Though I was unable to attend the virtual YTHS Haiga Holiday Celebration, I was delighted to share this haiga:
Sunday, January 09, 2022
Susurrus, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2021
My thanks to the editors, Neal and Elaine Whitman!
first flute
woodpecker holes stuffed
with acorns
rocky shallows
the sound of an orca
rubbing its belly
This anthology also includes the results of the 2020 Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest:
crickets in the field . . .
we still hear grandma calling
us home for dinner
Honourable Mention
The editors invited poets to respond with personal commentaries on the theme of "mighty storm". My note follows:
The first case of Covid-19 in Manitoba was reported on my 65th birthday in 2020, and lockdown was certainly not the way I was intending to celebrate! My daily writing and art practice has been my solace and salvation. In March of 2020, I made haiga for 50 emerging and established poets whose work complemented a series of my soft-focus photographs. It was an honour to feature the haiku of so many fine writers, and I'm grateful to the participants for helping me to focus on something positive during the early days of the pandemic.
Presence, Number 71, November 2021
the letter inside
a cast-off microwave . . .
prairie thistles
spore prints
the tiny details
we overlook
golden mist . . .
a white-tailed buck rises
on its haunches
knocking wild plums off
the bony branches of morning
Poetry Pea: A Pea TV Reading, October 2021
The Haiku Pea Podcast
Series 4, Episode 19 - "Happy Haiku Birthday" - October 4, 2021
Grateful to Patricia McGuire for inviting me (accompanied by my husband) to read from my book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations, the winner of the Sable Books 2019 International Women's Haiku Book Contest. This book also received an Honourable Mention in the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards for 2021 (for books published in 2020)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhnp06XN61I
The Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Autumn 2021
Editor: Patricia McGuire
Horseshoe Canyon
sunlight glances off the rim
of your glasses
water glasses
how differently we look
at the world
Orion's Belt
forever out of sight . . .
my astigmatism
Poetry Pea, November 2021
The Haiku Pea Podcast
Series 4, Episode 22 - "Original Long Haiku" - November 15, 2021
we lie on our backs
the Milky Way arcs beyond
our understanding
Honourable Mention, 2018 Tokutomi Haiku Contest
Orion's Belt
forever out of sight . . .
my astigmatism
Poetry Pea, October 2021
The Haiku Pea Podcast
Series 4, Episode 20 - "Our Best Original Haiku" - October 18, 2021
water glasses
how differently we look
at the world
Poetry Pea, September 2021
The Haiku Pea Podcast
Series 4, Episode 18 - "Original Haiku and Senryu Using Place Names", September 20, 2021
Mt. Everest the way your bones shoulder sky
Brass Bell, September 2014
Horseshoe Canyon
sunlight glances off the rim
of your glasses
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, January 2022
Curated by Lavana Kray
January 7, 2022
(Note: this tanka art was first published in colour in Chrysanthemum 29, April 2021)
January 21, 2022
(Note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 13.3, Fall 2017)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, December 2021
Curated by Lavana Kray
December 10, 2021
(Note: this haiga was first published in colour in Hedgerow 131, Spring 2020)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, November 2021
Curated by Lavana Kray
November 13, 2021
(Note: this haiku received an Honourable Mention, Vanguard Category, as well as an Editor's Choice Haiku Award in World Haiku Review, Autumn 2020)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, October 2021
Curated by Lavana Kray
October 11, 2021
(Note: this tanka received a Runner-up Award as well as an Honourable Mention in the 2019 British Haiku Society Awards)
October 22, 2021
(Note: this haiga was first published in World Haiku Number 17, 2021)
October 30, 2021
(Note: this haiga was first published in colour in #FemkuMag 29, April 2021)
Triveni Haikai India, December 2021 and May 2022
My thanks to Jenny Ward Angyal for selecting the following tanka for her "Earthsongs" Triveni Spotlight Features on December 29, 2021 and May 7, 2022:
bind my body
with spanworm silk
lay me down
in a shaded garden
until I turn to earth
Atlas Poetica Special Feature, August 2019
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #7, January/February 2022
graveside wreath
what remains after
the deer
Tinywords, Issue 21.2, January 2022
Note: this tanka received a commendation in the Mandy's Pages Tanka Contest 2020 - Climate Change: The Burning Issue
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 7, Issue 73, January 2022
My thanks to the editor, Kelly Sauvage, for selecting the following haiga:
Note: this haiga was first published in the Haigaonline Winter Gallery, January 2021, and is part of my "Solst(ice)" series.
Chalk on the Walk Monoku Project (New Zealand) 2022
Curated by Sherry Grant
Haiga Feature: January 4, 2022
(Note: this haiga was first published in the Haigaonline Winter Gallery, January 2021, and is part of my "Solst(ice)" series)
Akita International Haiku Network, December 2021
Thrilled to be included in the World Haiku Series 2021, with ten haiku translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta on December 24, 2021:
Haiku:
the lighthouse
without its beacon . . .
tsunami
Runner-up
Constanta Haiku Contest 2021
lily pad rafts
dotting the pond . . .
leopard frogs
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit
World Haiku Review, Summer 2021
the darkness
arrives on a thousand legs . . .
cosmic caterpillar
Highly Commended
New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition 2021
outdoor wedding
an unexpected flurry
of cabbage whites
Haiku Laureate Award
Hexapod Haiku Contest 2021
a split keel
only these waves
of grass
Honourable Mention
Bloodroot Haiku Award 2021
frigid weather
a red rose shatters
on impact
Editor's Choice
Cattails, April 2021
rebuilt homes
fire poppies blaze
on the hillside
Honourable Mention
Capstone International Center Sakura Haiku Contest 2021
north winds roll snowballs
across empty pasturelands . . .
I let the dough rest
Honourable Mention
Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Haiku Contest 2021
Haiga:
rippling waves
you teach me how
to film the wind
Grand Prix
10th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest 2021
Fata Morgana the (in)visibility of my (dis)ability
2nd Place
Marlene Mountain Monoku Contest 2021
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