1 November 2025

I’m still ramping up some big additions to Graceguts. They didn’t happen this last month (thanks to all my work on the Seabeck Haiku Getaway event and other distractions), but they’re coming. Here, instead, are all the smaller Graceguts additions in October 2025:

• Every year I make at least one new trifold. My latest one is “The Orca’s Path,” just added to the Trifolds page, where you can view or download a copy. I made this collection for the Seabeck Haiku Getaway at the end of October 2025.

• New to the Contests page are results and commentary for the “2025 Lyrical Iowa Haiku Contest,” which I judged for the Iowa Poetry Association. These results, but not the commentary, appeared in Lyrical Iowa 2025: Our 80th Year, published in October of 2025.

• On the Haiku and Senryu page, I’ve added six poems to “My Poems in Tinywords.” Five of these were posted to Tinywords back in 2007, but I’m just adding them now, along with the following new poem just published in October 2025:

a different cool

than the Douglas firs

redwood shade

• Also new to Haiku and Senryu, on the “NeverEnding Story” page, is the following previously published poem, which appeared with new Chinese translations:

crickets at dusk—

so many cars

at the make-out spot

• And on the “Five Food Haiku” page, also available through Haiku and Senryu, I’ve added an audio recording of me reading these poems. This is the first time I’ve added an audio recording to Graceguts, and I hope to add more recordings.

• As always, it’s my pleasure to coedit First Frost, and for issue #10, now in the process of being sent to subscribers, I also chose the First Frost Award winner, written by Eric Sundquist. You can see the cover image for issue #10 on the First Frost page, available through Digressions.

• On the “Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku” page, available through Press Here, I’ve added a link to a new subpage featuring a pleasing 2011 review of the book by Don Wentworth.

• Do check out my scintillating FAQ Links page, where I’ve recently updated four links that somehow went stale. Click that button!

• Some other miscellaneous additions:

  • • I’ve added several new names to the Donations page (thanks, as always, for your support).

    • Look for numerous additions to my Appearances page, especially November events.

    • At the end of the first paragraph on the Haiku and Senryu page, I’ve added “Or, as Mohammed Ali should have said, ‘Write haiku like a butterfly, senryu like a bee.’” This is an admonition I came up with years ago, but I’ve only just now added it to Graceguts.

Meanwhile, on my Rengay website, a new addition is “Canemah Bluff,” a six-person rengay recently published in New Zealand’s Raining Rengay.

Are we having fun yet?