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| Issue 26: | 1 Jan. 2025 |
| Micro-Poem: | 45 words |
| Collaborative | Rengay |
By Joan C. Fingon and Lee Hudspeth
Skyward
frosty night Orion’s belt sparkles along the trail a new creek crossing in the garden pink and blue crocuses rise symphony of color the conductor raises her baton silence curl of white smoke from the chimney summer’s end we name a constellation of fireflies
Stanzas 1, 3, and 5 are by Joan C. Fingon, and
Stanzas 2, 4, and 6 are by Lee Hudspeth.
Joan C. Fingon’s
debut collection of poetry, The Drunken Honeybee: A Collection of Haiku and Senryu, was published by budda baby press in 2021. Her poetry has appeared in Frogpond, Poetry Pea, Wales Haiku Journal, whiptail, and elsewhere, and was long-listed for the 2023 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. She won first place with Orense Nicod in the Haiku Society of America Rengay Awards 2021, and first place Honorable Mention with Lee Hudspeth in the HSA Rengay Awards 2023.
Dr. Fingon is Professor of Education Literacy, Emeritus at CSU Los Angeles. She currently teaches curriculum theory, and young adult and children’s literature to master’s students.
Lee Hudspeth
is a Touchstone-nominated poet. His debut, full-length poetry book Incandescent Visions was self-published in 2019. His poetry has appeared in Cold Moon Journal, Frogpond, Front Porch Review, The Heron’s Nest, Kingfisher Journal, Modern Haiku, Presence, Star*Line, tsuri-dōrō, and Wales Haiku Journal, among others.
Hudspeth is also a musician and recording artist, and the co-founder of the online magazine The Naked PC. Learn more at his website:
https://leehudspeth.com
Publisher’s Note:
Hudspeth’s poems have also been anthologized by ai li, founding editor of the cherita: in four of her gembun anthologies, i remember (#16), empty bottles (#15), dancing silhouette (#14), and the water (#13); in three of her dua anthologies, wildflowers were here (#10), home in rain (#9), and no longer sky (#8); and in two of her cherita anthologies, the river (#85) and nomad (#82).
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ A Day Between by Lee Hudspeth and Joan C. Fingon, first place Honorable Mention, Haiku Society of America Rengay Awards 2023
⚡ Plein Air by Joan Fingon and Orense Nicod, winner of Haiku Society of America Rengay Awards 2021
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