Author: neenarotary@gmail.com

  • Ribbons

    Ribbons tanka journal, the official publication of the #Tankasociety of America is out on Amazon. Delighted that the #Spring/#Summer 2023: issue Volume 19, Number 2 features my #tanka.

    Grateful to dear Susan Weaver, Editor for the kind words of acceptance and the publication.

    the guava tree
    of my childhood home
    stands fruitless
    the stories papa told
    hang on its branches

    childhood #guavatree #father #stories

  • NeverEnding Story

    What a beautiful surprise to see my #peacock #haiku featured today in #ButterflyDreams on the beautiful #NeverEnding Story blog (First English- Chinese Bilingual Blog).

    Grateful to dear Chen-ou Liu, for this honor and for giving both traditional & simplified Chinese translations of the haiku.

    https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2023/06/butterfly-dream-peacocks-haiku-by-neena.html

  • haikuKATHA

    haikuKATHA the monthly journal of Triveni Haikai India, issue 20, June 2023 is live. Honoured to have a #haiku and #tanka #prose in the beautiful issue, featuring the best in contemporary haikai literature.

    Grateful to dear Kala Ramesh, @kalaramesh8, Founder & Managing Editor and her talented team of Editors.

    https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/haikukatha-issue-20/

  • FreshOut Magazine

    Grateful to Eric Lohman, Editor, FreshOut Magazine for featuring my collaborative shahai with friend Raveena Suri today. Thanks dear Raveena for sharing your exquisite pottery collection with me that inspired the monoku.
    💕

  • Haiku Blossoms

    HaikuBlossoms – my column on rhyvers.com, for the appreciation of Japanese poetry is online. This eighteenth week covers more about #tanka, by Michael McClintock who has given his kind permission to share his article.

    Thanks to S Affan S Affan Yesvi, Editor-in-Chief for the publication.

    Grateful to #Tanka Society of America
    for their kind permission to share their wonderful teaching resources. Hope readers will enjoy dipping into the essay and be inspired to pen tanka.

    Read the column here:
    https://rhyvers.com/haiku-blossoms-18/

  • Poetry Pea Podcast

    Poetry Pea Podcast S6 E18 on #haiku expressing Inner & Outer Weather is online.

    Grateful to Patricia McGuire for including mine. This will also be published in the Poetry Pea Journal 1:23 in July 2023.
    @pealogic

    fading light
    the scent of jasmine
    till long after

    Congratulations to all featured poets.

  • tsuri-doro

    tsuri-doro – a small #journal of #haiku and #senryu, Issue #15, May/June 2023 is out with two of my poems featured.

    Grateful to dear Tony Pupello, Editor for the publication, and congratulations to all featured poets in the beautiful issue.

  • Moonbathing

    Moonbathing, a journal of Women’s Tanka, Spring issue, June 2023 is published.

    Grateful to Pamela A. Babusci, Editor for the inclusion of my tanka written in memory of my mother.

    Photo credit google images

  • LEAF – haiku journal

    LEAF ~ Inaugural Journal of THE DAILY HAIKU is online.

    Congratulations to dear Ravi Kiran on his editorial debut, Marion Clarke as the Haiga Editor, Amanda White as the Founder of TDH, Keith Evetts for the commentary, and Jade & Sarah art designers for their untiring efforts.

    Grateful to have 2 haiku and a Haiga included in the beautiful journal. Congratulations to all featured poets.

    https://leafjournal.io/leaf-issue-one-live/

  • THF Haiku Dialogue

    Wednesday brings The #HaikuFoundation’s Haiku Dialogue.
    Guest Editor Alex Fyffe had given the prompt of #Foreground #Focus. Glad to have my #haiku featured, thanks to him.