12/15/2025
Dear Friends
We have complied our nominations for the 2025 Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards, Red Moon Anthology, Contemporary Haibun, Pushcart Prize, and Alternating Current Press’ Best Small Fictions. The following work was nominated by us:
Touchstone Awards
Payal Aggarwal – “moment by moment”
frances angela – “the shrine”
Francine Banwarth – “first day of summer”
Mona Bedi – “hometown”
Harold Bowes – “the stars are outside”
Owen Bullock – “grief”
Eric Burke – “the off-gassing”
Matthew Caretti – “after the dishes”
Matthew Caretti – “A Dulcet Mind: Alone at Dawn into Piula Grotto”
Cherie Hunter Day – “lamplight …”
Katie Dozier – “Darkroom”
Timothy Green – “th is wh ol e li ne …”
Lee Gurga – “ICU”
Roberta Beach Jacobson – “Mother’s Day”
Jim Laurila – “showing up”
Michael Henry Lee – “toy soldier sale”
Kristen Lindquist – “a long marriage”
Doris Lynch – “In Borneo”
Patricia J. Machmiller – “new microwave”
Tanya McDonald – “quartering cat food”
Scott Metz – “for. The life span of”
Sarah E. Metzler – “my footprint”
Lenard Moore – “Four to Five Times a Week”
Laurie D. Morrissey – “Arryhthmerica”
Peter Newton – “big”
Victor Ortiz – “forgiveness…”
Renee Owen – “Truth & Lies”
Ross Plovnick – “end of the trek”
David C. Reynolds – “all summer long”
Chad Lee Robinson – “twilight”
Julie Schwerin – “over the hill”
Crystal Simone Smith – “To Have”
Sara Tropper – “first light”
June Wentland – “surely, Basho too”
Red Moon Anthology
Payal Aggarwal – “moment by moment”
frances angela – “the shrine”
Francine Banwarth – “first day of summer”
Mona Bedi – “hometown”
Harold Bowes – “the stars are outside”
Owen Bullock – “grief”
Eric Burke – “the off-gassing”
Matthew Caretti – “after the dishes”
Matthew Caretti – “A Dulcet Mind: Alone at Dawn into Piula Grotto”
Cherie Hunter Day – “lamplight …”
Katie Dozier – “Darkroom”
Timothy Green – “th is wh ol e li ne …”
Lee Gurga – “ICU”
Ruth Holzer – “unpacking”
Roberta Beach Jacobson – “Mother’s Day”
Jim Laurila – “showing up”
Michael Henry Lee – “toy soldier sale”
Kristen Lindquist – “a long marriage”
Doris Lynch – “In Borneo”
Patricia J. Machmiller – “new microwave”
Tanya McDonald – “quartering cat food”
Scott Metz – “for. The life span of”
Sarah E. Metzler – “my footprint”
Lenard Moore – “Four to Five Times a Week”
Laurie D. Morrissey – “Arryhthmerica”
Peter Newton – “big”
Victor Ortiz – “forgiveness…”
Renee Owen – “Truth & Lies”
Ross Plovnick – “end of the trek”
David C. Reynolds – “all summer long”
Chad Lee Robinson – “twilight”
Julie Schwerin – “over the hill”
Crystal Simone Smith – “To Have”
Eric Sundquist – “Freedom Jazz dance”
Sara Tropper – “first light”
Michael Dylan Welch – “9066”
June Wentland – “surely, Basho too”
Contemporary Haibun
Farah Ali – “Checkout Girl”
Katie Beswick – “Snowmelt”
Sandip Chauhan – “Lean-to Family”
Lenard D Moore – “Four to Five Times a Week”
Peter Newton – “The Museum of Emotions”
Tom Painting – “The Rest of the Story”
Crystal Simone Smith – “To Have”
Lew Watts – “The Greene Man”
Rich Youmans – “Tales from the Old Country”
Pushcart Prize
Farah Ali – “Checkout Girl”
Clare Martin – “Watermark”
Eric Sundquist – “Freedom Jazz Dance”
Michael Dylan Welch – “9066”
Best Small Fictions
Terri L. French – “Stoic”
Peter Newton – “The Museum of Emotions”
Gideon Young – “Antechambers of the Heart”
Lew Watts – “The Greene Man”
Rich Youmans – “Tales from the Old Country”
Our thanks to the above poets and all contributors for making Modern Haiku a success!
The Editorial Team
