Published Poetry

My poetry is fairly evenly split between haiku and other Japanese forms or poetry that has some kind of speculative element to it.

Poems are listed in the relevant section in reverse chronological order. Haiku are listed in the speculative section if they have some kind of explicit speculative element (typically science fiction or fantasy), although my non-speculative haiku often contain imagery that borders on speculative anyway. The haiku section also contains links to some essays I’ve written about haiku.

Books

  • A New Resonance 9
    • Red Moon Press, 2015 – A multi-author haiku collection.
  • Stray Cats
    • self-published, 2015 – A single-author haiku chapbook.

Speculative Poetry

  • “big shot,” “saplings,” “starting over,” “After the Storm”
    • Scifaikuest, February 2023
  • “The Three Laws of Poetics”
  • “Transformation Sequence”
    • JOURN-E, September 2022
    • Giant Robot Poems, forthcoming
  • “feverbright”
  • “An Opened Door, A Haunting Rain”
  • “atom-scattered”
    • Star*Line, 45.1 (January 2022)
  • “Rewilding”
    • Eccentric Orbits 3, January 2022
  • Halsing for the Anchylose
  • The Priestess Considers Her Fate
    • Star*Line, 44.3 (July 2021)
  • “sealskin”
  • “Saturn’s rings”
    • Eye to the Telescope, 32 (April 2019) – read online
  • The Fragmented Poet Files a Police Report
    • SFPA 2017 Poetry Contest, first place, long division – read online
  • Night Shift
    • Lakeside Circus, March 13, 2015
  • A dust mote
    • Scifaikuest, November 2013
  • “Contact!”
    • 42 Magazine, Fall 2012

Haiku, Senryu, and related forms

  • “late winter”
    • Modern Haiku, 54.1 (Winter 2023)
  • “empty streets”
    • Haiku Presence, 72 (spring 2022)
  • “winter gardening”
  • “old pond”
    • Shamrock, 47 (March 2022)
  • “late October mist”
    • Modern Haiku, 53.1 (winter/spring 2022)
  • “full moon”
  • “squall”
    • Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021/2022
  • “starry night”
    • Hedgerow, 136 (December 2021)
  • “old dreams”
    • The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue, December 8, 2021 – read online
  • “sunny afternoon”
    • Modern Haiku, 52.1 (winter/spring 2021)
  • “that leaky faucet”
  • “Basho’s death day”
  • “her tangled hair”
  • “a dark horse”
    • Modern Haiku, 50.2 (Summer 2019)
  • “sky dancing”, “infinity”, “left behind”, “mossy cliff face”
    • Star*Line, Summer 2018
  • “autumn dew drop”
    • Modern Haiku, Winter 2018
  • “spring-fed creek”
  • “the afterimage”
    • Skylark, Winter 2015
  • “standing stones”
    • Chrysanthemum, October 2015
  • “tide pool stars”
    • Frogpond, Autumn 2015
  • “mud pies,” “his promise,” “sometimes all I want”
    • A Hundred Gourds, September 2015
  • “I learn to tell”
    • Modern Haiku, Autumn 2015
  • “an argument”
    • Modern Haiku, Winter/Spring 2015
  • “a hawk,” “river fog,” “sunlight”
  • “another lunch-time walk,” “revolution again”
  • “jackdaw”
    • Frogpond, Fall 2014
  • “cold moon rising,” “notice of default,” “they will grow up”
  • “starlight”
    • Skylark, Summer 2014
  • “out of one fog bank”
    • Frogpond, Summer 2014
  • “last sunset”
    • Haiku Presence, Summer 2014
  • “a room full of boxes”
    • MOONGARLIC, June 2014
  • “Cloaks”
  • “a debate,” “Three Arch Rocks,” “were I to pass”
  • “woodsmoke”
  • “reading Takuboku”
  • “between,” “seen from beneath”
    • Kokako, March 2014
  • “another winter,” “narcissus blooms,” “the chill,” “what does it matter”
  • “a distinct lack,” “road map”
    • Modern Haiku, Winter/Spring 2014
  • “wilderness park”
    • Shamrock, January 2014
  • “another summer,” “getting everything,” “today”
  • “runcible moon”
  • “another talk”
    • Frogpond, Fall 2013
  • “skywriting,” “trickle-down economics,” “underneath”
  • “unemptied garbage”
    • Acorn, Fall 2013
  • “sepia moon,” “stray cats”
  • “alone at sunset,” “backlit afro,” “boiling pot,” “fireworks,” “foreclosure sign,” “hawk-spur moon,” “midsummer storm,” “potato salad,” “spring festival”
    • Under the Basho, Fall 2013
  • “always,” “fresh-raked coals,” “marina sunset,” “shadows”
  • “served with a sprig of mint”
  • “all the things”
    • Frogpond, Summer 2013
  • “election day”
    • Modern Haiku, Summer 2013
  • “b’ak’tun”
  • “edged with wildflowers,” “orchid tree”
  • “spring cleaning”
    • Acorn, Spring 2013
  • “fantasy story,” “finally sent her”
  • “low on money”

Essays and Criticism

  • “Objects Coloured by Subjective Feeling: Hagiwara Sakutarō and Haiku.”
    • Modern Haiku, Autumn 2021
  • “Fishing for Bashōs: Interpretive Communities and Haiku in English.”
    • Modern Haiku, Winter/Spring 2015

Want to learn more about writing haiku?

These short poems are surprisingly rewarding, and even if you don’t write for publication they can really open your eyes to the world around you — and the world inside your head.

Michael Dylan Welch has a great page called GraceGuts with a wealth of amazing resources.

I’m a big believer in learning by example, too. The Heron’s Nest is a great magazine of the form, and publishes free-to-read issues every March, July, September, and December. (Disclaimer: I’ve been the web editor there since 2013.)