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...
by Kate Birch | Dec 21, 2022 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
my father wears a yellow mask my father wears a yellow mask leans into the wooden staff —a farmer’s gift from Dartmoor— years before. His legs unsteady, my legs unsteady, perhaps autumn already knows our quest for apples, led us here to this shelf lined with...
by Kate Birch | Dec 9, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being repeated again and again in comments, it is no surprise that Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Voters also...
