solar eclipse
a hermit crab
leaves
its shell
John J. Dunphy
Additional Cold Moon Journal nominations for the 2023 Touchstone Awards have been submitted to The Haiku Foundation (poems published July to mid-November 2023).
Congratulations to these 19 talented poets:
Bryan Rickert
Deborah Karl-Brandt
Dejan Ivanovic
Ingrid Baluchi
Janet Krauss
Jerome Berglund
JL Huffman
Joe Whitlow
M. R. Pelletier
Mariangela Canzi
Nicola Schaum
Priti Khullar
Roman Lyakhovetsky (invalidated, as he serves on the board)
Sébastien Revon
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Stephanie Zepherelli
Susan Burch
Timothy Daly
Vandana Parashar
Recap
Earlier this year, CMJ submitted (nine) nominations for individual poems published January to June 2023.
Link to names of these nominees:
https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2023/06/2023-touchstone-nominations.html
Going Forward
Editors may nominate up to 30 poems annually. Thus far we are at 28. The possibility exists for us to nominate two more poems published between now and the end of Decemeber. Any such announcement will be made here.
Good luck to all our nominees!