Sonic Boom, Photo Essay Feature, January 2023

The Eight Muses

Artist's Statement:

This paper collage series showcases the eight creative traits featured in Adobe Create Magazine:

The Artist

"seeing beauty, creating beauty"

The Producer

"process is power"

The Dreamer

"the power of imagination unleashed"

The Adventurer

"so much inspiration, so little time"

The Innovator

"move, shake, disrupt, repeat"

The Thinker

"deep thoughts, big questions"

The Visionary

"imagining the impossible"

The Maker

"committed to your craft"

 

The Wombwell Rainbow, January 2023

National Hat Day Feature: January 15, 2023

(note: this tanka placed first in the 2016 Mandy's Pages Annual Tanka Contest)

Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, January 2023

 Curated by Lavana Kray

January 13, 2023

(note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 18.2, 2022)

Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, January 2023

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman

Featured Artist: January 7, 2023

Drifting Sands: A Journal of 21st Century English-Language Haibun and Tanka Prose, November 2022

I'm honoured that Pravat Kumar Padhy included the following micro tanka prose in his essay, Micro Tanka Prose: A Novel Experiment, in the Features and Essays section of the November issue: 

Nearly There

I told them I was dead, but not a single person there believed me...

the sign said

turn back, road ends here

I waken

from a brief sojourn

in another realm

Atlas Poetica, Number 23, 2015

Commentary:

Ellipses mark in the one-line prose infers a possible continuation. This is a personal experience of life and near-death metaphorically portrayed through the signpost indicating the close of the road. The truth of life is reflected at the threshold of happening. It infers a brief halt and recovering back to usher in a new journey. The brief expression evokes a sense of awakening. The tanka embodies a sort of mystical manifestation (yugen tei) expanding the essence of the prose.

—Pravat Kumar Padhy

 

Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, January 2023

January 10, 2023

solstice fire

the dispersed flames

of cardinals

Honourable Mention

Irish Haiku Society International Competition, 2022

Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #13, January/February 2023

beach cusps

mom's apron scalloped

with lace

 

The Take 5ive Journal, Issue 5, December 2022

Yuletide Special

strangers

dressed in red, singing

in our yard

a flock of cardinals

decorates the thicket

heirloom glasses

of mulled wine hold

the firelight . . .

wrinkled hands warmed

by memories of wonder

this festive table

glowing with candlelight

and smiles . . .

how fortunate we are

to be touched by grace

 

Stardust Haiku, Issue 72, December 2022

bonfire

the sticks we whittle

for bannock

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Issue 9, December 2022

December 31, 2022

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2022

 The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

December 24, 2022

(note: this haiga first appeared in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2020 Haiga Holiday Celebration)

December 31, 2022

(note: this senryu first appeared in #FemkuMag 9, 2019)

Haiga in Focus, Issue 56, January 2023

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld

Translated into German

Gregory Piko's Poetry Blog, December 2022

My thanks to Gregory Piko for featuring my Creatrix Haiku Prize: 2022 on his blog!

"Congratulations to Debbie Strange from Winnipeg, Canada, who was awarded First Prize for the following haiku:

heated debate

even the fence

is barbed

While this poem was written in Canada and could, perhaps, be set in a number of countries, it most certainly evokes the hot, harsh farming environment of rural Australia".

Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 8, Issue 85, January 2023

My thanks to guest editors Arvinder Kaur and Hifsa Ashraf for selecting the following haiga for this issue:

 

Sherry Grant Christmas Concert, December 2022

My thanks to Sherry and Zoe Grant for including me in their "Sherry Grant Plays Everything Christmas Concert" which was interspersed with musical interludes by Sherry's family, and haiku readings by Zoe. The following haiku was read by Zoe:

Christmas skates . . .

a rainbow of little boots

in the warming hut

Failed Haiku 5:60, December 2020 

Bloo Outlier Journal, Issue 4, New Year's Eve Senryu Special, 2022

Guest Editor: Pippa Phillips

superman coffin yet another mass (shooting)

peeling the scars off the body politic

 

Australian Haiku Society, 2022

Summer Solstice 2022 AHS Haiga Kukai: Non-seasonal Entry

pain meds

i ride it out until

the next wave

 Summer Solstice 2022 AHS Haiga Kukai: Seasonal Entry

new year's heatwave lapping at my toes

(Note: these poems were written in response to artwork by Ron Moss)