dawn chorus starlinging me out of night terrors
Sunday, February 09, 2025
Triveni Haikai India, February 2025
My thanks to Arvinder Kaur for selecting the following tanka for the Triveni Spotlight Feature on the colour "red" on February 7, 2025:
we had almost
forgotten how to smile . . .
a loveliness
of ladybugs spills down
the rotten fencepost
Red Lights, Volume 17.2
Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 39, January 2025
My thanks to the editors for including the following haiga:
Time Haiku, Number 61, February 2025
moon race
a scallop ignites
its rocket
hurricane agate
I cup your hand
around the wind
a groundhog
sees its shadow . . .
showdrops
I hand-stitch
a bereavement quilt
through the night
silver threads unwind
from spools of my tears
Honoured to know that the following work was selected as Best-of-Issue Tanka in Time 60:
paper-thin roses
from your memorial . . .
I crush them
between palms that have
lost the will to pray
The Bamboo Hut, Number 1, February 2025
Thrilled to have the following artworks selected for this issue. My thanks to the editor, Steve Wilkinson!
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, February 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
February 5, 2025
(note: this haiku received 1st Place in the 2024 Triveni Awards)
Where the Mountains Were: Haiku for the Victims of Hurricane Helene, Cuttlefish Books, January 2025
My thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor and Joshua Gage for selecting the following work:
storm hour
the cliff's face carved
a little deeper
3rd Place, 2020 Irish Haiku Society Int'l Competition
aftermath
we tuck a note inside
the riven oak
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2020
Laurels: Tanka Society of America Online Journal, Number 3, February 2025
My thanks to guest editor Margaret Tau for including the following tanka for the theme: "choice"!
an orca
backflips near our boat . . .
when was
the last time we tried
to impress each other
Frogpond, Vol. 48, Number 1, Winter 2025
lambing pasture
the aurora escapes
from dad's hands
eulogy
the blur of water
over stones
Blithe Spirit, Volume 35, Number 1, February 2025
deep silence
boulder fields where
the rapids were
windchill factor
a merganser and I
raise our hoods
come for tea . . .
I will treat you
gently,
sprinkling sugar
on your wounds
The Abstractaphy Initiative: aBstractaphy-from the palETTE, journalette 4 - February 1, 2025
Curated by Tish Davis
(note: haiga first published in Human/Kind Journal, November 2020)
A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Summer 2025
Honoured to know that outgoing editor, Gail Ingram, has included the following poem in her Editor's Favourites 2021-2025 feature:
frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
1st Place, 2018 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Random Blue Sparks, Snapshot Press, December 2024
Random Blue Sparks - a haiku collection released by Snapshot Press on December 30, 2024
Winner of the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Awards
I'm beyond honoured to announce that my book-length haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, winner of the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award, was published by the press on December 31, 2024. Thank you to John Barlow for selecting and sequencing these poems, and to Chuck Brickley for his valuable insights. I'm also grateful to Chuck Brickley, Ron Moss, and Tom Clausen for their generous blurbs. Special thanks to my husband, Larry, who is my first reader and second pair of eyes.
Praise for Random Blue Sparks:
'Debbie Strange's first full-length collection of haiku offers a stunning display of sensory artistry inspired by the landscapes and ecosystems of Western Canada. Random Blue Sparks is a wonderfully vibrant gathering of moments to savour.'
—Chuck Brickley
Author, earthshine
'From finely tuned observations of the tiniest life forms to quiet reverence for open landscapes of earth and sky, this brilliant collection is a timely reminder of the relevance of nature haiku in today's climate.'
—Ron C. Moss
Author, The Bone Carver
'Illuminating the essence of experiences and things, Random Blue Sparks is a compelling love letter to the prairies, mountains and waters of the western provinces of Canada. These indelible haiku brim with poetic joie de vivre.'
—Tom Clausen
Author, Growing Late
Haiku
stormlight
a pronghorn outruns
the rain
meadowlarks
the grace notes that follow
me home
weaving light
into this day of mourning . . .
damselflies
submerged log
the descending sizes
of painted turtles
weathered oars
we fold our worries
into the river
(note: this collection contains sixteen award-winning haiku)
Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2024
My thanks to the judge, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, for selecting the following haiku:
midnight sun
a polar bear's breath
catches fire
3rd Prize (joint)
IHS, International Haiku Competition 2024
Origami Butterflies, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2024
My thanks to the editor, Gregory Longenecker!
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
late thaw
a ribbon of water
unspools
Members' Challenge Haiku:
rows of maize
we put our affairs
in order
United Haiku and Tanka Society, Songbirds Waka Online Journal, 2025
in the final
blue vestiges of night
a vixen's eyes
flashing like mine before
I lean into your kiss
the flames
of autumn foliage
ignite
so too this memory
of a love forgotten
night descends
and fireflies light up
the meadow
you trace a star map
across my belly
curtains
of clematis hide us
from view
let us lie together
a little while longer
restlessness
seeps into my blood
come autumn
how far must I roam
in search of your heart
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #25, January/February 2025
banshee fog
a barn owl summons
the night
Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 38, December 2024
This issue includes the results and commentary for the 2024 Triveni Awards:
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place
(note: please see the Triveni Awards tag for the commentary)
Tinywords, Issue 24.2, January 2025
Note: this senryu received an Honourable Mention in the 2024 H. Gene Murtha Contest and the haiga first appeared in The Abstractaphy Initiative, August 2024
Tan-ku for Ukraine - A world Haiku and Tanka Anthology, December 2024
My thanks to the compiler, Dimitar Anakiev, and to the pubisher, Gabriela Zaneva, for including the following work in this anthology:
cold war
the fallen rank and file
of sunflowers
Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Haiku Contest, 2022
fields of gold
gleam against blue sky . . .
all the times
we have taken
freedom for granted
The Bamboo Hut: Fields of Gold - Poems of Peace, 2022
Panorama International Literary Festival (India): The Drop of Life (on the element of water), January 2025
Honoured to be one of seven selected poets to collaborate with artist Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta for his animated short haiga film, "Ephemeris":
Poet's Statement: (grateful thanks to Vandana Parashar for the reading on my behalf, as I was unable to attend the conference)
My poem was written as a call-and-answer response to the haiga, as well as to the other selected poems. It can be read both literally and metaphorically. At dusk, the world is in a state of transition from daylight to nightfall. We, too, are in a transitory state as we pass through this life, emerging into light at birth, and into shadow at death. The way the film slowly progresses from one frame to the next reminds me of the transient nature of our existence. The moon pulls us from scene to scene in much the same way as its phases influence all life on this planet.
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, January 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
January 14, 2024
(note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 20.2, Fall/Winter 2024)
Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2024
The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature
Eleventh Day, December 31, 2024
(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 9, Number 97, January 2024)
Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2024
Word and Image Feature: December 22 and December 26, 2024
(note: this tanka first appeared in GUSTS 36, Fall/Winter 2022)
(note: this collage first appeared in Petrichor 21.5, Pebbles Vol. 2, Feb/2023)
Hedgerow Poems, Number 147, 2024
Chaff and Bone
This washboard road, lit by rusty torches of burdock, leads to what's left of our farmhouse. The stone in my chest dislodges and liquefies, seeping through pores clogged with memories. I feel myself becoming smaller the closer I get to home.
meadowlark
if you could see
me now
Folk Ku: A Journal in Honour of Master Masoka Shiki (1867-1902), King River Press, Issue 4, November/December 2024
home range
even the barn owls
have moved away
frozen path
a vole that didn't make it
to the burrow
mom becomes
a shadow of herself . . .
firelight
Note: for my Mother, Marjorie MacKenzie (1920 - 1990)
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, January 2025
Daily Haiku New Year's Special - January 1, 2025
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place, 2024 Triveni Awards
probate
a prickle of burrs
in the dog's tail
Editor's Choice Senryu, Cattails, October 2024
I climb higher
up this sacred mountain
meeting your spirit
halfway along the path
toward enlightenment
2nd Place, 2024 Fujisan Tanka Contest
The Abstractaphy Initiative, December 2024
Curated by Richard Grahn
Artist's Statement:
A word-weaving of culled Wikipedia details regarding Treaty 1 (in my home province of Manitoba) affixed to stained watercolour paper, referencing the boil-water advisories on many First Nations in Canada.
(note: Shortlisted, 2023 Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest)
The Abstractaphy Initiative: aBstractaphy—from the palETTE, journalette 3 - January 21, 2025
Curated by Tish Davis
(note: haiga first published in Frameless Sky, Issue 17, December 2022)
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