sleepless night
only my son’s
glow-in-the-dark stars
Katherine Samuelowicz
Lorin Ford – honoured in Presence
A haiku by AHS member Lorin Ford has been voted equal second in the Presence # 54 ‘Best-of-issue Award’. Her prize is two free issues of Presence (with results in Presence #55, June 2016):
migrating eels
the warp and the weave
of creek water
- Lorin Ford
Madhuri Pillai – Two Haiku of Merit: World Haiku Review
AHS member Madhuri Pillai has had two poems selected as haiku of merit, each in different sections of the June 2016 edition of World Haiku Review (magazine of World Haiku Club):
https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/june-2016
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Lyn Reeves – Haiku of Merit: World Haiku Review
A poem by AHS member Lyn Reeves has been selected as a haiku of merit in the Shintai section of the June 2016 edition of World Haiku Review (magazine of World Haiku Club):
lowering sun—
in its glow
a lacework of leaves
- Lyn Reeves
Robyn Cairns – An Afternoon of Poetry
Melbourne-based haiku poet Robyn Cairns will be holding a launch of her new chapbook In Transit at the Dancing Dog Café (42A Albert Street, Footscray – phone: 03 – 9689 2566), between 2.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m. on Sunday, 17 July. All are welcome. Please RSVP to Robyn at rbcairns@gmail.com ASAP.
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Submissions open for Windfall #5
An anthology of haiku by Australian haiku poets, Windfall is edited by Beverley George and published annually by Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press. The annual submission window is July only. Please send up to six haiku, on themes relevant to Australia, to beverleygeorge@idx.com.au. Please also include a statement to the effect that your haiku are original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
Submission Guidelines here
Rodney Williams – Commended in Croatia
An entry by Australian haiku poet Rodney Williams has been Commended in the 2015 Little Haiku Contest, as judged by Jim Kacian for the Three Rivers Haiku Association in Croatia. Continue reading “Rodney Williams – Commended in Croatia”
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