Sunday, July 06, 2025

Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #28, July/August 2025

bending time
the scent of hay
in a barn's carcass
 

Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 44, June 2025

My thanks to the editors for including the following haiga:






The Heron's Nest, Volume 26, 2024

snow crater
the waterfall sculpts
its own geology


boreal shadows
we follow the sunbursts
of lichen
 

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2025

Honoured to have the following vispo (visual poetry), "Departure", shortlisted  and selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith (15 works selected from 80) for this year's gallery:



This 12 X 9 landscape collage features handpainted papers and a found poem culled from H. Albert Hochbaum's "To Ride the Wind."


Password: Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 2.2, June 2025

prairie thunderheads the not quite here of grief

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, June 2025

Featured June 27, 2025:






Humana Obscura, Issue Number 13, Summer 2025

beach grasses 
sand settles in the dunes
of my body


hymnography
the wind and waves
know how


moonwake
the path I chose
to follow

The Singing Sands



Haiga in Focus, Issue 84, July 2025

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld


Translated into German




Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, June 2025

 Curated by Eric. A. Lohman


Featured Artist: June 26, 2025


(note: this monoku first appeared in Password Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 2.1, Feb/2025)



Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 10, Number 110, July 2025

Thrilled to have the following collaborations and translations included in this issue:


German Translations and Images by Claudia Brefeld (senryu by me):



Köcherfliegen
das Abstreifen der Hülle
von dem, was war


ikterischer Himmel
das Baby, das es nicht
nach Hause schafft


Kyoka collaboration with Graham Bates:


shark teeth . . .
infinite regeneration
is just
the remedy for which
I have been looking!

(note: not long after we wrote this, human teeth were grown in a lab for the first time ever.)




 

Australian Haiku Society, 2025

Winter Solstice 2025 AHS Haiga Kukai


solstice prayer
one tree holds onto
the last light


(note: poem written in response to a photograph by Wanda Amos)