Theme: "Notes to Nature"
Honoured to have two of the 143 Judges' Favourites chosen from 3100 haiku to display on placards:
vintage typewriter
the spiderling adds
an asterisk
bark beetles
the runes they leave
behind
Thursday, March 16, 2023
White Enso, Issue 6, December 2022
Theme: Again
Note: this tanka was first published in GUSTS 36, 2022
Note: this tanka was first published in Ribbons 14.1, 2018
Note: this haiku was first published in a different haiga in Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2021
Note: this tanka was first published in Tanka Origins 3, 2020
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #14, March/April 2023
smooth seas
a dolphin pod
becoming waves
Triya Mag: Basant Edition, February/March 2023
Translated into Hindi
heated debate
even the fence
is barbed
1st Place
2022 Creatrix Haiku Prize
awaiting
rain's unkept promise
crops wither
in the dust of dreams
passed down to me
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments No. 1 Contest
The Take 5ive Journal, March 2023
Theme: Love & Loss
kinkeepers . . .
the invisible women
loving
behind the scenes
of our everyday lives
the linden tree
outside our window
cradling snow . . .
we open ourselves
to one another
the dam
has been breached
once more
we are swept along
in surges of sorrow
Skipping Stones: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022
estuary light
the treble clefs
of flamingos
2nd Place
Third Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest, 2022
Red Lights, Vol. 19, Number 1, January 2023
deep drifts
everywhere we look
this morning
we fasten a poppy
to the snowman's hat
hollow-boned
blankets of fog
subdue these woodlands
the hush
broken now and then
by invisible chickadees
a ballet
of swans glides between
memories . . .
I am earthbound now,
but these wings still fit
more than half
of the world's bird species
have been lost
how will children learn to sing
when their feathers are gone
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, February 2023
Curated by Lavana Kray
February 13, 2023
(note: this haiku received a Zatsuei Haiku of Merit in the World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022)
Modern Haiku, Vol. 54.1, Winter-Spring 2023
festooning bees the gap closes between us
Honoured to have my work mentioned by Mary Stevens in her review of Against the Current:
"The collection's title gets its name from Debbie Strange's senryu:
pay equity
she swims against
the current
The title is particularly apt. Like the speaker in this poem who struggles to obtain the same pay as her male co-workers, the poets published in #FemkuMag also push back against gender oppression..."
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 17, Number 1, February 2023
cloud-shaped sometimes i am
amber alert bees begin fanning their nest
witching stick
we discover something
invisible
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, February 2023
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: February 5, 2023
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 8, Issue 87, March 2023
My thanks to Bryan Rickert for selecting the following two haiga:
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2023
March 12, 2023
heated debate
even the fence
is barbed
1st Prize
Creatrix Haiku Prize, 2022
sakura
we learn the lesson
of resilience
Honourable Mention, Sakura Award (Canada)
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational, 2022
autumn arrives
in a whirl of leaves
this body
withering, too, despite
my best intentions
2nd Honourable Mention
San Francisco International Competition, 2022
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, March 2023
Featured Artist: March 3, 2023
Note: this tanka was first published in Red Lights 17.2, 2021
Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 60, March 2023
faded trail marker
pheasant tracks point
the way
school bell
coyote pups tumble
out of their den
Contemporary Haibun, Volume 18, Red Moon Press, 2023
Honoured to have this haiga chosen by Ron Moss for Contemporary Haibun!
Sherry Grant Presents: Romances by Various Composers (Classical and Non-Classical) & Tanka Reading, February 12, 2023
My thanks to Shery Grant for selecting the following tanka to read:
we zip
our sleeping bags
together
you cradle my body
like a crescent moon
"Love", British Haiku Society 30th Anniversary Tanka Anthology, 1990-2020
In Sun, Snow & Rain: Tanka From a World of Song, British Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2022
A Tanka Anthology in Memory of Linda Jeannette Ward
snowshoe tracks
enter a fury of white,
chain-linking
the past to present
to unknowable future
Blithe Spirit, Volume 33, Number 1, February 2023
gravestone
a child's handprints
fill with snow
campfire tea
the waterfall stained
with tannin
sleep teases,
then abandons me . . .
I count
every leaf on the vine
that bars my window
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