Sunday, June 19, 2022

United Haiku and Tanka Society, Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2022

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


dried cattails
delicately spun with frost
confections
sweetening the bitterness
of winter without you

2nd Place
2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition


Judging Commentary:

In Second Place is this charming tanka by Debbie Strange. Only an experienced and very aware tanka poet would notice that the "dried cattails/delicately spun with frost" look like "confections". This is a fine example of "showing" rather than "telling". She continues showing in the final lines with her use of the words "sweetening", and then relates it to a human element with "the bitterness of winter without you". Debbie has chosen her words very purposely which sets her tanka apart from others. Well done by this author, as usual. Thank you Debbie!
 

Haiku Canada: Marianne Bluger Awards, 2022

Honoured to receive the 2022 Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award for The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations! My thanks to the judges.


Judging Commentary:

"...and The Language of Loss by Debbie Strange leave one with a feeling of a complete artistic statement authentic to human experience and emotion. Both book and chapbook demonstrate a technical facility that projects the illusion of effortless composition from page to page."

—Lynn Jambor and Roland Packer

STRI: An Idea of She - An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku, 2023

Curated by Amrutha V. Prabhu


Translated into Hindi and Kannada


Ebook: released - January 2023


YouTube Series: released - Part 2, June 2022


transience . . .
petal by petal
we let go


Winning Haiku
2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
 

Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, June 2022

 Curated by Lavana Kray


June 13, 2022


(Note: this haiga was first published in Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2021)





Moonbathing, Issue 26, Spring/Summer 2022

dawn unfurls
with the radiance
of celebration
this day was made
for no one but you

 

Modern Haiku, Vol. 53.2, Summer 2022

my signature
loses its way . . .
leaf miners
 

Stratified Layers: Haiku Canada Members' Anthology 2022

outdoor wedding
an unexpected flurry
of cabbage whites


Haiku Laureate Award
Hexapod Haiku Contest, 2021

 

Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, June 2022

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman


Featured Artist: June 18, 2022


(Note: this haiku first appeared in the Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:1, 2021-22)



Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 7, Issue 78, June 2022

My thanks to Pippa Phillips for selecting the following haiga for the food and drink issue:




 

Eucalypt, Issue 32, May 2022

maples flame
across the hillside
how modest
our plumage against
the audacity of autumn
 

Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 57, June 2022

new playlist
the rhyming songs
of humpbacks


roadkill
our first glimpse
of a bald eagle
 

Cafe Haiku: The Magazine of the Cafe Haiku Group (Mumbai, Thane, Hyderabad and Chennai), June 2022

Haiga feature on the theme of "emergence": June 14, 2022





 

Brass Bell, June 2022

Theme: one-line haiku


meteor gone before i can say it


(note: this monoku first appeared in Otata 42, June 2019)
 

Blithe Spirit, Vol. 32, Number 2, May 2022

the loudness
of contemplation . . .
urban graveyard


fire dancers
twirl the night between
their fingers . . .
your synapses spark
before sputtering out
 

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 5:2, Spring/Summer 2022

this path wider
at the beginning . . .
moonglade
 

Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2022

unfurled petals
I flatten the belly
of my brush


brush fire
the five-alarm bells
of prairie dogs