Welcome to Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal ~ Mother Earth’s Rebirth, May 2026
Dear poets and lovers of Haiku,
Thank you to the following poets in this beautiful and vibrant issue dedicated to the ecology of the planet:
Jim Healey, Paul Callus, Scott Wiggerman, Christa Pandey, John J. Dunphy, Diane Tomczak, Morning Star, Lakshman Bulusu, Elliot Diamond, Lynne Schilling, Herb Tate, Hema Krishnan, John Hawkhead, Juliet Wilson, Nicoletta Ignatti, Tony Williams, Denisa Hanšutová, Chen-ou Liu, Mankh, Deborah Karl-Brandt, Anne Fox, Mary McCormack, Joanna C. Fingon, Barrie Levine, Anna Cates, Erica Marks, Sara Clancy, Linda Kleinbub, Ben George, Angiola Inglese, Dennis Owen Frohlich, Monica Kakkar, Hifsa Ashraf, Mark Andrew Heathcote, Melissa Dennison, Helen Ogden, Glenn G. Coats, Andrew Kaufman, Nicholas Klacsanzky, Gordon Brown, Stephen J. DeGuire, Aaron Bowker, W D Schell, Martina Matijević, Soumya Mukherjee, Chad Parenteau, Randy Brooks, Patricia Haddock, Lynn Edge, Adelaide B. Shaw, Joshua St. Claire, Maurizio Brancaleoni, Maxianne Berger, C.X. Turner, Allen David Simon, James Penha, Cindy Hochman
Please check out the issue at:
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/the-may-issue-of-sense-sensibility-is-out/
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Brownstone Poets / Blog
REMINDER:Brownstone Poets on ZOOM
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/reminder-brownstone-poets-on-zoom-susan-justiniano-rescuepoetix-danny-shot-talena-lachelle-queen-sat-april-25-2026-at-2pm-et/
Happy National Poetry Month!
You are invited to join us for our April event on Zoom on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 2 pm ET with Susan Justiniano | RescuePoetix®, Danny Shot, and Talena Lachelle Queen.
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. The cutoff for Zoom access for an open mic slot is noon the day of reading. After noon, late registrants are not guaranteed Zoom access to join the open but will receive a link to watch the reading live-streamed on YouTube.
Please follow these instructions: Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO (Note that your contribution is not refundable.) Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1943409032987394/?notif_id=1775757318630837¬if_t=plan_admin_added&ref=notif
Bios:
Susan Justiniano | RescuePoetix® is a self-taught bilingual poet, recording artist, and arts advocate recognized across the Northeast for her dynamic performances and community engagement. Twice honored as Poet Laureate—Jersey City’s first Puerto Rican woman laureate and New Jersey Beat Poet Laureate (2022–2024)—she is on teaching artist rosters and advisory boards nationwide. Since 2006, her brand has fused poetry with activism, producing multilingual events and recording bilingual spoken word. She serves on boards and committees advancing equity in the arts, including ArtPride NJ, In Full Color, Jersey City Writers, and The Justice Arts Coalition. Learn more: linktr.ee/rescuepoetix.
Last year (2025) was a busy year for Danny Shot with two books published: a collection of poems, The Jersey Slide in November by CavanKerry Press and his prose, collected in Night Bird Flying in February by Roadside Press. WORKS was published in 2018 by CavanKerryPress. Danny is a New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (2024-Lifetime). Danny Shot was the longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick, NJ. More information can be found on his website: dannyshot.com.
Talena Lachelle Queen is a poet, educator, and community leader from Paterson, New Jersey. Since 2018, she has served as the city’s first African American Poet Laureate, using poetry to elevate community voices and advance social justice. She is President and founder of Word Seed Inc., Executive Director of the Paterson Poetry Festival, and Vice President of CavanKerry Press. A doctoral candidate in Education at National University’s Sanford College of Education, her research explores poetry’s role in developing empathetic leadership. She teaches AP Seminar at College Achieve Public Schools High School and has founded initiatives including Paterson Poetry Month and the Passaic County Literary Arts Cultural Center.
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Interview on YouTube
Interview on YouTube Posted on April 14, 2026
Thank you, Belinda Subraman for the wonderful interview today on YouTube. Enjoyed sharing conversation and poetry with you. Appreciate the shout-out for my new book, Stranger on the Shore on Amazon.
Please have a listen on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-WKQ-r5c0
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May Sense and Sensibility is out!
Welcome to Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal ~ Mother Earth’s Rebirth, May 2026
Dear poets and lovers of Haiku,
Thank you to the following poets in this beautiful and vibrant issue dedicated to the ecology of the planet:
Jim Healey, Paul Callus, Scott Wiggerman, Christa Pandey, John J. Dunphy, Diane Tomczak, Morning Star, Lakshman Bulusu, Elliot Diamond, Lynne Schilling, Herb Tate, Hema Krishnan, John Hawkhead, Juliet Wilson, Nicoletta Ignatti, Tony Williams, Denisa Hanšutová, Chen-ou Liu, Mankh, Deborah Karl-Brandt, Anne Fox, Mary McCormack, Joanna C. Fingon, Barrie Levine, Anna Cates, Erica Marks, Sara Clancy, Linda Kleinbub, Ben George, Angiola Inglese, Dennis Owen Frohlich, Monica Kakkar, Hifsa Ashraf, Mark Andrew Heathcote, Melissa Dennison, Helen Ogden, Glenn G. Coats, Andrew Kaufman, Nicholas Klacsanzky, Gordon Brown, Stephen J. DeGuire, Aaron Bowker, W D Schell, Martina Matijević, Soumya Mukherjee, Chad Parenteau, Randy Brooks, Patricia Haddock, Lynn Edge, Adelaide B. Shaw, Joshua St. Claire, Maurizio Brancaleoni, Maxianne Berger, C.X. Turner, Allen David Simon, James Penha, Cindy Hochman
Please check out the issue at:
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/the-may-issue-of-sense-sensibility-is-out/
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28th Annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Poetry Issue
Thank you, Rick Lupert of Poetry Superhighway, for selecting “Ashes” for the 28th Annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day issue. As a poet of Jewish heritage, this annual project holds deep personal meaning for me, and I’m truly honored to be included among the voices of remembrance. A shout-out to Amy Barone, Betsy Mars, Icegayle Johnson, Lariisa Shmailo, Parta Sarkar, and Roberta Beach Jacobson.
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/28th-annual-yom-hashoah-holocaust-remembrance-day-poetry-issue/#patriciac
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Lucent Voicings, The Woodside Review Anthology
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/lucent-voicings-the-woodside-review-anthology/ With great appreciation to editor Eleni Traganas, I am happy to be included in The Woodside Review’s Lucent Voicings Anthology. Honored to be with Eleni Traganas, David Dephy, Hilary Sideris, Alison Stone, and more.
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Brownstone Poets Sat April 25 at 2 ET
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/brownstone-poets-on-zoom-susan-justiniano-rescuepoetix-danny-shot-talena-lachelle-queen-sat-april-25-2026-at-2pm-et/
Happy National Poetry Month!
You are invited to join us for our April event on Zoom on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 2 pm ET with Susan Justiniano | RescuePoetix®, Danny Shot, and Talena Lachelle Queen.
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. The cutoff for Zoom access for an open mic slot is noon the day of reading. After noon, late registrants are not guaranteed Zoom access to join the open but will receive a link to watch the reading live-streamed on YouTube.
Please follow these instructions: Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO (Note that your contribution is not refundable.) Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1943409032987394/?notif_id=1775757318630837¬if_t=plan_admin_added&ref=notif
Bios:
Susan Justiniano | RescuePoetix® is a self-taught bilingual poet, recording artist, and arts advocate recognized across the Northeast for her dynamic performances and community engagement. Twice honored as Poet Laureate—Jersey City’s first Puerto Rican woman laureate and New Jersey Beat Poet Laureate (2022–2024)—she is on teaching artist rosters and advisory boards nationwide. Since 2006, her brand has fused poetry with activism, producing multilingual events and recording bilingual spoken word. She serves on boards and committees advancing equity in the arts, including ArtPride NJ, In Full Color, Jersey City Writers, and The Justice Arts Coalition. Learn more: linktr.ee/rescuepoetix.
Last year (2025) was a busy year for Danny Shot with two books published: a collection of poems, The Jersey Slide in November by CavanKerry Press and his prose, collected in Night Bird Flying in February by Roadside Press. WORKS was published in 2018 by CavanKerryPress. Danny is a New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (2024-Lifetime). Danny Shot was the longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick, NJ. More information can be found on his website: dannyshot.com.
Talena Lachelle Queen is a poet, educator, and community leader from Paterson, New Jersey. Since 2018, she has served as the city’s first African American Poet Laureate, using poetry to elevate community voices and advance social justice. She is President and founder of Word Seed Inc., Executive Director of the Paterson Poetry Festival, and Vice President of CavanKerry Press. A doctoral candidate in Education at National University’s Sanford College of Education, her research explores poetry’s role in developing empathetic leadership. She teaches AP Seminar at College Achieve Public Schools High School and has founded initiatives including Paterson Poetry Month and the Passaic County Literary Arts Cultural Center.
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Baseball Haiku, April 7
Thank you, Thomas J. Erickson, for posting my baseball haiku in his daily newsletter today for Haiku Month:
Today, I’ll take a break. Here are several from Patricia Carragon and one from Dan Kaufman. Both poets appear in our baseball poetry anthology, “The Songs of Summer”. Thanks to them.
from Patricia
faded photos— my dad mimicking Mickey Mantle
after the game— the scent of beer lingers
pitcher’s glove— childhood memories at home plate
baseball Barbies— for girls who play ball like boys
–and from Dan–
quieter world then Thomas served up Thomson’s “shot heard “round the world”
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Publication News today
What a lovely Easter surprise! Thank you, Joe Maita for posting “What a Wonderful World” on Jerry Jazz Musician’s The Sunday Poem.
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/the-sunday-poem-what-a-wonderful-world-by-patricia-carragon-april-4-2026/
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Fixed and Free Quarterly Publication
With appreciation to Billy Brown for publishing poems, “Misty (an erasure),” ” Misty,” and “These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)” from my new book, Stranger on the Shore in the latest Fixed and Free Quarterly. Kudos to Billy Brown, Austin Alexis, C.C. Arsagra, Charles S. Colbean, Bob Heman, Issac Cohen, Elizabeth Lara, Hiram Larew, Pamela Laskin, Josephine LoRe, Margaret R, Sáraco, Neil Daswani, Mona Zamfirescu, Scott Wiggerman, Zohreh Zadbood, Sterling Warner, Thomas A. Thomas, and more.
https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/fixed-and-free-quarterly-vol-5-issue-1-spring-2026/
Cheers,
Trish oxoxo
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Stranger on the Shore on Jerry Jazz Musician’s Community Bookshelf #6
Thank you, Joe Maita, of Jerry Jazz Musician, for posting my new poetry collection, Stranger on the Shore (Human Error Publishing), on the Community Bookshelf #6. Much appreciation to my friend Ronald P. Bremner, who wrote a beautiful blurb. Please check out new releases from R. Bremner, Linda Lerner, Phil Linz, Ron Kolm, Russell Dupont, and more.
Check out the authors: https://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/community-bookshelf-6/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ4BRFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFXMWpFZUY1ejNjams4MkM1c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHv-B3ag82ImT5Vo6Lw2wXY54Ern8MPTXnVpx14pHs6XSARoAV-NzNiNbBALI_aem_kzq3uxxmWYJUhPts1hVZ-g
Available on Amazon:
https://amzn.to/4s35h9W
Happy Monday,
Trish oxoxox
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