United Haiku and Tanka Society, Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2024

My thanks to the judge, an'ya, for her lovely commentary!

unopened cones

on silvered jack pines

at rest until

the fire's passion gives

their seed to the wind

2nd Place

2024 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition

Judging Commentary:

Yet another fine tanka by Debbie Strange of Canada takes a strong second place. In judging this contest I looked for "waka-like" entries and hers was a definite winner. The first line "unopened cones" rather than just saying "pine cones" caught my attention. Debbie has a way of turning her tanka in line 3 and skillfully completing it in the final line.

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2024

Thrilled that the following vispo (visual poetry), "Depression Era", received an Honourable Mention in Sonic Boom's 2024 annual contest and was selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for this year's gallery:

Artist's Statement:

A paper collage embellished with frayed burlap and fabric symbolizing how women learned to "make do" during the Depression Era. The grains of wheat and ration ticket represent food insecurity and the lack of the most basic items after countless farmers lost their land. The staple stitching works to bring these two themes together.

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2024

razed verges the poppies that almost were

spiral aurora

there are no words

in our vocabulary 

reptile brumation

long-lost relatives

contest the will

Modern Haiku, Vol. 55.2, Summer 2024

scrabbling towhees

something concealed

in the duff

The Wise Owl, July 2024

Daily Verse Feature - solitude theme

mute swans

with unfurled wings

gliding

beyond silence,

beyond light

a willet's call

undulating through

beach grasses . . .

her nest is invisible,

but it must be near

the swallows

have returned at last

I have

no desire to be part

of something bigger

Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu Issue #22, July/August 2024

prothonotary warbler i'll say it if you will

Triya Mag: Monsoon Edition, July/August 2024

Translated into Hindi

drifting sands

sometimes the poem

writes itself 

Winning Haiku, 2023 Drifting Sands Wearable Art and Haiku Contest

wheat fields

tousled by fingers

of wind

I tuck a strand of hair

behind your ear

Honourable Mention, 2018 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

Shadow Pond Journal, Issue 3, June 2024

the aurora

a wolf's breath becomes

part of it

Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, July 2024

 Curated by Lavana Kray

July 6, 2024

(Note: this tanka received 1st place in the 2023 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka)

Humano Obscura, Issue Number 9, Summer 2024

Thrilled to have two photographs and a haiku selected for this issue!

Impending

The Way of Windflowers

solar eclipse

the loon's call echoes

then fades

Horror Senryu Journal, June 2024

a grizzly bear in the ditch headless dandelions

 

Haiku Girl Summer, 2024

Curated by Allyson Whipple

June 27, 2024 - Guest Editor, Carol Dorf

splash pad

bubbles run away

with the light

June 29, 2024 - Guest Editor, Carol Dorf

sun dress

the clear margins

of her biopsy

July 6, 2024 - Guest Editor Jennifer Gurney

folk festival

the music drifts beyond

our horizons 

Haiga in Focus, Issue 73, July 2024

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld

Translated into German

Honoured to have the following haiga selected as the Editor's Choice:

Claudia's Commentary:

What a harmonious haiga - clear and fragile at the same time.

The delicate and light-looking picture seems to literally exude the scent of flowers and it is as if it sensitizes the senses. You want to reach for the fleeting colors, walk through them and lose yourself in the scent of the flowers. Close your eyes for a moment and take a deep breath - the lightness of the moment!

The position of the haiku is like a finger pointing, which you follow carefully to enter the depths of the image.

Frogpond, Vol. 47, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2024

Thrilled that the following four poems were selected for inclusion in three different essays as well as a book review in this issue! My thanks to the following authors:

Field Guide: Eclipses by Charles Trumbull

eclipsenso

Haiku Canada Review 11:2, October 2017

"Verbing" in Haiku by Brad Bennett - Flexibility and Ambiguity

ancient caldera

clouds waterfalling

over the rim

Mariposa 49, Autumn/Winter 2023

Haiku Poetry and the Parenting Principle: An Exploration - Learning and Exploration

paddleboarding

a painted turtle shows me

how its done

Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2023

Between Sun and Shadow: The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2023 - reviewed by Ce Rosenow

rows of maize

we put our affairs

in order

Geppo: Volume XLVI:4, November 2021

Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, June 2024

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman

Featured Artist: June 15, 2024

(note: this haiku first appeared in the Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022)

H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest, 2024

Thrilled to receive an Honourable Mention in this year's contest. My thanks to the judges, Marilyn Ashbaugh and John Pappas.

solar eclipse

the times we choose

to look away

Honourable Mention

H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest, 2024

Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 9, Number 100, June 2024

death rattle

the dried gourd inside

your chest

zebrafish

the ocean awash

with barcodes

Eucalypt, Issue 36, May 2024

bull kelp grows

to maturity in one year . . .

pencil markings

of our heights still visible

against the doorframe

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, June 2024

Daily Haiku Special: June 25, 2024

cattle roundup

a charred bean can

full of rain

1st Place (Joint)

Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, 2024

scrub jay

nothing left of the blue

in dad's jeans

2nd Place

Betty Drevniok Award, 2024

let's drive

down this prairie road,

singing until

we collide head-on

with the Milky Way

Honourable Mention

San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka, 2023

 

Cold Moon Journal, July 2024

Grateful to have "The Blur of Seasons" series featured on July 5, 2024. My special thanks to the editor, Roberta Beach Jacobson! The phrases in this series are culled from my book, "Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads".