the
opposite of redemption leaves don't fall up
Pippa Phillips
Launching Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) blog. Inviting your itchy submissions of 1-10 poems (of 1-10 lines each). Stay weird! Submit to: fivefleasitchypoetry(at)gmail(dot)com.
The Cold Moon Journal nominations for the 2022 Touchstone Awards have been submitted to The Haiku Foundation (for poems published January to June 2022).
Congratulations to these 16 talented poets:
Alvin
B. Cruz
Barrie Levine (X2)
Douglas J. Lanzo
H. A. Sappho
John Hawkhead
Joseph P. Wechselberger
Joshua St. Claire
Kamrun
Nahar
Mariel Herbert
Mike Gallagher
Mircea Moldovan
Mirela Brăilean
Nudurupati Nagasri
Pat Davis
Tffany Shaw-Diaz
Vandana Parashar
Nominations for July to December 2022 will be announced shortly before the end of the year.
Good luck to everybody!
You are invited to submit a single email containing 5 - 10 poems (in the spirit of haiku/senryu/tanka) per calendar month, although occasionally we will publish sequences. No themes. Poems must be your original work (not AI!) and in English. Previously
unpublished work is preferred, but poems appearing on social media are
acceptable.
No e-mail attachments will be opened. Please send to: coldmoonjournal(at)gmail(dot)com.
Poems received in a given month will be considered for publication in Cold Moon Journal the following month. (In other words, if you send your poems in March, they will be competing for April space.) Is your writing style traditional? Fine. Gendai or experimental? Also welcome, although we can’t accommodate much in the way of special formatting.
We are happy to consider your artwork, particularly black-and-white photographs.
There is no money in this, but all rights revert back to the poet upon publication.
We strive to respond quickly (within two weeks, usually faster). Both acceptance and rejection notices are sent. New haiku/senryu/tanka (or sequences or artwork) are added to Cold Moon Journal several times a week. You can view the most popular poems (scroll down to bottom right of the journal for the list).
You will never see anything here that suggests racism, violence or prejudice.
This journal nominates for various annual haiku and poetry awards.
Roberta Beach Jacobson, Editor (she/her)
Updated: January 27, 2024
the pine shadow
sweeps onto the window
every night
as the moon rises
our
cat stares
David He
on the one hand
I couldn't live
forever wondering
what's on
the other hand
Keith Evetts