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)

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - September 2024

Word and Image Feature - concrete poem: September 26, 2024

weeding out the truth this paradox of INtolerance

Artist's Statement:

The inspiration for this word cloud stems from exploring the arbitrary ways in which people look at the question of tolerant, versus intolerant, behaviours in the human and natural world. Weeding out fact from fiction in this volatile political climate can be challenging. Much like keeping a garden in check, we must choose what to keep and what to pull. The haphazard scattering of words illustrates the chaotic and myriad choices we make on a daily basis, as well as the anarchic nature of a neglected garden. The coloured fonts represent differences in gender, race, and religion as well as the diverse hues of weeds and wildflowers.

I think concrete poems add an interesting dimension to the haiku//senryu experience. Their visuals create a dynamic call-and-response effect between words and format, reinforcing the message by inviting readers to delve more deeply into the concept.

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - February 2024

Word and Image: Pride Feature, February 26, 2024

Pride/Prejudice

Note: this paper weaving represents a broken flag and incorporates words culled from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to reflect the ongoing erosion of LGBTQ2S+ rights

 

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2023

 The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

December 25, 2023

(note: this haiga first appeared in Cattails, April 2019)

December 29, 2023

(note: this haiga first appeared in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2021 Haiga Holiday Celebration)

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - October 2023

Word and Image Feature for National Poetry Day: Refuge

(note: this haiga previously appeared in Scryptic 2.2, August 2018)

 

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2022

 The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

December 24, 2022

(note: this haiga first appeared in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2020 Haiga Holiday Celebration)

December 31, 2022

(note: this senryu first appeared in #FemkuMag 9, 2019)

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - October 2022

Word and Image Feature for National Poetry Day: The Environment Oct. 9/22

(note: this haiga previously appeared in Human/Kind Journal 1.8, 2019)

 

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - July 2022

Word and Image Feature - July 15, 2022

My thanks to The Repeat Beat Poet for selecting my vispo (visual poetry) "Goodbye"! This piece was created using an original photograph, overpainted and embellished with natural and digital elements, with text culled from my book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations (Sable Books 2020).

 

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - September 2021

Word and Image Feature - September 17, 2021

My thanks to Desree for selecting this "pwoermd" artwork!

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2020

The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

First Day, December 21, 2020

(note: this haiga first appeared in Under the Basho, 2020)

 

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2018

The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

Ninth Day, December 30, 2018

fog deepens

the sound of rabbits

nibbling night

Grand Prize, 2016 World Haiku Competition

on the tundra

caging a winter sky

caribou bones

3rd Place, 2014 UHTS Hortensia Anderson Haiku Awards

snowy field

the owls we thought

were stones

HM, 2017 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2017

The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

Twelfth Day, January 2, 2018

This haiga received the Award of Excellence for the 2015 World Haiku Association Commemorative Haiga Contest.

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - December 2016

The Twelve Days of Christmas Feature

Eighth Day (December 29, 2016):

Living Above Ground


not allowed
to have bird feeders
or flowers
on the balcony
I am withering

cars racing
down the main drag
on humid nights
squealing tires anathema
to my wintering heart

unfinished
a skyscraper cages
the harvest moon
freedom comes sooner
for some than for others

beneath
my third floor window
six deer
with snow on their backs
the warm blood of stones