A few more coming in the next few weeks, but here are two, John’s Table by Lesle Lewis (Piżama Press, 2026), and Tamil Terrains: poems, translations, reflections, edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran (Trace Press, 2025).

It’s summer, for sure this time. Gave my author site a cleanup for broken links and to be better organized. Read a bit. Sent a couple more submissions. Took a walk. Transcribed some.

Birdsong of various chirps, and another, somewhere among cat’s meow, falsetto donkey and door hinge. Took a horsefly, a wasp, a few deerfly out to see the sky. Snacked, drank, read some more. Received a few more submissions for my one-line chapbook call. Wrote some more.

I have curiosity about monoku which are one-liner haiku. Not monostitch — that is more like the American sentence. I do like me a good caesura.

I’m thinking, I’ll try to make a group chapbook again. It’s been a while. I’m thinking for the end of June 2026, the ottawa small press fair, with a deadline of, June 12. Sooner started, sooner finished.

Keeping it simple. No theme.  Do you have any new ones,  (or previously published with pub credit included)? 

Send 3 and I’ll see what interest is in this being made. 

If it’s a go, I’ll make a print run with a letterpress cover. I have got a pasta maker that can be rigged as a letter press.  & I’m make a free downloadable pdf version.

In other news, I put a few archived phafours items as pdfs.

I am aiming to read wider, and source sustainably. And peck away at French books. I kick myself for not getting any häiku at the conference. This count includes ones read and partly read. Not the 50 or so others scattered around.

I’m hoping to finish title 115 read this week. Page count varying from 8 pages to 1100, avg 175 pages. Only half the free downloads were fan fiction. (Let’s just stash this record keeping under a safe outlet for OC impulse.)

Amazon is a great resource for previews, much better than the publishers in most cases. (For the love of god, just share a page of poetry in preview, anyone.) I aim to look it up online and get it from publisher or author, but for international the indie stores not dealing with small publishers, and publishers not shipping to Canada or insane postage rates… it all makes it too much of a steeplechase.

I aim to review as a practice a tenth of what I read which makes myself boxes into the strange position of feeling guilty for reading when I have conscripted myself to finish reviews underway. Let it go…let it go…

I’m toying with the idea of doing a call and getting a chapbook done for end of June. Madness?