I’ve been writing haiku from time to time for many years. For a bit more than a year now, I’ve been writing at least one haiku every day. A while ago, poet Dave Bonta turned me on to modern English haiku, which often breaks free of the 5-7-5 form so many of us learned growing up. I started reading journals of contemporary haiku and following current haiku poets on Instagram (though I’m off social media these days). It was through the latter path that I found the journal Trash Panda, and I had my first haiku published by them in their winter 2021-2022 issue a couple months back. I was reminded that I’d never mentioned that here on the blog when I found out last night that my second haiku will soon be published by another journal. I’ll tell you more about that when it happens. Right now, though, huge thanks to TP (!) for being the first journal to put one of my haiku in print.
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