Originally posted on Whispers of the Soul: 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

Jennifer Hambrick performing as poet laureate of the 75th-anniversary season of the Chamber Music Columbus concert series, Southern Theatre, Columbus (photo by Antoine Clark) The 2022-23 concert season recently came to a close and saw the culmination of a?major?poetry and music commissioning project in which I had the tremendous honor to be involved. Jennifer Hambrick…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 青大将おのが身の上折り返す　　星野恒彦 aodaishô onoga minoue orikaesu ??????????? Japanese rat snake ??????????? it turns around ??????????? and retraces its life ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tsunehiko Hoshino from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), May 2022 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

#Haiku Happenings #1 (6/19/23): Al Gallia’s haiku appears in Charlotte Digregorio’s Daily Haiku (5/31/23)! Searching for Serendipity I am very proud to have one of my haiku included in Charlotte’s recent Writers Blog Daily Haiku. An old, overgrown cemetery is such a sacred place to me. Add to the solitude the countless layers of fallen…

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: Haiku by Hifsa Ashraf peacock flower—I still am a motherof the unborn child #FemKuMag issue 34 鳳凰木 — 私はまだ胎児の母親 —— autumn leavesraking to and frohis last words Presence, #73 紅葉 あちこちで彼の最後の言葉掻き集める —— sunlit dewdropson the grassy fieldchild’s first poem 太陽に照らされた露のしずく 芝生のフィールドに 子供の最初の詩— lake’s mistunfolding my storythe rorschach test…

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: to bedbeforethe stars —— © Steve Mitchell 2023