We hope you have been working on the submissions to our 4th anniversary issue. October 21st-27th submission week is approaching.

It won't be long before we're open again for submissions. We hope you'll join us in celebrating our 4th anniversary issue by submitting. To celebrate, we'll have an optional theme of anything related to four. See the image for examples. whiptailjournal.com/submissions #haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga

Gratitude to MacQueen's Quinterly, and Clare in particular, for making space for this fun #haibun "An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory" Tell me a little about yourself. common blue damselfly my name lost to the river www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Lehma...

Whiptail Journal, Issue 12, February 2025 by Hifsa Ashraf Read the Current Issues | home share.google/FSXOm11DsdaR...

Whiptail Journal, Issue 13, June 2025 by Cynthia Hendel Read the Current Issues | home share.google/NJzvXxyj3WGG...

Hope you love the new episode! 💜

Their wings stretch with a trust in the invisible as if they know it will hold them... www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma... Thank you, MacQ! #haibun #hybrid

"Hope is a woman wrapped in flowing cloth. Blindfolded. Sitting on top of the world. She wears the blues of a seamless sky" A wonderful surge of much-needed hope in this stunning haibun from @songsofkat.bsky.social www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Lehma...

six spruces where astral rhymes are scent by Jonathan Humphrey The Whiptail Journal, Issue 8, September 2023 Read the Current Issues | home share.google/PCup8JdNx5F9...

Whiptail Journal, Issue 10, June 2024 by Engin Gülez Read the Current Issues | home share.google/rAEP8pCVqbMb...

too much a sunflower to turn too by Chuck Brickley Whiptail Journal, Issue 11, November 2024 Read the Current Issues | home share.google/EC90OMipYlud...

#TheHaikuFoundation #Poetry #Haiku

Very happy to be included in Haiku 21.2, which anthologizes English-language #haiku published 2000-2010. This was the 13th haiku of mine that was ever published, and I still really like it! Gratitude to Lee Gurga and Scott Metz. a comma becomes a full stop moonshadows A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)

Very happy to be included in Haiku 21.2, which anthologizes English-language #haiku published 2000-2010. This was the 13th haiku of mine that was ever published, and I still really like it! Gratitude to Lee Gurga and Scott Metz. a comma becomes a full stop moonshadows A Hundred Gourds 4.2 (2015)

Woo-hoo! Squeaked into the @havehashad.com call this time. What a rush! The most fun I've had submitting.

Once Upon a Forest Susan van den Munckhof Trail Camera Wildlife Photography

So good! Kat keeps getting better...

Velvet-purple Coronet, sticking its tongue out at me. At @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds

This is just to say Coldplay has made my affair public on the jumbotron and which I probably should have hidden better forgive me I am just a CEO so useless and so bold

Why am I writing only weird things and twisted tales? Oh, that's right.

Ocean Ancient and Evolving is included in the FREE downloadable sudo-ku micro-chap "to wade through the wind as a night" (Ghost City Press, 2025) ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-... The virgin GR page is just sad sad sad... www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... 🐦‍⬛ #multi-haiku #haiku

I like the lightness and innocence of this one. Thanks, Modern Haiku! sea mammal pier the otter-matopoeia from the children Modern Haiku 56.2 (2025) #haiku

Somehow this seems appropriate all over again. Love the way poems meet us where we are. wondering what the flying flock. . . overhead crows no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song (Rattle 2025)

I'm really enjoying these experimental and moving poems. Check out @songsofkat.bsky.social Kat Lehmann's free microchap from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social !

TO WADE THROUGH THE WIND AS A NIGHT by Kat Lehmann (@songsofkat.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Happy launch day for my micro-chapbook 'to wade through the wind as a night,' the first collection of sudo-ku, a multi-haiku form I developed in 2020. The collection named itself and is published today by @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! Read it for free ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-... #haiku #poetry

an amazing, perfect little square today from Tom Snarsky! ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ https://www.havehashad.com/3qmkq

When You Live Alone with a Chronic Illness by Derek Eugene Daniels oneartpoetry.com/2025/06/19/w...

NEA just cut $350k from lit mags & programs. We don't have that, but we do have $5k and want to help mags grow in a healthier way. $1k each to 5 lit mags willing to try something new. Just tell us your plan for making your mag financially sustainable in 1 yr App: forms.chillsubs.com/incubator

Delighted to have two digital art pieces in Whiptail issue 13 ~ June 2025. Cove: 'Under snow' [detail, and full work]

From Whiptail issue 13 ~ June 2025

whiptail issue 13 is here, and we are feeling like the luckiest editors! The bounty of one-line poems sent to us made our job wonderfully difficult. We hope this cornucopia of one-line haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga, and art will fill you as it did us. www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur... #poetry

Thanks to editor @timothygreen.bsky.social for inviting me to read and discuss my Rattle chapbook 'no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song' ...as well as haibun and the multi-haiku form sudo-ku in Rattlecast 295. A fun conversation! I appreciate the kind comments I saw after. #haiku #haibun #poetry

It’s that time, once again. Here’s the lineup for our 10th annual Summer Series!

two years gone barefoot in the garden —Kat Lehmann

A third series of poems from 'no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song' (2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize) is shared today along with the audio of me reading it. 🐦 Stop by and give it a few rattles! 🪇 rattle.com/as-much-as-i... Gratitude to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social and @timothygreen.bsky.social #haiku

When a poem is rejected after twice as many months as the guidelines indicate, it's fun to imagine those extra months were spent debating its merits. 🦄

I'm ready to stop writing insomnia poems any night now. This one-liner was in Kingfisher 11 (2025). insomnia nonstop tinkering in the upstairs room #haiku #senryu

What is a subject that often reappears in your one line poems? Share the subject and a poem.

Whiptail Journal, Issue 2, February, 2022 www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-arc... wren song the weight of a soul -John Hawkhead, UK

humpback whale the grief finally surfacing - Kerry J Heckman, USA Whiptail Journal, Issue 6, February 2923 www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-arc...

Submissions are closed, and you rose to the challenge! This was our strongest submission pool yet, and the issue will reflect that. Thanks again to everyone who submitted! Please be patient while we finish our decisions. We will respond as soon as we can. - Kat & Robin

Don't forget. Today is the last day to submit poems for this issue! 🌻

WE ARE OPEN until May 7, 2025 for multiple genres of works that include a single-line poem of any shape. Send us the poem that only you can write! Guidelines and submission link: www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions

So so thrilled that my sudo-ku collection 'to wade through the wind as a night' is selected for the @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series! This is going to be fun! Gratitude to editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @gabrielleghogan.bsky.social and @kevinbertolero.bsky.social

Whiptail Journal, Issue 2, February 2022 www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-arc...

I sing opal glass: seed, bud, open chalice - Jo Balistreri, USA Whiptail Journal, Issue 4, August 2022 www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-arc...

Get those single-line poems ready! Send us the work that only you can create...lush and deep-diving and nature-inhabiting and unconventional and elegant and earth-shakingly transcendent! The link goes live when we open tomorrow for a submission period of one week. www.whiptailjournal.com/submissions

but my name became a hurricane —Kat Lehmann @songsofkat.bsky.social

Happy day! My concrete #haibun Category 5 🌀 is up today at @rattlepoetry.bsky.social! Go visit to hear me read it and give it a few rattles 🪇while you're there: www.rattle.com/category-5-b...