National Poetry Month is off to a fantastic start! This is Volume 1 Issue 1 of Only Human: English Language Senryu. The cover image features a bokeh of warm light and figures in a crowd. Two in the center appear to be facing left, wearing jacket, and holding hands. Alongside the cover, floating in white space on the right, I placed one of my two senryu published in the issue: candle meditation a lace moth smacks my face

Issue 1.1 of Only Human: English Language Senryu is live! Congratulations everyone, I'm honored to be included. Thank you, AJ Wentz and David Oates; it's a wonderful collection!

Here's one of my two senryu in the issue. Read more on their site below.

#Senryusunday #senryu #NationalPoetryMonth

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I keep it hidden
that Orion was born
within my body

--Shinko Tokizane

体内にオリオン誕まれたるを秘す　時実新子

#senryu #translation

oh! gravity’s gentle grasp

oh! gravity’s gentle grasp

Many thanks to Orrin Préjean and Pippa Phillips for including my senryu in the recently published Issue #48 of prune juice.

#senryu @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social

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Issue 48 Issue 48 Cover Artist: Jaundré van Breda Download Issue 48 Here

boombox caravan
the maples
responding in red

In the latest issue of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social , thanks to the editors @pippaesque.bsky.social et al !

#SenryuSunday

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Today, we are featuring a haiga from one of our favorite contributors, Debbie Strange, for Issue 48.

Read more haiga and the rest of the issue here: www.prunejuicesenryu.com

#WritingCommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #haiga

Semana Santa
the restaurant’s sign
cerrado
#senryu

High functioning? No ma’am. That’s just my emotional support mask.
#autismawareness #neurodivergence

PJ is happy to announce the winner of Best in Issue for Issue 48. Congratulations Marianne!

Marianne can be found on IG as @ms.haiku

Read more of Issue 48 here:
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#haiku #WritingCommunity #micropoetry #poetry

We are so glad you are a part of it!

Read the issue here: prunejuicesenryu.com

This issue is 🎇🔥
Thanks to editors Orrin Préjean and Pippa Phillips @pippaesque.bsky.social for including my poem in Prune Juice Issue 48.
I see quite a few familiar names. Congratulations to all!

#senryu #hailku #Oulens

morning
shadows

the
clothing
we
left
flung
across
the floor

Beyond grateful to be included in Prune Juice Issue 48.
Thank you Orrin Préjean and Pippa Phillips, and congratulations to all—

#senryu

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My latest in Asahi:

#Haiku #writingcommunity #micropoetry

I'm so grateful to the team of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social for including four pieces of my poetry in their issue 48, now available!

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I've been informed that I was one of the winners of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social's first maekuzuke contest!

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hate being responsible⁣
hate being responsible⁣

𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘺⁣
𝘰𝘰𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵⁣
𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴⁣

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Orrin Préjean, United States⁣
𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘰𝘵𝘰, 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺

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Two tanka proses have also been included in issue 48 by @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social :)

Read them also here prunejuicesenryu.com/2026/04/01/i... or here pi-and-anne.com/2026/04/02/w... .

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Two tanka proses have also been included in issue 48 by @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social :)

Read them also here prunejuicesenryu.com/2026/04/01/i... or here pi-and-anne.com/2026/04/02/w....

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Poem text reads: first hit the moon babbles into my ear

Issue 48 of PruneJuice journal is out and it is truly sizzling! I am extremely pleased to have a senryu included. Huge thanks to Prune Juice Editors Orrin Préjean and Pippa Phillips, and congratulations to all featured poets.

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Another fantastic and insightful window into some really effective haiku and senryu. I’m excited to be included. Be sure to follow Sean and the other featured poets if you aren’t already.

April Fool's!

Our latest issue is live! Check it out at prunejuicesenryu.com

#senryu #poetry #TheWritingCommunity

Submissions for the Spring Edition of Wales #Haiku Journal are now closed.
We received 520 submissions this season - our largest number by far to date, representing several thousand individual poems.

Thank you all for sending us your words -

We’re looking forward to building this one 😍

before the #senryu genre was given birth in 1757, it was called Maekuzuke which was a game that was used by Haikai poetry teachers to teach their students how to link poems. It was a game that was associated with the #renga, that linked poetry form that was communal in spirit-done by many

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Unfortunately, Prune Juice is experiencing technical difficulties. Our latest issue will be premiering tomorrow, on April 2nd.

smell of sauteeing
onions—
drinks with a dictator

#shinkeiku #senryu

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Thank you!

world war three
Americans continue
updating spreadsheets
#SenryuSunday #senryu

underneath
a fresh blanket of snow
war crimes
#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku

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To all poets who submitted to the April Issue of Prune Juice—

We will be sending out the first round of acceptances and rejections by the end of the day.

PJ

#submissions #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity
#poetry