Thursday, March 16, 2023

Golden Triangle Haiku Contest 2023

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
 

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
 

The Heron's Nest, Volume 25, Number 1, March 2023

hard times
fishing nets tie
the village together

Stardust Haiku, Issue 74, February 2023

the veins inside
a pelican's pouch . . .
drying nets
 

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Issue 12, March 2023

 


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

Plum Tree Tavern, Winter Haiku, 2023

Frostwork


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




Haiga in Focus, Issue 58, March 2023

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld


Translated into German






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, Volume 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
 

Bottle Rockets, Vol. 24, Number 2 (or #48), February 2023

blue skies turning cloudy periwinkles
 

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