I am struggling with ‘uploads’ on my weak ass Internet. I hope to get out all acceptances today, but won’t be able to upload the issue to the web without getting out to a better source tomorrow. No worries!

In the meantime, this is a wonderful video out by The Haibun Journal in celebration of Poetry Day Ireland!!! Readings by some wonderful poets await you.

I had the absolute pleasure to interview Caroline Skanne, editor of Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, and a wonderful poet and supporter of the work of so many fine poets.

Give this interview a bit of time and be rewarded ten fold!!!

Kala Ramesh is well known all over the world, but especially for her work in her home country of India. I first ‘met’ her on the Internet almost two decades ago, and we have been friends since. Her work has been published in many journals, and she has been a speaker at many haiku conferences and gatherings. Besides being a wonderful poet she is an energetic and positive supporter of haiku in all its forms, and of other poets. Thank you Kala!!!

Kala has also premiered recently this video, which is a collaboration with Masood Hussain! Give it a listen!

Well, they got me into this, and I enjoyed it immensely! Got some things out of me I don’t think many folks have heard before. Enjoy!