My thanks to the judge, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, for selecting the following haiku:
solstice fire
the dispersed flames
of cardinals
Honourable Mention
IHS, International Haiku Competition 2022
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem, 2022 Pushcart Prize Nomination
I'm beyond grateful to the editors of Whiptail Journal for nominating the following one-line tanka from Issue 5 for the 2022 Pushcart Prize:
United Haiku and Tanka Society, Songbirds Online Anthology, 2022
My thanks to the editor, an'ya, for selecting the following work:
world news
tansies freckle our way
with light
the green promise
of a new relationship
this fluttering
of malachite butterflies
between sun and shadow
Gregory Piko's Poetry Blog, June 2022
My thanks to Gregory Piko for featuring my video-haiga, "Fade to Black" on his poetry blog!
"Canadian writer, Debbie Strange, weaves her love of poetry, music, art and photography into a range of creative pursuits. Debbie's haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga have been widely published and received many awards.
Haiga is the centuries-old Japanese art form that combines an illustration with a haiku. The emotional imact of such a piece is heightened when the haiku does not merely describe the image but, rather, leaves space for the reader to respond in their own way. Where the association between the words and image is merely the starting point for a person's individual experience of the art and poetry.
Debbie's recent video haiga, Fade to Black, presents a series of photographic images, each one linked with a haiku. Here are some haiku from the collection:
blistered paint
the boat we named
for you
changing seasons
mother recalls the arc
of her life
polar night
a snowy owl
fades to black
Fade to Black, brings together a range of Debbie's artistic skills. Combining Debbie's haiku, black and white photographs and musical soundtrack to create a strong unifying theme. In addition, Debbie recites the relevant haiku as each image appears. This video is a wonderful showcase of Debbie's skills.
Fade to Black was released as part of the 2022 HaikuLife Film Festival initiated by The Haiku Foundation...
As you watch Fade to Black, you are drawn into a world of delicate insight. A world which increases awareness and acceptance of the passage of time. But does so without regret or sadness. Click on the video below to enjoy Fade to Black."
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, December 2022
"Childhood Memories" prompts by Sherry and Zoe Grant: exploring emotions
prairie hill
my sister pokes a hole
in the clouds
Ribbons, Volume 18, Number 3, Fall 2022
Waiting for Images from the Space Telescope
my vision
flickers for a moment
I try to focus
on earth's atmosphere
bending the light from stars
scattered across
a starling's feathers
constellations
catch and refract
the spectacle of night
how long
has it been since
we believed . . .
our bodies' atoms
traceable to the stars
Prune Juice, Issue 38, December 2022
Honoured to have the following kyoka collage artwork selected for the cover of this issue:
The following haiga was also included in this issue:
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, December 2022
Curated by Lavana Kray
December 13, 2022
(note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 18.1, 2022)
Hedgerow Poems, Number 140, 2022
Beyond
We find the photographs and journals after you're gone. Finally, the answers to questions we were too blind to ask. You found peace beside the sea, and so, we return you there.
all the times
no one noticed . . .
glass octopus
Geppo: The Haiku Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume XLVII:4, November 2022
August - October 2022
broken rimrock
the history behind
this rusty spur
a rainbow strung
across our backyard . . .
birdhouse gourds
dried thatch
the green button you lost
last spring
webs mend
the statue's hands . . .
morning prayers
Autumn Challenge Kigo: Sixteenth-Day Moon, Izayoi
the hesitation
before you say goodbye . . .
sixteenth night
Honoured that "dried thatch" was included among the "Voted Best" (8 or more votes) in the subsequent issue!
Also honoured to know that Dojins Johnnie Johnson Hafernik and Patricia J. Machmiller included "webs mend" among their favourites!
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, December 2022
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: December 16, 2022
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, December 2022
Special Feature: December 11, 2022
empty campground
northern lights paint
the darkness
Honourable Mention
World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
we are
nearly home . . .
luminaria
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit
World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
dried cattails
delicately spun with frost
confections
sweetening the bitterness
of winter without you
2nd Place
2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 59, December 2022
glass puddle
the last journey
of this feather
receding tide
the sea takes back
bits of itself
International Scriabin 150 Festival - Zoe Grant Reads Musical Haiku, November 2022
Honoured to have the following tanka art featured in the International Scriabin 150 Festival video presentation by Sherry Grant, with a lovely reading by Zoe Grant (age 8, New Zealand) on Day 2 (November 12, 2022) of the festival:
(note: this tanka art first appeared in Whiptail 5, November 2022 and the one-line tanka was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the journal editors)
Water, British Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2022
corroded anchor
we bob in the glow
of a sturgeon moon
Blithe Spirit, Vol. 32, Number 4, November 2022
milkweed seeds taking wing monarch butterflies
wildfires the heath shrouded in yellow furze
landlocked
no sails to interpret
the shape of wind
code red
wild poppies bloom
in spite of us
with thick braids
would into coronets
my sisters rule
their rabbit queendom
with carrot sceptres
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 6:1, Autumn/Winter 2022-2023
still learning
to find my place . . .
ghost fossil
Saturday, December 03, 2022
The Haiku Foundation: HaikuLife Film Festival 2022
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, 2022:
Fade to Black
(with recitation)
Our Garden: The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2022
I'm honoured to be a content provider for The Haiku Foundation's HaikuLife Film Festival, Haiga Galleries, and New to Haiku feature. I have also donated several artworks to the Gift Shop as a token of my thanks!
fireflies the synchronicity of it all
1st Place
2021 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition
The Haiku Foundation - New to Haiku: Haiku Mixer, October 2022
Curated by Julie Bloss Kelsey
transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go
Winning Haiku (Canada)
2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
My commentary:
As a formerly healthy person, I have been forced ("petal by petal") to abandon many lifelong passions to accommodate chronic illness.
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), October 2022
Selected by Kath Abela Wilson for the theme of "Haunting": October 8, 2022
on that bench
where we used to sit
the ghost of you
Gnarled Oak 10, October 2016
(note: this first appeared as a haiga)
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), June 2022
Selected by Vandana Parashar for the theme of "Familiarity": June 8, 2022
blue nemophila
I still miss the little things
about my sister
Winning Haiku
9th Akita International Haiku Contest (English Section-Open)
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), April 2022
Selected by Maxianne Berger for the theme of "Presence and Absence": April 28, 2022
evening fog
antlers ghosting through
the coulee
The Heron's Nest 17.2, June 2015
The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2022
Theme: Rebirth
rosy dawn
our paddles stippled
with petals
Highly Commended
2019 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition
Three Rivers Haiku Association, Iris Haiku Magazine, No. 16, 2022
My thanks to Djurdja Vukelic Rozic for inviting me to be a featured poet/artist in this issue!
Translated into Croatian
fireflies the synchronicity of it all
1st Place
2021 Irish Haiku Society International Competition
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place
2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go
Winning Haiku (Canada)
2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
glassy lake
flocks of snow geese
pull up the moon
1st Place
2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Contest
stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver
1st Place
2015 Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest
between the spokes
of your spinning wheel
a dusty web . . .
I never thought our lives
would so quickly unwind
1st Place
2019 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
the ocean
was in a rage last night
but today,
these peace offerings
of blue mussels and kelp
1st Place
2018 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
mute swans
under a moon bridge
the things
I should have confessed
make no difference now
1st Place
2016 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
dried curls
of gray reindeer moss
crunch softly
underneath our boots . . .
no other sound, but breath
1st Place (tie)
2016 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
tracks of birds
meander through snow . . .
the surgeon
marks her left breast
with a cross
1st Place
2016 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards
Note: the following haiga appear in black and white
(note: this haiga was Highly Commended in the 2020 Santoka International Haiku and Haiga Contest)
(note: this haiga received the Grand Prix in the 10th Setouchi-Matsuyama Photo-Haiku Contest)
(note: this haiga received 1st Honourable Mention in the Mixed Media Category of the 2017 Jane Reichhold Haiga Competition)
(note: this haiga received the Award of Excellence in the 2015 World Haiku Association Commemorative Haiga Contest)
This issue includes my commentary as the judge of the 2021 A Little Iris Haiku Contest on the theme of books and reading:
My thanks to Djurdja Vukelic Rozic for inviting me to adjudicate this contest, and to the entrants who entrusted me with their work. Congratulations to the winners! It was an honour to read the entries for this challenge, and even if your haiku was not chosen, it does not mean it was without merit. Judging choices are subjective, so please don't be discouraged from submitting your poems elsewhere. You just might be the next winner!
I keep the following quote in mind when I submit my own work for consideration:
"What has praise and fame to do with poetry?" — Virginia Woolf
I think we writers have an ingrained love of reading that has likely been present since our childhoods. Who cannot remember the pleasure of learning to read their first book, the delight in practicing their first letters, or the joy in penning their first poem? Literacy gives us access to all the knowledge this world has to offer, and it is a privilege not to be squandered. We all understand that words have the power to hurt or to heal, and they must be wielded with care.
Themed contests present unique opportunities for writers to venture beyond straightforward interpretations of the subject matter. Thinking outside the box is vital in order to lift one's haiku out of the ordinary realm, into the extraordinary. The competition is fierce when all of the contestants are on the same page, so to speak!
Under the Basho, 2022
Personal Best
fireflies the synchronicity of it all
1st Place, 2021 Irish Haiku Society International Competition
Tanka
we hang
your threadbare dresses
out to air
the prairie wind waltzes
with you one last time
a meadowlark
spins the morning
into gold . . .
your headstone sinks
deeper every year
I fasten
my broken-down guitar
to the farm gate
nesting bluebirds teach me
an unfamiliar song
Haiku
moon phases the ensō of circular reasoning
fern sori waiting for something more
volcanic glass
the wind combs through
Pele's hair
campfire toast
a female merganser's
cinnamon head
ancient mountains
become one with the night . . .
you reach for my hand
tinted lenses
an invisible rainbow
reveals itself
concrete jungle
the yellow graffiti
of dandelions
the bridge
that is and isn't there . . .
coastal fog
Haiga Gallery
othering.JPEG)
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Haiga Holiday Celebration, December 2022
Though I was unable to attend the YTHS Haiga Holiday Celebration, I was delighted to share this haiga:
(note: this haiku received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 Tokutomi Haiku Contest)
The Haiku Way to Healing: Illness, Injury and Pain Anthology (Including Senryu, Tanka and Haiga), 2022
Editor: Robert Epstein
Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability
2nd Place
2021 Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest
grape vines
these fingers that refuse
to bend
Modern Haiku 52.2, Summer 2021
(note: this concrete tanka was a finalist in the 2021 Trailblazer Contest)
(note: this haiga was Highly Commended in the 2019 Santoka 2nd International Haiku and Haiga Contest)
(note: this tanka received 1st Place in the 2016 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards)
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