Ah, I always forget about the delightful “Reblog” feature…

in our books

I first “met” Cara Holman on the poetry blog Poetic Asides. Robert Brewer, the editor, posts regular prompts (every Wednesday, for those of you who would enjoy a regular source of inspiration, not to mention interaction with the interesting and supportive community that hangs out there) as well as periodic challenges/ contests. When I first read one of Cara’s poems, I was stunned. I hadn’t read haiku since I was in grade school, and her poem was a revelation: the sense of the first two lines launching the reader into space, and then the third line gently landing at the poem’s end. I realized that I had missed something important about the form, and when started looking at other haiku online, gosh, Cara’s name kept appearing, as the author of one beautiful poem after another. So naturally, with a new blog that gave us an excuse to interview her…

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In Our Books Interview

It’s always a treat to follow fellow poets’ blogs, and an honor when I get to be interviewed for one of them. Today, an interview with me appears on In Our Books, the shared blog of Ina Roy and Andrea Heiberg. Please do take the time to read it, and leave comments either here or on their blog (or both!) And while you’re there, check out some of their other great blog posts.

Upcoming Publications

It’s been silent on my blog ever since the 31 prompters, 31 days challenge on NaHaiWriMo ended on August 31. That’s jointly due to the back-to-school busyness, and also to all the journals and contests that have their deadlines between August 15 and September 15. I can’t even think how many haiku, senryu, and rengay I must have submitted. But it all pays off in the end: I have works that will appear in the following publications this fall:

• 2 haiku, plus a rengay with Kirsten Cliff, to appear in Aubrie Cox’s Every Road Takes Me to the Sea post
• 1 haiku, to appear in Modern Haiku
• 2 haiku, plus a rengay with Angela Terry and Julie Warther, to appear in Frogpond
• 1 haiku, to appear in Acorn
• 3 haiku, plus 3 rengay with Angela Terry and Julie Warther, to appear in A Hundred Gourds
• an interview with Ina Roy and Andrea Heiberg, to appear on in our books
• 2 haiku, to appear in tinywords
• 1 haiku, to appear in Mariposa

Recent publications include:

• 2 rengay sequences: “Between the Birdsong” and “All the Words That Mean Cancer”, with Kirsten Cliff, in Lynx 27:3, October 2012.
• My last batch of haiku on Daily Haiku, Cycle 13, Aug. 26 – Sept. 1, 2012.
• 3 haiku: “dust devil”, “pausing”, and “streaming sunlight”, in A Hundred Gourds 1:4, September 2012.
• 1 haiku: “pine wind”, in The Heron’s Nest XIV:3, September 2012.