Hot News: 66 Haiku Selected for Butterfly Dream, Volume III

My Dear Friends:
 

I'm pleased to announce the following haiku selected for Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku, Volume Three. The anthology is scheduled to be published in early July. Each poet whose haiku is included in the anthology will receive a copy of  its e-book edition.

Please post to all appropriate venues. Your time and help would be greatly appreciated. And look forward to reading your haiku (see 2017 haiku anthology submission guidelines)

Happy Reading!

Chen-ou

Selected Haiku

after the funeral
first a sprinkle of stars
then a dusting of snow

Haiku Canada Sheets, 2017

Angelee Deodhar

new year’s dream
the clarity
of falling snow

Magnapoets, 5,  January 2010

Pamela A. Babusci

braiding
silence into a dream …
the full moon

HSA Anthology, 2014

Rita Odeh

sand dunes
by morning
a different dream

Third Place, 2015 HSA Henderson Haiku Contest

Renée Owen

herring clouds ...
the fisherman's net heavy
with light

Third Prize, 17th Kusamakura Haiku Competition

Maya Lyubenova

divorce papers         falling leaves

micro haiku: three to nine syllables, 2014

George Swede

tracing the cracks
on his leather chair ...
death anniversary

The Bluebird’s Cry, 2016

Christine L. Villa

twilight on snow shadows deepen the grip of stars

Frogpond, 37:2, Spring/Summer 2014

Alan Summers

Yoga practice
in the shadow of Mount Fuji
stretching to the top

Special Recognition, 2013 Fujisan Haiku Contest

Liette Janelle

a firefly’s glow
against her palm
passed to mine

tinywords, 11:1, April 12 2011

Michael Dylan Welch

early twilight
sorting shells
by sound

Frogpond, 38:1, Winter 2015

Elmedin Kadric

appointment calendar
a coffee ring joins
one day to the next

The Heron's Nest, 8:1, March 2006

LeRoy Gorman

snow upon snow
the layers of oblivion
in my father's mind        

Second Prize, 2014 Mainichi haiku Contest 2014

Dietmar Tauchner

winter dusk
an empty beer can
taps the dock

Biding Time: Selected Poems, 2001-2013

H. Gene Murtha

canadageese
  swimming
    V form
      atio
       n

Haiku Canada Review, 8:2, October 2014

Kjmunro

autumn wind
the yellowing leaves
of a diary

Shamrock, 30, 2015

Anna Maris

bark
becoming whimper
becoming night

The Heron's Nest, 16:1, March 2014

Polona Oblak

petal by petal the yellow rose on her inner thigh

Frogpond, 38:2, Spring/Summer 2015

S.M. Abeles

a fishing hat
on the hook by the door --
widow’s house for sale

Neverending Story, February 11, 2017

Kelley White

riding on owl wings the stars above the stars

DailyHaiku, May 16, 2013

Meik Blöttenberger

starling murmuration love comes and goes 
               
Blithe Spirit, 25:1, 2015

Tim Gardiner

fading summer
the robin's song trails
my melancholy

Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2014

Caroline Skanne

autumn evening
my deck rail underlines
the sunset

cattails, May 2015

Shirley Plummer

shades of blue …
the deer’s remaining eye
cradled by bone

Third Place, 2012 Robert Speiss Memorial Contest

Susan Constable

midnight surf
the rumble of moonlight

Taj Mahal Review, 14:1, 2015

Simon Hanson

summer thunder --
the ice cream ads
after a war newsbreak

The Mainichi Daily News, September 3, 2014

Ken Sawitri

heavy rain
end of the war
with cardboard swords

Frogpond, 38:2, Spring/Summer 2015

Robert Kania

stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver

First Place, 2015 Harold G. Henderson Awards

Debbie Strange

rumble of the metro
a queue of city crabs
inches forward

Beyond the Reach of My Chopsticks, 2012

Fay Aoyagi

god a pressed ant

NeverEnding Story, March 15, 2016

Robert Epstein

the same crow
the same branch ...
autumn deepens

NeverEnding Story, March 23, 2016

Anna Cates

that old tune …
knots in my shoelace
coming loose

Third Place, 2015 Spiess Memorial Haiku Competition

Lesley Anne Swanson

embracing the boundless --
an empty boat
closer to the moon

First Prize, 2015 Wild Plum Haiku Contest.

Steliana Cristina Voicu

fragrance of green tea --
I sharpen my old pencil
under the moon's light

First Prize, 2014 Haiku Now! Awards

Nicole Pottier

harbour sunset
a flash of silver
in their nets

NeverEnding Story, April 8, 2016

Marion Clarke

summer storm
the windscreen wipers
slice our silence

Second Place, 2009 Jack Stamm Award

Jo McInerney

last rites. . .
rain fading into
bird song

First Place, 2015 Betty Drevniok Award

Carl Seguiban

farmer's scythe
a harvesting song
in each sweep

Third Place, 2009 Betty Drevniok Award

an'ya

the way she braids
her long gray hair
winter evening

Acorn, 14, Spring 2005

Agnes Eva Savich

storm clouds the inside of a tulip

Honorable Mention, 2015 World Haiku Contest

Julie Warther

two roads diverge
so many sitting
on the fence

Sonic Boom, 2, 2015

Karen Harvey

walking
inside the fog
inside myself

NeverEnding Story, May 20, 2016

Rebecca Drouilhet

sunset walk ...
a pool of gold
at the rainbow's end

NeverEnding Story, June 15, 2016

Barbara Tate

ice storm
the glitter in
a killer's eye

NeverEnding Story, July 5, 2016

Denis M. Garrison

winding to where
the river used to be
grandpa's story

Frozen Butterfly, 2,  2015

Ben Moeller-Gaa

sunny day --
a sudden outbreak
of lawn mowers

Cattails, January 2015

Keitha Keyes

shaking the stone from her shoe --
a white opal swings
from between brown breasts

Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 1997

Larry Kimmel

Autumn chill
the sound of the wind
on its way to the sea

tinywords,14:2, October 28, 2014

Sylvia Forges-Ryan

moonless night
bleached bones and
the whir of a copter

NeverEnding Story, July 31, 2016

Jan Benson

summer's end
a sunflower bends over
the school fence

Honorable Mention, 2015 International Basho Award

Alexey Andreev

nagasaki ...
in her belly, the sound
of unopened mail

First Place, 2013 HaikuNow Haiku Contest

Don Baird

kindergarten quiet...
first seedlings
in styrofoam cups

The Heron’s Nest, 15:2, June 2013

Debra Fox

sunless morning
and yet ...
sunflowers in Auschwitz

Sonam Chhoki

cloudburst
the animal in me
shaking itself

NeverEnding Story, December 12, 2016

Marilyn Fleming

empty house
that kiss
deeper

still 2: three, 1999

ai li

spring thaw
my wife undresses
with the lights on

Asahi Haikuist Network, 6 March 2015

Bob Lucky

Gettysburg
the hushed silence
of snow

Honourable Mention, World Haiku Review December 2012

Gregory Longenecker

my son and  i
counting fireflies
counting stars

The Unworn Necklace, 2007

Roberta Beary

from star to star
down the Milky Way
a little finger

Down the Milky Way, 2016

Dejan Pavlinović

border

more than two sides to it
    
            crossing

Modern Haiku, 46;1, 2015

Joan Prefontaine

dust motes
in a stream of moonlight
death poem

NeverEnding Story, October 29, 2016

Gabriel Bates

bullettrainallisforgotten

NeverEnding Story, November 7, 2016

Michael Henry Lee

from the kitchen
the snap of a mousetrap
midnight countdown

NeverEnding Story, December 31, 2016

Ignatius Fay

she waves a thin blue scarf becoming sky

tinywords, 15:2, 2015

Lorin Ford

wearing one slipper
my aunt slips
into winter fog

NeverEnding Story, December 4, 2016

Anna Yin

old chestnuts
X-mas song fest
at the Senior Center

Cattails, Winter 2015

Neal Whitman