Wishbone Moon: An International Anthology of Haiku by Women

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.