Carolyn Hall butterflies under glass concerns a closely examined life. Hall faces daily trials with clarity, wit, and wisdom. She urges readers to seek technical support in nature and human nature. Her haiku are endlessly fresh and never boilerplate. Carolyn...
Chad Lee Robinson The White Buffalo celebrates the land of the Lakota. Not only its rugged terrain but a life lived in harmony with the horse and with the buffalo. There is grief too for the loss of this majesty. Each haiku is a gem: polished and focused. Chad Lee...
Austin Sanchez-Moran “The poems in Rhinocerotica are inventive yet tender. In the end, I do not know if I am the rhino, and the poems want me to see my larger connection with the world—or, if the rhino is made human, so I, a human, will pay attention, and so I fail...
Chris Slaughter Runner up for the 4th Annual Chapbook Competition. Chris Slaughter graduated from Hunter College with a MFA in creative writing where he received a Shuster Award. He also obtained a MSED in students with disabilities from Brooklyn College, and a degree...
Hannah Mahoney These skillfully crafted haiku are the product of sensitive observation of nature and of human relationships. Each poem is the distillation of a moment of sharp perception and is presented in a way that is suggestive rather than telling. On the whole,...