Thursday, October 09, 2025

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Haiku Invitational, 2025

afternoon tea
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

 

Trash Panda, Volume 9, Summer 2025

petroglyphs
a kayak claimed
by the rocks

Mariposa 51

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!




 

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








Smols, October 2025

ornithologicallyinclined 


I crow you ⓒraven

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

Horror Senryu Journal, September 2025

buried alive
snakes uncoil
from my hair

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, September 2025

 Featured September 13, 2025:




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

Haiga in Focus, Issue 86, October 2025

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld


Translated into German







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)