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Accepted Haiku by Shadow Pond Journal

I’m pleased to share this haiku was accepted by Shadow Pond Journal. While not yet midwinter, it certainly feels like it in the midwest! my fingers stainedfrom red onion juicemidwinter dusk https://shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/meagan-bussert-usa.html

Haiku Canada Review & Chickens

I’m pleased to announce the publishing of the following haiku in the Haiku Canada Review journal for their October 2025 issue. naming eachchick at the feed storeice cream flavors

5th Morioka International Haiku Competition Winner

For US readers, I hope you all had a joyful and warming Thanksgiving this year. The weather has officially turned decidedly more wintery than autumnal, the squirrels and cardinals at the feeder looking more plump than the day before. I’m very pleased to share that I received special selection distinction in the 5th Morioka InternationalContinue reading “5th Morioka International Haiku Competition Winner”

Throwback to the Chicago Botanic Garden

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In my hiatus on writing haiku during the pandemic, haiku still happened! The Chicago Botanic Garden, in partnership with the Midwest Region of the Haiku Society of America, launched the Words in Bloom: A Year of Haiku program in April 2019 for National Poetry Month. A selection of haiku were chosen to represent the fourContinue reading “Throwback to the Chicago Botanic Garden”