2/12/2024 0 Comments Red moom charlotteKinda funny, when my son saw my reading on YouTube he thought I was going to become “YouTube famous”! I gave an interview for the New to Haiku feature on The Haiku Foundation website, which appeared on September 19, 2021. Here is the link to the HPNC website where you can go to recordings, click on my name and you’ll find the link to YouTube. The HPNC reading is available to watch on YouTube. The second, for Haiku Northwest on September 9, 2021. The first, for the Haiku Poets of Northern California on July 18, 2021. I gave two readings and one interview in 2021. 2021 saw a number of poems republished in various places, such as Last Train Home (Pondhawk Press), jar of rain: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2020 (Red Moon Press), Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog, tsuri-doro (issue #3, as featured poet), Visiting the Wind: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2021, The Haiku Foundation Per Diem “Firsts” (October), MahMight Haiku Journal (August), Nick Virgilio Writer’s House Anthology Volume 2, Triveni Haiku Spotlight (November), and in Lee Gurga’s essay “Normative Haiku and Beyond” ( Modern Haiku 52.2). I keep tabs on anywhere and everywhere my poems appear. I made my first appearance in the following journals in 2021: Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Otoroshi Journal, and tsuri-doro. Here is the breakdown by publication: Acorn (1), Akitsu Quarterly (5), Autumn Moon Haiku Journal (3), Haiku in Action (1), haikuniverse (1), The Heron’s Nest (4), Horror Senryu Journal (4), Kingfisher (3), Last Train Home (Pondhawk Press) (3), Mariposa (2), Modern Haiku (1), Otoroshi Journal (1), Prune Juice (1), tsuri-doro (3), Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest (1). I published 34 new poems (all haiku and senryu, no tanka in 2021). In a nutshell, this is what 2021 looked like for me. Another way to put it is that I try not to put too much pressure on myself to produce. So these goals that I set for myself are flexible, and are meant to keep me on task and on track. But then in other years I have far exceeded them. It’s true, I have had years when I was unable to meet my goals. So usually I set a goal to publish 22 new poems each year, and to publish in one place that I’ve never published in before. I purposely keep the goals to what is reasonable for me and my writing practice. As I’ve mentioned before, I set goals for myself. I’m just gonna skip all that other 2021 stuff, Covid and all that, and go right into one of the things that’s helping so many of us stay grounded and sane: haiku!įor me 2021 was another successful year. There’s so much haiku stuff from 2021 that I didn’t get around to sharing, so I have lots of ground to cover. It’s time to round up another year of haiku. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more news about new and forthcoming work! Until then, here’s a few haiku from the second half of 2022. I have new work forthcoming in bottle rockets, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, horror senryu journal, and Acorn. ![]() My thanks and appreciation to the editors of all the venues who republished my work. I also had some work republished in a variety of places in 2022, from essays to blogs, too many to name, including four anthologies: dawn returns (Haiku Society of America, 2022), The Haiku Way to Healing (Middle Island Press, 2022), Our Garden (The Haiku Foundation, 2022), and string theory: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2021 (Red Moon Press, 2022). My thanks to the editors for publishing my work. Here is the list of journals my work appeared in last year with how many poems I published in each one: Acorn (1), Akitsu Quarterly (4), Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) (1), Frogpond (2), Haikuniverse (1), Haiku Dialogue (5), Hedgerow (3), The Heron’s Nest (2), horror senryu journal (6), Kingfisher (1), Kontinuum (2), Mariposa (1), Mayfly (1), Otoroshi (2), Poetry Pea (1), Prune Juice (1), Scarlet Dragonfly Journal (2), Seashores (1), Trash Panda (2), and tsuri-doro (2). And I published in six journals I had not previously appeared in before. I published 41 new haiku and senryu in 2022 which is higher than my average. I know I probably say that about every year, but I have been part of the haiku community for more than twenty years and am just happy to still be writing and getting my haiku and related poems published so widely. Since this post should have gone up in January, let’s call this Rewind the better late than never edition! I will be brief with this post since I will be posting a few others in the coming week or so.Ģ022 was another good year for my haiku. I can’t believe it’s the end of March already.
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