The ONE ART 2024 Haiku Anthology

A Note from the Editor:

Since discovering contemporary haiku just a few years ago, I’ve become fascinated by its power. As a practice, every day it teaches me deeper gratitude and heightens my ability to find connections in an often-fractured world.

In curating this anthology, I hoped to showcase the immense range of emotion that our form captures through both newer and revered voices. In reading thousands of haiku for our anthology, the strength and depth are even more than I imagined.

Furthermore, I’m proud of the submission guidelines that encouraged the inclusion of poems that have appeared on the poet’s social media. This is Timothy Green’s term of art “curation,” as we discussed on The Poetry Space_, which actively encourages the sharing of poetry. I think we can agree that none of these apples are bruised just by having hung on a tree before.

Lastly, I ask you to share our anthology with a friend that doesn’t normally read poetry.

Best,

Katie Dozier

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warm spring day
through an open window
the neighbor’s violin

~ Stephen A. Allen

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slowly filling up with stars inflatable pool

~ Billy Antonio

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dead butterfly on our stoop—
              this time for sure, you promise

~ Lana Hechtman Ayers

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dancing between
conscious & subconscious
dolphins

~ Joe Barca

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peace talks
the consensus
of cherry blossoms

~ Roberta Beary

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her silence
guiding a songbird
to its nest

~ Jaundré van Breda

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another cuppa tea
more questions
than answers

~ Randy Brooks

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peace garden poppies blown away

~ Helen Buckingham

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breaking the wax seal
on a spring letter
tulip bulb

~ Ingrid Bruck

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arcade day I jingle all the way

~ Susan Burch

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peas and carrots
I never know
what they’re saying

~ petro c. k.

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I sleep
in his t-shirt
night shift

~ Sharon Ferrante

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anniversary
on my parents’ gravestone
my reflection

~ Jim Fowler

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turkey buzzards
hunched over the carcass
autumn deepens

~ Joshua Gage

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your mind
a lukewarm bowl
of nothing

~ Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

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crabby neighbor’s apples rotting on the branch

~ Robbie Gamble

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windy day
reading on park bench
          page-turner

~ Cindy Gore

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at the library
a conference call
we are listening

~ Adam Haver

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dead son
I leave his many addresses
in my book

~ Cindy Guentherman

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loosening
the violin strings
winter hospice

~ Jennifer Hambrick

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their promise:
her lotus
lips

~ Ed Higgins

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New Year’s Eve—
that last sweet lungful
of smoke

~ Ruth Holzer

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winter ocean waves rejection slips

~ Sangita Kalarickal

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I reach for you
the space between
stars

~ Mary Keating

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everything
in its place—
toilet paper

~ Julie Bloss Kelsey

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another mother’s day band aid for the exit wound

~ Kat Lehmann

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winter hike
a dry streambed
running with leaves

~ Robert Lowes

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same flowers back home Stone Mountain

~ paul m.

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all lake mist cloud in one

~ Anna Maris

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spilled grass seed
grows on garage shelves
escapees

~ Jenny Middleton

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old song
on car radio
how far I have come!

~ Biswajit Mishra

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on the forest floor
a nest without eggs
unbroken

~ Tina Mowrey

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Pluto frozen in orbit—
meatball
buried in freezer

~ Brian O’Sullivan

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dusk reedbed
a starling
starts a movement

~ Ben Oliver

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his laugh hanging in the air stale smoke

~ John Pappas

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mimosa leaves
shy away if touched—
uncommon sense

~ James Penha

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log-jammed river
what exactly
is holding me back

~ Bryan Rickert

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new construction
above an old outcropping—
rotting acorns

~ David Rosenthal

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a naked birch
announces
here i am

~ Colin Sandberg

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the punctuated pauses
in his confession
sunset thunderbolts

~ Kelly Sargent

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magnetic kisses
sharing
a cold

~ Carla Schwartz

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within permissible limits
microplastics
in her breast milk

~ Julie Warther Schwerin

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star slippage
the cartoon draws out
its nightgleam sky

~ Alan Summers

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bedtime story
slipper orchids drop off
one by one

~ Margaret Tau

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first spring blossoms
she plucks the white one—
chin whisker

~ Shelly Reed Thieman

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sturgeon moon
               fish leap to dance in the air

~ Nancy Tinnell

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stubbing my toe
the whole world
becomes toe

~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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first day of summer—
my daughter begs
for a higher underdog

~ Michael Dylan Welch

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wedding haiku
two worlds
one kiss

~ Dick Westheimer

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crown of thorns
the dogwood blooms
restoration

~ Joshua Eric Williams

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Editor Bios

Katie Dozier’s love of poetry first bloomed as a child. She memorized Robert Frost sitting on a tree stump and bathed in Edgar Allan Poe as an adolescent. While studying words at Florida State University, KHD also played with chips and became a professional poker player. The author of Watering Can, she’s passionate about encouraging others to discover and share contemporary poetry, through her X account (@Katie_Dozier), as curator of The NFT Poetry Gallery, host of the weekly podcast The Poetry Space_, Haiku Editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry, and as an editor for Rattle.

Mark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry and Poetry Craft Essays Editor for Cleaver Magazine. His most recent poetry collection is Meatless (Plan B Press). His poetry collection Take Care is forthcoming from Moon Tide Press in Spring 2025.

Louisa Schnaithmann is Consulting Editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry. She is the author of Plague Love (Moonstone Press).

Contributor Bios

Stephen A. Allen was born in Vermont and currently lives in Michigan. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and also studied poetry at Amherst College and the University of Notre Dame while pursuing unrelated degrees. He writes in both Western and Eastern forms, and in the latter has been published most recently in Modern Haiku, contemporary haibun online, and MacQueen’s Quinterly.

Billy Antonio is a poet, writer, and public school teacher. He is the author of “where it was” (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York, 2020). His poetry has won international recognition including first places in the European Kukai and Shiki Kukai. He is a Dwarf Stars Award nominee. He lives in Laoac, Pangasinan, Philippines with his wife, Rowena, and his daughters, Felicity and Asiel Sophie.

Lana Hechtman Ayers has shepherded over a hundred poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, and elsewhere.

Joe Barca is a poet from the Boston area. He has a partner, two children, and a wheaten terrier named Brady. He is a reader for Whale Road Review and a regular contributor to the The Poetry Space_ podcast. Some of his favorite poets are Mai Der Vang, Kevin Young, and Li-Young Lee. He is a fast talker and a slow runner.

Roberta Beary identifies as genderfluid and lives in County Mayo, Ireland and Washington DC. In 2023 their sonnet was one of 10 finalists in the Rattle Poetry Prize, and in 2022 their prose poem was awarded joint 1st place in the Bridport Prize. They are the longtime haibun editor for Modern Haiku. Carousel, their fourth collection of short poems, is available from Snapshot Press.

Jaundré van Breda is a poet from South Africa. Several of his poems are published on the AVBOB Poetry Competition website. Jaundré is the author of Ask the Vultures, A Heart Beats in the Dirt, And Something Grows That Will Not Die, and Something Too Holy to Be Holy. These titles are available at amazon.com

Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he teaches courses on haiku, tanka, and Japanese poetics. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach.

Helen Buckingham’s haiku and senryu have been published throughout the world. Her work features in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013) and her most recent collection is Two Haiku Poets (Iron Press, 2023) co-authored with fellow UK haikuist, Annie Bachini.

Ingrid Bruck lives in Amish country, a landscape that inhabits her poetry. She enjoys writing haiku and short poems. She serves on the editorial team of Between These Shores and produces a monthly BTS column called “Pearl Diving” with online writer resources. Some current work appears in Verse-Virtual, Poetry Hall and SpillWords. Embrace more of Bruck’s published poetry: ingridbruck.com

Susan Burch is a good egg.

petro c. k. is a temporal being living on a spinning rock in a vast universe who writes tiny haiku about infinitesimally small moments of time. His debut book “Waiting for an Oracle” is now out at Nun Prophet Press (available thru Amazon).

Sharon Ferrante lives in Daytona Beach, Florida, her work is rooted in myth, fancy, and whimsy, and love for the short form. She has appeared in many anthologies, online journals and magazines.

Jim Fowler spent 25 years in the US Navy, and 19 of those years stationed in Japan or on ships homeported out of Japan. Read and wrote a number of haiku during those years or since retirement. He had had haiku published in numerous places including, Haiku Headlines, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and others. His book “Falling Ashes” is primarily haibun and a few pages of haiku.

Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. He is the editor of The Ohio Haiku Anthology, the first collection of haiku by Ohio poets in over twenty years. His newest chapbook, blips on a screen, is available on Cuttlefish Books. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni received two nominations for the Touchstone Award 2023, recognized on the Haiku Euro Top 100 list for 2023 and on The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best 2023. Her Japanese-style poems has been published in The Mainichi, Asahi Haikuist Network, The Japan Society UK and in one hundred and thirty other international journals.

Robbie Gamble’s short-form poems have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, Acorn, and other journals. He lives above an apple orchard in Vermont.

Cindy Gore is a retired educator and lifelong poetry reader from Texarkana, Texas. A stroke survivor, Cindy reads and writes poems as part of her daily rehabilitation practice to make meaning out of her second chance at life.

Adam Haver’s writing has been featured in Popshot Quarterly, Poetry Scotland, Ballast, and other journals. He received the 2022 Willie Morris Award for Poetry and an award from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums for a collection of poems addressing wolf conservation. You can connect with him on X: @ac_haver.

Cindy Guentherman has been writing poetry since 1952. She was poetry editor of The Rockford Review for many years, and general editor for several issues. She has been writing haiku for about 50 years.

Six-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee Jennifer Hambrick is the author of the poetry collections In the High Weeds (NFSPS Press) winner of the Stevens Award; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award; and Unscathed. Hambrick’s poems appear in Rattle, The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, POEM, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, NOON: journal of the short poem, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Kingfisher, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in numerous invited anthologies. Hambrick was featured by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in American Life in Poetry and has received many awards and prizes, including First Prize in the Martin Lucas Haiku Award Competition (U.K.), First Prize in the Haiku Society of America’s Haibun Award Competition, the Sheila-Na-Gig Press Poetry Prize, and many others. A classical musician, public radio broadcaster, multimedia producer, and cultural journalist, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus, Ohio. jenniferhambrick.com.

Ed Higgins’ poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including: Under the Basho, Ekphrastic Review, and Modern Haiku, among others. Ed is Asst. Fiction Editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction. He has a small organic farm in Yamhill, OR, raising a menagerie of animals—including a rooster named StarTrek. A collection of his poems, Near Truth Only, has recently been published by Fernwood Press, 2023.

Ruth Holzer’s haiku and other short form Japanese style poems have appeared in journals including Acorn, bottle rockets, cattails, Frogpond, Hedgerow, Kingfisher, Modern Haiku, Ribbons and Red Lights. She lives in Virginia.

Sangita Kalarickal’s work touches the realms of poetry and fiction, and appears in several well reputed journals and anthologies. Her poetry ranges in different forms and her free verse and haikai poems are widely published. Sangita is a Pushcart Prize and Touchstone award nominated wordsmith, and her first chapbook Mamina (Kavya-Adisakrit, 2023), with poetry ranging from free verse to haiku has been well received. She is currently an associate editor of Drifting Sands Haibun Journal and conducts the podcast Ripples in the Sand. Dr. Kalarickal lives in the midwest USA with her family, her little garden, and the fantasy characters she writes about.

Mary Keating is a poet, lawyer, and disability advocate. She’s the Poetry Editor for ScribesMICRO, a three-time Pushcart nominee, and runs her own law firm in Darien, CT. Her writing appears in several journals, including Wordgathering, Poetry for the Ukraine, and SFWP. Mary became a paraplegic at fifteen. Her memoir in verse, “Recalibrating Gravity,” will be published September 2, 2024 by Woodhall Press. Visit marykeatingpoet.com to learn more.

Julie Bloss Kelsey’s haiku have been published worldwide. She is the author of three books of haiku and related forms: The Call of Wildflowers (Title IX Press, 2020), the award-winning Grasping the Fading Light: A Journey Through PTSD (Sable Books, 2023), and After Curfew (Cuttlefish Books, 2023). Julie writes a bi-monthly column, New to Haiku, for The Haiku Foundation, where she is on the Board of Directors.

Kat Lehmann is a founding co-editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem and serves as a panelist for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. She is a winner of The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for an Individual Poem (2020) and is included in the New Resonance community of haiku poets. She lives in Connecticut.

Robert Lowes’s first collection of poetry, An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications), came out in 2020. His second collection, Shocking the Dark (Kelsay Books) is scheduled for publication later this year. His poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Poetry Review, The New Republic, Modern Haiku, and December. He is a retired journalist who lives with his wife Saundra in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Lowes has been playing the guitar—electric and acoustic—since 2017, having been inspired by John Lennon on rhythm guitar.

paul m. is the penname of Paul Miller, an internationally awarded and anthologized short-form poet and essayist. He is the editor of Modern Haiku, the longest running English-language haiku journal outside of Japan, and has served on the boards of the Haiku Society of America, Haiku North America, and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He is the author of four award-winning collections. His latest, Witness Tree, is available from the U.K.’s Snapshot Press. A native Californian, he lives with his wife in the Florida panhandle.

Anna Maris is a Swedish haiku poet. Her collection Life Death Etc is published by Red Moon Press.

Jenny Middleton is a working mum and writes whenever she can amid the fun and chaos of family life. Her poetry is published in several printed anthologies, magazines and online poetry sites. Jenny lives in London with her husband, two children and two very lovely, crazy cats. You can read more of her poems at her website: jmiddletonpoems.com

Biswajit Mishra writes poems predominantly in English and sporadically in his native language Odia writing generally about nature, animals, plants, spiritual concepts, families, and travel experiences. Born in India and having lived in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, Canada.

Most recently, Tina Mowrey has been writing short form poetry, which has been published in the following journals: Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Presence, Wales Haiku, Poetry Pea, Trash Panda, Modern Haiku, and Folk ku. She is also the author of two picture books (What A Prickly Pear, 2020 & My Family Tree Has Roots, 2022) and an avid reader of banned books.

Brian O’Sullivan teaches literature and rhetoric at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His poems have been published in ONE ART, Rattle, HOWL New Irish Writing and other journals. He is a poetry reader for Chestnut Review.

Ben Oliver lives in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire with his wife, Michelle, and two children, Aurelia and Linden. As a child he grew up on (and in) the River Thames, where he developed a deep affinity with nature. Having studied Biology at the University of Manchester, he works at Westonbirt National Arboretum, helping people engage with the majesty of trees. He has been fortunate to have had poems published in many haiku journals, including Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Presence, Kingfisher and Failed Haiku.

John Pappas is a poet and teacher whose work has appeared in Handsome, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, cold moon journal, Failed Haiku, Nick Virgilio’s Haiku in Action, tinywords, Presence, The Mainichi, bottle rockets and many other journals. His haiku have been included in the anthologies Seed Packets: An Anthology of Flower Haiku and the forthcoming Bird Whistle: An Anthology of Contemporary Bird Haiku (bottle rockets press), and his poetry has twice been selected for the Mayor of Boston’s Poetry Contest (2016 and 2020). He has been nominated for a Touchstone Award and for inclusion in Red Moon Press’s annual anthology. As drummer and lyricist of the punk rock band Heather Hates You, he has recorded two albums: Operation Suckerpunch (2003) and A Scar is Born (2006). A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the Boston College Graduate School of Education, John lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two daughters, and has taught literature and general semantics in the Boston area for over 25 years.

Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in journals and anthologies. His newest chapbook of poems, American Daguerreotypes, is available for Kindle. Penha edits The New Verse News, an online journal of current-events poetry. Twitter: @JamesPenha

Bryan Rickert, current President of the Haiku Society of America, has been published in many fine journals. He is the Editor of Failed Haiku Journal of Senryu and edits The Living Senryu Anthology. Bryan has two books: Fish Kite (Cyberwit Publishing) and Dust and Stone, co-written with Peter Jastermsky (Velvet Dusk Publishing). His work was selected for inclusion in A New Resonance, Volume 12. He was also the recipient of the Touchstone award for individual poems in 2023.

David Rosenthal is a public school teacher in Berkeley, California. His haiku and senyru have appeared in journals such as Modern Haiku, FrogPond, Lilliput Review, and The Heron’s Nest. His other poems have appeared in Rattle, Birmingham Poetry Review, Rising Phoenix Review, Change Seven, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and other journals. He has been a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Finalist and a Pushcart Prize Nominee. His collection, The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things, was published by White Violet Press (Kelsay Books).

Colin Sandberg is an emerging poet residing in Vancouver, Wa. This is one of his first curated works. He might be found reading his poems at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic in Vancouver or staring at a tree with a moleskine in hand.

A significantly hearing impaired writer and artist adopted in Luxembourg, Kelly Sargent is the author of two memoirs in verse (Kelsay Books) and a collection of haiku and senryu entitled Bookmarks (Red Moon Press, 2023). Her short form poetry appears regularly in haiku and senryu journals online and in print. She is a two-time Touchstone Award for Individual Poems nominee, and has won or placed in a number of international haiku and senryu competitions. She resides in Vermont, where the picturesque beauty and four distinct seasons often serve as her inspiration.

Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz’s poems have been widely published, including in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward, Ed) and in her collections Signs of Marriage, Mother, One More Thing, and Intimacy with the Wind. Her CB99videos youtube channel has 2,400,000+ views. Learn more at carlapoet.com. Recent publications and acceptances include Banyan Review, The Ear, Channel, California Quarterly, Cutthroat, Gone Lawn, The Poet’s Touchstone, Ibbetson Street, Inquisitive Eater, Paterson Literary Review, New-Verse News, Remington Review, Shelia-Na-Gig, Triggerfish Critical Review, The MacGuffin, Verse-Virtual Online, and Leon. Schwartz is a 2023 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. Her poem, “Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother,” won the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize.

Julie Warther Schwerin (she/her – Sun Prairie, Wisconsin) is an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest (theheronsnest.com) and a member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial team. She was instrumental in establishing several haiku installations in the Midwest including, most recently, Words in Bloom: A Year of Haiku at the Chicago Botanic Garden which featured the work of haiku poets throughout the garden.

Alan Summers is from the South West of England, and founder/editor of the Pan Haiku Review.

Margaret Tau resides in New Bern, North Carolina. She spends much of her time writing haiku and tanka along with other short forms of poetry. Margaret appreciates the challenge of capturing a moment in time with just a few words and inviting others to experience it with her. Her poetry has appeared in Frogpond, Under The Basho, and Right Hand Pointing among others. She was awarded a 2021 Honorable Mention by the Haiku Society of America

Shelly Reed Thieman writes to connect with the wounded. She is a messenger of imagery, a mistress of montage. Her work is heavily influenced by the discipline of haiku. Her poems have appeared in Modern Haiku, The Haibun Journal, Humana Obscura, and december. Shelly is a two-time Pushcart nominee.

Nancy Tinnell lives and writes in Louisville, KY. She has published two chapbooks: murmurs (2020), followed by the sum of all my parts in 2023. She enjoys reading poetry aloud and organizes events featuring readings and music. When she is not writing, you may find her in the kitchen, experimenting with new recipes.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer co-hosts the Emerging Form podcast. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her new collection is All the Honey. One-word mantra: Adjust.

Michael Dylan Welch has been investigating haiku since 1976. This includes reading thousands of haiku books and publishing and editing more than 70 of his own. He is or has been an officer of the Haiku Society of America, Haiku Northwest, and Haiku North America, and is founder of National Haiku Writing Month (nahaiwrimo.com), the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, and the Tanka Society of America. He was also poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, near where he lives in Sammamish, Washington. Michael’s personal website, devoted mostly to haiku, is graceguts.com.

Dick Westheimer lives in rural southwest Ohio. He is winner of the 2023 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. His poems have appeared or are upcoming in Whale Road Review, Rattle, ONE ART, Abandon Journal, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and Minyan. His chapbook, A Sword in Both Hands, Poems Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine, is published by SheilaNaGig. More at dickwestheimer.com

Joshua Eric Williams is from Carrollton, GA. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Literary Matters, Modern Haiku, Rattle, The Heron’s Nest, and many other print and online journals. His poem “silent after” was selected for a 2022 Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation and nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize from Rattle Magazine. Check out his website (thesmallestwords.com) or follow him on Twitter (@Hungerfield).