Monthly Archives: February 2021

Kyoka Issue 63 edited by Susan Burch is now UP!

A HUGE thank you to Susan Burch for being the ‘guest’ Failed Editor for this issue, AND for allowing us to showcare Kyoka with some of the best practitioners. Thanks to everyone who submitted their work to this issue!!!!

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue63.pdf

I also want to point you all the Failed Haiku YouTube site for interviews with Ron C. Moss, Susan Antolin, and Roberta Beary. We will be doing more interviews, many more reviews of books, as well as reading from our monthly submitters work. PLEASE Subscribe to our channel!

Bryan Rickert and Michael Rehling (both Failed Editors)

Check out our Interview with Roberta Beary!!!

Mike Rehling interviews Roberta Beary haiku poet and haibun editor for Modern Haiku. Wide-ranging you will learn her views on the form and all facets including haiku senryu, haiga, and haibun. She is also the Haiku Ambassador for The Haiku Foundation. Currently, she lives with her husband in Ireland. Roberta has published two books, one ‘The Unworn Necklace’ is in its fifth printing, and ‘Deflection’ a very personal collection available from Accent. She has also worked with two other established poet/editors Kala Ramesh and Ellen Compton to put out an anthology titled ‘Wishbone Moon’. She has also been a ‘guest editor’ of Failed Haiku in the Haibun issues. See her work on Twitter daily under the handle @shortpoemz. You can buy her book ‘The Unworn Necklace” here: https://robertabeary.com/book/the-unw…​ Her book Deflection can be purchased at Accents: https://robertabeary.com/book/deflect…​ Thanks, Roberta for spending time with us! Mike Rehling