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)

Ron and I are friends, and we have known each other for over two decades. He lives in Tasmania, Australia, and is a successful practitioner of haiku, senryu, haiga, linked verse. He is a wonderful person.

Listen and learn and enjoy!!!

Mike Rehling

I had the honor of Interviewing Susan Antolin, current editor of Acorn Haiku Journal, one of my favorite poets/editors. Her many kindnesses and encouragement to others are truly admirable. Please take the time to listen to her talk with me about her own haiku journey. Enjoy.

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