Submissions are OPEN for the first issue of Only Human! Send us your English language senryu, kyoka, senbun, and haibun during the month of February. Guidelines are available on our website.
We canβt wait to read your poetry!
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Guidelines β Only Human: English Language Senryu
Only seventeen days until Only Human opens for submissions! In the meantime, check out our guidelines and select what poems to send us:
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Thank you! We're excited to create a space for senryu poets!
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Thank you!
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Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing!
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Looking forward to your submission when we open in February!
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A graphic containing images of people (on the phone, holding hands, lifting faces to the sun, cannonballing into a lake) surrounding the words: "Coming soon. Only Human: a senryu journal."
Only Human is a new journal of English-language senryu that explores what it means to be human.
Submissions open February 1, and our inaugural issue will be released in April. In the meantime, visit our website to check out our guidelines and meet the editors at www.onlyhumansenryu.com.
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(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
We run international online courses, workshops & events with an emphasis on minimal words, & the Japanese forms haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun. We also offer one-to-one tutorials/mentorship with Alan Summers and publish The Pan Haiku Review.
Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
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Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler⦠in ascending order
differently logical . . . I sense, I feel, I write . . .
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
For my recent posts: #Oulens
@owlnsquirrels1111 on Threads
Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com
@duosuma.com is our submission manager.
Flaneur, eco-conscious, photographer, advocate, writer, doomer.
Croatian cat-tea-haiku-obsessed writer
she/her though does it matter if we're all human
Touchstone Award Nominee '25
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
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βοΈ Rhysling HM, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
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he/him, married
Touchstone nominee
Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM FΓ©ile LitrΓochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.
Writer. 'Ribbons and Rainbows', a mini poetry ebook published by Yavanika Press available at http://payhip.com/b/uB5Ri. 'Variations on the Planets', a short paperback co-written with Eavonka Ettinger is available from Amazon via www.azonlinks.com/B0DW9HBDG
Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Published poet/author/writer
Career in libraries
Poetry/nature/library/education advocate
Musician artist philosopher
Married to Sandra Sprague
Books:
+ Gracious Nature
+ May We Learn from the Earth
+ The Humbling & Other Poems
robertjtiess.wordpress.com
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EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Black Bisexual Horror/Weird Fiction writer | Voodoonauts Fellow 2024 | Alpha Workshop Instructor | Editor @SalonSinister.com | Writing in Ghoulish Tales (2026), Afropunk, and The Black Youth Project | *NO AI* | Insomniac | Mirror ghost | they/he π
Mom, music therapist and multi-instrumentalist musician. breast cancer and domestic violence survivor. Feminist as f.
I write poetry- author of βSurvival Haikuβ and βCancer Doesnβt Give A F*ck.β
"Trying to be a serious poet and failing ecstatically." - Me
Writer of flash, micro, prose poetry. Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Nominated for Best Microfiction, Best of the Net. Copy Editor. Baseball fan. She/her.
https://loricramerfiction.wordpress.com
