The ONE ART 2025 Haiku Anthology

A Note from the Editor:

While some are most concerned with filling the first page, I’m more daunted by the second iteration of anything. The first sets an expectation that the second must exceed. With how well our inaugural ONE ART Haiku Anthology was received (including Kat Lehmann’s monoku, which was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award), the pressure was on for this year’s. We exceeded my hopes!

The poems in this anthology capture the breadth of English haiku—from the lighthearted to the heartbreaking. The use of negative space and iterations within the haiku showcases the immense attention to detail that is a necessity for excellent haiku. This anthology also represents the first ever curation for a handful of poets, published right alongside award-winning poets. We are a community.

Contemporary haiku is an exploration of gratitude. As such, I ask you to share this anthology with someone who asks why the haiku aren’t seventeen syllables. Be bold, for as we know, the truth is far more interesting.

Best,

Katie Dozier

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scrambled eggs

I’ve had my fill 

of wasted potential 

~ John Arthur

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monarch   butterfly     migration

my mother dies in her sleep

~ Lana Hechtman Ayers

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old hands repot flowers
they live for one another

~ Tom Barlow

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freeing the umbrella      first kiss

~ Roberta Beary

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bowed head

the prayer of a snowbound

sunflower

~ Jaundré van Breda

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park flasher now I’ve seen it all

 ~ Susan Burch 

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lark flying

into the sparkling

glass

~ Melanie Ehler Collopy

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nightfall

we all lose

our shadows

~ Corey D. Cook

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six years sober

i watch winter

frost its glass

~ Amanda Nicole Corbin

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empty space

a voiding

former stars

~ Christiana Doucette

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unguarded street crossing

         ants commute

 ~ Charlotta Elmgren

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daydreaming 

the place no-one knows 

pine cones fall 

~ Sharon Ferrante

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how quickly

the pages turn

sepia

~ Laurie Flanigan

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blackout…

   yard by yard

      fireflies

~ Joshua Gage

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the sky between two pairs of wild geese: deleted text

~ Nicole Caruso Garcia

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bloomless paperwhites

     broken promises

~ Jo Anne Moser Gibbons

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surfboard
rides crowded elevator : : Honolulu

~ Cindy Gore

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bright summer day

my notebook

still blank

~ Michael Buckingham Gray

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knotweed I tailgate a student driver

~ David Green

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with every wave

against the shore

less and less me

~ Denisa Hanšutová 

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monopoly
i let her win
every time

~ Quamrul Hassan

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tornado alley 

learning to expect 

the unexpected

~ Mark Hendrickson

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house     of      mirrors     all   the     lives       I     could         have             had

~ Jackleen Holton

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morning chill

putting away

the silver menorah

~ Ruth Holzer

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locker room

we compare our

cancer gowns

~ Roberta Beach Jacobson

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my heart 

split in half 

silver locket

~ Bethany Jarmul

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angel devil shoulder season

~ kjmunro

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digital blank page —

my reflection

in the water

~ Zachary T. Kalinoski

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getting closer …

the box of sakura mochi

slowly empties

~ Deborah Karl-Brandt

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wishing I could

save you from yourself—

rising thunderhead

~ Julie Bloss Kelsey

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migrating cranes

they say mountains

can’t be conquered

~ Ravi Kiran

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what I don’t know grows daily fireflies at noon

~ Kat Lehmann

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the weight

of slate-gray clouds

no message

~ Chen-ou Liu

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opening the door

my hand forgets

letting go 

~ Hemat Malak

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breathtaking 

inconvenience

camping

~ Jenny Mattern

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mattress deflated awkward nude dance

~ Zachariah Matteson

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spring shadows

the old woman rising

from a wheelchair

~ Michael Meyerhofer

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ghost pipe flowers

stealing jewelry

from mom’s closet

~ Chelsea McClellan  

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computer news

streaming on my phone…

snow

~ Lenard D. Moore

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tall cedars

all around

the kindness of strangers

~ Isabella Mori

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gas lamp

light

verse

~ Brian O’Sullivan

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whatever it takes

night college

~ Ginel Basiga Ople

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summer afternoon

the soft hoot

of a loon

~ Nancy Orr

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shower steam

I pretend I don’t

exist

~ John Pappas

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elections over

still finding roads

in potholes 

~ Vandana Parashar

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picnic

in

her gingham dress

~ Jon Petruschke

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early frost 

so little

we agree on

~ Sharon Pretti

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diaper bag
carrying
everything but myself

~ Caiti Quatmann

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our children gone

this jar of shells

so far from the sea

~ Bryan Rickert

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doomscrolling

all the storm clouds

I can’t see

~ Tracy Royce

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through the fog

a rooster crows …

late breakfast

~ Rick Runner

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sea wind . . .
a distant glacier
in her eyes

~ Jacob D. Salzer

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midnight pancakes

empty syrup bottle

honey will do

~ Shawn Aveningo Sanders

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walking heel to toe

on the railroad tie—

my pros and cons list 

~ Kelly Sargent

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beach walk

deep in my chest

ocean’s breath 

~ Tere Sievers 

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night sky

searching for roots

and their roots

~ Kashiana Singh

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late bonfire

he jabs the poker

at a dying star

~ Joshua St. Claire

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forcing bulbs

girls who have learned

the hard way

~ Debbie Strange

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grandchildren arriving

persistent saplings

encircle the tree

~ Nancy Tinnell

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it fits too tight
said eternity
to Tuesday

~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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while writing email

I leave my kids

to their own devices

~ Michael Dylan Welch

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under the full moon

new fallen snow

angels

~ Dick Westheimer

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pollen cloud
the longing
now falling

~ Joshua Eric Williams

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false spring
I wave to neighbours
who aren’t my neighbours

~ Tony Williams

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empty shells below

abandoned nest

two possibilities

~ Michele Worthington

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old bookstore

dustmotes dancing

between two languages

~ Li Zhuang

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~ Editor Bios ~

Katie Dozier is a former professional poker player,  the author of Watering Can, and co-author of Hot Pink Moon with her husband Timothy Green. She loves long conversations about short poems. Katie is the creator of  the podcast The Poetry Space_,  the Haiku Editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry, and an editor for Rattle. 

Mark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry.

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

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~ Contributor Bios ~

John Arthur is a writer and musician from New Jersey. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, DIAGRAM, trampset, ONE ART, Failbetter, Frogpond, and many other places.

Lana Hechtman Ayers has shepherded over a hundred forty 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. Lana’s favorite color is the swirl of van Gogh’s The Starry Night.

According to an article in the journal Cell, as little as thirty percent of the cells that comprise Tom Barlow are human. The rest are primarily bacteria, fungi, protozoa and archaea, all playing their part in keeping the colony called Tom functioning. They all deserve a share of the credit for these poems.

Roberta Beary, (they/she) identifies as genderfluid and lives in Washington DC/County Mayo, Ireland. Beary is the longtime haibun editor for Modern Haiku. They are the author of two award-winning haiku collections, The Unworn Necklace and Carousel. Herselected haibuncollection, Crazy Bitches, was published March, 2025 by MacQ, an imprint of MacQueen’s Quinterly.

Jaundré van Breda is a poet from South Africa. One of his haiku appears in the 2024 ONE ART Poetry Haiku Anthology. Jaundré is the author of When Letting Go Is Just Another Way to Hold On: Haiku (2024). Visit swallowingpaint.com for more information about the author.

Susan Burch is a good egg.

Corey D. Cook’s eighth chapbook, heads held low, contains 24 haiku and senryu and was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. His three-lined poems have appeared in Akitsu Quarterly, the Aurorean, Brevities, Cold Moon Journal, Fireflies’ Light, Fresh Out, haikuNetra, Haikuniverse, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, tsuri-doro, and Wales Haiku Journal. Corey lives in East Thetford, Vermont. 

Melanie Ehler Collopy is an Australian-American writer and dancer currently living in Sweden. In essence, a tumbleweed.

Amanda Nicole Corbin is an Ohio-based poet who has had her work published or forthcoming in The Notre Dame Review, The London Magazine, Door is a Jar, Palette Poetry, and more. She is the winner of the 2025 Mississippi Review Poetry contest. Her work was nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 & 2025. Her debut full-length collection, addiction is a sweet dark room, (Another New Calligraphy, 2024) focuses largely on her journey and struggles with mental health and addiction. She is currently working on a collection of poetry regarding the topics of bodily autonomy, loss, and early motherhood. Find her on Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram at @ancpoet.

During the winter Christiana Doucette builds miniatures. The smallest details create fascinating stories. She is the 2024 Kay Yoder Scholarship for History recipient and a judge for San Diego Writer’s Festival. She is represented by Leslie Zampetti. Find her recent poetry in Rattle, County Lines, ONE ART, and Wild Peach.

Charlotta Elmgren is an emerging poet drawn to explorations of nature, belonging and the soul. She holds a PhD in English literature and has published variously on the poetics of childhood and the (ir)responsibilities of literary creation. She lives with her family outside Stockholm, Sweden, where she increasingly finds herself looking up at the crow surveying her garden. 

Sharon Ferrante has recently been seen fooling around with Jack Kerouac, somewhere in Daytona Beach Florida. Her work is rooted in fancy and whimsy. Her poems have appeared in many online journals and magazines, with love for the short form. 

Laurie Flanigan is a New Englander who enjoys nature and connecting with people. She’d like to thank you for reading her work.

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. 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.

Nicole Caruso Garcia’s full-length debut OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press) received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her work appears in Best New Poets, Frogpond, Light, Mezzo Cammin, Modern Haiku, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, CT. Visit her at nicolecarusogarcia.com.

Jo Anne Moser Gibbons is a published writer, poet, and photographer whose work recently has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Persimmon Tree, AvantAppalachia, Otoroshi Journal, Common Threads, and several anthologies.In 2024, she received Ohio Poetry Association first and third place awards.

Cindy Gore lives in Texarkana, Texas. Her poems have appeared in Rattle and ONE ART.

Michael Buckingham Gray is a poet, writer and creative writing mentor. His haiku recently appeared in Frogpond, cattails and Asahi Haikuist Network.

David Green has had haiku published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Confluence and other journals. One of his senryu won third place in the Haiku Society of America Gerald Brady Senryu Awards. A haiku of his has been displayed in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Another poem was selected to be part of the Midwest Haiku Traveling Rock Garden. David is a teacher and poet in Chicago.

Denisa Hanšutová is a poet from Slovakia. Her poems have not appeared in any journals yet as she started experimenting with haiku only recently. 

Quamrul Hassan is an MFA Candidate at the University of Arkansas’s Program in Creative Writing and Translation. His haiku and other poems and translations have been published or forthcoming in Agni, Copper Nickel, The Malahat Review, Columbia Journal, Mantis, World Literature Today, The Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Usawa Literary Review, Asahi Shimbun, The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Blithe Spirit, Failed Haiku and Narrow Road. 

Mark Hendrickson (he/him/his) is a poet and writer in the Des Moines area. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Variant Lit, Vestal Review, Modern Haiku, Spellbinder, and others. Mark worked for many years as a Mental Health Technician in a locked psychiatric unit. He has advanced degrees in music, health information management, and marriage & family therapy. Follow him @MarkHPoetry or on his website: www.markhendricksonpoetry.com 

Jackleen Holton’s poems have been published in the anthologies The Giant Book of Poetry, California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, and Steve Kowit: This Unspeakably Marvelous Life. Honors include Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, The Sun and others.

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

Roberta Beach Jacobson is the editor of Five Fleas Itchy Poetry. She lives in Iowa, USA.

Bethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer, poet, writing coach, and workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection, Lightning Is a Mother and a mini-memoir, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in many magazines including Rattle, Brevity, and Salamander. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023 and Best Small Fictions 2024, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. Born and raised in West Virginia, Bethany lives in Pittsburgh with her family. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on social media: @BethanyJarmul

kjmunro lives in the Yukon Territory, Canada, on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation & the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution. She facilitates ‘solstice haiku’, a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, & she manages a weekly blog feature for The Haiku Foundation called Haiku Dialogue. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, & her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).

Zachary T. Kalinoski is a writer, born and bred in Ohio, based in Columbus. When not scratching lines on paper or pecking a keyboard, you can find him wrangling data for corporations, watching Rattlecast while washing dishes, and adoring time with his wife, daughter, and cavapoo. Some of his work appears in The Fib Review and The Columbus Dispatch. 

Deborah Karl-Brandt lives in Bonn, Germany, with her husband, two rabbits and and a decent selection of books. After her PhD studies in Scandinavian languages and literatures, she works as a freelance author and poet. Her poems have earned her some honorable mentions and the 2nd place in the 2021 Pula Film Festival Haiku Contest.

Julie Bloss Kelsey’s haiku have been published worldwide. She is the author of three collections 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 column for beginning haiku poets, New to Haiku, for The Haiku Foundation, where she is on the Board of Directors. Connect with her on Bluesky: @mamajoules.bsky.social 

Ravi Kiran is an Electronics Engineer and is a working professional. Ravi’s haiku have won international contests and are featured in journals like The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku & Frogpond. Ravi is a web-editor with the leading journal haikuKATHA and is an editor with Leaf – the journal of The Daily Haiku.

Kat Lehmann is a founding co-chief editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. Her fourth collection no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song (Rattle, 2025) is a winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize. Kat’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. https://katlehmann.weebly.com

Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition).

Hemat Malak is a poet and accountant from Sydney, Australia, who has crawled back to poetry after over forty-five years away. She mainly writes on themes which irritate her, hoping to run out of them one day.  Her writing has appeared in Rattle, Rochford Street Review, Catchment Literary Journal, Short Stories Unlimited, and anthologies from WestWords and WA Poets.

Jenny Mattern is a poet, a crafter of stories, and a cake-for-breakfast enthusiast living in Montana with her husband and children. She has had poetry published in The Poetry Pea Anthology, Cold Moon Journal, and The Dirigible Balloon. She also writes middle-grade novels and is represented by Nicole Eisenbraun at Ginger Clark Literary Agency.

Zachariah Matteson is a violinist living and performing in Austin, TX. His poetry has appeared in the Texas Poetry Calendar and the FailedHaiku Journal. 

Michael Meyerhofer is the author of five books of poetry – including What To Do If You’re Buried Alive (free from Doubleback Books) – as well as a fantasy series. His eclectic work has appeared in Modern Haiku, The Sun, Brevity, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Rattle, and other journals. For more info and an embarrassing childhood photo, visit troublewithhammers.com.

Chelsea McClellan is a poet writing from a small homestead in NW Ohio, where she also spends much time re-reading Rhina Espaillat and Charlotte Mason, tending to her children and the family orchard, and mucking out the horse stalls.

Lenard D. Moore is a poet, essayist, fiction writer, book reviewer, photographer, playwright, and educator. He is the author of several books, including A Million Shadows at Noon; Long Rain; and The Geography of Jazz. He also is the editor and/or co-editor of several books, including All The Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective; and One Window’s Light: A Collection of Haiku. He is the recipient of several honors and awards, including Induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award, and the Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award (thrice). He is former president of the Haiku Society of America (2 terms); longtime Executive Chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society; Founder and Executive Director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective. In addition, he is the Co-founder of the Washington Street Writers Group.

Isabella Mori lives on the unceded, traditional, ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh aka Vancouver, BC, is the founder of Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, and the author of three books of and about poetry, including Not So Pretty Haiku. They write pretty much everything that’s not nailed down.

Brian O’Sullivan teaches English at St. mary’s College of Maryland. His poems have been published in ONE ART, Rattle, Contemporary Haibun Online and other journals. He is a poetry reader at Chestnut Review and a squad member at ThePoetrySpace_.

Ginel Basiga Ople is from Cavite, Philippines. He works in the engineering industry and discusses poems on Discord. His poetry also appears in Rattle’s Tribute to the Haibun.

Nancy Orr discovered the joys of writing haiku after she retired. She had written poetry off and on for much of her life, but her time and energy was spent working in and around municipal government. She has published haiku and senryu in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, bottle rockets, Wales Haiku Journal, Pan Haiku Review, tsuri-doro, Akitsu Quarterly, and Failed Haiku, among others.

John Pappas is a poet and teacher whose work has appeared in many poetry journals and anthologies. His haiku have garnered a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation, a 2023 Trailblazer award, a silver medal in the 2023 Ito En New Haiku Grand Prix, Best in the United States in the 2023 Vancouver Invitational, a Sakura Award in the 2024 Vancouver Invitational, and honorable mention in the 2024 Heliosparrow Frontier Awards, among others. His first chapbook dimes of light was published in 2024 by Yavanika Press. His work is featured in the recently published haiku anthology off the main road: six contemporary haiku poets (Alba Publishing, 2024) and his longer poetry has twice been selected for the Mayor of Boston’s Poetry Contest (2016 and 2020). As drummer and lyricist of the punk rock band Heather Hates You, he has recorded two albums and toured extensively. 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. 

Vandana Parashar is an associate editor of haikuKATHA and one of the editors of Poetry Pea and #FemkuMag. Her debut e-chapbook, “I Am”, was published by Title IX Press (Moth Orchid Press) in 2019 and her second chapbook “Alone, I Am Not”, was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in 2022.

Jon Petruschke resides in Portland, Maine where he practices psychotherapy in addition to writing. He has two books — Dream Haiku: Poems from Nights and Naps, and Cherry Blossom: Erotic Haiku. 

Sharon Pretti’s work has appeared in Calyx, The MacGuffin, The Bellevue Literary Review and other journals. She’s received Pushcart Prize nominations and was selected for the Best New Poets 2024 anthology. She is also an award-winning haiku poet and has been a frequent contributor to haiku journals including Modern Haiku and Frogpond. Sharon is a retired medical social worker and has taught poetry workshops in long-term care facilities in San Francisco.

Caiti Quatmann (she/they) is a disabled and queer writer residing in St. Louis. She is the author of Yoke (MyrtleHaus, 2024) and the forthcoming poetry collections Meditations (on Cheese) (Alien Buddha Press, 2025) and M(other)hood (Big Thinking Publishing, 2025). She is the Editor-in-Chief of HNDL Mag, and her work appears or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Rattle, Neologism Poetry Journal, Eunoia Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Thread, and more. Find her on social media @CaitiTalks.

Bryan Rickert, President of the Haiku Society of America (2023-2024), has been published in many fine journals. He was the Editor of Failed Haiku Journal of Senryu (2022-2024) and edits The Living Senryu Anthology. Bryan has two books: Fish Kite (Cyberwit Publishing) and Just 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. 

Tracy Royce’s haiku or haibun have recently appeared in contemporary haibun online, failed haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Under the Bashō, whiptail: journal of the single line poem, and elsewhere. 

An author and contributor to hiking websites, Rick Runner started writing haiku as an extension of practicing shinrin-yoku and journaling his frequent hiking adventures. In a very short time, his haiku have appeared in online journals, including Sense & Sensibility. After a 30-year career as a U.S. Army officer, as well as five years as a high school history teacher, Rick is now fully retired and living in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.

Jacob D. Salzer is a Pacific Northwest poet and editor who primarily writes haiku and tanka in English. He is the past managing editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America (2023-2024), and the founding editor of the Haiku Poet Interviews blog and Mayfly Editing. He also serves as a commentator for the Haiku Commentary blog with Nicholas Klacsanzky and Hifsa Ashraf. In his spare time, Jacob enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time with friends and family. His poetry website is: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/mareliberumhaiku

Shawn Aveningo-Sanders’ poetry has appeared in journals worldwide, including Calyx, OneArt, Quartet, About Place Journal, Timberline Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, McQueen’s Quinterly, and many others. Author of What She Was Wearing (2019), her manuscript, Pockets, was a finalist in the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest (2024) and is forthcoming from MoonPath Press in Fall 2025. Shawn is two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. A proud mom and Nana, she shares the creative life with her husband in Oregon.

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 six-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.

When Kashiana Singh is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. Her newest full-length collection, Witching Hour, was released in December 2024 with Glass Lyre Press. She lives in North Carolina and proudly serves as Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News, as well as President of the North Carolina Poetry Society. 

Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. His favorite subject is the sky.

Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work connects her more closely to the world and to herself. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks, received the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award, and was recently published by the press.

Tere Sievers lives and teaches in Long Beach California. She says,” Writing poetry helps me see clearly the joys of a long life and teaches me how to survive its losses.”  Her poems have appeared in ONE ART, Pearl, Nerve Cowboy, Silver Birch Press Anthologies and others.

Nancy Tinnell is from Louisville, KY. Her work has appeared in several online and print journals, for which she is grateful. She enjoys writing in both formal and free verse and frequently organizes events that feature both readings and music. Writing poetry is her favorite means of self-expression.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator, and poet laureate of Evermore. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, Washington Post’s Book Club, andCarnegie Hall stage. Her newest book is The Unfolding. One-word mantra: Adjust.

Michael Dylan Welch has been writing haiku for nearly fifty years, and has had his haiku, tanka, longer poems, essays, and reviews published in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than twenty languages. He has been keynote speaker for the Haiku International Association conference in Tokyo, and one of his translations from the Japanese has appeared on the back of 150 million U.S. postage stamps. Michael runs National Haiku Writing Month every February (www.nahaiwrimo.com) and documents his writing life at www.graceguts.com.

Dick Westheimer lives in rural southwest Ohio with his wife and writing companion, Debbie. He is winner of the 2023 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist. His poems have appeared in Only Poems, Whale Road Review, Rattle, Abandon Journal, and Minyan. His chapbook, A Sword in Both Hands, Poems Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine, is published by SheilaNaGig. More at www.dickwestheimer.com

Joshua Eric Williams is a poet, essayist, and artist from Carrollton, GA. His work has appeared in various publications, including Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Rattle. Visit thesmallestwords.com for more information about his work.

Tony Williams lives quietly in a village near Glasgow in Bonnie Scotland where he enjoys nature, science, gardening, food, sci-fi TV, rain or sun, and reading inspiring short-form poetry. He is not unhappily retired.

Michele Worthington lives in Tucson, AZ where the Sonoran Desert, urban sprawl and our unacknowledged apocalypse inspires her writing. She has had poems published in Sandscript, Sandcutter, and Sabino Poets; an online chapbook at unlostJournal.com; and photography and poetry in Harpy Hybrid Review. She was a Tucson Haiku Hike and Arizona Matsuri contest winner, and a finalist for the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books literary awards.

Li Zhuang is a PhD candidate of Creative Writing at Florida State University. In 2019, Li graduated with an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her works have been featured and are forthcoming in Pleiades, the Common, Denver Quarterly, the Madison Review, Southeast Review, the Collapsar etc. Her Chapbook “But Octopi Don’t Sing” is a runner-up for Purple Ink Press’s Chapbook Contest selected by Chen Chen. Li is the nonfiction editor for the Southeast Review.