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  • Touchstone Award 2023 nomination

    Honored to have a poem published in the #waleshaiku Journal nominated for a #TouchstoneAward2023.

    Grateful to the editors Joe Woodhouse & C X Turner (Luci) for the selection, support, and encouragement.

    Congratulations & best wishes to all nominees.

    https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/post/touchstone-award-23-nominations

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday and #THF’s #HaikuDialogue day! Guest Editor Alex Fyffe gave the theme- All the World’s a Stage—intermission.

    My #haiku published thanks to him. Congratulations to all featured poets.

  • The Cicada’s Cry

    Woke up to see the beautiful micro-zine of haiku poetry —The Cicada’s Cry, Winter 2023 Edition with my #haiku featured in it.

    I loved the charming presentation and am deeply honored to be among the 12 featured poets. Grateful to Joanne M Reinbold, Editor for the acceptance & publication. 🙏💕
    Read the lovely issue here:

    https://thecicadascry.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-cicadas-cry-winter-2023-edition.html

  • Pan Haiku Review

    The wait is over. Alan Summers, Editor @haikutec has released the new and expanded Issue 2 of the #PanHaikuReview.

    Honored to have my “rice-planting” #haiku published in The Heron’s Nest republished along with my new haiku “knob-billed ducks”. Grateful dear Alan 🙏 #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #haikupoetry, #kigo

    rice-planting
    the old woman’s song
    tinged with sorrow

    The Heron’s Nest Volume XXV, Number 3: September 2023

    just the croaks
    of knob-billed ducks….
    a long night

    Pan haiku Review, issue 2

    My unpublished haiku has an autumn kigo—”long night” as in autumn, the days are shorter and the nights longer.

    A blockbuster issue filled with nuggets of poetry and articles- a Kigo Lab Special. Congratulations to all featured poets.

    Read the interesting issue here:
    https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/

  • Creative Inspirations

    Grateful to Rev. Maurice Reynolds, Owner-Editor for featuring my poem “Hope” in the January / February issue of Creative Inspirations.

    The theme was New Year and Hope is the new-born baby we hold in our arms.

  • Poetry Pea Journal

    @PoetryPea Journal 2.23, December 2022 is out.

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire for featuring my 7 #haiku & #senryu—3 of them featured in the earlier #podcasts. 💕

    The highlight is the insightful #commentary by the Judge – Jerome Berglund on my “rising fog” haiku which was selected by him for Honorable Mention on the theme of toriawase. Another haiku “city rush” also received Honorable Mention in the flash ku.

    The #journal carries my #haibun “Frozen” paired with Ravi Kiran’s beautiful haiku. Thanks Ravi for sharing it!

    @ThePoetryPea
    @pealogic
    @berglundjeromehaiku

    www. poetrypea.com

  • The Wise Owl – Daily Verse

    In #DailyVerse feature of The Wise Owl – “Anthem” on the theme of Revival. Thewiseowl Emag

    Grateful dear Rachna for featuring it with beautiful tulips.

    https://www.dailyversethewiseowl.art/

  • Espacio Luna Alfanje

    Grateful to Jorge Alberto Giallorenzi, Editor, Espacio Luna Alfanje for featuring my #haiku in English and Hindi with a photo by him in the January 2024 issue. My haiku has been translated in #spanish by him. The theme is New Year.

    Congratulations to all #poets whose work has been included.

    micropoetry, #newyear, #poetry

  • THF Monthly Kukai

    Grateful for the good news received today from The Haiku Foundation’s Monthly #Kukai contest—my haiku won the 1st Prize (tie). The theme was “festival”. In December there were 141 submissions from twenty-six countries across five continents. Seventy-five voters casting ballots determined the results.

    Thanks to all haijin who voted for my haiku.

    Delighted to select a book as a prize from the impressive list sent by Tom Borkowski, the THF Kukai Administrator.

  • Failed haiku

    New year arrives and 1st January brings good news. #failedhaiku, a journal of English #senryu, Volume 9, issue 97 is the first to arrive in my inbox.

    Grateful to Bryan Rickert, Editor & Allyson Whipple, Guest Editor for the acceptance of two of my senryu on #death and #dying.

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

    https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/failedhaikuissue97.pdf