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!
It was a massive honor to receive a Rusty Walker Scholarship! I had the privilege of hearing so many cool stories about Rusty and meeting so many awesome people at CRS!



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!





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looking for girl names
we pick
wildflowers