Synopsis "Lilacs & Teacups: modern haiku poems (in English)"
The haiku will undoubtedly attract all readers due to unvarying excellence of style and diction. The haiku are charged with powerful and energetic imagination. BIOKelly Sargent is a Vermont author and artist whose works, including a Best of the Net nominee, have appeared in more than forty literary publications. In the past year, her haiku and senryu appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, Kingfisher Journal, Prune Juice, Poetry Pea Journal, Failed Haiku-A Journal of English Senryu, Haikuniverse, Kontinuum: Contemporary Haiku, and others. A haiku recently recognized in the international Golden Haiku contest is currently on display in Washington, D.C. in the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook, Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion (Kelsay Books, 2022), a finalist in the Cordella Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. A children's book entitled Sundae Sundays is also forthcoming. She serves as creative nonfiction and assistant nonfiction editors for two literary journals.
