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Robin Smith
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Poet & writer.
Co-Editor @whiptailjournal.bsky.social.
President of The Haiku Foundation @haikufound.bsky.social.
Artist & craftsperson.
Lover of kpop, kdramas & Hangul.
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Our 4th anniversary issue is launched featuring mark meyer’s cover art, with a potpourri of one-line poems and works that contain them, including hybrids, sequences, haiga, and concretes! Thanks to everyone who submitted. We hope you enjoy the issue!

PDF:
www.whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/6...
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Many many thanks to @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and Kat Lehmann for including a couple verses in the latest issue (no. 14) of @whiptailjournal.bsky.social as well as for the honor of the "headstone" verse in being nominated for the Touchstone Award!

www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Those who submitted to Issue 14 should have received a response now. This issue had a 7% acceptance rate (our average is 5%). The issue is being proofed and checked. We plan to release by early Dec and can't wait to share it with you! Thanks, all, for your support; we couldn't do this without you!🦎
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.
October 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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We hope you have been working on the submissions to our 4th anniversary issue. October 21st-27th submission week is approaching.
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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if she floats, America

- Dan Schwerin, USA

Whiptail Journal, Issue 5, November 2022

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem. Dedicated to single-line poetry. Publishing one-line poems: haiku, senryu, one-line tanka, lyrical, monostich, or experimental and in horizontal, vertical, d...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Sonam Chhoki in THF’s new #Haiku for #Healing feature. In it, I touch on how the #poems in my book Grasping the Fading Light came to be. Let me know your thoughts! #ptsd #poetry #recovery #writing #mentalhealth

thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-for-he...
Haiku for Healing Interview: Julie Bloss Kelsey - The Haiku Foundation
thehaikufoundation.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Our first video feedback haiku course!
Video & audio combined is a great way for Alan Summers to comment on your haiku poems, for him to hone in really clearly on specific lines and words in real time.

www.callofthepage.org/courses/haik...

#haiku #callofthepage #course #courses #writing #poetry
Call of the Page - Haiku Playback
New page
www.callofthepage.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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It won't be long before we're open again for submissions. We hope you'll join us in celebrating our 4th anniversary issue by submitting. To celebrate, we'll have an optional theme of anything related to four. See the image for examples.

whiptailjournal.com/submissions

#haiku #mcp #haibun #haiga
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Many thanks to petro for publishing my new poem:

shadowgraph a siege of herons passing through my persona
A new verse from returning contributor Robin Smith:

shadowgraph a siege of herons passing through my persona

— Robin Smith
shadowgraph a siege of herons passing through my persona — Robin Smith
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August 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Thankful to have work in the new Sonic Boom — my thanks to Shloka and Raghav! Be sure to read the issue in the comments.

https:sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/current-issue

#haiku #monoku #wildflowerturf #bokeh #pearlmoon
July 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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despite the clouds
I still believe . . .
rose moon

- Julie Bloss Kelsey, hedgerow 13 (January 23, 2015)

#senryu #hope #haiku #poetry
July 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thankful to have received an HM in the Marlene Mountain Contest. My thanks to the judges. It's in the new issue of #FemkuMag, which is linked in the comments.

Congrats to everyone who placed in the contest and to those appearing in the issue. Make sure to read it!

#haiku #monoku #concretehaiku
July 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Today at New to Haiku, I’ve posted about behind-the-scenes changes at THF, including Scott Mason’s new Zoom #haiku class for beginning/intermediate haiku #poets, Haiku that Move Us. Class fees for attendance are being donated to THF - thanks, Scott! #poetry

thehaikufoundation.org/new-to-haiku...
New to Haiku: THF News Roundup for July 2025 - The Haiku Foundation
thehaikufoundation.org
July 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sharing this on my page for those who might be interested in this opportunity. There are limited spots, so if you might be interested, drop Scott a line soon!

thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-that-m...

#haiku
#TheHaikuFoundation

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To Our Newsletter Readers
Updates on how to reconnect with the THF newsletter
thehaikufoundation.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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June 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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whiptail issue 13 is here, and we are feeling like the luckiest editors! The bounty of one-line poems sent to us made our job wonderfully difficult. We hope this cornucopia of one-line haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga, and art will fill you as it did us. www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...

#poetry
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUBMISSIONS!

Submissions are closed, and you rose to the challenge! This was our strongest submission pool yet & the issue will reflect that.

We will respond as soon as we can.

Thanks for helping make whiptail a success!

whiptailjournal.com
#haiku #senryu #haibun #art
May 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thankful to Jerome for publishing my haiga in the new Heterodox Haiku.

Check it out to see all of the lovely pieces in this volume:

Read for free - one-page view seems to work best - here: archive.org/details/etym...

Order print copies at cost here:
azonlinks.com/B0F542CX6J
#haiga #haiku
April 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thankful to Antoinette and Peter for publishing these in the new Prune Juice!
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device by device I pull the plug on division
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#haiku #senryu #haiga
April 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Our Executive Director, E. Mena, is working on a very cool project for an exhibition in Fiskars, and is seeking zine artists and writers. Deadline: April 15!

Find out more: acyborgkitty.com/zinekone
March 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM