My haiku “We Dance” just got published in Under the Basho (2 September 2025): https://underthebasho.com/the-journal/under-the-basho-2025/haiku.html The haiku editor for this journal is Kanjini Devi. She had a great suggestion for revising the poem. #haiku #shortpoem Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library; Photo by Hedy Habra Edit with Elementor AI
I am happy to report that december magazine just published six of my haiku and senryu poems: “Swimming in the Rain,” “Flames Flicker,” “Raindrops,” “Yellow Quilt,” “Stocking Cap,” and “Wild Pea Flowers.” december 36.1 (Spring/Summer, 2025) on page 88. I wrote “Flames Flicker” in 1999 and revised it, so I am very happy to have found such a good home for this tiny poem after waiting 25 years. I wrote “Swimming in the Rain” in 2010, and I’m also delighted to have this poem in print. It concerns swimming in Elkhart Lake during one of our family reunions. The managing editor of december is Jennifer Goldring. Also, my senryu poem “Exit” is in the current issue of Prune Juice No. 46 (August 2025) on page 8. https://prunejuicesenryu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/prune-juice-issue-46-c2a9-2025.pdf The editors are Antoinette Cheung and P. H. Fischer. Finally, editor Iliyana Stoyanova published my two haiku “Deer Tracks” and “Flash of Red” in Blithe Spirit 35.3 (August 2025) on page 59. This journal is based in England. This is the special thirty-fifth anniversary issue of Blithe Spirit.…