

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’m quite grateful to have a haiku “Highly Commended” in the Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition!
Read all the winners here: https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025results
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:
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