Curated by Eric A. Lohman
Featured Artist: May 11, 2026
(note: this tanka first appeared in The Art of Tanka #1, Fall/Winter 2023)
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, May 2026
Featured Artist: May 15, 2026
Note: this haiku was first published in Blithe Spirit 34.3, 2024
Creatrix: Poetry and Haiku Journal, Number 73, June 2026
sand mandalas
the flattened remains
of jellyfish
Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology - Consulate General of Japan in Toronto, 2026
The following haiga was presented online for the Sakura Haiku Challenge and is included in the 2026 anthology:
Contemporary Haibun, Volume 21, Red Moon Press, 2026
Honoured to have this haiga chosen by Ron Moss for Contemporary Haibun:
Cattails, April 2026
food insecurity
the empty throat pouch
of a nutcracker
fifth instar the nymph i once was
hospice window
the see-through skeletons
of by-the-wind sailors
shafts of light
flicker across the floor . . .
my kitten
never quite captures
her elusive enemy
Cafe Haiku: The Magazine of the Cafe Haiku Group (Mumbai, Thane, Hyderabad and Chennai), 2026
Haiga feature on the theme of "Naturescapes":
Note - these haiga feature the following Japanese kigo:
aki no kawa = autumn river
natsu no kiri = summer mist
haru no kure = spring sunset
kankin = winter birds
The Art of Tanka, Issue 6, Spring/Summer 2026
one day
by the sea is all it takes . . .
my worries
disappear like spindrift
ribboning off every wave
A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Autumn 2026
mom's vital signs
we decipher the code
of lightning bugs
Selected Haiku, 2025 Yamadera Basho Memorial Haiku Contest
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
The British Haiku Society Awards, 2025
Thrilled to receive the following award:
distant slopes
turning blue at twilight
the soft folds
of this tweed blanket draped
around father's shoulders
Runner-up, The Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award
Judge's comments:
I was struck by the poet's apt use of natural imagery. The mountains are losing their shape and form as night begins to settle in. Pairing this image with the soft folds of the blanket (draped around father's shoulders) was so evocative. A fine tanka.
—Alan Peat
Snapshot Press, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2026
Award Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2026 (for March)
Publication - The Haiku Calendar 2027 (Snapshot Press 2026)
sugar maples
small boys running
until they can't
Shortlisted for the Best-of-Issue Award in Presence 81
Romanian Kukai Group, Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, 2026
Thrilled to receive 3rd Place in this year's contest
ragged clouds
the sleeping bag inside
a refrigerator box
3rd Place
Sharpening the Green Pencil, 2026
Judge's comments:
One might be tempted to read this as an "as above, so below" haiku — but I see it operating in the opposite direction, along the lines of a certain couplet by the visionary poet William Blake (from "Auguries of Innocence"): "The Beggar's Rags, fluttering in Air, / Does to Rags the Heavens tear." This haiku may represent an even more stinging opprobrium, with the time-release power of its purer "show, don't tell" approach.
—Scott Mason
The Haiku Foundation: HaikuLife Film Festival 2026
This haiga video, comprised of previously published poems, was created to celebrate The Haiku Foundation's International Haiku Poetry Day HaikuLife Film Festival on April 17, 2026:
Haiku Ink
(with recitation)
The Haiku Foundation: Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem), April 2026
Selected by Anju Kishore for the theme of "Peace": April 16, 2026
hummingbird you lose the point of your story
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2025
The Haiku Foundation: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, April 2026
Theme: International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
cattle roundup
a charred bean can
full of rain
1st Place (joint)
Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, 2024
Blithe Spirit, Volume 36, Number 2, May 2026
shelf clouds
a lone oak pins our farm
to the map
the suchness
of oncoming sorrow
we knew
your ship was leaving,
but could not say when
Note: This issue also contains the results and commentaries for the 2025 British Haiku Society Awards which can be accessed under the British Haiku Society tag on this blog. I was thrilled to receive Runner-up in the tanka section! My thanks to the judge, Alan Peat.
Monday, April 27, 2026
Haiga in Focus, Issue 92, April 2026
Curated by Claudia Brefeld
Translated into German
Honoured to have the following haiga selected as the Editor's Choice:
Claudia's Commentary:
This haiga is a fine example of how a work unfolds gradually — yet without ever allowing itself to be fully grasped. At first glace, the connection between the haiku and the image may not be immediately apparent. However, when one considers that 'skyquake' can also be translated as 'sky trumpets', a point of intersection emerges between the haiku and the image. Skyquakes are described as a mysterious phenomenon (a loud bang that seems to come from the sky), which appears to have various causes but has never really been clearly explained. And the clouds in the sky? Are they unaffected by the events (split apart/come together), or are they part of the events?
This creates a space for interpretation that is not too vast, but just large enough to be filled with one's own associations and conjectures.
Fireflies' Light: A Magazine of Short Poems, Issue 33, April 2026
Note: this tanka was first published in Red Lights 20.1, January 2024 (I inadvertently omitted the last word of the first line in this tanka art version - the sacred fire)
Note: this tanka was first published in GUSTS 25, Spring/Summer 2017
Note: this tanka was first published in Kokako 42, April 2025
Note: this tanka was first published in GUSTS 28, Fall/Winter 2018
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