sidewalk cracks a smile for the daisies
—First Place/Editor’s Choice, World Haiku Review
Tremendous thanks to the legendary Susumu Takiguchi for selecting my haiku for these honors!
sidewalk cracks a smile for the daisies
—First Place/Editor’s Choice, World Haiku Review
Tremendous thanks to the legendary Susumu Takiguchi for selecting my haiku for these honors!
Wow! Thanks to the judges of the Henderson Awards, Brady Awards, and Haibun Awards, and thank you to the wonderful officers of the Haiku Society of America!

I’m happy to be one of the haiku poets awarded a Best of Issue Award in the final edition of Presence released under Ian Storr!
crescent moon
the curve of the fawn
in the doe
—Best of Issue Award, Presence 81

I am honored to have received First Place in the Bloodroot Haiku Awards for this poem:
Mom’s trowel
the dinosaur bones
we never found

I’m happy to have placed this monoku in the latest issue of Whiptail:
redshift cancelling the ultrasound
Here’s the complete issue:
I’m truly proud and honored to have my poem “Being Alive” published by Deep South Magazine! It’s one of the best free-verse poems I’ve written to date, and I’m glad it found such a worthy home!
crumbling church
wisteria takes
the pulpit
It’s an honor to have won the Illinois State Poetry Society’s Modern Haiku Award!

I’m honored to have my poem “Nostalgia is a Shovel” featured in Deep South Magazine. Check it out!
It’s a joy and an honor to featured in the Golden Triangle Haiku Awards! They put winning haiku on signs in Washington DC.

Here’s the complete list of awarded poems: