by Kate Birch | Jan 13, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
excruciatingly beautiful Two words that capture voters’ response to Zoe Piponides’ ‘This Oh So Bearable Lightness’ and illustrate why it is the Pick of the Month for December 2022. Voters found the poem thought-provoking, original and gripping. They...
by Kate Birch | Dec 31, 2022 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a new year how long before I stop missing you Haiku originally published in #FemkuMag 9, 2019. Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka...
by Kate Birch | Dec 28, 2022 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
love symbols spoken in a chinese winter I am grown tall in the telling of the yellow that the dance leaves a signal for, finishing the ridge in a luminous squall, wanting your white elk-breath and the hoof-pound at my door. I am the first blade turned black in winter...
by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | News
by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
sudden flurries the Christmas star inside every persimmon Haiku written originally for Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 2020 Holiday Celebration Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language...
