One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume 4, 2018

Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu


frazil ice
on a mountain lake
at breakup
the tinkling chimes
signal your departure


A Hundred Gourds, 4:2, March 2015

One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume 3, 2017

Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu

Featured Poet:

The daily practice of crafting tanka is akin to writing lyrics. It connects me more closely to the natural world, and to myself.

Best Tanka:

migrating geese

writing cursive letters

across the sky

I finally read between

the white of your lies

Runner-up

British Haiku Society Tanka Awards, 2014/15

f i s s u r e s
and (whose) fault lines
cracking open
we try to mend the damage
of our quaking lives


Undertow Tanka Review 1, August 2014

Tanka of my choice:

the growth rings

of otoliths and trees . . .

when did she
become smaller

than her daughters

2nd Place

United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017

the pair bonds

of prairie voles . . .

she asks

if he used to be

her husband

3rd Place

United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017

the architecture

of impending storms . . .

every cloud

that hangs over me

has a given name

Honourable Mention

United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition 2017

One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume 2, 2016

Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu


crossing over
the bridge of sighs
I felt you
folding into me
folding into prayer


Gusts 19, Spring/Summer 2014

One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume 1, 2014

Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu


on father's coffin
the cowboy hat and polished boots
of a prairie Gael
the skirling pipes
that sing him home


Skylark, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 2013