Thank you to Terri L. French for including my haibun in issue 21.3 of Contemporary Haibun Online. Hats off to Terri and all the poets involved in this lovely issue. My haibun, The Marksman, can be found in the link below. 🙏 contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...

It’s my final week at Tanka Take Home (Triveni Haikai India). What a wonderful experience this has been! I’ve so enjoyed meeting new poets, re-acquainting with old friends, reading beautiful poems and sharing/exchanging ideas. What an honour. www.trivenihaikai.in/post/tanka-t...

The 4th Annual Rachel Sutcliffe Memorial Contest is coming up quickly (December 1-15). There is a short window to submit, so please check out the poster AND the Drifting Sands Haibun website to find out contest details and to read about Rachel. drifting-sands-haibun.org/contest/

It’s always a treat when a poem is selected for publication. My thanks to the wonderful team at Triveni Haikai India, for including my haibun in haikuKATHA, issue 49. Congrats to everyone! You can check out the entire issue AND Priti Aisola’s beautiful cover: www.trivenihaikai.in/post/haikuka...

It’s a new week at Triveni’s Tanka Take Home! You can check out more of my poems and this week’s prompt! I’m having so much fun reading all the poet’s work…would love to see you there! www.trivenihaikai.in/post/tanka-t...

Tickled pink to announce that my new book, the improbability of sea monkeys, is now available at an Amazon near you! It’s available in print and kindle version. Amazon Canada: a.co/d/g8gRIHa Amazon US: a.co/d/d7W0YvO Amazon India: amazon.in Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk

Hey friends, Here is the latest blog for Tanka Take Home at Triveni Haikai if you’re interested in checking it out. I’m the featured poet this month: www.trivenihaikai.in/post/tanka-t...

Thank you to editor, Iliyana Stoyanova, for including this tanka of mine in Blithe Spirit, Volume 35 Number 4. 🙏

Thrilled to be the featured tanka poet this month at Triveni Haikai India. You can check out the weekly prompts, some of my poems, background, thoughts on the writing process, etc., in the link below: www.trivenihaikai.in/post/tanka-t...

Ecstatically happy to share the cover of my first full-length book of haibun/haikai poetry, the improbability of sea monkeys. My thanks to Sumita Dutta Shoam from Adisakrit Publishing for bringing this to fruition. Stay tuned for the when, the where and the why the heck!

Mahalo to Eric Lohman, editor at Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, for publishing this shahai today. The photo was taken by my dad on one of our trips to Hawaii when I was a child.

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.