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Olivier Schopfer lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He likes to capture the moment in haiku and photography. His work has appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2014 & 2016, as well as in numerous online and print journals. He also writes articles in French about etymology and everyday expressions at Olivier Schopfer raconte les mots.
Luminous
reflection of the moon’s
cool elegance
another light floating
across night’s dark acre
out of place
clinging to my wall
unmoving or unable to move
one curving underwing
half torn off
casualty of a night bird’s hunger
broken, still beautiful, shining
here in daylight
where you don’t belong
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Mary McCarthy has always been a writer, as well as a visual artist and a Registered Nurse. She has had many publications in online and print journals, including The Ekhprastic Review, Three Elements, Earth’s Daughters and Third Wednesday, and has an electronic chapbook, Things I Was Told Not to Think About available as a free download from Praxis Magazine.
a millipede body,
a paper dragon, bound
home from our festivals.
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Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo teaches at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and blogs at tekstong bopis. His works have appeared in Plural, Epizootics!, Transit, Bukambibig, {m}, and The Cabinet.
night party
black insects crowd
a white bulb
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Blessed Ayeyame is a Nigerian who is fascinated by the written word, and he writes to share in this fascinating experience.
mosquitoes…
pumpjacks plunge into
parched land
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Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry, has work published in Appalachian Heritage, New Mexico Review, Gnarled Oak, Third Wednesday, The Bookends Review, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at bengroner.com/creative-writing/
(Watch Marie Craven’s video & view full credits for “Haiku for the Lost” on Vimeo)
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Marie Craven (Queensland, Australia) assembles short videos from poetry, music, voice, stills and moving images by various artists around the world. Created via the internet, the pieces are collaborative in a way that belongs to the 21st century, with open licensing and social networking key to the process. In 2016 her video “Dictionary Illustrations” was awarded best film at the Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition in Ireland. To see more: vimeo.com/mariecraven
old friends–
I add more sugar
to the tea cups
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David He has been working as an advanced English teacher for 35 years in a high school. So far he has had twenty short English stories published in anthologies. In recent years he has had haiku published in magazines like Acorn, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Rocket bottles, Frogpond, A One Hundred Gouges, Shamrock, First Literary Review-East, Modern Haiku, Frozen Butterfly and some international magazines. He has also had tanka published in Tanka of America, Skylark, Ribbones and Cattails. He lives in Gansu Province, China.
She’s fond of kicking the door
wide open entirely too late at night
wearing wild hair and her take-no-prisoners red boots–
Let’s get this party started!
What can I do?
She won’t take no for an answer.
Insists I call her Roxanne.
In the morning I will have to explain again
to my husband why I came so late to bed.
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Robin Turner is the author of bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women (Porkbelly Press, 2016). A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Psaltery & Lyre, 3Elements Literary Review, and in the magical White Rock Zine Machine. Robin works, plays, and daydreams in Dallas, Texas.
Sorry for the delays in responding to submissions. I am still working through them, but hope to be finished by the end of the week. Issue 15 should start on Feb 19 soon. Thank you for your continued patience.
3/2–Update to the update: Still processing submissions. Thank you for your continued patience. Hopefully sometime next week we’ll get things rolling.
Issue 15 is going to be a micropoetry issue (similar to our first issue). Please adhere to the general submission guidelines, but for this issue, we would like to see micropoetry, microfiction, videopoems based on micropoetry, and artwork that works with this micro theme. We’re defining micro along the lines of the Twitter model, and ask that all submitted writing be tweetable. That doesn’t mean you need to be on Twitter, it just means we’re setting a 140 280ish-character limit for each submitted piece. There’s more on the submissions page.
The deadline for submitting to Issue 15 will be January 26, 2018, and we will plan to start the issue the week of February 5.
As mentioned in the Issue 14 call, this will be the last issue of Gnarled Oak, at least for a while. Please consider sending your best work so we can close this out in style. Thanks, and I look forward to another great batch of submissions.
