Sunday, November 23, 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




Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, October 2025

Featured October 23, 2025:




Hedgerow Poems, Number 150, 2025

forked trail
we add to the confusion
of cairns

Haiku Canada Review, Volume 19, Number 2, October 2025

hired hand
smoke rings encircle
the sun

Haiga in Focus, Issue 87, November 2025

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld


Translated into German





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



First Frost, #10, Fall 2025

stage four
the incense loses
its ash

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:








Chrysanthemum, Number 35, October 2025

Translated into German




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




Hope, British Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2025

peace talks
the sunflowers scatter
their seeds

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



Acorn, Number 55, Fall 2025

lavender fields
the seeds of dusk
begin to bloom