Found Gogyoshi Artwork by Debbie Strange

 

*Found gogyoshi culled from "Cullen in the Afterlife" by P.K. Page

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Debbie Strange (Canada) is a short-form poet, artist, musician, and photographer. Her daily creative practice is a form of meditation and healing, helping to mitigate the effects of chronic illness and connecting her more closely to the world, to others, and to herself. Debbie's haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press, 2024), received 3rd place honours in the 2025 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards. For further information, please visit a publication and awards archive here:  https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/ and follow her on Instagram @debbiemstrange and X @Debbie_Strange.

A Monoku by Scott Wiggerman

 

rusted fence how we bleed without knowing

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Scott Wiggerman, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is primarily known as a poet, instructor, and editor, though he has been interested in art throughout his schooling and career. Since retiring and moving to Albuquerque from Austin ten years ago, where he was librarian at the Fine Arts Academy, he has experienced a renaissance in his love of art. Primarily a collage artist, he has expanded his media into acrylics, ink, charcoal, colored pencil, and prints. Locally, he has had work in shows at Tortuga Gallery, the New Mexico Art League, and the UNM Law Library, as well as a letterpress broadside in collaboration with Holland Hardie in a Remarque Gallery display at the Open Space Visitors Center. As someone who continues to work as both poet and artist, several times he has had his art featured in print: "Dwelling in Possibility," a cut-out paper portrait in We Talked with Each Other About Each Other: Works of Art Inspired by Poems of Emily Dickinson (2019); "Jardin," a two-sided mixed media drawing on parchment paper on the cover of David Meischen's Anyone's Son (2020), and abstract art on the covers of three other books of poetry, Gayle Lauradunn's The Geography of Absence (2002), Lyman Grant's ostraca (2023), and the Haiku Society of America's national anthology Fractured by Cattails (2023). Other artwork has appeared in such journals as ABQ inPrint, Cholla Needles, and Rattle. Other samples of Wiggerman's work can be found at https://scottwiggerman.myportfolio.com/.

A Haiga by Shloka Shankar

 

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Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press, and the author of the recent haiku collection within our somehows. Each day reminds her to let go of control and embrace the wilderness that is her body.

A Shahai by Stephanie Zepherelli

 

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Stephanie Zepherelli, a former dance professor, is a long time student and teacher of Iyengar yoga, ballet, and contemporary dance; a student of Zen master Robert Aitken; and a reluctant clairvoyant descended from Romanian Gypsies. She was introduced to short form poetry via Triveni Haikai India. Stephanie lives on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, with her tribe of Madagascar geckos.

A Ta Da by Shloka Shankar

 

when you think
about it

life is
a pyramid scheme

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Shloka Shankar is a disabled poet, editor, and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She is the Founding Editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press, and the author of the recent haiku collection within our somehows. Each day reminds her to let go of control and embrace the wilderness that is her body.

"Incantation for Release or Confinement" by Michael Nickels-Wisdom

 

Incantation for Release or Confinement

inside the mind
outside the mind inside the body

outside
the body inside the room

outside the room inside the house
outside the house inside

the wood outside
the wood

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Michael Nickels-Wisdom has written haiku since 1990 and speculative poetry since 2008. His speculative work has appeared in horror senryu journal, Scifaikuest, Cold Moon Journal, and Tales from the Moonlit Path. In 2023 he won an annual Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest Dwarf Form Third Place award. In 2011 he began to study people's lived anomalous experiences as a serious nonfiction subject. Many of his poems have come out of that study.

A Senryu by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

sit a spell
fellow phantom
all are welcome here

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Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee.

https://heyyouhaiku.blogspot.com/?m=1

"Deep Sleep" by gaia & vana

 

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Barbara Anna Gaiardoni and Andrea Vanacore, known as gaia & vana, are finalists in the "Writings Leith" competition in Edinburgh. They were shown at the "Artfarm Pilastro," an exhibition of contemporary art and performance. Douglas Pinson of "Spinozablue—An Eclectic Journal of the Arts" describes their work as "Fine art/poem." Barbara and Andrea are life partners residing in Verona.

https://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/

https://andreavanacore.it/

A Senryu by Randy Brooks

 

cleaning house
for other-worldly guests
new ofrenda candles

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Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he teaches courses on haiku, tanka and Zen poetics. Randy and Shirley Brooks are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku.