by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Through Both The second time something slips from his hand, he does not move right away. He studies the distance between intention and consequence. It looks smaller than it behaves. A nurse passes the doorway without stopping. There is no urgency...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 2, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Still Life of Fish and Bird One day a fish swam away and the river ran dry, and the lone bird, sitting in a tree, flew off and took the whole sky with it. Jason Ryberg lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 13, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Alex Stolis has had poems published in numerous journals. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Apr 21, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Pipeline We walk from cane fields, cotton in our nightshirts, sweet sugar on our teeth. My peoples chant strong magic. My peoples beatbox in jail. Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize (2019), the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020), the...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
seagull flying over NO VACANCY beach motel * faces on a school bus: petals of flowers unopened * golden finches rise & fall like notes of a symphony before my bicycle Wayne F. Burke’s haiku, and associated forms, have been...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
