brown on brown
shade trees disappear
from the neighborhood
leaf by leaf the sky returns
worn backstop
a ball soars over
the chain link
end of match sticks in the mud
diagnosis
the faintest tremor
of her Lucky Strike
cutting down the dieback ash
sunken flower bed
a lawn jockey
loses his footing
day moon
his empty plinth reveals
the long view
is a Touchstone Award-nominated poet whose work has been published in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, tinywords, and Frogpond, among other journals and anthologies. In August 2022, Red Moon Press will release Upwelling, her first collection of haiku, senryu, tanka, and haibun.
She won Tricycle Magazine’s 2021 Best of the Haiku Challenge, and one of her rengay collaborations with Carol Judkins received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Haiku Society of America Rengay Competition in honor of Garry Gay. Recent awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2021 International Modern Kigo Competition and a Pinesong Award for a winning haiku in the 2022 Bloodroot Competition.
Lorraine is also a former professional ballet dancer and has received awards from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
is a U.K.-based poet, educational consultant, and Fellow of both The Royal Society of Arts and The Historical Association. He is the author of several books aimed at encouraging children to write creatively, including Writing Exciting Sentences, as well as books about art, history, ceramics, and textiles. He has a long-standing interest in surrealism and, with Professor Brian Whitton, co-authored the catalogue raisonné of the surrealist artist John Tunnard (Scolar Press, 1997).
Peat’s poems have been published by Blithe Spirit, Frogpond, Hedgerow, Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Presence, and The Heron’s Nest, among others. In 2022 he was runner up in the British Haiku Society Awards (Haibun section), and in 2021 Alan placed third in the International Golden Triangle Haiku contest. He also placed second in the New Zealand International Haiku contest, and placed both first and second (with Sherry Grant, and Pris Campbell) in the Otoroshi Rengay contest.
