2024 Touchstone Nominees

Congratulations, poets!

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As 2024 draws to a close, I want to share the poets who have been nominated for Touchstone Awards in the Individual Poems Category. Congratulations to this year’s nominees!

I’m planning a third year of Haiku Girl Summer for 2025, but I won’t post updates again until spring. Watch this space in a few months!

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Adele Evershed

dry season
i xeriscape
my body

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Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

view of the sea and sunset an asterisk

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Barbara Sabol

high noon
the garden snail catches up
to its shadow

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Barrie Levine

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Betsy Hearne

loose stitches
a goldfinch
mends the sky

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Carly Siegel Thorp

heat bugs
a cool breeze overtakes
a distant pewee

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C.X. Turner

sea pink
growing wilder
when you leave

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Deborah Karl-Brandt

kissing better
leaning into the touch
of a cooling breeze

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Eavonka Ettinger

coral
reefs
in
hot
water
rescue
crew

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Esther Rohm

tan lines seeing myself in a new light

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Jessica Allyson

off the clock
dandelion seeds
float away

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Joanna Ashwell

slowly becoming
a part of darkness
the river swing

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Jo Balistreri

sun-filtered cedars
a bench of glacier stone
at rest

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Juliet Wilson

dandelion clocks —
already too late
for the bees

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Katja Fox

finding love —
she drops
her butterfly net

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Kelly Sargent

rainbow snow cones
our tongues
the same color

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Kimberly Kuchar

sea glass
motherhood softens
my edges

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Lakshmi Iyer

red frangipani blooms
outside the hospice care
the skyfall

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Lorraine A Padden

season’s end
a beach gives up
its human shape

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Mariel Herbert

long day her fingers remember corn silk

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Marilyn Asbaugh

rain-water rinse
before their pronouns
bearded iris

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Mary McCormack

a firefly here and gone my epiphany

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Minal Sarosh

morning rooster’s call reworking the sky

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Mona Bedi

letting go
of sour memories
pickled mango

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Paula Sears

morning fog burning off a blaze of marigolds

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Rupa Anand

a change in the weather mango droppings

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Ruth Holzer

firecrackers
maybe gunshots
Fourth of July

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Sangita Kalarickal

now fireflies here now gone

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Valentina Ranaldi-Adams

blue into blue
the flight path
of a butterfly

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Wilda Morris

another downpour
the smell of warm rain
in my mouth