ONE ART’s 2026 Haiku Anthology
Editor’s Note:
As I pause to think about all that went into our third annual anthology, I’m overcome. I don’t mean in terms of our curational efforts—though Mark Danowsky always impresses me—I’m overcome by the abundance of attention to the world that is reflected in these startling haiku.
It is a decision to commit to writing a poem, in much the same way that one can commit to noticing what unfolds around us every day. In such a way, the practice of writing haiku has the power to rewire us. Especially in the age of the attention economy, every iteration of observation is a form of gratitude.
That doesn’t mean that gratitude is always joyful, as is reflected in many of the haiku that are curated in our anthology. Gratitude is an effort to love our world unconditionally.
This year, we were sent more powerful haiku than ever before, which speaks to how we are continually growing better at achieving oneness with the world. So thank you to every person that spends their days noticing, to the poets that take the time to write it down, and especially to the haiku poets represented in this year’s tribute to gratitude.
Warmly,
P.S. Please join us on April 26th for our live reading on Zoom, as well as listen in to episodes #136 and #137 of my podcast, The Poetry Space, where Mark joined Timothy Green and I to celebrate this anthology.
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the spring he died
I wanted everyone
to
—Sherry Abaldo
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elephant balanced
on a beach ball—
haiku
—Lana Hechtman Ayers
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damping down the tantrum snow swirl
—Roberta Beary
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pinholes
in a firefly jar
Americanism
—Doug Belleville
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determined
to touch the sky
I kneel
—Jaundré van Breda
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ok kid
your turn
tilt-a-world
—Chuck Brickley
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deep in the woods
the fallen log
lucky break
—Randy Brooks
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baby pacifier you can suck it
—susan burch
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schoolboys need
something to aim for
urinal cake
—Jared M. Campbell
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spring clouds
the farther I wander
the lighter my pack
—Sandip Chauhan
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how I long for you wisteria
—Sue Courtney
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let’s pretend
we can start over
snowfall
—Cherie Hunter Day
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finger painting pink petals across the lawn
—Christiana Doucette
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boardwalk sunset . . .
the ant on my popsicle
gets the last lick
—Anna Eklund-Cheong
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polar vortex
more left than right-
handed mittens
—Judson Evans
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before I give up anything Lenten rose
—Terri French
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red wine on the stove
together we mull
—Doug Fritock
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daylight saving time
I wake up
of natural causes
—Nicole Caruso Garcia
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wedding ring
right hand
because
—Jo Anne Moser Gibbons
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only with honey
learning to love
teatime
—Rachel Greve
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crescent moon
curve of the fallen robin
cradled in my hand
—Cindy Guentherman
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nature or nurture second draft
—Jennifer Hambrick
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syllable
by syllable
blooming lilacs
—Kathryn P. Haydon
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the time it takes a village
—Jeff Hoagland
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even after I close my eyes blue lilacs
—Jackleen Holton
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a half-eaten muffin
on the hospital tray
father falling asleep
—Ruth Holzer
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pause in mid air
the curve
of hour glass sands
—Sangita Kalarickal
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seatbelt—
the sudden click
of new friendship
—Julie Bloss Kelsey
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crescent moon
proof the fullness
once existed
—Lynne Kemen
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the little girl says
she wants a different name
end of the fairy tale
—Peter Kovalik
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latchkey sun breaking through the window
—Kat Lehmann
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choosing a condolence card silence
—John Levy
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concert intermission—
the adagio
of the bathroom line
—Robert Lowes
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blood
moon
my
child
hood
dream
of
space
travel
—paul m.
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patterns on his aloha shirt our awkward hug
—Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
§
mountain pass—
the single mom leans
on a guardrail
—Michael Meyerhofer
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pop songs
on my radio
almost singing
—Jenny Middleton
§
every word out bracing itself ants
—Biswajit Mishra
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pointing a lens
at everything white
snow day
—Gareth Nurden
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newborn
a destiny linked
plantain tree
—Uchechukwu Onyedikam
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second marriage,
our basement of boxes
unpacked together
—Al Ortolani
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cave painting
stegosaurus
bathroom plaster
—Brian O’Sullivan
§
used car lot
the ripple and flap of
exclamation marks
—John Pappas
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false spring
tidying up before
the cleaner arrives
—Shruti Patel
§
we all start
somewhere
maggots
—Rick Pongratz
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Sun dogs
my shadow and I
playing fetch
—Scott Reid
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dandelion fluff
my control
over nothing
—Bryan Rickert
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confessing
only to the stars
my dark matter
—Ce Rosenow
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nuclear family—
the empty nest
when they glow
—Shawn Aveningo Sanders
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third marriage
wallpapering the family room
with the same pattern
—Kelly Sargent
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listening for birdsong sirens
—Carla Schwartz
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burying the lede—
an ice-encrusted bag
in the bottom of the freezer
—Julie Schwerin
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family tree
the roots I never
put down
—Shloka Shankar
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pre-monsoon sky—
spider veins ensnare
my legs
—Kashiana Singh
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slipping tongue black ice
—James Spencer
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winter depths
the no-herons
of the Susquehanna
—Joshua St. Claire
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hand plunges once twice different river
—JeFF Stumpo
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scare tactics
no longer duped
by fake owls
—Scott Wiggerman
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~ Editor Notes ~
Katie Dozier is the author of All That Glitter (winner of the Poetry Box’s 2025 Chapbook Prize), and Watering Can. She’s the co-author of two haibun crowns with her husband, Timothy Green. Katie created the podcast The Poetry Space, is the Haiku Editor for ONE ART, and an editor at Rattle. She loves long conversations about short poems.
~ Contributor Notes ~
Sherry Abaldo’s poems have appeared in Rattle, ONE ART, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net. A native Mainer, she currently lives in Las Vegas with her husband. More at sherryabaldo.com.
Lana Hechtman Ayers shepherded over 150 poetry collections into print as managing editor for three small presses. She lives in Oregon on the unceded lands of the Yaqo’n people, where on clear, quiet nights she can hear the Pacific ocean whispering to the moon.
Roberta Beary they/she, winner of the Bridport Poetry Prize, was born and raised in Jamaica Estates, New York and resides in Bethesda, Maryland. Their work appears in Tiny Love Stories (Modern Love/New York Times), Rattle, HAD, and other publications. Crazy Bitches (MacQ, 2025) is their fifth poetry collection.
Doug Belleville writes both short and long-form poetry, with work published in a variety of journals. Based in Ohio, he is a mental health professional who enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, hiking, and playing chess.
Jaundré van Breda is a haiku poet from South Africa. Among other publications, his haiku has appeared in the last two One Art Poetry Haiku Anthologies. Visit swallowingpaint.com for more information about the author.
Chuck Brickley has been writing free-verse haiku for over 60 years. Chuck’s multi-award-winning book, earthshine (Snapshot Press, 2017), is in its 5th printing; his second collection, downhill home (Snapshot Press, 2025), its second printing. http://www.chuckbrickley.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, The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach, and HAIKU DECK: A collection of playing cards.
susan burch is a good egg.
Jared M. Campbell is a corporate lawyer living in Kansas.
Sandip Chauhan is a poet based in Northern Virginia. Her work draws from a haikai sensibility, where few words open into vast silences. She explores migration, memory, and the quiet pull of home,
Sue Courtney lives by the estuary in Orewa, New Zealand. She writes poetry and haiku for mindfulness and creative well-being, and finds inspiration from nature and the changing seasons.
Cherie Hunter Day has published haikai since 1993. She is the author of seven books and six chapbooks. Her most recent full-length collection is A House Meant Only for Summer (Red Moon Press, 2023). She lives in Auburn, New Hampshire.
Christiana Doucette gardens because poetry & flowers grow best with space. Her poetry has been set to music and performed on NPR. She received the Kay Yoder Scholarship for American History and judges poetry for the San Diego Writer’s Festival. Find recent/forthcoming poetry in Rattle, Connecticut River Review, & StorySouth.
Anna Eklund-Cheong has been publishing haiku since 2015. A Minnesota native, dividing her retirement years between the US and France, she teaches haiku classes and offers tours in the Paris area. Her first collection of haiku, “From Little Acorns: 101 Modern Haiku,” was published in 2025.
Judson Evans is a haiku poet who also works in multiple genres. He published a collaborative book of poems inspired by cave painting– “Chalk Song” (Lily Poetry Press, Boston, 2022), and also a book-length long poem “Gear” (Meshwork Press, 2023). He teaches at Berklee College of Music.
Haiku poet, Terri L. French, resides in Huntsville, Alabama. She is former editor of Prune Juice journal of senryu & kyoka, and on the editorial team of Contemporary Haibun Online.
Doug Fritock is a writer, husband, and father of 4 residing in Redondo Beach, California. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has previously appeared in Rattle, Whale Road Review, and Maya C. Popa’s ‘Poems for your Weekend.’
Nicole Caruso Garcia’s OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press) won the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her work appears in Best New Poets, Plume, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is associate poetry editor at Able Muse and served on the board of the Poetry by the Sea conference. Visit her at nicolecarusogarcia.com.
Rachel Greve is hydrogeologist, book lover, and sometimes-writer from Madison, Wisconsin. She has past or upcoming poetry included in Rattle, Wales Haiku Journal, and Frogpond.
Cindy Guentherman has been writing haiku for about 50 years. Her first published one was in Dragonfly in 1982. She currently has three poems in the latest copy of The Rockford Review.
Seven-time Pushcart nominee Jennifer Hambrick authored a silence or two, Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award; In the High Weeds, Stevens Manuscript Award; Joyride, Marianne Bluger Book Award; Unscathed. Poems: American Life in Poetry, Rattle, The Columbia Review. Awards: Martin Lucas Haiku Award, Haiku Society of America Haibun Award.
Kathryn P. Haydon is a Midwest poet who loves noticing small moments and writing small poems.
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, Rattle, RHINO, The Sun and others.
Ruth Holzer’s poetry has appeared in journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, bottle rockets, Hedgerow and Ribbons. A multiple Pushcart, Touchstone, and Best of the Net nominee, she has won the Tanka Splendor Award and the Ito En Art of Haiku Contest Grand Prize.
Dr. Sangita Kalarickal is an award winning, Touchstone and Pushcart Prize nominated poet. She is a widely published wordsmith, with her poetry and fiction appearing in journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Mamina showcases free-verse poetry and haikai form. Sangita is the Editor in Chief of Drifting Sands Haibun Journal.
Lynne Kemen is the author of Shoes for Lucy (SCE Press, 2023) and More Than a Handful (Woodland Arts Editions, 2020). Her work has appeared in One Art, The Ekphrastic Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere. A 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, she serves as Editor/Interviewer for The Blue Mountain Review. https://lynnekemen.com/
Julie Bloss Kelsey writes short-form poetry from her home in suburban Maryland. She is currently on the board of The Haiku Foundation, where she pens a bi-monthly column, New to Haiku. Connect with her on Instagram (@julieblosskelsey).
Peter Kovalik is a poet from Slovakia. He is the author of one book of poetry – Sýkorník. His haiku and senryu have appeared or is forthcoming in List, Host, Romboid, Cold Moon Journal, Only Human, ONE ART and several anthologies.
Kat Lehmann is a founding co-editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. Her fourth collection ‘no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song’ 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/
John Levy lives in Tucson with his wife, the painter Leslie Buchanan. His most recent book of poems is 54 poems: selected & new (Shearsman Books, 2023).
Robert Lowes is the author of two poetry collections: Shocking the Dark (Kelsay Books, 2024), and An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications, 2020). His poems have appeared in journals such as The New Republic, Southern Poetry Review, and Modern Haiku. When he’s not writing, he’s probably playing a guitar.
paul m. (AKA Paul Miller), is an internationally awarded and anthologized short-form poet. He is the editor of Modern Haiku and author of six haiku collections, several of which have won book awards. His latest collection, Magnolia Diary, is at http://www.modernhaiku.org. A California native who lives in Florida’s panhandle.
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley and works as a librarian at UC Merced. She co-edits First Frost and One Sentence Poems, and her poetry has appeared in various print and online journals, in addition to several chapbooks.
Michael Meyerhofer’s latest book of poetry, What To Do If You’re Buried Alive, is free from Doubleback Books. His work has appeared in Modern Haiku, The Sun, Southern Review, Brevity, Rattle and other journals. For more info and an embarrassing childhood photo, visit troublewithhammers.com.
Jenny Middleton is a working mum and writes amid the fun and chaos of family life. She lives in London with her husband, two children and two very lovely, crazy cats. You can read more of her poems at her website https://www.jmiddletonpoems.com
Born in India and having lived in Kenya, Biswajit Mishra and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, Canada. His poems have been published in magazines including Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Heron’s Nest, Canada Haiku Review, Presence, The Other Bunny, Cattails, Asahi Haiku Network and Katha.
Gareth Nurden is a haikuist from Newport, Wales and has had several hundred pieces of haiku and senryu appear in journals and magazines worldwide. Gareth has also had numerous pieces nominated for Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for individual poem in 2024 and 2025.
Brian O’Sullivan teaches English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His poems have been published at ONE ART, Rattle, HOWL New Irish Writing, Modern Haiku and other journals.
Jo Anne Moser Gibbons is a published writer, poet, and photographer whose work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Persimmon Tree, Silver Birch Press, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, AvantAppalachia, Common Threads, Tributaria, Women Speak, and elsewhere. She has received several Ohio Poetry Association poetry awards.
Jeff Hoagland is a lifelong naturalist and environmental educator with a passion for the wild. His first book, scent of juniper, captures his intimate and unique relationship with nature. His haiku can be found in journals, anthologies and on riverstones in his town. Jeff is an Associate Editor with The Heron’s Nest.
Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a haiku innovator fusing Igbó and Yorùbá linguistic textures and oral traditions with short-form poetry. His work appears in Presence (UK), Wales Haiku Journal, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), Prairie-Schooner (forthcoming), and is archived at Japan’s Museum of Haiku Literature. A forthcoming critical essay in Presence explores interlingual haiku.
Al Ortolani is a contributing editor to the Chiron Review. His poems have appeared in Rattle, One Art, and the Pithead Chapel. New York Quarterly Books plans to release his most recent poetry collection, American Watercolor, in early 2027.
Shruti Patel is a Kenyan-Indian writer whose work is shaped by a career in the aid sector, and the particulars of her heritage. Her poems have been published in Frogpond, Acorn, the Wales Haiku Journal, and several others. She lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
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, honorable mention in the 2024 Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards, and three New Science Awards in the 2025 Heliosparrow Haiku 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 anthologies off the main road: six contemporary haiku poets (Alba Publishing, 2024) and New Resonance 14 (Red Noon Press, 2025). 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.
Rick Pongratz is an emerging writer. His haiku have appeared in Rattle, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and Whiptail. Rick is a mental health clinician and studies creative writing at Idaho State University. He currently resides in Idaho where he enjoys getting lost in the woods with his family and dog.
Scott Reid lives in Northern California. Recent publications include “Modern Haiku” and “Jackdaw Haiku.” As poet in residence in Sonoma County, he has taught poetry writing to children. He currently teaches memoir writing at Santa Rosa Junior College. In 2025, he attended the Haiku North America Conference in San Francisco.
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). Bryan’s haiku/senryu book is: Fish Kite (Cyberwit Publishing). He was also the recipient of the Touchstone award for individual poems in 2023.
Ce Rosenow is the author of six poetry collections and Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions, editor of Japanese Forms in American Poetry: Beyond Haiku, and senior editor of Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku. She is the former president of the Haiku Society of America.
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.
Shawn Aveningo Sanders’ newest book, Pockets, was a finalist in Concrete Wolf’s Chapbook Contest. Shawn’s poetry has appeared in Rattle (forthcoming), CALYX, Contemporary Haibun Online, Cloudbank, Sheila-Na-Gig and others. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she shares the creative life with her husband in Oregon. (redshoepoet.com)
A poet and editor, Kelly Sargent is the author of a haiku/ senryu collection entitled Bookmarks (2023), and a second collection, The Honeybee’s Waggle, is forthcoming. She has placed in a number of haiku/senryu competitions, and served as a co-judge for the HSA Harold G. Henderson Haiku Contest last year.
Prize-winning poet Carla Schwartz, of https://carlapoet.com and @cb99videos on all social media, lives and writes in New England.
Julie Schwerin (she/her) is an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest (www.theheronsnest.com) and a member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial team. Her first full-length collection of haiku, fencing with the moon, is now available through Finishing Line Press.
Kashiana Singh has authored five poetry collections and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk – Work as Worship into her every day. Her last full length collection Witching Hour was released in Dec 2024 with Glass Lyre Press, Dualities of Alberio released with The Poetry Box in June 2025. http://www.kashianasingh.com/
Shloka Shankar is an editor and visual artist from India. A Best of the Net nominee and widely published haiku poet, she is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. Shloka is the author of the haiku collections The Field of Why and within our somehows.
James Spencer, of Detroit, lives with his family in Switzerland. Currently, teaches public speaking, Université de Lausanne, Exec MBA. ; his work can be found @ Sonic Boom and La Piccioletta Barca. Previously: actor, MFA, American Rep Theatre / Moscow Art Theatre School.
JeFF Stumpo is the author of these are the waterfalls in my head, winner of the 2026 Granite State Poetry Prize. He has a (poor) website at http://www.JeFFStumpo.com.
Poet, teacher, editor, artist, haikuist, and publisher Scott Wiggerman is the author of four books of poetry, Beginning and Ending with Emily, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; and the co-editor of two volumes, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (2013), and Earthsigns (2017).
