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 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:
I’m happy to have received an Honorable Mention in the Rachel Sutcliffe Haibun Contest. Much love to Drifting Sands for keeping Rachel Sutcliffe’s memory alive!
Here’s the haibun, titled OCDY:

Here’s Issue 31 of Drifting Sands, which contains all of the winning poems:
old password
my third attempt
at spring Swiss
Army knife
all the ways Dad
opens up
A huge thank you to Victor Ortiz and the Haiku Poets of Northern California for giving the haiku and senryu above each an Honorable Mention in their respective contests! It means a lot!
33,941 entries. One Grand Prize. The joy of winning this contest defied comprehension!





https://itoen-shinhaiku.jp/en/archive/33/
looking for girl names
we pick
wildflowers
A huge thank you to Tree Rivers for hosting the Little Iris Haiku Contest! Back in 2022, I got the grand prize for this haiku on the theme of crude oil!

pumpjack moon
the flow
of midnight