Translated into Japanese
a deep chasm
this yearning
for an echo
sea shanties
a sailor's beard dripping
with icicles
pressed flowers
the meadow I will give you
this winter
Note: these haiku previously appeared in Akitsu Quarterly
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2023
earth day all these tree-hugging squirrels
spring roundup
light drips off the rim
of a wrangler's hat
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #15, May/June 2023
skijoring
the day passes by
in a blur
The Take 5ive Journal, April 2023
Theme: Earth Day
earth's forests,
the guardians of breath . . .
we hold
them hostage against
our better nature
Suspect Device Punkzine, Number 11, April 2023
Turning Japanese: The Great Depression
My thanks to the editor, Tim Gardiner, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:
tumbleweeds
my breath becomes part
of the gale
Presence, Number 75, March 2023
threshing crew
the sun falls down
a gopher hole
foreclosure
a barn spider ties up
loose ends of light
a tall ship
at anchor in this bay
its furled sails
have fallen out of love
with the fickle wind
Kokako, Number 38, April 2023
change in the weather these clouds of consternation
our cottage
becomes a boat . . .
derecho
peeled plums
the mandala I make
with their stones
the older brother
we nearly had . . .
empty silo
barred owls
roost in the forest
dark eyes
conceal mysteries
too old for solving
GUSTS, Number 37, Spring/Summer 2023
flash floods
through sculpted canyons
hikers bathe
their feet in the ochre
of ephemeral rivers
dark clouds
lurking over this field
of sunflowers . . .
there is more light here
than we will ever need
Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 1: Traditions, April 2023
Honoured to know that the editor, Steliana Voicu, nominated this poem for a 2023 Touchstone Award!
Translated into Romanian
homecoming train
we leave the winter
behind
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, April 2023
Featured Artist: April 7, 2023
Note: this tanka was first published in GUSTS 33, 2021
Swirling Haiku Challenge Anthology - Consulate General of Japan in Toronto, 2023
The following haiga was presented online for the Swirling Haiku Challenge:
Angel House Press: National Poetry Month, April 2023
Honoured to have the following asemic haiga chosen by the curator, Amanda Earl, for this feature on April 19, 2023!
Artist's Statement:
This asemic piece was inspired by my aunt's long struggle with the aftermath of a stroke, and by my fascination with mark making. Aphasia is a disorder that impacts the ability to communicate. It affects speech, as well as the capacity to understand the spoken and written word.
The Ogham Alphabet is an early medieval alphabet, sometimes known as the Celtic Tree Alphabet. It was not a spoken language, but rather, comprised of marks (characters) running along and across a central vertical line, and often engraved on standing stones.
Asemic writing is wordless, so I used this technique to illustrate the connection between the themes.
A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Autumn 2023
forgotten grave
only the small bones
of leaves remain
Commended
2020 Polish International Haiku Competition
dandelion seeds
I smooth mother's hair
across the pillow
Selected
2018 Yamadera Basho Haiku Contest
Thursday, April 06, 2023
The British Haiku Society Awards, 2022
Thrilled to receive the following awards:
at the moment
I became motherless
something
brushed against me
softer than a feather
Winner, The Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award
Judge's comments:
This tanka shimmers with meaning. The essence of life hovers here, unspoken, unknown, implied, certain and resonant. This moment lingers, remains unforgettably, unexplained in our lives, our memory, touching us again and again, mothering us, and spurring on our creativity and a poetic sense of wonder. Beautifully shaped and expressed. This is what I wish for in tanka. Meaning, mystery and subtle magic.
—Kath Abela Wilson
skinny-dipping the moon snail's umbilicus
Runner-up, The David Cobb Haiku Award
Judge's comments:
There is something so regenerative about stripping down for a skinny dip in the moonlight! Once again, we have identification with nature, this time carried out in a more disjunctive fashion. The mention of "umbilicus" alludes to the process of birth and, in its turn, rebirth. Experiencing this piece, I feel the night air and its magic, the snail as mother. Any piece able to elicit this kind of ecstasy within its reader is, in my estimation, an extremely well-crafted ku.
—Kelly Moyer
(note: there were 437 haiku entries and 196 tanka entries)
Snapshot Press, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2023
Award Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2023 (for May)
Publication - The Haiku Calendar 2024 (Snapshot Press, 2023)
spring breeze
a porcupette's quills
begin to stiffen
Geppo, Volume XLVII.2, May 2022
Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, Issue 10, April 2023
Thrilled to have the following collage selected for this issue:
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Haiga Spring Ginko Celebration, March 2023
Delighted to have the following haiga included in the YTHS Haiga Spring Ginko Celebration slideshow:
Trash Panda, Volume 4, Winter 2022-2023
change of life
the planet and i
heating up
Failed Haiku, Volume 4, Issue 39, March 2019
(note: this senryu first appeared as a haiga)
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls: An Oceanic Literary Magazine, March 2023
herring shoals
the ocean turns itself
inside out
2nd Place, Shintai Haiku
World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
rippling waves
you teach me how
to film the wind
Grand Prix
10th Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest
bioluminscence
I skip a pebble across
the universe
Seashores 2, 2019
1st Place, 2019 OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition
light spills
through a fallstreak hole
onto water . . .
if nothing else,
this will be enough
Honourable Mention
2017 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
a star tortoise
carries the universe
on its back . . .
are we slowly moving
away from each other
2nd Place
2019 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senruy and Tanka
Tanka Society of America Twitter Work Special Feature, April 2023
Curated by Susan Burch
Day 2 - April 2, 2023
pens and brushes,
the tools of my trade . . .
I wield them
like swords in this fight
against infirmity
Sonic Boom, Issue 24, April 2023 (The Final Issue)
Honoured to have two works selected for this final issue:
crespuscular rays
Ribbons, Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2023
Alchemy
I once thought
forests were fearsome
until sparks
of amethyst deceivers
turned shadows into light
the symbiosis
of pixie cup lichens
in this life
we are transformed
by each other's magic
Frogpond, Vol. 46, Number 1, Winter 2023
funeral lilies
our hands gilded
with pollen
Delighted to have my work mentioned in the essay "Punctuation Words in English Haiku" by Randy Brooks:
snow stories . . .
the scattered commas
of maple seeds
"As with several contemporary haiku, this one is written with a literary narrator. The narrator is talking about writing or editing "snow stories." Employing a suggested similarity in appearance, we see maple seeds randomly scattered into the snow. They look like commas. Some could take root and grow into future maple trees. The space a comma holds. Could stories grow out of that space? As a long-time writing teacher, I can imagine an alternative reading where the haiku's narrator is a teacher-editor. The students have written snow stories. Some of the students sprinkle commas in randomly because they have no idea how to use commas to create emphasis, dramatic pauses, or other aspects of a good story."
I'm also pleased to say that my work was included among Tom Sacramona's favourites in his review of "It's About Time", the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2022 members' anthology:
meadowsweet
the deer leave me
one bloom
Christine L. Villa Tanka Art Presentation, April 1, 2023
Delighted that the editor of Frameless Sky included the following three tanka art in her presentation!
Interpretive tanka art example:
(note: this tanka was the winner of the 2022 British Haiku Society Awards)
Illustrative tanka art example:
(note this tanka was the winner of the Drifting Sands Monuments No. 1 Contest)
Associative tanka art example:
(note: this tanka was the Editor's Choice for Cattails, October 2020)
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, April 2023
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: April 4, 2023
(Note: this tanka first appeared in Kokako 37, September 2022)
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, March 2023
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: March 19, 2023
(Note: this tanka first appeared in Mariposa 47, 2022)
Featured Artist: March 28, 2023
(Note: this tanka first appeared in Under the Basho, 2022)
#FemkuMag: haikai poetry by womxn and non-binary folx - Award Nominations 2022
Thrilled to have the following two poems nominated by the editor!
Nominated for the 2022 Touchstone Award:
lunulae
a friend tells me
about her stillborn
#FemkuMag, Issue 34, November 2022
Nominated for the 2022 Red Moon Anthology:
wishbones
a dumpster-diver
goes under
#FemkuMag, Issue 32, January 2022
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 8, Issue 88, April 2023
My thanks to Hemapriya Chellappan for selecting the following haiga for this issue:
Drifting Sands: A Journal of 21st Century English-Language Haibun and Tanka Prose, Issue 20, March 2023
Theme: children
The Price of Grief
In memory of Elizabeth (age 5) and Curtis (age 2) Strange, who perished in a motor vehicle accident along with their parents, Mike and Kelly Strange.
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2023
Delighted to have my comment selected for inclusion in Charlotte's survey asking respondents to comment on one of Robert Spiess's speculations from his book, "A Year's Speculations on Haiku," (Modern Haiku, 1995):
"Haiku are written best and appreciated best through the intelligence of the heart."
How do you interpret "the intelligence of the heart"?
My comment:
Perhaps Robert was referring to the relationship between cognitive and emotional intelligence. I think writing and reading short-form poetry fosters a deep mind-body connection. Much like the single brushstroke of an incomplete ensō, the writer leaves an opening for the reader to enter. Short poems, in particular, must not only be intelligently crafted, but they must also strike an emotional chord in the reader's heart.
Cantos: A Literary and Arts Journal, March 2023
Thrilled to have the following four haiga included in this issue:
(note: this haiku first appeared in a different haiga in Haigaonline 22.1, 2021)
(note: this haiku first appeared in Geppo XLVII:4, November 2022)
(note: this haiku first appeared in Brass Bell, March 2016)
Australian Haiku Society, 2023
Autumn Equinox Haiku String, March 2023
snow bomb
a pine tree lets go
of its payload
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2023
paddleboarding
a painted turtle shows me
how it's done
buttongrass moor
one spark is all
it takes
(note: this haiga was printed in black and white)
Akita International Haiku Network, March 2023
Thrilled to be included in the World Haiku Series 2022, with ten haiku, tanka, and haiga translated into Japanese by Hidenori Hiruta on March 14-16, 2023:
https://akitahaiku.com/2023/03/14/world-haiku-series-2022-24-haiku-by-debbie-strange-canada/
sakura
we learn the lesson
of resilience
Honourable Mention, Sakura Award (Canada)
2022 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
herring shoals
the ocean turns itself
inside out
2nd Place, Shintai Haiku
World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
prairie blizzard
squirrels take the shape
of their tails
Zatsuei Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical Haiku
World Haiku Review, Winter 2021-2022
estuary light
the treble clefs
of flamingos
2nd Place
2022 Third Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest
awaiting
rain's unkept promise
crops wither
in the dust of dreams
passed down to me
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest
dried cattails
delicately spun with frost
confections
sweetening the bitterness
of winter without you
2nd Place
2022 Fleeting Words Tanka Contest
stubbled fields
the remains of something
I cannot name
Editor's Choice
Haiga in Focus, Number 52, 2022
busker's hat
a child offers coins
of dried lunaria
1st Place
2022 Bloodroot Haiku Award
heated debate
even the fence
is barbed
1st Place
2022 Creatrix Haiku Prize
canyonlands
a meadowlark sings
me out of myself
1st Place
2022 Drifting Sands Monuments Number 1 Contest
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