Selected by David Oates for the theme of "Passages": March 18, 2025 (reprise)
gone too soon
sakura blossoms
my old friends
Sakura Awards, Canada
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, 2015
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Presence, Number 81, March 2025
Grateful to be included in Ian Storr's last issue as editor, and I thank him for his generous support over the years!
rusted shears
the last bloom
of ladybugs
sugar maples
small boys running
until they can't
the gnarled limbs
of bristlecone pines
old age
contorts our bodies
into something other
Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 27, April 2025
moorland the beginning and onding of snow
(note: onding = heavy fall of rain or snow)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, April 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
April 1, 2025
(note: this haiga was first published in haikuKATHA, Issue 40, February 2025)
Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, March 2025
Curated by Lavana Kray
March 10, 2025
(note: this tanka received The Excellence Award, Second Place, in the 2024 Mt. Fuji Taisho Tanka Contest)
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
Fireflies' Light: A Magazine of Short Poems, Issue 31, April 2025
Note: this tanka first appeared in Red Lights 18.2, June 2022
Note: this tanka first appeared in the TSA Twitter Bird Feature, April 2024
Note: this tanka first appeared The Wise Owl, Daily Verse, July 2024
Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 11, Petulah, April 2025
Honoured to know that the editor, Steliana Voicu, nominated this poem for a 2025 Touchstone Award:
Translated into Romanian
hanafubuki
the many words
for snow
Daily Haiku: Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 2025
Daily Haiku Special - March 23, 2025
midnight sun
a polar bear's breath
catches fire
3rd Place (joint), 2024 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Contest
vintage typewriter
the spiderling adds
an asterisk
Judges' Favourites, 2023 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest
an arbutus
sheds its outer bark . . .
my skin
is the only thing
holding me together
Honourable Mention, 2024 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, April 2025
Featured Artist: April 3, 2025
Note: this tanka was first published in Presence 80, 2024
Featured Artist: April 15, 2025
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)
The Abstractaphy Initiative, April 2025
Curated by Richard Grahn
(note: this tanka/kyoka art first appeared on the cover of Prune Juice 38, 2022)
(note: this haiga first appeared in Failed Haiku Senryu Journal 4.39, 2019)
(note: this haiga first appeared in Halibut, October 2018)
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2025
to-do list
a chameleon catches
its 100th fly
beach fair
a palmist reads
the waterline
flooded field
a scurry of dunlins
harvesting worms
Acorn, Number 54, Spring 2025
My thanks to the editor, Susan Antolin, for nominating the following poem for a Touchstone Award:
we drop anchor
between planets
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