outdoor wedding
an unexpected flurry
of cabbage whites
Haiku Laureate Award
Hexapod Haiku Contest, 2021
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, June 2022
Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: June 18, 2022
(Note: this haiku first appeared in the Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:1, 2021-22)
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 7, Issue 78, June 2022
My thanks to Pippa Phillips for selecting the following haiga for the food and drink issue:
Eucalypt, Issue 32, May 2022
maples flame
across the hillside
how modest
our plumage against
the audacity of autumn
Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 57, June 2022
new playlist
the rhyming songs
of humpbacks
roadkill
our first glimpse
of a bald eagle
Cafe Haiku: The Magazine of the Cafe Haiku Group (Mumbai, Thane, Hyderabad and Chennai), June 2022
Haiga feature on the theme of "emergence": June 14, 2022
Brass Bell, June 2022
Theme: one-line haiku
meteor gone before i can say it
(note: this monoku first appeared in Otata 42, June 2019)
Blithe Spirit, Vol. 32, Number 2, May 2022
the loudness
of contemplation . . .
urban graveyard
fire dancers
twirl the night between
their fingers . . .
your synapses spark
before sputtering out
Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2022
unfurled petals
I flatten the belly
of my brush
brush fire
the five-alarm bells
of prairie dogs
Monday, May 30, 2022
Tinywords, Issue 22.1, May 2022
Note: this tanka received 2nd Place in the 2018 Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
Parkinson's Art Academy: Tulips for Breakfast Haiku Course, September 2021
Honoured to have the following haiga chosen by Stella Pierides for her Introduction to Haiku presentation - a free 8 week course for people affected by Parkinson's, their families, and friends:
(Note: this haiga first appeared in the 2020 Under the Basho Haiga Gallery)
(Note: this haiku received a Zatsuei Haiku of Merit in the World Haiku Review's 2019 R.H. Blyth Award)
I have given permission for Stella to use the above-mentioned haiga indefinitely.
The Ending Hasn't Happened Yet: A Theatrical Experience - Every Body Has a Story, May 7th and 8th, 2022
Two nights of unique virtual performances, presented by The Story Shepherds: Harper Hendrickson, Lana Phillips, Elizabeth Meade and Laura Hope-Gill. Based on the anthology The Ending Hasn't Happened Yet, edited by Hannah Soyer and published by Sable Books.
Director's Statement:
"Being and becoming Disabled fills a life as much as it creates challenges. This theatrical production, using as texts poems from the anthology The Ending Hasn't Happened Yet, edited by Hannah Soyer, presents the stories of being in a body that walks by or doesn't speak clearly, unaware of its own precarious normalcy. When we speak of our bodies, we speak of all aspects of life that they hold. These glimpses of life with disability reveal passion, love, grief, joy, beauty and humor through an unfiltered lens. We are disabled. Our entire lives are a creative process. Every body has a story."
—Laura Hope-Gill, deaf
Afflicted
as if I were
this ash-filled burl,
black veins
of decay winding through
my body like a river
hares boxing
in the flush of dawn . . .
it seems
impossible to defeat
an opponent I can't see
a raven
believed it could fly
through me
unaware that I am glass,
pretending to be sky
I have learned
how to keep silent . . .
these pebbles
under my tongue
seasoned with rue
Publication Credits
1st verse: Commended Tanka, Mandy's Pages, The Burning Issue 2020 Tanka Contest
2nd verse: Red Lights 15.2, June 2019
3rd verse: 3rd Place, 2020 San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
4th verse: Cattails, April 2021
Burnt Diary: Memoir in Haibun and Tanka Prose, Moth Orchid Press, 2022
My thanks to the editor for including the following haibun and tanka prose in this lovely anthology:
Coming Undone
She always wore the same sweater. I've kept it all these years, and I wear it whenever my memories of her start to fade. Today, the last button came off, and I put it in the sweater's frayed pocket for safekeeping. When it slipped through a hole, and dropped between the floorboards, I finally realized that she was never coming home.
heirloom quilt
sparrow prints embossed
on new snow
2nd Publisher's Choice Award
KYSO Flash Haibun and Tanka Prose Contest, 2016
Totems
When I live on the prairie, I long for the sea. When I live by the water, I yearn for the land. I am always living either half-empty or half-full, my totem selves pulling me in opposite directions.
my weathered skin
crusted with salt and dirt
the aftertaste
of this life and the last
where do I go from here
Skylark 3:2, 2015
The Bamboo Hut: Fields of Gold - Poems of Peace, 2022
My thanks to the editor, Steve Wilkinson, for including my work in this anthology. All proceeds will be donated to the Disaster Emergency Committee to benefit those displaced and impacted by the war in Ukraine. The book's title is taken from my tanka:
fields of gold
gleam against blue sky . . .
all the times
we have taken
freedom for granted
Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 8, April 2022
community pasture
someone else's cows
come when we call
shelterbelt
half of the lake
a mirror
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, May 2022
Curated by Lavana Kray
May 3, 2022
(Note: this haiga was first published in colour in Haigaonline's 2021 Winter Gallery)
May 25, 2022
(Note: this tanka art was first published in Ribbons 14.1, 2018)
Haiku 2022: 100 Notable Ku from 2021, Modern Haiku Press, 2022
Thrilled to be included in this anthology edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz!
freight train the rags of a vagabond moon
Geppo XLVI.4
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