Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Award-Winning Haiku

My Dear Friends:

The Heron's Nest just announced the results of The Readers' Choice Awards for 2018. And I won a Popular Poet Award for the following four haiku published in 2018, and the "in and out" haiku was anthologized in a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018:

Chen-ou Liu (4 of 4 poems, totaling 75 points)


her prognosis
the sound of his axe
striking logs

The Heron's Nest, 20:1, March 2018

in and out
of the confessional
winter light

The Heron's Nest, 20:1, March 2018
a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018


winding road
the home she never
talks about

The Heron's Nest, 20:2, June 2018

smoky twilight
among the ruins
toy soldiers

The Heron's Nest, 20:3 September 2018