Author: Susan Antolin

Susan Antolin fell in love with modern Japanese poetry while living in Japan in the late 1980?s. In recent years she has served as the newsletter editor for the Haiku Society of America and the Haiku Poets of Northern California, co-editor of Mariposa, and president of HPNC. Her book Artichoke Season was published in 2009, and her collection The Years That Went Missing won first place in the Backbone Press haiku chapbook contest in 2020. Currently she edits Acorn: a Journal of Contemporary Haiku.

my side of it? wet potato peelings land in the sink

her question answers itself moonlit sea (slightly edited from what appeared in Mariposa 31, Fall 2014)

interrupted dream? I make myself small to slip back in