Ribbons, Volume 20, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2024

prairie nights

and fields upon fields

of stars . . .

they say my sister

is up there somewhere

Note: this issue also contains the judges' commentary for the following awarded poem in the 2024 TSA Tanka Contest, accessed under the tag "Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest":

an arbutus

sheds its outer bark . . .

my skin

is the only thing

holding me together

Honourable Mention

 

Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, Issue 13, October 2024

Happy to have my "abstract(ions) #1-4" series in this issue! This series was inspired by the way in which the dregs of inks and paints on my palette foster creative play and encourage me to surrender to the process.

 

Password: Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 1.3, September 2024

northern lights falling your spell under

leaf-whelmed everywhere we look oh

nuclear meltdown sunflowers hyperaccumulate

unborn yet another ghost species

Modern Haiku, Vol. 55.3, Autumn 2024

high plains

the scent memory

of burnt sage

Hedgerow Poems, Number 146, 2024

salt spray

moonlight catches it

for a moment

 

Haiga in Focus, Issue 75, October 2024

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld

Translated into German

Frogpond, Vol. 47, Number 3, Autumn 2024

lichen sundials

old-growth forests

losing time

Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, October 2024

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman

Featured Artist: October 15, 2024

(note: this haiku first appeared in a different haiga in Incense Dreams 2.2, June 2018)

Fireflies' Light: A Magazine of Short Poems, Issue 30, October 2024

Note: this tanka first appeared in Laurels 1, February 2024

Note: this tanka first appeared in Presence 71, November 2021

Note: this tanka first appeared in Red Lights 19.1, January 2023

Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, October 2024

Featured Artist: October 12, 2024

Note: this tanka was first published in the Take 5ive Journal, June 2023

Cold Moon Journal, September 2024

September 29, 2024