Haiku Published in 2008


 

pulling off
your longjohns—
sparks

 

by Emily Evans

Collage
February 2008


 

thoughts of moving home
a single leaf
floats to the ground

 

by Emily Evans

Collage
February 2008

Students in Millikin University haiku courses are encouraged to submit their original work to small press literary magazines and haiku publications. Several have had their work accepted, so we are please to share these published haiku.

These students had work published in newspapers, haiku journals or literary magazines in 2008:

Andrea Earnest Bierman
Emily Evans
Gordon Gilmore
Rebecca Ives
Sean Lee
Glenna McKenzie
Josh Paramenter
Christina Reed
Alyssa Thompson

Dear Millikin students and alums,

If you have had a haiku published somewhere or if I have missed your published work, please let me know and I will add you to this page celebrating the haiku published by Millikin students and alums.

send your updates by email to:
Dr. Randy Brooks


 

grass-stained knees
he picks a dandelion
for her bouquet

 

by Alyssa Thompson

Ginyu
Summer 2008


 

lattice-lines
form a
phone-work

 

by Gordon Gilmore

Ginyu
Summer 2008


 

lecture hall . . .
my hangnail becomes
more interesting

 

by Alyssa Thompson

Ginyu
Summer 2008


 

a beautiful
moment—
placenta

 

by Gordon Gilmore

Ginyu
Summer 2008


 

cold night
sisters share the bed
three across

 

by Rebecca Ives

Riverbed Haiku
March 2008


 

muddy tracks
     —father's tales of whitetails
 

 

by Christina Reed

First Place Haiku, Moonset
Spring 2008


 

snowy night
friends talk and talk
in a running truck

 

by Josh Parmenter

Bottle Rockets, 9.2
Spring 2008


 

a weed flourishes
choking
its neighbor
 

 

by Chance, (age 9)
Christina Reed's son

Moonset
Spring 2008


 

               pansies
               reclaim their territory ...
e                       y                           r
       v          r            w             e          e
             e                         h
 

 

by Christina Reed

Moonset
Spring 2008


 

first winter snow
the mirror I look into
shows my mother’s face

 

by Andrea Earnest Bierman

Riverbed Haiku
March 2008


 

her grandmother’s teacup
the sun shines through
a crack

 

by Glenna McKenzie

Riverbed Haiku
March 2008

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