Happy 1st birthday! 🎂🥳🎊🎉🍾 I can’t believe it’s already been one year since loss is a river was first published! Please accept my heartfelt thanks to everyone who purchased the book, who took the time time to write reviews and feature my book in their journals. Thank you ALL for your support! 💗📚

It’s that time…get cracking! drifting-sands-haibun.org/submissions/

Deepest bow of gratitude to Robin Jacobson for including my two teeny tiny poems in her amazing new journal, smols. You can check out the journal here: smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/g oikn

It’s almost time… drifting-sands-haibun.org/submissions/

The team at DSH is pleased to share issue 33. Enjoy! drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/u...

Beyond stoked for my debut in Quail Eggs - a tanka journal, issue 2. My thanks to editor, Alison Williams, for including my work alongside so many amazing poets. the fledglings with their incessant chatter gone now, and I, as close to alone as I’ve ever been quaileggstanka.blogspot.com

Our next submission window is fast approaching: Guest Editor: Keith Evetts Submission period: October 1-15 Publication: December 15 drifting-sands-haibun.org/submissions/g

Pan Haiku Review, issue 5 is live and i am stoked to be included. Hats off to editor, Alan Summers on another outstanding issue. The haigunga special featuring the stellar work of Tim Roberts is fantastic. Congrats to Alan and all the poets involved in this issue. callofthepage.org

Thrilled to be included in the final issue of Failed Haiku, Volume 10, Issue 111. A deep bow to founder, Mike Rehling and editor, Kelly Moyer, for creating such a vital journal. Wishing you all the best. Thank you as well to Sangita Kalarickal and Terri L. French for another fabulous collaboration.

In honour of National Dog Day, I thought I would share this old haibun of mine, published in haikuKATHA, issue 10.

Check out our latest episode of Ripples in the Sand. Our fabulous editor and host, Sangita Kalarickal interviews poet, Robert Witmer. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyND...

My thanks to editor, Eric Lohman from Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective for publishing this shahai today.

Pleased as punch to be included in the Tanka Society of America 2024 Member’s Anthology. A deep bow of gratitude to Michele L. Harvey, editor for including my work. Congrats to everyone involved.

This is an oldie I wrote on my first anniversary of writing short form poetry. I never submitted it for publication. In hindsight, I’d probably revise the order, but also still like it as is. What are your thoughts?

Our next submission window for issue 33 is quickly approaching (July 1-15th). Don’t miss your chance to submit your haibun or tanka-prose on peace and related themes. Please check out our guest editor’s (Anna Cates) thoughts on the theme for issue 33 here: drifting-sands-haibun.org/submissions/

Seems fitting to reshare this old one from Leaf, issue 4 as we are in the midst of a heat wave.

Resharing these gembun, written two years ago in response to an accident I had where I fractured my spine. A lot of water under the bridge since then, a lot of healing and many life changes. So glad I made it out the other side. Published in haikuKATHA issue 22/25.

Hey folks! Issue 32 is live! I hope you enjoy this wonderfully curated issue of haibun and tanka-prose by guest editor, Anju Kishore: drifting-sands-haibun.org?sdm_process_...

Heartfelt thanks to the folks at Poetry Pea Journal for including these two poems in issue 2:25. It’s always a pleasure to be included in the journal and to have editor, Patricia McGuire, read my poems on the PP podcast.

This tanka-prose was published in Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2025. Volume 21, Number 1. Deep thanks to TP Editor, Liz Lanigan for accepting this one.

Much appreciation to Eric Lohman, editor at Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, for publishing this shahai today. 🙏

A deep bow of gratitude to the editors of haikuKATHA, for including this haibun in issue 43. You can read the entire issue here: 72638b6d-c8c1-4910-a220-2532c8549f4e.usrfiles.com/ugd/72638b_1...

A bouquet of thanks to editor, Susan Weaver, for accepting this tanka sequence in Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2025: Volume 21, Number 1.

My thanks to tanka editor, Jenny Fraser, for including this one in the latest issue of Cattails. You can read the journal here: cattailsjournal.com/issues/catta...

My teeny, tiny chapbook of tanka, haibun and haiku is now available from Amazon worldwide. It is available both in paperback/kindle versions, if you are interested in checking it out. Here are a few links: Canada a.co/d/13Zvxzz US: a.co/d/13Zvxzz UK: amzn.eu/d/4RXlZXI India: amzn.in/d/9OZfa9d

Fresh out in Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective! A deep bow to editor, Eric Lohman, for his invaluable feedback/suggestion with this shahai. 🙏

An intergalactic bow to editor, Patricia McGuire and the Poetry Pea team for including this scifaiku on the PP podcast S8E13 and in journal 1:25. Listen to Podcast: youtu.be/X0GlGi-ZSAA?... Purchase the Journal: buymeacoffee.com/poetrypea/e/...

One week to go! Get your pens ready poets! drifting-sands-haibun.org/submissions/

Drifting Sands Haibun, Issue 31 is now live and what a bumper crop issue it is! Read it here: drifting-sands-haibun.org?sdm_process_... Submissions for issue 32 will be open April 1-15. Get your pens ready! drifting-sands-haibun.org/submissions/

Thrilled to have this tanka-prose in the new, Contemporary Haibun 20, published by Red Moon Press. Thanks to Rich Youman, the editorial team at CHO for selecting it and to Liz Lanigan and Susan Weaver at Ribbon’s for nominating it. They also nominated it for the Pushcart Prize, so doubly thankful.

Ecstatic to be included in telling the bees, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku! My thanks to Jim Kacian and the Red Moon editorial team and to Ravi Kiran for nominating my poem. You can order your copy of telling the bees here: redmoonpress.com/product/tell...

My thanks to editor, Eric Lohman at FreshOutMag for publishing this shahai. If you’ve ever experienced an Ontario winter, you can probably relate! Waiting impatiently for spring.

Here’s one of mine from Hedgerow, #147. My thanks to editor, Caroline Skanne. 🙏

I had the good fortune of collaborating with my buddies, Sangita Kalarickal and Terri L. French on a couple of split sequences recently. My thanks to editor, Patricia McGuire, for accepting them in Split Peas, Journal of Split Sequences 2025.

Thank you to editor, Iliyana Stoyanova for publishing this one in Blithe Spirit, Volume 35, Number 1.

Blithe Spirit - Journal of the British Haiku Society arrived in the mail today and I am blessed to receive a beautiful review of my book, loss is a river, by editor, Iliyana Stoyanova. Deepest, most humble appreciation IIiyana! 🙏

From my book, loss is a river. I think as humans, we have a lot to lament right now.

Ripples in the Sand, episode 2/25/25 is live. This special offering (Part 1) includes haibun and tanka-prose from the DSH team: Pris Campbell, Richard Grahn, Reid Hepworth and Sangita Kalarickal. Stay tuned for Part 2, which will be posted later in the year. youtu.be/A_k0sFoyQGw?...

An oldie from Failed Haiku…

Well…today was the day. A hard morning, but there you go. Release. Originally published in The Wise Owl, Walnut and Gold issue and then in my chapbook, loss is a river.

Published in Moonbathing, issue 28

Last February I lost a few friends in close succession. This was my response…

It seemed fitting to share this one today as I’m back on the coast (Vancouver Island), dealing with the sale of my mum’s home. Letting go is never easy. This is from my chapbook, loss is a river, published by Adisakrit. If interested, my book is now available on Amazon (everywhere).

A tanka-prose from 2024. Published in haikuKATHA.

Eagerly awaiting a break from this unrelenting cold and snow and some much needed time by the Salish Sea. Happy travels, my friends.

Published in Ribbons 20.1