Many thanks to guest editor John Pappas for featuring my verse in the "Poetry of Resistence" spotlight in Triveni!
one poet sho(r)t
Originally published in smols, Jan 22, 2026
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A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social:
don’t tread on the snake oil swasticolon
— petro c. k.
Sonic Boom Journal, March 2026 the days I have left. Behind every construct – petro c. k.
Many thanks to editor Shloka Shankar for including my verse in the latest issue of Sonic Boom! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear!
Check out the rest 👇
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Thank you! 😁 🙏
Cover of Turtle Dreams: The Red Moon Anthology of English- Language Haiku
verse from Turtle Dreams: The Red Moon Anthology of English- Language Haiku arctic-tick-tick-tick — petro c. k.
What a pleasant surprise to be included in the Red Moon Anthology of 2025! This verse originally appeared in @prunejuicejournal issue 45, many thanks for their nomination and to jim kacian and the rest of the editorial team of Red Moon for selecting it. Such an honor to appear!
Many thanks to editor Tony Pupello for selecting my verse for the new issue of tsuri-dōrō! Always an honor to appear among friends and community!
tsuri-dōrō, issue 32
aura farming
a red cardinal
in the selfie
— petro c. k.
Many thanks to new editor Tom Sacramona for carrying on the torch for Bottle Rockets, and for selecting my verse to appear in the latest issue! Hello and congratulations to everyone else who appears!
Bottle Rockets # 54
bringing us together
the incompetence
of our therapist
— petro c. k.
A thoroughly illuminating and thoughtful deep-dive examination of a verse that was published in my journal @dadakuku.bsky.social by Petra Schmidt, reflecting the urgency of now. Thank you to the writers who contributed their readings that unpacked the complexity that such a micropoem can contain.
*Miller. (Whoopsie. It's what I get for hurrying to get this out while at work)
Many thanks to editor Paul Miler for selecting my verse for rhe latest issue of Modern Haiku, can't wait to settle in and dig into the rest of it. Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear! 👋
Verse:
searching for assisted suicide windborne leaves
A new one from me, I response to the horror show of our politics:
Post-ku is now open for submissions thru Feb 15!
post-ku.com
two nanoverses from smols journal: one poet sho(r)t all-life crisis by petro c. k.
Many thanks to Robin for taking in a couple of wee verses of mine for smols!
As much as I love getting things in print, online journals such as smols are crucial for publishing of-the-moment verses while the impact is still fresh
Read more here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
Oh look, it's my trajectory 😬😭😂
The first issue of my new journal Post-Ku is now available! Post-ku on postcards! I won't show the verses, instead here's the other side just waiting for your address, so it can show up in your actual physical mailbox and you can see for yourself!
Order/subscribe:
post-ku.com
baleful stares I don't say hi to the butcher by petro c. k.
blue glow left to my own devices by petro c. k.
deep field creasing the folds of another bird by petro c. k.
Cover of Pebbles Vol. 6 featuring a vintage black and white photo of people holding signs in front of a house
Thank you so much to editor Seth Copeland of @petrichorlit.bsky.social for accepting a trio of verses for no. 29, Vol. 6 of Pebbles (which is also the name of a great series of 1960's freakbeat/garage-rock)! Hello and congratulations to the rest who appear!
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Two poems published in The Other Bunny: eating a tree the Buddha grows to death snowgrazing milk for two by petro c. k.
Many thanks to editor Johannes S. H. Berg for accepting a couple of monoku for The Other Bunny!
TOB is back, and has expanded the scope beyond haibun to include other short forms, reclaiming some of the space left behind when Bones closed up.
Check it out!
theotherbunny.blog
Those who create and nurture our humanity are feared and targeted by those who seek to destroy it.
Thank you for submitting! 🙏
It's here! The biggest and best review of experimental micropoetry is now out in the wild!
My first verse of the new year!
Publushed in Shadow Pond Journal Issue 6, 2025: winterloam all the potential I have By petro c. k.
A warm joyous thanks to editor @katherineewinnick for selecting my verse for the latest issue of @shadowpondjournal!
I wish you all a bountiful holiday season and let's hope for a year with potential realized!
shadowpondjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/shad...
What a year of absurdity! Dadakuku is closed for the rest of the year, thank you to everyone for your support and submissions!
It's always an honor to appear in Modern Haiku, many thanks to editor Paul Miller for including my verse in the latest issue! Congratulations to everyone else who appears, it's a veritable who's who of contemporary English-language haiku.
Many thanks to guest editor Arvinder Kaur for selecting my monoku for commentary in this installment of Haiku Dialogue, using the theme of those who work the soil. Hello and congrats on the others who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, the tireless editor of smols, for including a couple microverses of mine in today's release of nanopoems:
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birds falling silent shadow docket
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police state the obvious
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Thank you! 😊🙏
Many thanks to @teatimehaiku.bsky.social and the rest of the editorial team at Frogpond for selecting my verse for the latest issue, jam-packed as always with a who's-who of contemporary haiku, haibun, linked verse, and literary discourse on the forms.
