Kingfisher Journal

27/08/2024

Welcome to Mineral Point! Happy last week of August! That means it's the last week of Kingfisher submissions. Thank you to everyone who's sent in submissions this month. My sincere apologies for the longer-than-usual response time. Part of the delay is due to the fact that I was recently in Mineral Point, Wisconsin for the biennial Cradle of American Haiku gathering....

Welcome to Mineral Point! Happy last week of August! That means it’s the last week of Kingfisher submissions. Thank you to everyone who’s sent in submissions this month. My sincere apol…

01/08/2024

Submissions for issue 10 are now open! For complete details on what and how to submit, please check out https://kingfisherjournal.com/submissions/ I look forward to reading your brilliant haiku and senryu!

St. David’s Day by Tanya McDonald Open for submissions February 1–29 and August 1–31, 2024. Out of fairness to all poets, poems received outside of this submission period will not be read. Su…

22/04/2024

Kingfisher #9 Has Landed!

Look what arrived on my doorstep a week and a half early! Woodinville PRINT did an amazing job with this issue, and I’m grateful for their speed, though it means I’ll be rearranging my schedule this week to mail copies ASAP. If you haven’t yet ordered yours, please do so here: https://kingfisherjournal.com/shop/ When I order a print run, that’s all the copies there are of a particular issue, so when they sell out, they’re gone (or available only as pdfs). So get ’em while you can! Thanks for your support of the journal!

Here’s a list of the fine poets who appear in Kingfisher #9:

Meredith Ackroyd
Farah Ali
Melissa Allen
Jenny Ward Angyal
Susan Antolin
Joanna Ashwell
Stephanie Baker
Stewart C Baker
Chandra Bales
Jo Balistreri
Francine Banwarth
John Barlow
Brad Bennett
Jerome Berglund
Jacob Blumner
Alfred Booth
Adrian Bouter
Deborah Bowman
Nancy Brady
Karen Bressner
Jennifer Burd
Anne Elise Burgevin
petro c. k.
Terran Campbell
Matthew Caretti
Aidan Castle
David Chandler
Jim Chessing
Glenn G. Coats
Cherie Hunter Day
Bill Deegan
M. R. Defibaugh
Rob DePaolo
Almila Dükel
Adele Evershed
P. H. Fischer
Mark Forrester
Jenny Fraser
Terri L. French
Seth Friedman
Lisa Gerlits
Benedict Grant
Laurie Greer
Grant Hackett
Carolyn Hall
Jennifer Hambrick
John Hawkhead
Kerry J Heckman
chad henry
Jeff Hoagland
Nick Hoffman
Ruth Holzer
Frank Hooven
Angiola Inglese
Erica Ison
Govind Joshi
Jim Kacian
Ravi Kiran
Nicholas Klacsanzky
Kristen Lindquist
Chen-ou Liu
Anthony Lusardi
paul m.
Patricia J. Machmiller
Annette Makino
Scott Mason
Marietta McGregor
Scott Metz
Sarah E. Metzler
Kati Mohr
Mircea Moldovan
Laurie D. Morrissey
Kelly Moyer
Michael Nickels-Wisdom
Polona Oblak
Helen Ogden
Ben Oliver
Victor Ortiz
Renée Owen
Vandana Parashar
Jacquie Pearce
W. Jack Petersen
Thomas Powell
Meera Rehm
Sam Renda
Chad Lee Robinson
Michele Root-Bernstein
Nicholas H. Rossler
Jharna Sanyal
Agnes Eva Savich
Michelle Schaefer
Gail Schulte
Dan Schwerin
Julie Schwerin
George Skane
Caroline Skanne
Laszlo Slomovits
Robin Smith
John Stevenson
Mike Stinson
Zach Street
Eric Sundquist
Patrick Sweeney
Mark Teaford
Angela Terry
Carly Siegel Thorp
Sara Tropper
Charles Trumbull
Evan Vandermeer
Margaret Walker
Diane Wallihan
Lew Watts
Marcie Wessels
Tony Williams
Amber Winter
Gideon Young
Eugeniusz Zacharski
And yes, that is a LEGO® kingfisher on the cover. It was released in the U.S. on February 1, the day that submissions opened for this issue. From the moment I saw it, I knew it would be my cover art for this year. It took me hours and hours of carefully following the instructions to build it, but I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I then took nearly 200 photos of the model in various environments and with a variety of backgrounds. At one point, it was half-submerged in a creek. Ultimately, I decided to place it in front of one of my many silk scarves. If you feel like tackling the 834-piece set, you can order yours here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/kingfisher-bird-10331 For folks in other countries, just search for “lego” and “kingfisher” and it should pop up. My thanks to Lew for the suggestion to scatter a few loose pieces in front of the model.

22/04/2024

Congratulations 2023 Touchstone Award Winners

Tulip Joy by Tanya McDonald The 2023 Touchstone Awards were announced on April 17, and I’m delighted that four poets were honored for haiku that appeared in Kingfisher! Laurie Greer received …

23/02/2024

What happens when I receive a submission to Kingfisher? Find out!

Turkey Tails by Tanya McDonald Where has February gone? Even with an extra day this month, there’s less than a week left to submit your haiku & senryu to Kingfisher for issue 9! I’m…

13/02/2024

Submissions for issue #9 are open through the end of February! Check out the submission guidelines here: https://kingfisherjournal.com/submissions/ Good luck! I look forward to reading your poems!

St. David’s Day by Tanya McDonald Open for submissions February 1–29 and August 1–31, 2024. Poems received outside of this submission period will not be read. Submit between 5–10 unpublished …

27/01/2024

Submissions for Kingfisher #9 open February 1.

Beach Finds by Tanya McDonald In combing through the photos I’ve taken these past few months, I came across this one from mid-December when my family rented a house on the Oregon Coast. The w…

27/01/2024

The debut issue of Password: very short poetry has been released and it's fantastic!! https://veryshortpoetry.com Familiar names and names that are now going to be on my radar. These are poems that excite and challenge and resist definition in the very best ways. Each is part of the whole, yet allowed plenty of space to breathe on the page. A journal to devour and savor, and I cannot speak highly enough of it.

very short poetry.

26/01/2024

One week until Kingfisher is open for submissions! Are you excited? I'm excited. In the meantime, if you haven't renewed your subscription to Kingfisher, now is a great time: https://kingfisherjournal.com/shop/ And if you're unfamiliar with the journal, please consider ordering a copy to familiarize yourself with the kinds of haiku & senryu that I publish. Issues 2-6 are currently available for $5 when shipping to US addresses. I'm sorry I can't offer those same rates to international addresses, but you can order a digital version for $10.

I look forward to reading your poems in February!

Aspen Leaf by Tanya McDonald Thank you for your support of Kingfisher! 2024 Prices Locationsingle copy2-issue subscriptionU.S.$14$26Canada & Mexico$17$32Overseas$20$38All amounts are in U.…

22/01/2024

Kingfisher submissions open on February 1st! For all the details, including how many poems to send, what I consider previously published, and what I'm looking for in submissions, please check out the website: https://kingfisherjournal.com/submissions/ I look forward to reading your haiku & senryu!

St. David’s Day by Tanya McDonald Open for submissions February 1–29 and August 1–31, 2024. Poems received outside of this submission period will not be read. Submit between 5–10 unpublished …