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Co-Founder/Co-Editor,

@whiptailjournal

Associate Editor,

@sonic_boom2014

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Touchstone Award

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Connecticut, USamazon.com/Kat-Lehmann/e/…Joined May 2008

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Join me as I celebrate our everyday, beautiful #StumblingTowardHappiness! amazon.com/gp/product/109 My new book contains 111 interconnected poetry-prose meditations about the path of healing and personal transformation, wonder, forgiveness, and compassion. #haibun #tanka #haiku

Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Poems

Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid Poems

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I wanted to explore what means to write a poem about racism from the perspective of a white person. What does it mean to inherit white privilege, and what part might not, even subconsciously, want that benefit to shift? This acknowledgement and contemplation inspired my poem.

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I’m thrilled my #senryu below was well received in the Haiku Poets of Northern California contest—many thanks to all involved! I won Second Place for the following poem: owning my fragility white anemone

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Thrilled to share our first themed issue's contributor list! Lots of gorgeous art and fantastic poems birdy poems coming your way! #haiku #thebirdsareflying #collage #onthewing #linocut #ink #painting #digitalart #birbs #oneline #monoku

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McCall Erickson

@McCallErickson

I have no idea if I’m doing any of this right. What a strange and beautiful life.

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All of Pippa's Favorite Characters are Villains

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for publishing my haibun... and thanks to all the #WritingCommunity prompt masters, a lot of this comes from early Twitter writing: prunejuicesenryu.com/2021/11/05/iss

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Tanka Society of America

7 poems in 7 days: day 2 the neighbor’s dog left chained up in the cold how you don’t love me but won’t let me go Bryan Rickert, Cattails October 2021 #tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #shortpoem

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Tanka Society of America

7 poems in 7 days: day 1 quarantine being the eccentric old neighbor I always knew I could be Bryan Rickert, Blithe Spirit 31.3 #tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #shortpoem

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Many thanks to everyone who submitted to our first themed issue. Acceptances have all been sent. If you have not heard from us, your work is free to send elsewhere. Thanks again for all of your support and we hope to see more from you soon! Stay tuned for BIRDS!

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The #whiptailjournal Bird Issue is a beauty, with six pages of single-line poems, a page of sequences, and a page devoted to our featured cover artist! Also included is our first installment of Lizard Lounge--from the issues. We can't wait to share it! Thanks for the support!

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Many thanks to everyone who submitted to our first themed issue. Acceptances have all been sent. If you have not heard from us, your work is free to send elsewhere. Thanks again for all of your support and we hope to see more from you soon! Stay tuned for BIRDS!

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Final call for Issue 2, the bird issue! Submissions close tonight for single-line haiku, tanka, sequences, haiga, taiga & cover art! Reminder: submissions must come in via our Google form! whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht #haiku #senryu #tanka #monoku #birds #poetry #coverart

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

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What they said! 🐦 We're enjoying the single-line bird-inspired poems and bird art. One day left!

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@petrichorjourn

Whiptail @whiptailjournal is “A journal dedicated to the single poetic line.” Submissions open till tomorrow! whiptailjournal.com

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Very happy to have a series of five single-line #senryu in

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scent memory, etc.

(five single-line senryu) scent memory trigger my autonomy severs itself ing ing ing she escapes from neverhere enunciating a nameless grief schwa nowhere fast rain drops her outline hear t be at she...

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A poem for tonight. children in bed the occasional tossing of wind chimes Modern Haiku 51:3 (2020)

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For those new to single-line #haiku, here's the article we published in the

newsletter on this distinct sub-genre. Spoiler: it's not just a three-line poem set on a single line :) whiptailjournal.com/lizard-lounge- #whiptailjournal

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Submissions for single-line bird poems are now open at

@whiptailjournal

until Jan 14, and we're getting some great work! The submission form is at the bottom of this page: whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht #haiku #senryu #tanka #haiga #coverart #whiptailjournal

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Still clearing the dark corners... My #haibun 'Long Exposure' in MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 11. macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ11/Lehmann

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2022 is starting with a bang! Whiptail submissions are open, and MacQueen's Quinterly issue 11 is released! Many thanks to Clare MacQueen for including two #haibun of mine: macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ11/Lehmann and macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ11/Lehmann

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How I spent the last day of 2021. Happy New Year, everyone!

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Noooooooooooooooo #BettyWhite

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I hope you've been watching for birds and dreaming up crazy beautiful birdbrained poems! Since this issue is themed, and many people do not write in one line regularly, we lowered the minimum to two poems. We hope that allows more people to give it a go!

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· Dec 31, 2021

Happy New Year! Our submissions open tomorrow through January 14th. Send one-line haiku, tanka, haiga, cover images, and more! whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Happy New Year! Our submissions open tomorrow through January 14th. Send one-line haiku, tanka, haiga, cover images, and more! whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht

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Woke up to the sound of coyotes yelping. Happy New Year to all beings!

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Replying to

That's the way, infiltrate the non-haiku journals...

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Hey! I just had five senryu accepted at a non-haiku journal! Nice way to start the new year. 😍

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Newman enjoyed the drive-through festival of lights.

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@MarkatNatWeekly

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@whiptailjournal

your work was the inspiration for post. Maybe I'll figure out the #monoku in time for the Jan. 14 deadline. #micropoetry #haiku

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@MarkatNatWeekly

· Dec 29, 2021

“Write single-lines poems about birds”, the tweet said. How do you do that? It turns out in order to understand this form, we need to look at the foundations of #haiku. naturalistweekly.com/2021/12/29/sin

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Check out this dive into one-line poetry!

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@MarkatNatWeekly

· Dec 29, 2021

“Write single-lines poems about birds”, the tweet said. How do you do that? It turns out in order to understand this form, we need to look at the foundations of #haiku. naturalistweekly.com/2021/12/29/sin

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Write single-line poems about birds and submit them to Whiptail Journal! We open for our first themed issue January 1 - 14. Send birdy single-line haiku, tanka, haiga, sequences, found poetry, cover art, and more! whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Write single-line poems about birds and submit them to Whiptail Journal! We open for our first themed issue January 1 - 14. Send birdy single-line haiku, tanka, haiga, sequences, found poetry, cover art, and more! whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht

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More 2021 poetry things I'm #grateful for: *Co-founder/Co-editor,

@whiptailjournal

*Panelist,

Touchstone Book Awards *Judge, inaugural

@TrailblazerCont

*Guest-Editor, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, haibun issue Thanks for all who worked or are working with me on these! 2/2

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This difficult year was still somehow good for poetry. I'm #grateful for these: *Winner,

Touchstone Awards (#haiku) *Semifinalist, Rattle Poetry Prize (sudo-ku) *Pushcart Prize nomination (free verse) *Featured Poet, Cornell University Mann Library (May 2021) 1/2

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1) #SmallStonesFromTheRiver 2) #StumblingTowardHappiness With wishes for a healthy and happy holiday season and the stamina to stay safe through this new pandemic wave. 🙏💕 #katlehmann

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Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem

@whiptailjournal

Write single-line poems about birds and submit them to Whiptail Journal! We open for our first themed issue January 1 - 14, 2022. Send birdy single-line #haiku, #tanka, #haiga, #haikusequences, #foundpoetry, #coverart, and more! whiptailjournal.com/submissions.ht #birds #whiptailjournal

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. binary star weaving the night side by side Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2021 #haiku

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. so much to talk about tiger lilies Very happy about this #haiku in Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2021

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An instant favorite for me. Here's the authors commentary.

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Trailblazer Contest

@TrailblazerCont

· Dec 17, 2021

Mark Gilbert was one of the finalists with the following one-line haiku. Here are some questions he answered about his poem and process: cherry please help me blossom I’m being held captive haiku trailblazercontest.com/trailblazers/i @MarkgZero #haiku #cherryblossoms #senryu #monoku

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From #SmallStonesFromTheRiver the moon slips out of the old light ready to put on the new she knows how to reinvent herself in the darkness

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From #SmallStonesFromTheRiver let us name the sunny days not just the storms

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