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Alan Summers
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Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review
https://www.callofthepage.org
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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · Sep 17
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.

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#haiku #callofthepage #course #courses #writing #poetry
Call of the Page - Haiku Playback
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I love the patch over the dog, and reminds me of Mary Poppins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryKg...
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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dadakuku.bsky.social
A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social:

rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance

— petro c. k.
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rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance — petro c. k.
dadakuku.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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shinobazupond.bsky.social
A puddle
fracturing underfoot
- winter moon.

#dailyhaikuprompt winter moon
#haiku 🌙
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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a hawthorn breeze panning for goldfinches

by Liam Wilkinson

Whiptail Journal, Issue 8, September 2023

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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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October 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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autumn salvo this rain of forgotten

by Beverly Acuff Momoi

Whiptail Journal, Issue 9, February 2024

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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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November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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magedah.bsky.social
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

first snow
an innocence
leaves the body
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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extraspecialbitter.bsky.social
history major
burning the candle
at both ends
#TheDailyHaiku
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Essential reading: the new @theclpe.bsky.social Reflecting Realities Survey is published today & offers much food for thought. The vital work of ensuring all readers can access a breadth of quality inclusive & representative literature is far from done. Read more booksforkeeps.co.uk/8th-annual-c...
The cover of the new Reflecting Realities Survey of Ethnic Representation in UK Children's Literature 2024. Cover image of young children sitting at a table by Yasmeen Ismail. Graphic with illustration by Yasmeen Ismail demonstrating the percentage of Children's Books Published featuring Racially Minoritised Characters. From CLPE's invaluable Reflecting Realities Survey.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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pi-and-anne.bsky.social
Reasons Not To Take Someone's Pain Seriously
. . . . . . . . . . . .

a woman or a child mentally ill and tea stains

even stitches on a crumbled cotton wide field—

giant elephant tracks on English lawns

titles honours and the common rest the case

—Makoto

#senryu #sequence
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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freshoutmag.bsky.social
#haiga / #shahai by long-time contributor Debbie Strange (X @Debbie_Strange & IG @debbiemstrange). This piece uses a #haiku previously published in “Folk Ku”, paired with new art. #painting #art #artlovers #poetrylovers #micropoetry #artist #canada #shadow
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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catbake.bsky.social
late morning sunlight
a gold leaf from the birch tree
moving through the chords
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
fog
borrows
the bridge
#haiku #poetry
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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young maples
opening the great big sky
for the dead

--Maya Okuzaka

若楓おほぞら死者に開きけり　奥坂まや

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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joypops.bsky.social
sunlit fence~
each nail head
a tiny sun

#haiku
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘After environmental regulations were finally enforced and leaded gas phased out, crime in general plunged and the so-called “golden age of serial killers” came to an abrupt end.’

James Lasdun on Caroline Fraser’s exploration of the links between pollution and murder.

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James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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freshoutmag.bsky.social
#haiku / #senryu by new contributor, Ernesto P. Santiago. Ernesto lives in Greece. He enjoys souvlaki, with red pepper. #poem #writersblock #poetry #neutronstars #poetrylovers #greece #space #art #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #autumn
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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'Belfast Twilight is a powerhouse of a first collection, leaving the reader hungry for more of the same, but satisfied that such testament to the haiku and senryu form exists in the Irish lexicon.'
- Colin Dardis
The Sunday Review: ‘Belfast Twilight’ by Liam Carson
Belfast Twilight: haiku, senryu and micro-poems Salmon Poetry, 2025,ISBN 9781915022967 Throughout this, Carson's first collection, we get th...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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magedah.bsky.social
#SenryuSunday #senryu #DailyHaikuPrompt

across the tracks
even the turnips
taste rich
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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lafcadiobsky.bsky.social
winter is coming
the sound of a train
in the distance

#haiku
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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dadakuku.bsky.social
A new verse from returning contributor Stephen Toft:

from a crow dream waking to a snow autopsy

— Stephen Toft
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from a crow dream waking to a snow autopsy — Stephen Toft
dadakuku.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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naumadd.bsky.social
school fence…
in every link
a sparrow

#haiku #poetry
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mamajoules.bsky.social
Day 7. A memory

a tiny bluegill
flies around her head . . .
grandma catches a fish

#2025GratitudeChallenge
#haiku #fishing
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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oxfordclarion.bsky.social
The RSPB’s Otmoor reserve is to get a 21-hectare extension, funded by developers. A former agricultural site will be transformed into a floodplain grazing marsh, with wetland features such as scrapes and footdrains.
Birds flocking at RSPB Otmoor (Eleanor Bentall (RSPB-Images))
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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tinywords.com

half-open roses
the soloist's bouquet
allegro non troppo

-Lorraine A Padden
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/14/43956/
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM