The top 10 and the top 2 dozen of the year. Some of these were really tight calls. And a have a dozen still underway that I may finish this year. Could happen. 2025 Poetry: Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D Graham (Model Press, 2025)Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (Stelliform Press, 2025)Hawk & Moon […]
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Year End Audit
I suppose I could do this Jan 1st and to a degree will. I had a few guiding goals going into the year: Abandon books instead of slog, read more BIPOC, more queer, more in translationmore by disabled, more in French. About 10% BIPOC. On French, I finished none. What/who counts as disabled? Bit hard […]
Elsewhere
A funny thing for you to come here for me to send you away again, but some tome ago blogger stopped working for me so I migrated those sites to my own dang server. And my old cat blog got deleted by WordPress as dormant on their server. I got the files restored. The only […]
Did you know
For haikuists who are not a member of of Haiku Canada for whatever reason, we still may review you collection at our blogazine: Shohyōran
Drevniok Opens tomorrow
Got unpublished English haiku? The Haiku Canada competition is opening Dec 15 and running until the end of February. It may get a 2 week extension… Details on the Betty Drevniok Award.