The Haiku Foundation's International Haiku Poetry Day HaikuLife Film Festival on April 17, 2021:
Black Velvet
(with recitation)
Mouth Full of Stones: Haikai
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2021
snowmelt
the wild crocuses
you loved
2nd Place, 2019 Morioka 1st Int'l Haiku Contest
fallow fields a light dusting of snow geese
Mariposa 39, 2018
Shortlisted 2018 Touchstone Awards
longer days
I knight my sister
with an icicle
5th HM, 2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Competition
Mariposa, Number 44, Spring/Summer 2021
leaves of grass
and hollow reeds sing
between our lips
we join the insects
orchestrating summer
the intricate lace
of decaying leaves
are we
any less beautiful now
that our youth is gone
This issue includes the results of the 2020 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka:
a raven
believed it could fly
through me
unaware that I am glass,
pretending to be sky
3rd Place Tanka
World Haiku, Number 17, 2021
Translated into Japanese
wild bergamot
a hummingbird's tail
fans the flames
muskeg
crowberries absorb
the night
marsh reeds
we learn the secret
language of wind
Note: these haiku previously appeared in Akitsu Quarterly
Note: the haiga was printed in black and white
The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Spring 2021
forsythia
a spray of sunlight
across our table
NeverEnding Story, April 2021
Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu:
rosy dawn
our paddles stippled
with petals
Highly Commended
2019 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition
GUSTS, Number 33, Spring/Summer 2021
Honoured to have a lovely review of my collection, winner of the 2019 Sable Books International Women's Haiku Contest, in this issue. It may be accessed under The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations tab. My gratitude to Joanne Morcom!
my eyesight
not what it once was
but, oh
the way a rainbow blurs
into iridescence
stepping into
this snow-starred night
I take
a breath of something
that might be optimism
prairie drought . . .
the belt-buckle sun
offers no mercy,
every blade of grass
sharp as your tongue
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, April 2021
My thanks to Charlotte for posting the following work in a special feature on April 11, 2021!
rippling waves
you teach me how
to film the wind
Grand Prix
10th Setouchi-Matsuyama Int'l Photo-Haiku Contest, 2020
ripening pear the bruises that never heal
#FemkuMag 27
Longlisted for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, 2020
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, April 2021
Featured Artist: April 13, 2021
Note: this tanka was first published in Bright Stars Tanka Anthology 7, Nov. 2014
Saturday, April 03, 2021
The Haiku Foundation: The Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books, 2020
I'm honoured that my eBook, Prairie Interludes, has been shortlisted for the 2020 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. The shortlist is comprised of 17 books selected from 72 nominations. My thanks to the esteemed panelists, and to John Barlow of Snapshot Press!
The British Haiku Society Awards, 2020
Thrilled to receive the following award:
sea pebbles
glistening in the sun
we, too
lose more of ourselves
with every passing wave
Honourable Mention
Judge's comments:
The pattern of surges and calms exhibited worldwide by the Covid-19 pandemic is here witnessed in this modest but productive observation from nature. How like the pebbles we are, in this together, losing millions over time, with each passing wave. The lament is clear but restrained, anchored in the natural world.
—Michael McClintock
(Note: there were 164 entries for this competition)
Geppo: The Haiku Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume XLVI: 1, February 2021
November 2020 - January 2021
salt lick
the blue concave
of sky
first flute
woodpecker holes stuffed
with acorns
the eye-shine
of a great horned owl . . .
long night moon
candy floss
hair ice transforms
a rotten branch
The Heron's Nest, Volume 22, 2020
spawning capelin the silver curl of a wave
the sister
I didn't know I had . . .
rhizomes
stepping stones
a damselfly invites us
to change course
afterlight
acorns surf the roof
of our tent
Tanka Society of America Twitter Pandemic Special, April 2021
Curated by Susan Burch
Day 1 - April 1, 2021
rain doves build
a nest on our balcony
we, too
are learning the art
of sheltering in place
Tanka 2020: Poems from Today's World
Red Moon Press (editor Alexis Rotella)
Presence, Number 69, March 2021
darkling beetles
the carp's skeleton
no longer white
frost alert . . .
headlamps bobbing
in the vineyard
frozen berries
we enter the silence
of hibernation
the creek
a crucible overflowing
with molten sun
my eyelids close until
I can see again
I was delighted to discover that the following haiku was shortlisted for the Best-of-Issue Award in Presence 68:
hawk strike
I let go
of my breath
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, March 2021
Curated by Lavana Kray
March 5, 2021
(Note: this haiku was first published in Stardust Haiku 38, February 2020)
March 15, 2021
(Note: this haiku was first published in Frogpond 43.2, Spring/Summer 2020)
March 25, 2021
(Note: this haiku first appeared in the Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2019)
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