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Author: Lorraine A Padden

Lorraine A Padden is a Touchstone Award winning poet and former professional ballet dancer whose career and scholarship in the performing and visual arts earned her an appointment to the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry has been honored by The Haiku Foundation, Tricycle Magazine, Haiku Society of America, Tokutomi International Haiku Competition, and the British Haiku Society, among others. Lorraine is a featured poet in A New Resonance 13, the renowned anthology showcasing emerging voices in English-language haiku. Upwelling, her critically acclaimed collection of haiku and related short forms was published in 2022.
higher tides crabs scuttling on asphalt      
Posted on 7 December 20203 October 2020Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 20.25 Comments on
seventh summer we measure his height in sunflowers
Posted on 28 September 202124 September 2021Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 21.211 Comments on
shuttered monastery the keening of bell crickets  
Posted on 8 July 20221 July 2022Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 22.12 Comments on
headstone inscription the vocabulary beyond her years
Posted on 4 January 202313 December 2022Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 22.21 Comment on
first-born flowers*   In the place where we scattered her ashes last summer, there’s now a tiny crown of purple shoots adorning the snow. early March just enough
Posted on 24 March 202319 March 2023Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 23.18 Comments on
foster care interview a fledgling catches an updraft  
Posted on 25 October 202314 October 2023Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 23.22 Comments on
seventh heaven a lotus breaks the surface
Posted on 11 April 202527 March 2025Author Lorraine A PaddenCategories Issue 25.12 Comments on
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