Monday Musings

2023 has been a productive year, both in volume of work and accolades. I belong to the  High Country Writers  organization in Boone, NC, an excellent source for camaraderie and learning. At the Annual Holiday Party, I was thankful to receive the Juanita Tobin Poetry Award for prolific poetry publication. The Haiku Foundation accepts nominations each year from editors who publish haiku and senryu. Six panel members with expertise in these poetry forms weigh the selected works. The poems are ranked, Long Listed, then Short Listed, and finally award-winning poems are chosen. Even if a nominated poem does not win, it is a great honor to have a haiku submitted for consideration. I am humbled to have three poems put forward for deliberation. And last but not least, for the fourth year in a row, I have published a poetry book. The most recent,  KAR-KU ,  was released last week on December 15th. Exciting news: the book is already moving up the Amazon charts. As the year clo...

Kar-Ku , my fourth poetry book, will be released on Friday, December 15th . I am humbled to present two lovely book reviews from my  X  poetry colleagues,  Roberta Beach Jacobson  and  Jerome William Berglund . Take a peek at their  X  pages. If you want to obtain a copy of  Kar-Ku , I can suggest three options, all available beginning December 15th. First, go to my Author  Website : a pop-up will contain a link to the  Kar-Ku  page on Amazon; second, go to my Author  X   page, where a post will be pinned at the top of the page with a link to  Kar-Ku ; and third, you can journey to  Amazon  on your own and type  Kar-Ku  in the search bar under the Books tab. I hope you will enjoy  Kar-Ku , and if you do, please be kind enough to leave an  Amazon  Review. Thank you for taking the time to do so. You can follow the Author on her  Website  or  X  (formerly Twitter).

My new book Kar-Ku will be released on December 15. Check back on the 15th for the purchase link.

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my third poetry volume,  Voyage: Vista and Verse , a compilation of monoku, haiku, and senryu. Some haiku are written in the classic 5–7–5 format; more follow the looser American tradition. A monoku consists of a one-line haiku. The senryu utilizes irony or satire rather than the usual nature subject of the haiku. They may be cynical or darkly humorous. This paperback book is packed with over 75 poems and illustrated with 50 full-color photographs, that follow the Author on her voyage, near and far, via vista and verse. The inspiration for this work arises from travels, stateside and abroad, internal and external. For those that prefer the electronic reading experience, the Kindle version will be out in a few weeks. My thanks to two haikuists,   Roberta Beach Jacobson , Editor of Cold Moon Journal, and  Patricia McGuire , Editor of The Poetry Pea, for their mentorship and encouragement. I hope you enjoy my latest poetic endeavor....