whetstone
a raven sharpens
its voice
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Triya Mag: Sharad Edition, November/December 2025
Translated into Hindi
Honoured to have the following cherita selected as the Triya Feature!
sorting through
the paint tubes
on my desk
I wonder
what colours my pain
will be today
Cherita Lighthouse Award, The Cherita, Book 94
campfire nights
we ride in on the back
of a song
3rd Place, 2025 New Zealand Poetry Society International Contest
The Wise Owl, October 2025
Daily Verse Feature - thresholds theme
deep time
the heel stone
topples over
double rainbow
our paddles become
soundless
The Haiku Foundation - Haiku for Healing (Google Classroom Update), November 2025
Honoured to have work selected for Geethanjali Rajan's free two-month course in poetry therapy.
..."The Reading list was enriched by the poems that I selected from cattails, where, as the haiku editor, I have been fortunate to read works from around the world. The poets whose poems feature here kindly gave permission for use in this class. These poems are examples of writing that embodies close observation, mindfulness and honest articulation of a moment..."
nurses move her
to a private room . . .
blackthorn winter
cattails, April 2025
Suspect Device Punkzine, Number 17, October 2025
Turning Japanese: On the Road
My thanks to the editor, Tim Gardiner, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:
map turtle
we follow until
we get there
Ribbons, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2025
Honoured to have the following tanka selected by Jim Chessing for his article, "How Tanka Mean—Some Thoughts on Content and Form: Part 2":
a raven
believed it could fly
through me
unaware that I am glass,
pretending to be sky
3rd Place, 2020 San Francisco International Tanka Competition
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, November 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
November 6, 2025
(Note: this haiga was first published in colour in Haiga in Focus 77, Dec/2024)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, October 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
October 19, 2025
(Note: this tanka first appeared in Ribbons 21.1, Spring/Summer 2025)
New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 2024
There are Rabbits Here - NZPS Poetry Anthology 2024
My thanks to Scott Mason, the judge of this contest, and to the editor, Jackson McCarthy, for including this poem:
campfire nights
we ride in on the back
of a song
3rd Place
Ginkgo Gold, Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 2025
refugee train
small hands starfished
against the glass
1st Place
2024 Triveni Haiku Awards
Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - November 2025
Word and Image Feature: November 3, 2025
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, November 2025
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: November 11, 2025
(note: this haiku first appeared in Folk Ku 4, Nov/Dec 2024)
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, October 2025
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: October 25, 2025
Fireflies' Light: A Magazine of Short Poems, Issue 32, October 2025
Note: this haiku was first published in Geppo, May 2022
Note: this haiku was first published in Geppo, November 2024
Note: this haiku was first published in Geppo, November 2024
Note: this haiku was first published in Geppo, February 2023
Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 13, Tea Time, October 2025
Translated into Romanian
cowboy coffee
steam rises
from the herd
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, November 2025
Featured Artist: November 6, 2025
Note: this tanka was first published in Blithe Spirit 35.2, 2025
Circle of Salt, November 2025
Diaphanous Dimension
A found gogyoshi culled from "Cullen in the Afterlife" by P.K. Page:
Cattails, October 2025
summer romance this fling of migrating sandpipers
twilit meadow the blue songs of larkspur
sun on sand
and the laughter
of children,
plastic buckets filled
with unmade castles
Blithe Spirit, Volume 35, Number 4, November 2025
Honoured to receive a lovely review of "Random Blue Sparks" by Iliyana Stoyanova in this issue. It can be accessed under the book's tab of this blog.
mother's last glimmer of light goldcrest
zombie fires
come back from the dead . . .
this wilderness
haunted by skeletons
and memories of trees
Thursday, October 09, 2025
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Haiku Invitational, 2025
afternoon tea
house finches stir up
the cherry blossoms
house finches stir up
the cherry blossoms
Sakura Awards, Canada
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haku Invitational, 2025
Utriculi, Issue 2, Part 2, September 2025
Thrilled to have the following collages selected for this issue:
chaos
echoes
frayed
Triveni Haikai India, September 2025
My thanks to Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik for including the following haiku in the Triveni Spotlight Feature on September 17, 2025. This haiku was included in my essay in Janice Doppler's book, "One Thread, Zoka in Contemporary Haiku," published in 2024:
alpine camp
meteors falling
into our mouths
Modern Haiku 55.1
Kick the Clouds: The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2025
I'm honoured to be a content provider for The Haiku Foundation's HaikuLife Film Festival, Haiga Galleries, Haku of the Day, New to Haiku, and Haiku for Parkinson's features (among others). I have also donated several artworks to the Gift Shop as tokens of my thanks!
busker's hat
a child offers coins
of dried lunaria
1st Place
2022 Bloodroot Haiku Award
The Haiku Foundation: Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), September 2025
Selected by Ranice Tara for the theme of "Mother Nature": September 23, 2025
stepping stones
a damselfly invites us
to change course
The Heron's Nest 22.4, December 2020
Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, Issue 15, October 2025
Happy to have my "liminal" #1-3 collage series in this issue!
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Sommergras: Magazine of the German Haiku Society, Issue 150, September 2025
Translated into German
Honoured to have the following collaborative haiga included in this issue!
photographs: Claudia Brefeld
haiku: Debbie Strange
Quail Eggs: A Tanka Journal, Issue 2, September 2025
in this place
of moss and shadow
we emerge
newly born, and yet
somehow ancient
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, September 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
September 28, 2025
(note: this haiga previously appeared in World Haiku No. 11, 2022)
Humana Obscura, Issue Number 14, Fall 2025
amber light
the aspens
don't hold back
muted gold
the burning tapers
of tamaracks
Haiku Page, Issue 11, September 2025
you taught me
to find the silver lining
in all things . . .
this moth-eaten shawl
pinpricked with stars
a swarm
of funnel clouds comes
from nowhere
your mood changing
into something darker
this beach,
nearly deserted . . .
the sand
in summer's hourglass
running on empty
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, September 2025
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: September 16, 2025
(note: this haiku first appeared in Paint Me, 2024 NZPS Anthology)
Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, September 2025
winter light pillars making the most of insomnia
fortune teller there will be (s)crying in my future
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, September 2025
Daily Haiku Special - September 25, 2025
campfire nights
we ride in on the back
of a song
3rd Place
2025 New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition
sugar maples
small boys running
until they can't
Shortlisted, Best-of-Issue Award
Presence, No. 81, March 2025
Dadakuku, September 2025
Clothing Does Not Equal Consent
they say it's her fault the (basal) cleavage (of mica)
Monday, September 08, 2025
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #29, September/October 2025
woodland floor
the carpet patterned
with cowslips
shipped oars
the circle-dance
of loons
Modern Haiku, Vol. 56.3, Autumn 2025
Honoured to receive a lovely review of "Random Blue Sparks" by Paul Miller in this issue. It can be accessed under the book's tab of this blog.
mosquito bites
the taste of foraged
saskatoons
Haiku Girl Summer, 2025
Curated by Allyson Whipple
August 30, 2025
sand dunes
this path leading
to the clouds
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 10, Number 111, September 2025
Honoured to have the following work selected for this final issue of the journal. I'm beyond grateful to Mike Rehling for his generous support over the years, and to all of the editors and guest editors who have selected my work. Special thanks to Kelly Moyer for putting together this last issue - a labour of love for all concerned!
Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 70, September 2025
food bank
the chipmunk's cheeks
half-full
ice needles
our shoreline pinned
to the lake
Akitsu Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2025
funeral cortege the this way and that of snow buntings
winter sea
unseen kelp spores
begin to sprout
deep drifts
a light goes on
in the barn
The Abstractaphy Initiative, August 2025
Curated by Richard Grahn
(note: this haiga first appeared in Sonic Boom 11, April 2018)
(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku Senryu Journal 6.62, 2021)
(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku Senryu Journal 3.28, 2018)
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Geppo: The Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume L:2, May 2025
February - April 2025
an evergreen decaying from the top down dementia
thunderstone
your death a bolt
from the blue
rain-strung branch
the upside-downness
of redpolls
bag lady
a halo of pigeons
circling her head
Spring Challenge: Dandelion, tampopo
pesticide-free
the wild manes
of dandelions
Honoured to know that "rain-strung branch" was included among the favourites of Dojins Patricia J. Machmiller and Joan Zimmerman!
Also honoured that "rain-strung branch" was chosen for commentary in the subsequent issue:
Dojin's Corner:
There is so much to like about this haiku, starting with its phrase "rain-strung" to indicate that it has rained, has stopped raining, and has left jewels of rain hanging on a branch. Line two affirms the hanging beads of water through its newly minted and lovely noun "upside-downness" (from the adjective "upside-down").
The haiku pivots on that into line three's redpolls, acrobatic and energetic small finches with a tendency to hang down to forage, gleaning branches from below for insects and seeds. The haiku also feels acrobatic and energetic. A delight.
—Joan Zimmerman
Such a perfect way to characterize the redpolls' acrobatic feeding movements as "upside-downness." One word says it all.
—Patricia J. Machmiller
At least I guessed the correct category: redpolls=birds. Although refusing to keep a life list, I do consider myself a moderate birder, but I had to look up "redpolls" to appreciate this haiku. Smaller than house finches and purple finches I doubt that I'll ever see one, as in the winter they only migrate as far south as Canada and the far northern parts of the midwest and eastern United States.
—Alison Woolpert
Geppo: The Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume L:1, February 2025
November 2024 - January 2025
Grateful to have a mention of my new book, Random Blue Sparks, included in this issue!
soup kitchen the salt and pepper hair of a veteran
light ricochets
off a snowy owl's wing . . .
ice pellets
hot tenting
the sudden sizzle
of northern lights
new year's thaw
all the snowmen
losing weight
Winter Challenge Kigo: Winter Mountain, fuyu no yama
clouds crash
into the winter mountain . . .
pain flare
Honoured to know that "soup kitchen" and "new year's thaw" were included among Dojin Patricia J. Machmiller's favourites!
Also honoured that "new year's thaw" was included among the "Voted Best" (7 or more votes) in the subsequent issue,
The Haiku Foundation: HaikuLife Film Festival 2025
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