Thanks so much and for giving the chapbook a home! :)

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Congratulations to Kat Lehmann for winning the Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for her chapbook no matter how it ends a bluebird's song!

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Sincere gratitude to @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for selecting Bluebird in the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize and being wonderful to work with on publication in 2025! Thanks for including contemporary haiku in the literary conversation! The newest winners of the were just announced; excited to read these.

no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song (Rattle, 2025) by Kat Lehmann is sitting a weeping cherry tree. The colors of the tree and sky match the colors of the book. The book won the Rattle Chapbook Prize and The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books.

Here’s a photo I took of the book last spring when it was published. I love the way the book camouflages with the tree and sky. This tree is blooming again! 🌸 I have copies of Bluebird available for those interested in a signed copy 💙

I am thrilled to learn that my #haiku collection ‘no matter how it ends a bluebird’s song,’ which won the Rattle Chapbook Prize, has won a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation! So deeply thankful for the panelists’ time & expertise and for reader responses. Congrats to the other Winners/HMs!

@ethanmlewis.bsky.social Hey, Ethan, nice to see another alum from the time I was there :)

So many good and unique classes... Instead of grades we wrote wrote wrote and did projects. When I got to grad school, I was told my Preliminary Exam mock grant proposals (2 x 20-pagers) were the best written in the history of the department. That was my Hampshire education.

A favorite Hampshire class was “Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.” How do we know what we know? Can we know without objectifying what we want to know about? (Yes! Think Jane Goodall).

And of course remember ‘non satis scire’…to know is not enough!

Me with my nana in the Hampshire College library quad, 1988.

I was a First Gen student at Hampshire College and was fleeing a bad situation. It was impossible to out-weird there. Hampshire became my place to deeply discover, to see interrelatedness and complexity. Find home and belonging. The college closure is devastating to everyone I know who went there.

Thank you, Insomnia, for this unexpected time to write. Okay, maybe not so unexpected 🤝

we need the experimental schools, the wacky places, the schools that don't care about grades or majors, the places that allow/empower students to create their own weird paths, to be weirdos. & yes, we need such education to occur outside/beyond the existing university structures.

What a loss…both to the academic community and to me as an alum. I studied science, but Hampshire gave me the courage to evolve when my passion for reading poetry became a need to write my own. We learned how to learn, how to self-direct, how to expand into ourselves. How many kids need that now?

Yes, so sad 💔 F87 here. We all knew they were struggling but hoped the hampsters would pull through somehow

Yeah, thanks for the reminder 🌟

Thanks, Scott! Yeah, idk what’s going on haha

Thrilled to see all of our Long List folks have made the Short List as well! Help us congratulate these whiptail poets recognized on the THF Short Lists & cheer them on to the final round!

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Really honored and in shock to be on all three Touchstone Short Lists with five works…with four whiptail works alongside! Still just enjoying this moment!

Congratulations to all the poets listed! It’s an honor to share the space with all of you 🌸

2025 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems — Long List - The Haiku Foundation Nominate your favorite new poems for a Touchstone!

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The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award — Long List 2025 - The Haiku Foundation The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards Long List for 2024. The Books Awards are bestowed annually on published collections of poems, or works of scholarsh...

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Waves of shock…Somehow I have work on all three Touchstone Long Lists this year? Many thanks to the panelists for long hours and to The Haiku Foundation for holding these awards. This is a labor of love. Gratitude to the editors of Rattle and MacQueen’s Quinterly as venues of first publication!

Please join us in congratulating these whiptail poets recognized on the THF Long Lists & cheering them on to the next rounds!

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Stoked to be included in the latest issue of Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 22.1. My thanks to editor, Peter Newton, for accepting my haibun and a hearty congrats to everyone involved.

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Yes, keep it the same five ingredients arranged in different Mexican food shapes

Thank you!

Happy bday! Here’s one just published in Modern Haiku 🎻

Gratitude to editor Roberta Beary for including my haibun “Body Work” in the latest Modern Haiku 🎻 "Body Work I am a table. This woman loves the table. Her octopus hands. She ensures that nothing heavy is placed on me. Every knot is polished into yes with the scent of a ripe orange grove. The initials of old lovers wilt like a willow no one owns. resting pulse a thicket of swaying sea grass Her tentacles bend and shape me into something new. Curved ribs. Scrolled neck. Arched back. No longer a table, I pluck what I learned of her water sounds. And float in her ink cloud as the tides pull me under. trigger points loosening a lower octave of violin"

Gratitude to editor Roberta Beary for including my #haibun “Body Work” in the latest Modern Haiku 🎻

Same! Thanks for showing there is some hope on the horizon! 🌸

Oh, let’s hope so! Menopause has been awful for me for sleep and refractory scale numbers. I haven’t tried a weighted vest or backpack though. Congrats on your success!