Many thanks to guest editor @asurashaiku.bsky.social for selecting my verse for this week's @haikufound.bsky.social Haiku Dialogue commentary list. Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear! 👋 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social: lunar insufficiency wolf who cries deal — petro c. k.

Complete the Haiga Prompt 158 @completethehaiga.bsky.social www.completethehaiga.org eye of Jupiter the spoils of war in the breeze — petro c. k. Haiga by @lessethereal.bsky.social

Many thanks to the Energizer Bunny of haiku, Jerome Berglund, for inviting me to appear in this exemplary showcase of haiku dealing with more pointed subjects, with running commentary on each verse as a guest editor in Zen Space run by Marie Marshall. 👇 thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/s...

Many thanks to Gilles Farbe and the rest of the editorial team at Seahores for selecting my verse for their latest issue! Always an honor to appear among everyone else, congratulations to you all! summer smoke the potato salad no one eats — petro c. k.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the shortest poem in the world is credited to Aram Saroyan, featuring an “m” and “n” mashed together into a single ligature, so it looks like a four-legged “m.” This is my challenge to the title, as this ligature occupies a space of a lesser width.

Many thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for selecting my verse for this week's Haiku Dialogue on the theme of alcoholic intoxication. Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear in the long list! thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social: 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 dismantling the animatronic collapsing Berlin Wall diorama 𝘖𝘩 𝘸𝘦𝘩! melting Bowie mid-hero — petro c. k.

Many thanks to the whole cast of characters at @c22press.bsky.social for including me in the latest issue of eYeland, an experimental zine of weird lit and vispo with a DIY/dada spirit, my inclusion is a processed text pushed past the point of cohesion. c22press.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/e...

Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting a verse for smols, a journal of mini-micropoetry (5 words or less). Always a treat to get something smol featured! smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

Many thanks to editor Tanya McDonald for selecting a couple verses of mine for the latest issue of Kingfisher! It's always a treat to get in a favorite journal, hello and congratulations to the rest of everyone who appear! 👋 kingfisherjournal.com

Issue 3 of Post-ku is now in the hands of the postal system and heading towards supporters and contributors! Thank you to everyone for the accolades and encouragement, it's a fun and rewarding project. The next submission window is June 1-15, I look forward to your avant-garde 'ku! post-ku.com

pearly dewdrops drop I can't see through the haze of your words #TankaThursday #MayTanka #NaTankaMo

Many thanks to Patricia McGuire and the rest of the editorial team at Poetry Pea 🫛 for including a verse of mine in the latest issue of the Poetry Pea Journal, honored to appear! the past year fitting my hand perfectly golden potato – petro c. k.

Many thanks to guest editor Carole MacRury for selecting my verse in the latest Haiku Dialogue about finding sanctuary in sight and sound. Hello and congratulations to those who appeared as well! thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Many thanks to guest editor John Pappas for featuring my verse in the "Poetry of Resistence" spotlight in Triveni! one poet sho(r)t Originally published in smols, Jan 22, 2026 www.trivenihaikai.in/post/triveni...

Post-ku is open for submissions! Send over your fringiest haiku! post-ku.com/submit/

A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social: don’t tread on the snake oil swasticolon — petro c. k.

Many thanks to editor Shloka Shankar for including my verse in the latest issue of Sonic Boom! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear! Check out the rest 👇 sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...

What a pleasant surprise to be included in the Red Moon Anthology of 2025! This verse originally appeared in @prunejuicejournal issue 45, many thanks for their nomination and to jim kacian and the rest of the editorial team of Red Moon for selecting it. Such an honor to appear!

Many thanks to editor Tony Pupello for selecting my verse for the new issue of tsuri-dōrō! Always an honor to appear among friends and community! tsuri-dōrō, issue 32 aura farming a red cardinal in the selfie — petro c. k.

Many thanks to new editor Tom Sacramona for carrying on the torch for Bottle Rockets, and for selecting my verse to appear in the latest issue! Hello and congratulations to everyone else who appears! Bottle Rockets # 54 bringing us together the incompetence of our therapist — petro c. k.

A thoroughly illuminating and thoughtful deep-dive examination of a verse that was published in my journal @dadakuku.bsky.social by Petra Schmidt, reflecting the urgency of now. Thank you to the writers who contributed their readings that unpacked the complexity that such a micropoem can contain.

Many thanks to editor Paul Miler for selecting my verse for rhe latest issue of Modern Haiku, can't wait to settle in and dig into the rest of it. Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear! 👋 Verse: searching for assisted suicide windborne leaves

A new one from me, I response to the horror show of our politics:

Post-ku is now open for submissions thru Feb 15! post-ku.com

Many thanks to Robin for taking in a couple of wee verses of mine for smols! As much as I love getting things in print, online journals such as smols are crucial for publishing of-the-moment verses while the impact is still fresh Read more here: smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

Oh look, it's my trajectory 😬😭😂

The first issue of my new journal Post-Ku is now available! Post-ku on postcards! I won't show the verses, instead here's the other side just waiting for your address, so it can show up in your actual physical mailbox and you can see for yourself! Order/subscribe: post-ku.com

Thank you so much to editor Seth Copeland of @petrichorlit.bsky.social for accepting a trio of verses for no. 29, Vol. 6 of Pebbles (which is also the name of a great series of 1960's freakbeat/garage-rock)! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear! petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...

Many thanks to editor Johannes S. H. Berg for accepting a couple of monoku for The Other Bunny! TOB is back, and has expanded the scope beyond haibun to include other short forms, reclaiming some of the space left behind when Bones closed up. Check it out! theotherbunny.blog

Those who create and nurture our humanity are feared and targeted by those who seek to destroy it.

It's here! The biggest and best review of experimental micropoetry is now out in the wild!

My first verse of the new year!

A warm joyous thanks to editor @katherineewinnick for selecting my verse for the latest issue of @shadowpondjournal! I wish you all a bountiful holiday season and let's hope for a year with potential realized! shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/shad...

What a year of absurdity! Dadakuku is closed for the rest of the year, thank you to everyone for your support and submissions!

It's always an honor to appear in Modern Haiku, many thanks to editor Paul Miller for including my verse in the latest issue! Congratulations to everyone else who appears, it's a veritable who's who of contemporary English-language haiku.

Many thanks to guest editor Arvinder Kaur for selecting my monoku for commentary in this installment of Haiku Dialogue, using the theme of those who work the soil. Hello and congrats on the others who appear! 👋 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, the tireless editor of smols, for including a couple microverses of mine in today's release of nanopoems: * birds falling silent shadow docket * police state the obvious * smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com

Many thanks to @teatimehaiku.bsky.social and the rest of the editorial team at Frogpond for selecting my verse for the latest issue, jam-packed as always with a who's-who of contemporary haiku, haibun, linked verse, and literary discourse on the forms.

Many thanks to @michelerule.bsky.social and Sally Quon for selecting my verse for The Solitary Daisy's theme of music in Issue 64!

Sometimes I doom-write instead of doom-scroll....

Many many thanks to @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and Kat Lehmann for including a couple verses in the latest issue (no. 14) of @whiptailjournal.bsky.social as well as for the honor of the "headstone" verse in being nominated for the Touchstone Award! www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...

Many thanks to the new editors of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social, @pippaesque.bsky.social, and @orrinonline.bsky.social, for selecting my verse. I love what they've done with the latest issue, and there is so much stellar work within! Check it out! prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...

I am thankful for editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting these verses for today's round of itchy poetry at Five Fleas! Congratulations to everyone else! fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...

Many thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for selecting my verse for this week's prompt at Haiku Dialogue (by @haikufound.bsky.social) of music and the spiritual path. Hello and congratulations on the rest who appear! 👋 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

I came across an insightful interview with Richard Gilbert from 2005 that laid out some key points about modern contemporary haiku that I had been trying to formulate myself, especially about haiku and its development in conversation with modern art and lit. livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...

A new one from me inspired by, well, this whole year...

Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for including a couple diminutive verses in her journal of extremely short poetry, SMOLS. Congrats to today's other featured poets, check out everything here: smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com solving for fragile X * midnight with moves like Jager

I've started up a new journal! POST-KU will be a journal of post-ku that comes out every two months on a postcard. Submissions will open up in December, first issue will be out in January.