Thank you to Rat’s Ass Review for publishing “My Mess.” Read the issue for free here:
Category: Poetry
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Mt. Fuji postcard—
is the faint smudge
on the peak
your fingerprint
or mine?I’m happy to have won a Foreign Language Tanka Excellence Award in the Fujisan Contest!
The complete results of the contest are here: https://fujisantaisho.com/img/fujisan_kasyuu2025.pdf
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Version 1.0.0 It’s with tremendous joy that I announce that I have won the Grand Prize in the 5th Annual Haiku Crush Contest! Also of note: I’m now the first person to ever have three poems awarded in a single Haiku Crush contest!
Here are my winning poems:
after the breeze
the cocoon
still tremblinggraveside service
the wind shifts
to past tensemorning dew
counting the suns
on a sunflowerThe book of the contest is chock-full of more excellent haiku! Snag your copy here!
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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!
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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!
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Roberta Beach Jacobson has published three of my recent pieces in her lovely new journal, smols:
sparks flying into stars
where the trail ends wildflowers
space
between
neurons
https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/sparks-flying-into-stars-edward-cody.html
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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
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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
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I’m happy to have placed this monoku in the latest issue of Whiptail:
redshift cancelling the ultrasound
Here’s the complete issue:
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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!
Edward Cody Huddleston 