A Touch of Sunrise: The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2026

I'm honoured to be a content provider for The Haiku Foundation's HaikuLife Film Festival, Haiga Galleries, Haiku of the Day, New to Haiku, Haiku For Parkinson's, re:Virals, among others. I have also donated several artworks to the Gift Shop as tokens of my thanks!

campfire nights

we ride in  on the back

of a song

3rd Place, NZPS International Competition, 2025

Lost and Found, Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 2026

sugar maples

small boys running

until they can't

Shortlisted for Best-of-Issue Award, Presence, Issue 81

Disability Ways: An Anthology About Disability Gain by d/Deaf and Disabled Writers, Arts Accessibility Network Manitoba, 2026

My thanks to the editors, Diane Driedger and L(ani) Zastre for including my work in this important anthology!

mycelium

entering the woodland

as it enters me,

knurled roots sinking

into moss, lichens, and loam

wearing this empty nest

like a broken crown,

studded with feathers

and eggshell afflictions

breath-bathing between

godly shafts of light,

anointed with the dew

of belongingness

othering here

in this sacred place,

decayed body fruiting

into visibility

 

Sakura Fubuki: Pakistan Japan Cultural Association Islamabad (PJCA), First International Multilingual Haiku Anthology, Summer 2026

Thrilled to have the following haiku included in this anthology on the theme of cherry blossoms and translated into Urdu and Japanese:

mother's passing

this fallen branch

of sakura

Haiku 2026: 100 Notable Ku from 2025, Modern Haiku Press, 2026

Thrilled to be included in this anthology edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz!

moorland the beginning and onding of snow

(note: "onding" = heavy fall of rain or snow)

NOON: Journal of the Short Poem 27

Haiku Girl Summer: A Picnic Sky, 2023 - 2025, 2026

splash pad

bubbles run away

with the light

sun dress

the clear margins

of her biopsy

sand dunes

this path leading

to the clouds

Keeping Faith, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society 50th Anniversay Members' Anthology 1975 - 2025, 2025

My thanks to the editor, Gregory Longenecker!

freight train the rags of a vagabond moon

candy floss

hair ice transforms

a rotten branch

Members' Celebratory Haiku:

fox's wedding

this metamorphosis

of light

Also included in this anthology is "The Poet's Journey" by Ellen Brooks, who created and performed a kyogen style dance using haiku composed by the society's members. The dance was performed at the society's fiftieth anniversary dinner held on May 10, 2025, and again at the Haiku Retreat on November 6, 2025. I was over the moon to know that the following two haiku were incorporated into her performance:

my body

becoming weightless . . .

spindrift

yutori

offering my held breath

to the wind

(note: yutori = the Japanese philosophy of creating space (mentally, physically, and emotionally) for joy and longevity)

Waka Society of America, Petals Journal (Waka in English), 2026

that afternoon

we lay together beyond

our garden wall . . .

undulating mosses still

mimic the shape of you

one window

remains in the church

where we danced

coloured shafts of light

tango with shadows

I weave

a mourning cloak on the loom

of your loss,

obsidian threads pulled from

storm clouds and starless nights

this dull ache

of yearning every autumn . . .

I recall how

the wind played with your hair,

your hands played with mine

Blossoms in the Breeze: Twenty Years of Haiku from the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, 2026

Thrilled to be included in this gorgeous anthology of the top winners of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational from 2006-2025. Grateful thanks to the 2017 VCBF Judges, Devar Dahl, Angelee Deodhar, and Billie Wilson, and to the editor, Michael Dylan Welch!

transience . . .

petal by petal

we let go

Canada Winner

 

Upstate Dim Sum, Route 9 Haiku Group - A Biannual Anthology of Haiku and Senryu, Number 1, Spring 2026

Honoured to be the guest poet for this issue of Upstate Dim Sum!

bowed lyre

a willow shouldering

the wind

an obituary

I did not expect to see . . .

frost smoke

someone's mitten

frozen to the slough . . .

fallow fields

empty beach

gulls have lost their reason

to squawk

whale bones

snow makes a church

of them

inky caps

make their own puddles . . .

valley rain

Special thanks to Ion Codrescu for creating this lovely haiga for inclusion in the issue:

Stars in the Seaweed, Haiku Canada Members' Anthology 2026

foreclosure

a barn spider ties up

loose ends of light

Shortlisted for Best-of-Issue Award, Presence 75

Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology - Consulate General of Japan in Toronto, 2026

The following haiga was presented online for the Sakura Haiku Challenge and is included in the 2026 anthology:

Contemporary Haibun, Volume 21, Red Moon Press, 2026

Honoured to have this haiga chosen by Ron Moss for Contemporary Haibun:

World Haiku, Number 22, 2026

Translated into Japanese

bag lady

a halo of pigeons

circling her head

garden rookery

the sycamore fills

with shadows

laden branches

chickadees displaces

a thousand stars

Note: these haiku previously appeared in Geppo

Turf Cottage: Haiku and Senryu from the pages of Tsuri-Doro, 2026

Honoured to have the following work selected by the editor, Tony Pupello, for inclusion in the 2026 anthology!

banshee fog

a barn owl summons

the night

new-fallen snow

the traces of things

unseen

 

Waka Society of America, Songbirds Anthology, 2026

misty blue

nigella sways against

a stone wall . . .

the seeds of love we kept,

and those we gave away

barred owls

pair-bonded for life

sometimes

the eyes say everything

that needs to be said

Onions in Moonlight: Tanka Society of America Members' Anthology 2025

withered leaves

filigreed with frost . . .

all the time

it takes to transform

tarnish into silver

Turtle Dreams: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2025

eulogy

the blur of water

over stones

Frogpond 48.1, 2025

Dadakuku: The 2025 Anthology

My thanks to the editor, Petro C.K.!

Clothing Does Not Equal Consent

they say it's her fault the (basal) cleavage (of mica)

inner pinna

that song in my earwigging

Double Horizon: An International Haiku Anthology, The Fishing Cat Press, 2025

Grateful to have work selected and translated by Jean Antonini and Gilles Fabre (and team) for this anthology!

Translated into French

cattle roundup

a charred bean can

full of rain

1st Place, 2024 Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest

bioluminescence

I skip a pebble across

the universe

seashores, Volume 2, 2019

1st Place, 2019 OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition

glassy lake

flocks of snow geese

pull up the moon

1st Place, 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Contest

starflowers

light the woodland . . .

we find our way

Award Winner, The 2017 Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition

scrub jay

nothing left of the blue

in dad's jeans

2nd Place, 2024 Betty Drevniok Award

marsh marigolds

dark waters patched

with light

Highly Commended, 2023, New Zealand Poetry Society Int'l Competition

My Perspective:

When I first set foot along the haiku path, I had no idea how much it would engulf and expand my world! My daily haiku practice helps mitigate the effects of chronic illness by focussing my mind on joy rather than pain. Over the years, it has become a healing and a meditative force. These little poems have enriched my life beyond measure by introducing me to the work of the global haiku community. The poet an'ya, was the first editor to publish my work, and I am forever grateful to her for changing the course of my writing life.

Note:

I was honoured to learn that Gilles Fabre and Jean Antonini gave an interview, and read my perspective on haiku (among others) on French radio!