Cool Announcement: New Release, In Sun, Snow & Rain Edited by A. A Marcoff

My Dear Readers:

I'm happy to share with you this exciting news: NeverEnding Story contributor, A A Marcoff, edited a new book, In Sun, Snow & Rain: Tanka from a World of Song, which was published in January 2023 by The British Haiku Society. It's a tanka anthology as a tribute to the late tanka poet, Linda Jeannette Ward

Haiku strike a momentary chord. Tanka sing, and leave a lingering spell. -- James Kirkup

Selected Tanka:

the comfort of tears

mirrored in dragonfly eyes

thousands of lives

all at once in the sun

pulling me into their dance

Linda Jeannette Ward

steam rising 

from our coffee cups …

silence 

hangs in the air

of our hazy past

Chen-ou Liu

breeze off the lake

I drift in and out

of love

I kiss the berry stains

on little fingers and toes

Marilyn Ashbaugh

we meet again

not knowing what to say

who will speak first?

a clash of waves

from different directions

Sue Richards 

a sliver

of day moon ...

saree slips

from the shoulder

of a nursing mom

Vandana Parashar