Untitled shahai (senryu plus photograph) by Cherie Hunter Day.
Copyrighted © 2023 by the artist. All rights reserved.

insomnia 
how sleep enters 
into assembly 

Cherie Hunter Day

lives in northern California among seventeen thirsty redwoods. Her haibun, short prose, and haiga have appeared in 100 Word Story, Contemporary Haibun Online, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Mid-American Review, Modern Haiku, Moon City Review, NOON: journal of the short poem, and Unbroken. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and widely anthologized. Recent anthologies include Nothing Short of 100 (Outpost 19, 2018), NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press, 2019), and Contemporary Haibun 18 (Red Moon Press, 2023).

Her books include a prose poem e-chapbook, Qualia (White Knuckle Press, 2017), and an award-winning collection of short poetry, for Want (Ornithopter Press, 2017). Her latest collection of short poetry, Miles Deep in a Drum Solo (Backbone Press, 2022), won The Haiku Foundation’s 2022 Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books. And her online mini-chapbook, The Rattle Inside (Half Day Moon Press), was released on Earth Day 2023.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ 42R Mill Street, haibun by Cherie Hunter Day which was nominated by MacQ for the Red Moon Anthologies, and selected for publication in Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022).

⚡ Crow Hat, ekphrastic prose poem by Cherie Hunter Day after a photograph by John Levy, in KYSO Flash (Issue 12, Summer 2019)