petro c. k.
@petrock.bsky.social
Sometimes I doom-write instead of doom-scroll....
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Sometimes I doom-write instead of doom-scroll....
Many many thanks to @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and Kat Lehmann for including a couple verses in the latest issue (no. 14) of @whiptailjournal.bsky.social as well as for the honor of the "headstone" verse in being nominated for the Touchstone Award!
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Many many thanks to @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and Kat Lehmann for including a couple verses in the latest issue (no. 14) of @whiptailjournal.bsky.social as well as for the honor of the "headstone" verse in being nominated for the Touchstone Award!
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
www.whiptailjournal.com/read-the-cur...
Many thanks to the new editors of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social, @pippaesque.bsky.social, and @orrinonline.bsky.social, for selecting my verse. I love what they've done with the latest issue, and there is so much stellar work within! Check it out!
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Many thanks to the new editors of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social, @pippaesque.bsky.social, and @orrinonline.bsky.social, for selecting my verse. I love what they've done with the latest issue, and there is so much stellar work within! Check it out!
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
I am thankful for editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting these verses for today's round of itchy poetry at Five Fleas! Congratulations to everyone else!
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I am thankful for editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for selecting these verses for today's round of itchy poetry at Five Fleas! Congratulations to everyone else!
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...
Many thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for selecting my verse for this week's prompt at Haiku Dialogue (by @haikufound.bsky.social) of music and the spiritual path. Hello and congratulations on the rest who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Many thanks to guest editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for selecting my verse for this week's prompt at Haiku Dialogue (by @haikufound.bsky.social) of music and the spiritual path. Hello and congratulations on the rest who appear! 👋
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
I came across an insightful interview with Richard Gilbert from 2005 that laid out some key points about modern contemporary haiku that I had been trying to formulate myself, especially about haiku and its development in conversation with modern art and lit.
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I came across an insightful interview with Richard Gilbert from 2005 that laid out some key points about modern contemporary haiku that I had been trying to formulate myself, especially about haiku and its development in conversation with modern art and lit.
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-hai...
A new one from me inspired by, well, this whole year...
A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social:
rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance
— petro c. k.
rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance
— petro c. k.
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rotten apples a thousand cuts of sado-governance — petro c. k.
dadakuku.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A new one from me inspired by, well, this whole year...
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for including a couple diminutive verses in her journal of extremely short poetry, SMOLS. Congrats to today's other featured poets, check out everything here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
*
midnight with moves like Jager
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
*
midnight with moves like Jager
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Many thanks to editor Roberta Beach Jacobson for including a couple diminutive verses in her journal of extremely short poetry, SMOLS. Congrats to today's other featured poets, check out everything here:
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
*
midnight with moves like Jager
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
solving for fragile X
*
midnight with moves like Jager
I've started up a new journal! POST-KU will be a journal of post-ku that comes out every two months on a postcard. Submissions will open up in December, first issue will be out in January.
Post-Ku
A journal of post-ku on post-cards
post-ku.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I've started up a new journal! POST-KU will be a journal of post-ku that comes out every two months on a postcard. Submissions will open up in December, first issue will be out in January.
Many thanks to editor Tony Pupello of tsuri-dōrō for selecting a verse to appear in the current issue. It's always a pleasure, hello and congratulations to everyone else!
tsuridoro.org/issue-30-nov...
tsuridoro.org/issue-30-nov...
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Many thanks to editor Tony Pupello of tsuri-dōrō for selecting a verse to appear in the current issue. It's always a pleasure, hello and congratulations to everyone else!
tsuridoro.org/issue-30-nov...
tsuridoro.org/issue-30-nov...
A pleasant surprise to be awarded an Honorable Mention in this year's Porad Haiku Awards which were announced at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Congrats to fellow Seabeck attendees John S Green and Sarah Paris for their 2nd & 3rd place awards, respectively!
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A pleasant surprise to be awarded an Honorable Mention in this year's Porad Haiku Awards which were announced at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Congrats to fellow Seabeck attendees John S Green and Sarah Paris for their 2nd & 3rd place awards, respectively!
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
www.haikunorthwest.org/porad-haiku-...
The new Seaback Haiku Getaway Anthology is out now. I did the cover design and layout, and got a couple verses included as well.
You can get a copy here: a.co/d/1rh4vQq
You can get a copy here: a.co/d/1rh4vQq
October 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The new Seaback Haiku Getaway Anthology is out now. I did the cover design and layout, and got a couple verses included as well.
You can get a copy here: a.co/d/1rh4vQq
You can get a copy here: a.co/d/1rh4vQq
Excited to appear in the new issue of Password, A Journal of Very Short Poetry! Many thanks to editor Melissa Allen for including 3 of my monoku!
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Excited to appear in the new issue of Password, A Journal of Very Short Poetry! Many thanks to editor Melissa Allen for including 3 of my monoku!
Many thanks to Tanya McDonald for selecting my monoku for the latest issue of Kingfisher. Wonderful to see her and others at Seabeck Haiku Getaway right now. It's been so fun catching up, learning new things, and just getting to see everyone in person that I only usually see in the online world.
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Many thanks to Tanya McDonald for selecting my monoku for the latest issue of Kingfisher. Wonderful to see her and others at Seabeck Haiku Getaway right now. It's been so fun catching up, learning new things, and just getting to see everyone in person that I only usually see in the online world.
A new verse from me befitting the times. I'm getting my signs ready for today.
October 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A new verse from me befitting the times. I'm getting my signs ready for today.
A shot I took from a little walk around Quebec City about a week ago.
October 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A shot I took from a little walk around Quebec City about a week ago.
Horror Senryu Journal is back from being on hiatus! Many thanks to Thomas Tilton for running my verse as the first one out of the gate!
laying low
a killer
with my name
— petro c. k.
a killer
with my name
— petro c. k.
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Horror Senryu Journal is back from being on hiatus! Many thanks to Thomas Tilton for running my verse as the first one out of the gate!
smols is a new journal by Roberta Beach Jacobson (editor of Five Fleas, former editor of Cold Moon), featuring verses of 5 words or less. The latest round is up now, many thanks for being included!
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
smols is a new journal by Roberta Beach Jacobson (editor of Five Fleas, former editor of Cold Moon), featuring verses of 5 words or less. The latest round is up now, many thanks for being included!
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com
Always stoked to appear in Trash Panda Haiku, many thanks to editor Lisa Anne Johnson for selecting my verse for issue 9, hello and congratulations to all those who also appear! 👋
September 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Always stoked to appear in Trash Panda Haiku, many thanks to editor Lisa Anne Johnson for selecting my verse for issue 9, hello and congratulations to all those who also appear! 👋
The latest from me on @dadakuku.bsky.social:
September 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The latest from me on @dadakuku.bsky.social:
Many thanks to editors Sally Quon and Michele Rule for selecting my verse to be one of eight from newcomers to debut inside of this week's Solitary Daisy! Congratulations to the rest, the others can be seen at: thesolitarydaisy.ca/blog/
September 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Many thanks to editors Sally Quon and Michele Rule for selecting my verse to be one of eight from newcomers to debut inside of this week's Solitary Daisy! Congratulations to the rest, the others can be seen at: thesolitarydaisy.ca/blog/
Many thanks to guest editor Marietta McGregor for selecting my verse for the short list of verses on the theme of islands, and for the commentary, in this week's Haiku Dialogue at @haikufound.bsky.social!
Congratulations to the rest! 👇👇👇
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Congratulations to the rest! 👇👇👇
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
September 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Many thanks to guest editor Marietta McGregor for selecting my verse for the short list of verses on the theme of islands, and for the commentary, in this week's Haiku Dialogue at @haikufound.bsky.social!
Congratulations to the rest! 👇👇👇
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Congratulations to the rest! 👇👇👇
thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
Many thanks to @jeromeberglund.bsky.social for selecting my verse for Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians, haiku that goes against the grain. An excellent collection. The essays by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @shortpoemz.bsky.social are also must-reads.
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archive.org/details/hete...
August 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Many thanks to @jeromeberglund.bsky.social for selecting my verse for Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians, haiku that goes against the grain. An excellent collection. The essays by @loverpoetic.bsky.social and @shortpoemz.bsky.social are also must-reads.
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archive.org/details/hete...
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archive.org/details/hete...
Many thanks to guest editor @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for selecting my work for this week's short list of verses for @haikufound.bsky.social in reaction to the work "Without Hope" by Frida Kahlo, and for the immensely thoughtful commentary.
#haikufoundation #haikudialogue #haiku #ekphrasis
#haikufoundation #haikudialogue #haiku #ekphrasis
August 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Many thanks to guest editor @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social for selecting my work for this week's short list of verses for @haikufound.bsky.social in reaction to the work "Without Hope" by Frida Kahlo, and for the immensely thoughtful commentary.
#haikufoundation #haikudialogue #haiku #ekphrasis
#haikufoundation #haikudialogue #haiku #ekphrasis
Many thanks to Prune Juice editors P.H. Fischer and Antoinette Cheung for selecting a couple verses of mine and a tan-renga with @jeromeberglund.bsky.social, and for their tenure at the helm as they are stepping down, and congratulations and welcome to new editor Pippa Phillips, a worthy successor!
August 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Many thanks to Prune Juice editors P.H. Fischer and Antoinette Cheung for selecting a couple verses of mine and a tan-renga with @jeromeberglund.bsky.social, and for their tenure at the helm as they are stepping down, and congratulations and welcome to new editor Pippa Phillips, a worthy successor!