Showing posts with label Vispo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vispo. Show all posts

Hybrid Poems: Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Kingfisher, and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, M┼Нtus Aud─Бx press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.




Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Kingfisher and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems, Funny Pages, and Eleusinian Solutions were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, M┼Нtus Aud─Бx press press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art imagery is available from Yavanika.  He is also an established, award-winning photographer, whose black and white pictures have been shown in New York, Minneapolis, and Santa Monica galleries.







* Text of Concrete Tanka:‘Spotlights’

wood anemone
she told me the things
that are here for you
are not the ones
that you want

Concrete / Vispo: Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund has published book reviews and essays on poetry and poetics in Fireflies’ Light, Frogpond, Haiku Canada, Hooghly Review, the Mamba, North of Oxford, Setu, Valley Voices, also frequently exhibits poetry, short stories, plays, and fine art photography in print magazines, online journals, and anthologies.
Jerome Berglund



Cathryn Stone - Masters of Form


Cathryn Stone
started writing poems in primary school and has dabbled on and off ever since. She’s written poems, short stories and even the occasional song. Cathryn has had multiple sclerosis since at least 1984, among other things affecting word retrieval and use of language. In 2020 she started a personal creative writing challenge and reasoned that haiku or senryu could suit it perfectly even though she had never written any before. The more Stone composed, the more she enjoyed the practice! She decided to write in a more illustrative style to create visual interest.

Shane Coppage - Masters of Form


Shane Coppage
is an emerging writer with a fine arts degree. His words have been published in Humana Obscura, Cold Moon Journal, The Japan Society London, Shadow Pond Journal, and The Winged Moon Magazine. Connect with him on Instagram @shane_coppage.

Lafcadio - Masters of Form

Lafcadio is a writer and poet living in eastern Tennessee. Her haiku, senyru, tanka and haibun have been exhibited in journals and anthologies.  During the full moon she dreams of rabbits.

R. W. Watkins - Masters of Form

R. W. Watkins is a Canadian poet, essayist and editor. He was creator and publisher of Contemporary Ghazals, the world’s first English-language journal dedicated to the ghazal form. He was also the only Canadian included in Agha Shahid Ali’s Ravishing DisUnities, the world’s first anthology of English-language ghazals. In the 1990s and 2000s, his work appeared regularly in the haiku journals, and he has published several books of haiku and related verse forms—the most recent being the two Insight collections. In 2020 he edited Wholly Trinities: The Nocturnal Iris Anthology of Sijo in English, and in 2022 he compiled Early Journeys, Forgotten Logs: The Nocturnal Iris Anthology of Ancient Ghazals in English. As well, his short fiction, essays, and interviews with cartoonists have appeared regularly in Pattern Recognition. At present, Watkins continues to edit Eastern Structures, the magazine of Asian poetic forms that he began publishing in 2016. Alcosexual, the second of two collections of his 1980s and ’90s free verse, is his most recent book. Outspoken on many issues, he resides in Newfoundland, Canada.

Eavonka Ettinger - Masters of Form


Eavonka Ettinger arrived at haiku after a journey through theatre, film, spoken word poetry, and teaching. She’s a Touchstone Award, Red Moon Anthology, and Best of the Net nominee. A few places her work has recently appeared are whiptail, Wales Haiku Journal, haikuKATHA, Failed Haiku, Poetry Pea, Cicada’s Cry, Pan Haiku Review, Litmora Literary Magazine, Tsuri-doro, Shadow Pond Journal, haikuNetra, Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) and Prune Juice. She lives in Long Beach, CA with her husband and cat.


Vipanjeet Kaur - Masters of Form


Vipanjeet Kaur is a poet from India. Her poems have been published in various international journals and anthologies including SpillWords Press, Fevers of the Mind Poetry and Art Group, and Borderless Journal. Her haiku have also been shared in numerous international journals/anthologies like Haiku Dialogue, The Poetry Pea Podcast/Journal, Under the Basho, failed Haiku, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal and Heterodox Haiku Journal and many more. SURREAL MORNING, her debut poetry book, has been published by Evincepub Publishing, India. She can be followed on X: https://x.com/vjpoeticmusings.


Marjorie Pezzoli - Masters of Form


Marjorie Pezzoli is a silk painter for 25+ years, visual artist, storyteller, and poet. Her writings deal with grief, hope, cosmic wonders, and stuff that catches her eye. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies since 2019. Many of her writings are inspired by her photographic observations taken while walking Beau, the dog with Betty Davis eyes. Marjorie looks for words that are worth a thousand images. www.Pezzoliart.com



Pippa Phillips - Masters of Form


Pippa Phillips is a haikanarchist, recovering academic, comic dabbler, and fictionalist. Find her on twitter and TikTok @pippaesque.




Christopher Peys - Masters of Form


Christopher Peys writes both short-form, prose poetry and micro-poetry. In terms of the latter, he typically writes haiku and senryu. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, writing poetry has become an increasingly important means for him to understand, or try to be at home, in our ever-changing world. Links to his published work can be found at https://chrispeys.com/poetry.

Tina Mowrey - Masters of Form

Tina Mowrey, educator and lifelong learner, spends much of her free time reading, writing, and observing the world around her. Most recently, she has been focusing on the craft of short form poetry, with original pieces published in Mayfly, Frogpond, Presence, Wales Haiku, Modern Haiku, Trash Panda, Folk ku, Cold Moon, and Poetry Pea, also appearing in anthologies including Hidden in Childhood, To Live Here, and If I Were a House. In another life, Tina is a picture book author, with two published books. She loves playing the piano and guitar, traveling with her family, hiking, swimming, and loving on the family’s 3 dogs!

Luke Brannon - Masters of Form


Luke Brannon, raising a family in the Pacific Northwest, keeps a hand writing in his spare time. Influenced by language poetry, his micropoetry focuses on capturing the moment and its interplay with the reader’s own experiences. When not writing, Luke illustrates line-art inspired by the American Southwest. More recently, he has begun to bridge his writing and art into one.