Author: Joyce Clement

Joyce Clement's haiku has been published in a variety of online and print journals and anthologies. She was a featured poet in A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press), and her book Beyond My View, received a Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award. She was also a 2014 Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award winner. Since 2011, Joyce has served as a director of The Haiku Circle, an annual gathering of haiku poets held each June in Northfield, MA. Born & raised in upstate New York, she has lived & worked in central Connecticut for the last 30 years.

some color
lost in the wash
autumn rain

hard frost
a blue tarp saddles
the old barn’s roof

poems
without verbs
the heat

(Originally appeared in Modern Haiku 46.2)

late again
a dozen roses
all alike

(Originally published in Modern Haiku, 40.3)

the whole day
how to write it…
hummingbird hawk moth

(Included in Beyond My View, Endion Press, 2011)

B positive
even my blood type
full of advice

(originally appeared in Modern Haiku, 45:3)