Conversation is communion.
Pay attention: G-d is speaking.
Pay attention: someone’s praying.
Same with poems.
Everything ends with amen.
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Laura M Kaminski grew up in Nigeria, went to school in New Orleans, and currently lives in rural Missouri. Her most recent collection, The Heretic’s Hymnal: 99 New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from Babylon Books / Balkan Press in 2018. More about her poetry is available at The Ark of Identity.
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Kris Lindbeck has been writing poems on Twitter, mostly haiku and tanka, for about eight years. A few are published in Bright Stars, An Organic Tanka Anthology, Bones, Prune Juice, and Skylark Tanka. You can see more @krislindbeck on Twitter and Haiku etc.
birds feed off of me:
break my eyes
& swallow the tide
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Jamie O’Connell currently lives in the Bay Area, where she received her MFA in Writing at California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured in Menacing Hedge, Troop Zine, Newfound, and Forth Magazine, and exhibited in College Avenue Galleries in Oakland. She spends most of her time with her majestic zebra-striped dog, Daisy.
Missing birds –
echoes in the empty trees.
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Steve Klepetar is relocating from Saint Cloud, Minnesota to the Berkshires in Massachusetts. His work has appeared widely and has received a number of nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, including two in 2017. The most recent of his eleven collections include A Landscape in Hell (Flutter Press); Family Reunion (Big Table); and How Glass Shatters (One Sentence Poem Chapbooks).
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Debbie Strange is a Canadian short form poet, haiga artist and photographer whose creative passions bring her closer to the world and to herself. She is the author of Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads (Keibooks 2015) and the haiku collection, A Year Unfolding (Folded Word 2017). Please visit her archive of published work at Warp and Weft ~~ Images and Words.
a bridge
spanning a frozen river
I sign the DNR
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Robert Witmer is an American who has resided in Tokyo, Japan, for nearly 40 years. A semi-retired professor and petanque aficionado, he looks forward to trekking again in the Himalaya mountains, where he once recited Whitman to the lovely woman who became his wife. His first book of poetry is titled Finding a Way.
And still you remain the moon / pulling ever-gently on my tides.
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H.G. Warrender is an author living in upstate New York. She has published one book, The King’s Decree, with several more on the way.
it’s the season of betrayal again
ripe mangoes in the bazaar
none I can eat
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Daya Bhat from Bengaluru, India enjoys writing. She has written a book of poems and a few short stories. Blog: Prose/Poetry…
the darkest
corner of a closet
cut upon cut
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Jan Benson is a Pushcart Prize nominated haiku poet living in Texas. Her work is in translation in seven languages. Jan is a member of The British Haiku Society, and Poetry Society of Texas. She has work listed in the Living Senryu Anthology and at The Haiku Foundation poet registry. @janbentx
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Hifsa Ashraf is from Pakistan. She writes short stories, and poetry in different languages (Urdu, English, and Punjabi). Her haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga have been published in different online journals. She won third place in the Annual Tanka Contest 2017 by Mandy’s Pages. Her short stories have been published in a UK-based English magazine.
