{"id":1493,"date":"2026-07-31T19:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aswordsfly.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2026-08-02T00:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:25:47","slug":"page-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aswordsfly.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/page-10\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bassinet<br>basking in basil . . .<br>balmy breeze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Monica Kakkar, India and <\/sub><\/em><sub><em>USA<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:83px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-524f8de7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">laundry day<br>slow-moving piles<br>of clouds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Julie Schwerin, United States<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:81px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2b4002ad wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">improvising cuff links summer fluke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Jerome Berglund, USA<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:88px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lakeside camping<br>we skim stone after stone<br>into the stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Chen-ou Liu, Canada<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:78px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">blooming an ocean apart African violet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Biswajit Mishra, Canada<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:87px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2b4002ad wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">sowing rice<br>a mother sings to the child<br>on her back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Jahnavi Gogoi, Canada<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:73px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sunlit rain<br>unceasing trill<br>from a far off hedge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>\u2014Tim Dwyer, Northern Ireland\/USA<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:65px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">About <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Monica Kakkar <\/strong>(she\/her\/hers) values her freedom and peace. Two of her haiku have been nominated for The Haiku Foundation&#8217;s 2025 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. A haiku suite has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Julie Schwerin<\/strong> (she\/her) is an associate editor at The Heron&#8217;s Nest (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theheronsnest.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.theheronsnest.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.theheronsnest.com<\/a>) and a member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial team. Her first full-length collection of haiku, &#8220;fencing with the moon&#8221;, is now available through Finishing Line Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Jerome Berglund <\/strong>has published haiku, haiga, haibun, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Presence. His collections Bathtub Poems, Funny Pages and Eleusinian Solutions were released by Setu, Meat For Tea and M\u014dtus Aud\u0101x press, a chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Fevers of the Mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Chen-ou Liu<\/strong> is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Biswajit Mishra<\/strong> is a bilingual poet writing mostly in English and occasionally in Odia. His poems have been published internationally in magazines. Born in India and having spent a few years in Kenya, Biswajit and his wife Bharati currently live in Calgary, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Jahnavi Gogoi<\/strong> is an Ontario based poet and writer. She dabbles in Japanese forms of poetry and identifies as a storyteller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Tim Dwyer\u2019<\/strong>s Accepting The Call (<a href=\"https:\/\/templarpoetry.com\">templarpoetry.com<\/a>), won the Straid Collection Award. In 2025 he was among the Europe Top 100 Haiku Authors. His poetry appears in Irish, UK and international journals. 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