One Window’s Light won the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award for best haiku anthology published in 2017!
One Window’s Light (Unicorn Press, Greensboro: 2017) is a collection of haiku by Dr. L. Teresa Church, Lenard D. Moore, Dr. Shelia Smith McKoy, Crystal Simone Smith, and Gideon Young.
“This collection is a lighted window into lives of African American haiku poets with powerful connections to earth and family.” —Ruth Yarrow
The haiku are arranged in thematic sections. Here is a sample of poems from “History”:
diagonal snow
Wall Street glitters
with afros and badges
—Gideon Young
plantation tour
I follow the swallowtail
to the slavehouse
—Crystal Simone Smith
upturned cicada
we read slave narratives
row by row
—Lenard D. Moore
dusty slave quarters
rusted sugar kettles
holding rainwater
—L. Teresa Church
