By Keith Evetts

lazy Sunday

what do woodpeckers

think about it

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

streetlamps lined up like toy soldiers...protecting who?

Orrin PréJean

helix by Tiffany Shaw Diaz

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By Keith Evetts

fourth of July

almost as auspicious

as last year

Keith Evetts

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

swaying in dawn's blush an ancient dialect

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. She was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2020 and won in 2021. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and more than 100 other publications. Her chapbooks include: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), filth (Proletaria 2020), and tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020).

By Orrin PréJean

sleepy this morning

i am unsure how long

i wait for the bus

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

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Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

vacation in Belgium

the narrative i tell

the marigolds

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

Forbidden Planet

my little daughter

wants to go there

Keith Evetts

A former biologist and retired British diplomat, Keith Evetts has published papers in Nature and other scientific periodicals, and long-form poetry in The Oxford Magazine and elsewhere. His haiku and related forms have appeared in Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, Prune Juice, Asahi Shimbun, Cold Moon Journal, Failed Haiku, Heliosparrow, Mamba, Fireflies’ Light, Haiku In Action, Cattails, World Haiku Review, Presence, Poetry Pea, Sonic Boom, MacQueens Quinterly, and at The Haiku Foundation; and award-winning cherita and gembun in The Cherita books and the Gembun anthologies. Listed in the top 100 European haikuists, he hosts the haiku commentary feature re:Virals at The Haiku Foundation. Married, with five children, a grey parrot and a sense of humour.

By Orrin PréJean

late morning nap my dreams much like snakes in a snake pit

Orrin PréJean

Orrin PréJean, from Port Arthur, Texas, came to EL Short Poetry around 2006. In 2013 he began writing tanka and has since published two collections of tanka. Orrin now focuses on the history and current practices of senryu and is a senryu poet with his first ebook collection of senryu titled October’s Kid.

Featured Poets for July

Announcing our featured poets for July:

Orrin PréJean

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Keith Evetts