Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 10, Number 111, September 2025

Honoured to have the following work selected for this final issue of the journal. I'm beyond grateful to Mike Rehling for his generous support over the years, and to all of the editors and guest editors who have selected my work. Special thanks to Kelly Moyer for putting together this last issue - a labour of love for all concerned!

The Abstractaphy Initiative, August 2025

 Curated by Richard Grahn

(note: this haiga first appeared in Sonic Boom 11, April 2018)

(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku Senryu Journal 6.62, 2021)

(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku Senryu Journal 3.28, 2018)

Geppo: The Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Volume L:1, February 2025

November 2024 - January 2025

Grateful to have a mention of my new book, Random Blue Sparks, included in this issue!

soup kitchen the salt and pepper hair of a veteran

light ricochets

off a snowy owl's wing . . .

ice pellets

hot tenting

the sudden sizzle

of northern lights

new year's thaw

all the snowmen

losing weight

Winter Challenge Kigo: Winter Mountain, fuyu no yama

clouds crash

into the winter mountain . . .

pain flare

Honoured to know that "soup kitchen" and "new year's thaw" were included among Dojin Patricia J. Machmiller's favourites!

Also honoured that "new year's thaw" was included among the "Voted Best" (7 or more votes) in the subsequent issue,

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), May 2025

Selected by Jim Kacian for the theme of "Haiku About Glaciers": May 3, 2025

calving glacier

i decide when

to let go

Failed Haiku 4.46, 2019

The Cicada's Cry: A Micro-Zine of Haiku Poetry, Summer 2025

ice cream cart

a child counting

sand dollars

Triya Mag: Monsoon Edition, June/July 2025

Translated into Hindi

sea pebbles

glistening in the sun

we, too

lose more of ourselves

with every passing wave

Honourable Mention, 2020 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards

snowmelt

the wild crocuses

you loved

2nd Place, 2019 Morioka International Haiku Contest

 

Sonic Boom, July 2025

worry bone the sperm whale clicking inside my jaw

Prune Juice, Issue 46, August 2025

Grateful to have the following work included in the last issue edited by Antoinette Cheung and P.H. Fischer:

tsundoku

we don't know what

we don't know

(note: tsundoku: the art of book accumulation)

 

#FemkuMag, Issue 39, Summer 2025

fogged in

a friend jumps off the bridge

to nowhere

bully culture

six coyotes surround

a mule deer

if we had one

to call our own . . .

star nursery

Note: this issue also includes a lovely review of Random Blue Sparks. It can be accessed under the Random Blue Sparks tab of this blog. My deepest thanks to Rowan Beckett Minor for the sensitive reading and commentary.

 

Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 44, June 2025

My thanks to the editors for including the following haiga:

Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, June 2025

Featured June 27, 2025:

Haiga in Focus, Issue 84, July 2025

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld

Translated into German

Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 10, Number 110, July 2025

Thrilled to have the following collaborations and translations included in this issue:

German Translations and Images by Claudia Brefeld (senryu by me):

Köcherfliegen

das Abstreifen der Hülle

von dem, was war

ikterischer Himmel

das Baby, das es nicht

nach Hause schafft

Kyoka collaboration with Graham Bates:

shark teeth . . .

infinite regeneration

is just

the remedy for which

I have been looking!

(note: not long after we wrote this, human teeth were grown in a lab for the first time ever.)

 

Suspect Device Punkzine, Number 16, June 2025

Turning Japanese : Crossroads

My thanks to the editor, Tim Gardiner, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:

autumn winds

a shift in the balance

of power

Shadow Pond Journal, Issue 5, June 2025

theme: love

golden anniversary the moonflower's heart-shaped leaves

Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, June 2025

 Curated by Lavana Kray

June 3, 2025

(note: this haiga first appeared in colour in Failed Haiku 9:106, January 2025)

June 25, 2025:

(note: this haiku received 3rd Place in the 2018 Irish Haiku Society International Competition)

Tinywords, Issue 25.1, May 2025

Note: this haiku received 1st Place in the 2024 Triveni Awards

 

Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, May 2025

 Curated by Lavana Kray

May 21, 2025

(note: this haiga first appeared in colour in Chrysanthemum 32, 2024)

Dadakuku, May 2025

inner pinna

that song in my earwigging

The One Art Haiku Anthology, 2025

Curated by Katie Dozier

forcing bulbs

girls who have learned

the hard way