Robert Allen teaches writing and literature at Eastern Florida State College. He began experimenting with poetry while completing a BA in journalism at Ohio Northern University, which may help explain why his poetic inclinations often tend toward an economic and observational style. He continued working on his own writing while completing an MA in English at Stetson University in Deland, Florida.
Brandon McQuade is the founding editor of Duck Head Journal and the author of two poetry collections, Mango Seed and Bodies. He earned his B.A. from the University of New Brunswick Saint John and his M. Phil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin. For a selection of poems from his second collection, Bodies, he was the recipient of the 2022 Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award. He lives in Northern Wyoming with his wife and their children.
Jerome Berglund has published many haiku, haiga and haibun, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku.
► Jerome Berglund's microchaps & poems are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.
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NOTES: (* “The Spanish dancer is a very large and colorful sea slug. If the animal is disturbed, it unfolds its edges and can swim through contractions and undulations of the body to move away from the disturbing element. Its common name comes from this particular defense.” ** “FIGUREHEAD is the carved figure on a ship’s bow.” *** “One of the most famous haiku is by Matsuo Basho, a renowned Japanese poet from the Edo period: “The old pond. A frog jumps in. Sound of water.” **** “A writ of habeas corpus generally is a judicial order forcing law enforcement authorities to produce a prisoner they are holding, and to justify the prisoner’s continued confinement.”) • |
tin frog * seaweed on the turtle * heron |
belly of * beneath * spanish dancer • Jerome Berglund © 2025 Poems within previously appeared in: Cold Moon, Haiku Dialogue, Ice Floe Press, Piker Press, Unlikely Stories |
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many lights in the fog, and a hospital gown
hibiscus rears up sticks out a long red tongue and hisses
straining against harpoons won’t succumb
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distant shore — gather on beach squinting, signal with mirrors
trampled grass past the ghosts of lions
retinal scan patchy clouds
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SPRING aiming
SUMMER in the garden
Black and White Haiga, Cold Moon,
FALL shadow play
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WINTER unfinished tree fort
NEW YEAR free standing ashtray
SEASONLESS bunches of ants • Jerome Berglund © 2023 |
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni & Andrea Vanacore alias gaia & vana are finalists of the Edinburgh “Writings Leith” contest. Barbara earned her spot on the Haiku Euro Top 100 list for 2023 and on The Mainichi’s Haiku in English Best 2023. Her Japanese-style poems has published in 145 international journals.
David Wolf is the author of five collections of poetry, Open Season, The Moment Forever, Sablier I, Sablier II, and Visions (with artist David Richmond). His work has appeared in New York Quarterly, Poet & Critic, River Styx Magazine and numerous other literary magazines and journals. He is a professor emeritus of English at Simpson College and serves as the poetry editor for Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.
Marjorie Gowdy has pursued careers that fed her writing. Recent poems are included in Valley Voices, Indolent Books, Clinch Mountain Review, Artemis, the summer and fall/winter 2022 editions of Anthology of the Writers’ Guild of Virginia, The Centennial Anthology of the Poetry Society of Virginia, the book Poetry Ink 2022 by Moonstone Press, and the 2022 book Quilted Poems. Her chapbook, Inflorescence, The Pasture at Rest, has been released by Finishing Line Press, March 2023 (Publisher Link). Also an illustrator, Gowdy lives, writes, and paints in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Matthew Daley writer and educator, is a father of three, husband of one, and a terrible singer/dancer who tries to turn many of life’s moments into a musical. His poetry can be found in 34th Parallel Magazine, Neologism, Detritus, The Cabinet of Heed, The Green Light, Forever Endeavor, Necro, Unlost Journal, Indicia, Cathexis, The Caterpillar, Bewildering Stories, The Red House Anthology, Dwarf Stars, and Star*Line. https://www.matthewjdaley.com/
Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies. His collection entitled Endurable Infinity has been published by Pittsburgh University Press, in the Pitt series, in autumn 2022. His other collection is due from Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in 2023. His chapbook, The Magic Phlute, was published by SurVision books in 2019. He edited the anthology of Ukrainian poetry about the war in English translation entitled Invasion (SurVision Books, 2022), and was the winner of the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.
