Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, August 2025

Featured August 11, 2025:

 

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, July 2025

Featured July 30, 2025:

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2025

Honoured to have the following vispo (visual poetry), "Departure", shortlisted  and selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith (15 works selected from 80) for this year's gallery:

This 12 X 9 landscape collage features handpainted papers and a found poem culled from H. Albert Hochbaum's "To Ride the Wind."

Sonic Boom, World Collage Day 2025

My thanks to Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for selecting the following collage for inclusion in Sonic Boom's gorgeous World Collage Day eBook (18 collages were selected from 90 submissions):

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, May 2025

Featured May 6, 2025:

Featured May 8, 2025:

Featured May 11, 2025:

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, April 2025

Featured April 22, 2025:

Featured April 26, 2025:

Petrichor, Number 27, Pebbles Volume 5, April 2025

 groupthink I don't know what to

Kokako, Number 42, April 2025

Grateful to the editor, Graham Bates, for selecting "a fluttering of sparrows" monoprint for the cover:

The following work was also included in this issue:

whooper swans

the turning maples

nearly as loud

devil winds

someone's world

on fire

cultivating

this garden acreage

my hands

rejoice in working

the soil you once tilled

nightingales

once lived in this hazel

I still miss

the soothing cadence

of my father's voice

(note: the haiga above was a collaborative effort - Graham Bates provided the image and  I provided the poem)

Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, April 2025

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman

Featured Artist: April 3, 2025

The Abstractaphy Initiative, December 2024

 Curated by Richard Grahn

Artist's Statement:

A word-weaving of culled Wikipedia details regarding Treaty 1 (in my home province of Manitoba) affixed to stained watercolour paper, referencing the boil-water advisories on many First Nations in Canada.

(note: Shortlisted, 2023 Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest)

(note: this haiga first appeared in Frameless Sky, Issue 17, December 2022)

(note: this haiga first appeared in The Bamboo Hut, Number 2, September 2023)

Humana Obscura, Issue Number 11, Winter 2024

winter solstice

your lantern disappears

over the hill

featherweight

Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, Issue 13, October 2024

Happy to have my "abstract(ions) #1-4" series in this issue! This series was inspired by the way in which the dregs of inks and paints on my palette foster creative play and encourage me to surrender to the process.

 

Utriculi, Issue 1, Part 2, September 2024

Thrilled to have the following artworks selected for the inaugural issue:

 

Collage Series A: Logolepsy

(noun - an obsession with words)

Gumusservi

 (noun - moonlight shining on water)

Selcouth

(adjective - unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvellous)

Sweven

(noun - a vision seen in sleep; a dream)

Collage Series B: Bricolage

(noun - construction achieved by whatever comes to hand)

Collide and Shatter

More Than Ash

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, August and September 2024

Thrilled to have the following paper collages from my series, "(de)constructing a life, included:

#1 - between layers of life

#2 - until this paper life is thin

#3 - my only life

#4 - leftover life

 

#DebbieMStrangeBookmarkGratitudeProject, 2023-2024

To mark my tenth year of publishing (2013-2023), I made over 200 bookmarks and sent them to editors around the world who have been supportive of my work. I used a variety of techniques for this labour of love, such as collage, painting, mono-printing, or photography from my abstract series, "The Poetry of Light" (all the images from this exhibition can be accessed under the exhibition tab of this blog).

I am forever grateful for all the encouragement I have received over the years. Though I've been writing songs, stories, and poetry since childhood, I didn't start taking it "seriously" until my first haiku acceptance from the esteemed poet, an'ya, which changed the course of my writing life.

I have dedicated five hours a day to writing and making art over the course of this last decade. This daily meditative practice has helped mitigate the debilitating effects of chronic illness, allowing me focus on joy rather than pain!

Thousands of my poems and artworks have now been published in hundreds of journals internationally and translated into many languages, and several books of my work have been released. This journey has enriched my life beyond measure, and has exceeded my wildest dreams!

I couldn't have done any of this without the staunch support of my husband, family, friends, and the global community of short-form poets who welcomed me into the fold. There are not enough words to convey my gratitude and love. I am indeed blessed!

(note: please click on the image to enlarge it for better clarity)
 

Bottle Rockets, Vol. 26, Number 1 (or #51), August 2024

food bank/ing on the kindness of strangers

 

Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest, 2024

Thrilled that the following vispo (visual poetry), "Depression Era", received an Honourable Mention in Sonic Boom's 2024 annual contest and was selected by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for this year's gallery:

Artist's Statement:

A paper collage embellished with frayed burlap and fabric symbolizing how women learned to "make do" during the Depression Era. The grains of wheat and ration ticket represent food insecurity and the lack of the most basic items after countless farmers lost their land. The staple stitching works to bring these two themes together.

Sonic Boom, World Collage Day 2024

My thanks to Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for selecting the following collage for inclusion in Sonic Boom's gorgeous World Collage Day eBook (30 collages were selected from 135 submissions):

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

 

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, February 2024

Thrilled to have the following two paper collages and four small poems featured on February 29, 2024:

Note: these paper collages incorporate phrases culled from my book, "Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads"

bones thinning the only part of me

flow state of the mind's ink

mackerel sky bones disintegrating into rain

echolalia

echolali

echolal

echola

echol

echo

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