Roberta Beary, Ellen Compton, and Kala Ramesh are well-known poets and editors in the international haiku community. Their new anthology, Wishbone Moon, is a selection of haiku by over 100 women from 21 countries—including North Carolina poets L. Teresa Church, Kate MacQueen, and Crystal Simone Smith.
Jacar Press is sponsoring a reading of Wishbone Moon at the Southwest Regional Library, 3605 Shannon Road, Durham, North Carolina 27707, on Saturday, November 24, from 1:00 to 3:00.
The poems in Wishbone Moon appear in groups of three on a page. Each page is a triptych of brief scenes that play off each other.
Page 1:
childhood song
the rhythm of women
threshing grain
Geetthanjali Rajan—India
tobacco harvest
women in lamplight
tie the quilt
L. Teresa Church
white wildflowers I decide to stop hiding my gray Crystal Simone-Smith
Page 2:
petition for divorce the period in every sentence Anna Mazurkiewicz—Poland
On a sunny rock, rosettes of moon glow lichen— I owe him nothing Rebecca Lilly—USA
sleepless night learning the shape of darkness Anna Mazurkiewicz—Poland
Wishbone Moon can be ordered from Jacar Press.
