Drifting- Sands-Haibun, Issue 16, July 2022

Thrilled to receive two of ten awards for haiku and tanka in the Monuments Contest No. 1, in memory of Rachel Sutcliffe. My thanks to the judges, Richard Grahn and Christopher Seep (who provided his inspiring photographs)!

canyonlands

a meadowlark sings

me out of myself

First Place Haiku

awaiting

rain's unkept promise

crops wither

in the dust of dreams

passed down to me

First Place Tanka

Also delighted that the following haiga was chosen for this issue's cover:

(Note: this haiku received a Haiku Laureate Award in the 2021 Hexapod Contest)

Viewing Stone Association of North America, August 2022

Feature: Poems, Prose, and Paintings

 

Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2022

artificial reef

an eagle ray flies

from room to room

the silk tunnel

of a webspinner . . .

self-isolation

alpine trail

the breath

we give away

 

Stardust Haiku, Issue 67, July 2022

forest meditation

the whispersongs

of Canada jays

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Issue 4, July 2022

July 27, 2022

 

Presence, Number 73, July 2022

a scavenging of gulls this bickering over the dead

komorebi . . .

you are still with me

in this moment

(note: komorebi - sunlight filtering through trees)

a rusty camper

peeks through barn doors . . .

so many adventures

still waiting for the time

we never seem to have

Haiga in Focus, Issue 52, August 2022

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld

Translated into German

Honoured to have the following haiga selected as the Editor's Choice:

Claudia's Commentary:

The ripe panicle aspires to catch the sun's rays. Is it a sunrise or a sunset in which the grain sways? In the sun and with the sun everything completes. At the same time, holistic thoughts are formed simply and unobtrusively, incorporating a before and after. A large space of reverberation is created, which we can wander through, in which we may lose ourselves without having to feel lost. Nevertheless, melancholy also resonates. It is a contemplation on the quiet tones of life.

Frogpond, Vol. 45, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2022

the sheen

of mermaid's toenails . . .

another oil slick

(note: mermaid's toenails are shiny mollusk shells)

Lineage (a split ku sequence with Christine Villa's work in italics)

family ties

    it always

    winds down to you

    summer river

the horizontal roots

    time capsule

    we pry the lid off

    our youth

of rubber trees

    tire swing

    our laughter brighter

    than the sun

 

Dwarf Stars 2022 - The Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2021

Honoured to have the following monoku chosen for this anthology. It is one of 120 works selected from 1,371 qualifying poems. My thanks to the editors, Adele Gardner and Greer Woodward!

theremin the things we conjure out of thin air

(note: this monoku first appeared in the following haiga in Failed Haiku 6:65, 2021)

Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 7, Issue 80, August 2022

My thanks to Kelly Moyer for selecting the following haiga:

Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 18.2, August 2022

Haiga Gallery: selected by Ron Moss

Brass Bell, August 2022

Theme: water

calving glacier

i decide when

to let go

(note: this haiku first appeared as a haiga on the cover of Failed Haiku 4:46, 2019)

A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Winter 2022

northern lights

the blur of scarves

as skaters pass

Zatsuei Haiku of Merit

2019 R.H. Blyth Award

longer days . . .

I knight my sister

with an icicle

5th Honourable Mention

2018 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Competition

Whole Life Soaps Haiku Contest, 2022

Theme: nature's ability to deal with intolerance

Honoured to have the following haiku selected as a "Favourite" (ten haiku chosen from 325 entries) by the judge, William McConnell:

a refugee shelter . . .

clownfish nestle among

sea anemones

 

Geppo: The Haiku Work-Study Journal of the Yuki Teikei Haku Society, Volume XLVII:2, May 2022

February - April 2022

Honoured to be the featured artist for this issue! Please visit the "Articles/About" tab in this blog to read the feature.

bespangled

fallen

pirouette

swans

transience

Other work included in this issue:

twilight how purple the dormant butterfly bush

slow thaw

the curling stones

of mallard ducks

paper sunflowers

in the maternity ward . . .

still too soon to say

seasons turn

the way we measure

life expectancy

Spring Challenge Kigo: Spring Breeze (or Spring Wind), harukaze

spring breeze

a porcupette's quills

begin to stiffen

White Enso, Issue 5, July 2022

My thanks to the editor, Linda Gould, for her acceptance of the following haiga sequence based on traditional Japanese seasonal kigo:

spring: willow catkins

summer: sea of clouds

autumn: bird of passage

winter: frost-nipped grass

The Seasons of Sorrow

Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #10, July/August 2022

we add a layer

to the compost heap . . .

downy woodpecker

Trash Panda: Life in the Anthropocene in 17 Syllables or Less, Volume 1.2, Winter 2021-22

plastic soup

our children inherit

the recipe

Failed Haiku 3:28, 2018

 

Haiku Society of America Newsletter, Volume 37, Number 7, July 2022

My thanks to the HSA President, Jay Friedenberg, for choosing the following monoku for commentary:

assigned gender the 25,000 sexes of split-grill mushrooms

Kontinuum, Volume 1.1, 2021

Poets are often afraid of using their art to explore sensitive issues in politics and culture. This monoku does just that. There is a lot of current debate over how gender is determined, for example whether it is primarily biological in nature or more shaped by environment. Debbie Strange sets the stage with the first two words but what follows takes us on an interesting detour. It is the case that some fungi have many thousands of sexes. What then does this mean for people? Nature astounds us with its variety and suggests all sorts of possibilities. There is a hidden lesson in this lesson about the natural world.

 

Triya Mag: Monsoon Edition, Issue 3.0, July 2022

Thrilled to have the following works translated into Hindi by Team Triya: Teji Sethi, Vaibhav Joshi, and Priti Chahar:

transience . . .

petal by petal

we let go

Winning Haiku (Canada)

2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational

the ocean

was in a rage last night

but today,

these peace offerings

of blue mussels and kelp

1st Place

2018 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

between the spokes

of your spinning wheel

a dusty web . . .

I never thought our lives

would so quickly unwind

1st Place

2019 British Haiku Society Awards