Dwarf Stars 2025 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2024

Honoured to have the following work chosen for this anthology of shortlisted poems. My thanks to the editor, Miguel O. Mitchell!

a fawn steps

into the fairy ring . . .

lunar eclipse

The Cicada's Cry, Summer 2024

 

Haiku 2025: 100 Notable Ku from 2024, Modern Haiku Press, 2025

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

reproductive choice making a baby glacier

Password: Journal of Very Short Poetry, Issue 1.2, May 2024

Haiku 21.2: An Anthology of Contemporary English-language Haiku, 2025

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

summer fair

our dog retrieves

a lost boy

Mariposa 40, Spring/Summer 2019

soft rain

the lily and I with stars

in our throats

Under the Basho, 2018

Each in Our Own Way, Tanka Society of America Members' Anthology 2024

Edited by Michele L. Harvey

a waterfall,

translucent against

this mountain . . .

your face as you slip

beyond the veil

 

The Heron's Nest, Volume 26, 2024

snow crater

the waterfall sculpts

its own geology

boreal shadows

we follow the sunbursts

of lichen

 

Best of Geppo: 1978-2024, 2025

Grateful to have the following photograph included in this lovely anthology:

Bespangled

 

(note: this photograph was included among my featured artist selections in Geppo XLVII:2, 2022)

World Haiku Association, Number 21, 2025

Translated into Japanese

vespers

the mantis begins

to sway

fledged robins

a discarded kettle

lined with mud

beaver dam

salmon seek refuge

from the drought

Note: these haiku previously appeared in Akitsu Quarterly

 

A Confluence of Mythology, Haiku Canada Members' Anthology 2025

scrub jay

nothing left of the blue

in dad's jeans

2nd Place, 2024 Betty Drevniok Award

Waka Society of America, Petals Journal (Waka in English), Premier Edition, May 2025

Honoured to have the following waka selected by the editor, an'ya, for the inaugural issue of Petals:

I watched you

riding over bare hills

toward home

your palomino's mane

sifting the last sunrays

this glass bowl

of mollusc fragments

you showed me

how to catch the light

and how to let it go

chinook winds

keening your name

I am stung

by gusts of grief

and helplessness

pale bodies

glistening with sand

and water

the skin of our youth

sculpted by sunlight

Tea: All the Time it Takes, A Haiku Anthology, 2025

My thanks to Denise Fontaine-Pincince, the editor, for including my work in this lovely anthology!

Sunday visit

the sounding bells

of china cups

Haiku Canada Review, Volume 12, Number 2, 2018

The One Art Haiku Anthology, 2025

Curated by Katie Dozier

forcing bulbs

girls who have learned

the hard way

Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology - Consulate General of Japan in Toronto, 2025

The following haiga was presented online for the Sakura Haiku Challenge and is included in the 2025 anthology:

Contemporary Haibun, Volume 20, Red Moon Press, 2025

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

(note: this haiga received 2nd Place in the 2024 Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition)

 

Telling the Bees: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2024

scrub jay

nothing left of the blue

in dad's jeans

2nd Place

Betty Drevniok Award, 2024

 

Origami Butterflies, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2024

My thanks to the editor, Gregory Longenecker!

winterberry

the first holiday

alone

late thaw

a ribbon of water

unspools

Members' Challenge Haiku:

rows of maize

we put our affairs

in order

United Haiku and Tanka Society, Songbirds Waka Online Journal, 2025

in the final

blue vestiges of night

a vixen's eyes

flashing like mine before

I lean into your kiss

the flames

of autumn foliage

ignite

so too this memory

of a love forgotten

night descends

and fireflies light up

the meadow

you trace a star map

across my belly

curtains

of clematis hide us

from view

let us lie together

a little while longer

restlessness

seeps into my blood

come autumn

how far must I roam

in search of your heart

 

Tan-ku for Ukraine - A world Haiku and Tanka Anthology, December 2024

My thanks to the compiler, Dimitar Anakiev, and to the pubisher, Gabriela Zaneva, for including the following work in this anthology:

cold war

the fallen rank and file

of sunflowers

Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Haiku Contest, 2022

fields of gold

gleam against blue sky . . .

all the times

we have taken

freedom for granted

The Bamboo Hut: Fields of Gold - Poems of Peace, 2022

Shining Wind Haiku Anthology, 2024

Thrilled to have the following haiku on the theme of "light" selected for this collaboration between the British Haiku Society and Bulgarian haiku poets. My thanks to editors A.A. Marcoff, David Bingham, Iliyana Stoyanova, Vladislav Hristov, and to assistant editor, Maya Daneva. Special thanks to the translators, Darina Deneva, Iliyana Stoyanova, Maya Daneva.

Translated into Bulgarian

inner shine

ensōs of ice define

each pebble

Humour, British Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2024

keep your nose

against the grindstone

they said,

but now I have nowhere

to rest my glasses

Eye to Eye, Tanka Society of America Members' Anthology 2023

Edited by Randy Brooks

winter light . . .

nuggets of purple mica

gleam on my desk

and suddenly, I can

think only of lilacs