Behold Issue 6 on Beautiful Defect edited by Susan Furst

My collaborative split sequence and artwork published in Behold, Issue 6, Peace. You can find more poetry and artwork in this wonderful issue edited by Susan Furst here. https://www.beautifuldefect.com/ Thank you, publication twin Susan Furst!

Congratulations

on a bigger and more blessed issue!

Contemporary Haibun Volume 16

This haiga is among the 32 haiga included in Contemporary Haibun Volume 16. It originally won second place in the 5th Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest.

Contemporary Haibun is a series dedicated to the best haibun and haiga published each year in English around the world. ch16 features 93 haibun and 32 full-color haiga.“contemporary haibun has stood alone, for more than a decade, as the chief vehicle and bulwark of the burgeoning haibun movement in English. Without the vanguage role of this annual anthology, one might reasonably inquire how—and perhaps if—haibun would have survived.” —Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, Haibun Today

Now available!

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5th Jane Reichhold Haiga Contest (Second Place)

The results are out! So delightfully surprised and honored to win second place in the Mixed Media category of the 5th Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest. I remember corresponding with Jane R. when I just started writing haiku. She was such a sweet and generous poet.

Thank you so much to

Michael Rehling

and

Ron Moss

. Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions! Full details here - http://www.haikuhut.com/FifthAnnualReichholdContest.pdf...

Here's my mixed media art below.

mother's handwriting

until now I still can't

read her

Judge's commentary:

Christine has given us a tapestry of collaged art that works beautifully with the accompanying senryu. There’s a feeling of great depth of emotion between Mother and daughter. The individual of the collage feel like experiences of family happenings, favourite recipes and feasts of comforting food. This binds the senryu to the collaged image and to me, there’s a feeling of resilience and determination to get through difficult times. Love will find a way and

congratulations to Christina for a fine evocative senyru, which is brilliantly presented for us to contemplate our relationships to each other.