Honoured to know that my poem "consolation prize" has been longlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Poetry Competition! Details to follow...
Friday, May 16, 2025
Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2025
spring peepers the spaces in between
penumbra
the ring around
a vireo's eye
Tsuri-doro: A Small Journal of Haiku and Senryu, Issue #27, May/June 2025
a choirboy's ruff white daffodils
Triveni Haikai India: haikuKATHA - unfolding the story within, Issue 42, April 2025
My thanks to the editors for including the following haiga:
The Solitary Daisy, Issue 49, April 2025
Grateful to have the following work reposted from Charlotte Digregorio's blog:
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
Tea: All the Time it Takes, A Haiku Anthology, 2025
My thanks to Denise Fontaine-Pincince, the editor, for including my work in this lovely anthology!
Sunday visit
the sounding bells
of china cups
Haiku Canada Review, Volume 12, Number 2, 2018
Sonic Boom, World Collage Day 2025
My thanks to Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith for selecting the following collage for inclusion in Sonic Boom's gorgeous World Collage Day eBook (18 collages were selected from 90 submissions):
Seashores - An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, Vol. 14, April 2025
My thanks to guest editors K.J. Munro and Sherry Grant for selecting the following work:
coming rain
the frogs croak
louder
black sand beach
a chunk of ice
holds the sky
flagstone path
empty spaces softened
by moss
Ribbons, Volume 21, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2025
the way it makes me feel
sometimes
it all seems too much
to bear,
but then comes the rain
and a wood thrush singing
the scent
of petrichor through
open shutters . . .
a curtain billows
and I, too, am flying
Honoured to have the following tanka selected by Jim Chessing for his article, "How Tanka Mean—Some Thoughts on Content and Form: Part I":
I have learned
how to keep silent . . .
these pebbles
under my tongue
seasoned with rue
Cattails, April 2021
(note: "ikigai" means having a sense of purpose)
The One Art Haiku Anthology, 2025
Curated by Katie Dozier
forcing bulbs
girls who have learned
the hard way
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, May 2025
Featured May 6, 2025:
Featured May 8, 2025:
Featured May 11, 2025:
Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music: A Haiga and Tanka Art Showcase, May 2025
My thanks to the editor, David L. O'Nan for the showcase feature!
(note: this tanka received 3rd place in the 2020 San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka)
(note: this tanka received Commended honours in the 2020 The Burning Issue Tanka Contest)
(note: this monoku received 2nd Place in the 2021 Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest)
(note: this haiga was part of my woven paper series in Whiptail, Issue 7, 2023)
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(ntoe: this tanka received Commended honours in the 2020 The Burning Issue Tanka Contest)
Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 10, Number 109, May 2025
Honoured to have the following haiga selected by Kelly Moyer, the new editor:
Wondrous Instruction and Advice from Global Poets: How to Write and Publish Moving Poems and Books and Publicize Like a Pro, Charlotte Digregorio, 2025
Honoured to have the following pieces accepted for this "coffee table-size, reference book for beginning and seasoned poets, authors, and teachers." My thanks to Charlotte Digregorio!
Selected from Daily Haiku - "Love: the Good, Bad, or Ugly"
letters tied
with wind-peeled ribbons
of birch bark . . .
I guess you must have
loved me after all
Eucalypt, Issue 33, December 2022
Selected from Daily Haiku - "40 Poems Selected on the Theme of Borders":
refugees
try to cross the border . . .
this tree well
lined with frozen bits
of moss and rabbit fur
The Take 5ive Journal, July 2023
Delighted to have my comment selected for inclusion in Charlotte's survey asking respondents to comment on one of Robert Spiess's speculations from his book, "A Year's Speculations on Haiku," (Modern Haiku, 1995):
"Haiku are written best and appreciated best through the intelligence of the heart."
How do you interpret "the intelligence of the heart"?
My comment:
Perhaps Robert was referring to the relationship between cognitive and emotional intelligence. I think writing and reading short-form poetry fosters a deep mind-body connection. Much like the single brushstroke of an incomplete ensō, the writer leaves an opening for the reader to enter. Short poems, in particular, must not only be intelligently crafted, but they must also strike an emotional chord in the reader's heart.
Daily Haiga: An Edited Journal of Traditional and Contemporary Haiga, May 2025
Featured Artist: May 3, 2025
Note: this haiku was first published in Kokako 36, 2020
Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology - Consulate General of Japan in Toronto, 2025
The following haiga was presented online for the Sakura Haiku Challenge:
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