2026 (5)
"Body Work," Modern Haiku 57.1 (2026) & selected as favorite haibun of the issue!
"Describing the Air to a Trout", Contemporary Haibun Online 22.1 (April 2026)
"Points Along the Spiral Path", MacQueen's Quinterly 32 (2026)
TBR, Frogpond 49.2 (2026)
TBR, Frogpond (2026) erratum
2025 (9)
"Category 5" (concrete haibun), Rattle 87 (Spring 2025)
"As Nanci Griffith Sings "From Clare to Here" on Repeat Again", Frogpond 48:1 (Winter, 2025)
"An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory," MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025) and The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun Short List
"Not by the Hairs of My Chinny Chin Chin" (french braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025)
"Two Days Before She Dies" (ekphrastic haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
"The Invented Hours," MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
"She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down", Contemporary Haibun Online, 21.3 (2025)
"Continuation of the Story," Drifting Sands Haibun, 34 (2025)
A List of Foods for the End of the World
Chocolate.
go bag
eighty percent
won't fit
Prune Juice 47, (2025; a haibun with one-word prose. Tiny enough to share!)
2024 (15)
"It Went on for Three Hours Although He Said It Was Only Two" (free verse haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.3 (2024)
"The Predictable Arc of Sunlight", Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.3 (2024)
"Going Gentle", Frogpond 47:2 (2024)
"Take Only Photos", Cheribun Challenge Long List Finalist (This is the first cherita or cheribun I've written!) MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 25 (2024)
"Alone on Another Planet" (longer haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 24 (2024)
"Baby Toe" (free verse haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"Same Old Flower", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"Antropoceen", Frogpond, 47.2 (2024)
"Stirring Beneath the Surface" (inverted, concrete haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.1 (2024)
"Upturned" (inverted haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.1 (2024)
"Links Along a Song" Frogpond, 47:1 (2024)
"Insecure Network", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"Falls Into Light", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"My Nose is Its Own Country", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 21 (2024)
"Clay Body", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 21 (2024)
2023 (9)
"Stepping off the Merry-Go-Round" (braided haibun), Frogpond, 46:3 (2023) and republished in Contemporary Haibun Anthology, volume 19, Red Moon Press, 2024.
"Event Horizon" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023) and republished in Contemporary Haibun Anthology, volume 19, Red Moon Press, 2024.
"Sensory Deprivation Tank" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023) and republished in Contemporary Haibun Anthology, volume 19, Red Moon Press, 2024.
"Materials and Methods" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023)
"Life Is a Highway" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023)
"Between the Flashes" Modern Haiku, 54.3 (2023) and nomination for Alternating Current Press' Best Small Fictions
"For Whom" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 18 (2023)
"Home Making" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 18 (2023)
"Unraveling" (braided haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, issue 19.1 (2023)
2022 (15)
"A Postcard from Ocean City" (braided haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, issue 18.3 (December 2022)
"Time Scale of Stars" (braided haibun), Frogpond 45:3 (Autumn 2022)
"Inner Rising" (woven haibun with a vertical haiku), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 14 (2022)
"Energy Shift in the Storage Shed" (braided haibun, enjambed), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 14 (2022)
"Setting the See-Saw" (braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 14 (2022)
"Connecting the Stars" (braided haibun), Prune Juice, issue 37 (2022)
"De-can't" (braided haibun), Prune Juice, issue 37 (2022)
"Embodying the In-Between" (braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 12 (2022)
"Hiraeth", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 12 (2022)
"Mermaids", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 12 (2022)
"Long Exposure", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 11 (2022)
"Crossing" (braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 11 (2022)
"Thoughts a Second Before the Terrible Triad Elbow" (embedded haibun; i.e., three overlapping haiku are embedded within the prose), Frogpond, issue 45:1 (2022). Read this embedded haibun and self-commentary in Contemporary Haibun Online 18.2 (2022) "On Structure: An Exploration into Haibun’s Fourth Element"
"Nowhere to Be Found", Failed Haiku (ed: Roberta Beary; 2022)
Squirrel A Way
I search for hidden deer and a place to sit next to audible water. Try to find my mind again. Maybe a new bird. I sort the major from the minor, the shakers from the shaken. Dodge the falling acorns. But what really rules my moment is this disintegrating leaf. The autumn maple feeds its future vernal self with a little left over to share with the other trees. It surrenders everything for a hope in the unknown. Without it, the rest falls apart.
worm cycle
the crowdsourcing
of pink petals
Modern Haiku, issue 53.1 (2022)
2021 (14)
"Breaking Up With the Blues", #FemkuMag, issue 31 (2021)
"Pulled into Gravity", Drifting Sands Haibun, issue 12, Jo Balistreri, editor, (November 2021)
"Sensory Revelation Tank", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 10 finalist for Editor's Choice Award, (2021)
"Melting Clock", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 10 (2021)
"Revelations" (embedded haibun; haiku are embedded within the prose), Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Issue 2 (2021)
"You Just Do," #FemkuMag (2021)
"Armistice", #FemkuMag (2021)
"Riding Into Shore", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 9 (2021)
"Re-orientation" (braided haibun), Prune Juice, issue 34 (2021)
"Raining Daze", #FemkuMag, issue 29 (2021)
"Watercourse", Failed Haiku (April 2021)
"The Indescribable Nothing of Childhood" (braided haibun), Sonic Boom, issue 20 (2021)
"Bookmark" (braided haibun), Failed Haiku, issue 67 (pdf; 2021) and Burnt Diary haibun anthology (Moth Orchid Press, 2022)
"Latch", Prune Juice, issue 33 (2021)
2020 (14)
Letter to Loss
I didn’t recognize you, at first, in your many disguises. A home. A mother. A story I will never understand. When I removed your mask, there was nothing behind it. Still, you stand in the doorway. You want to be the space between my molecules. You want to pull my fabric into threads. You are nothing, made new. You took the walls but left the scaffolding, so I hang my pictures in your air. My little rebellion against what is not there.
Mariana Trench
an old darkness
becomes a depth
United Haiku and Tanka Society Samurai Haibun Contest, HM (2020)
"More Than a Sphere", Human/Kind (2020)
"Show and Tell", Drifting Sands Haibun, issue 2 (2020) and Contemporary Haibun 16 (2020)
"Water Cycle", Contemporary Haibun Online (Dec 2020)
"The Blue Estuaries" (tanka prose), Contemporary Haibun Online (Dec 2020)
"Gestation Lullaby", Drifting Sands haibun, issue 4 (2020)
"Dimensions", The Other Bunny (2020)
"Birth Story", The Other Bunny (2020)
"April", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 3 (2020)
"The Song of Less", Kissing Dynamite (April 2020; the Serenity issue)
"Old Monsters", Narrow Road, volume 10 (2020)
"Reactive", Human/Kind (March 2020)
"River Therapy", Ribbons (tanka prose; Winter 2020)
"Whole", Frogpond (Winter 2020)
2019 (7)
"Taxonomy" (with reading), Rattle, issue 64 (2019)
"Residence", Contemporary Haibun Online (2019)
"Space Bar", Sonic Boom, issue 16 (2019) and Red Moon Anthology (2020)
"Hideway", Haibun Today, volume 13, number 4 (2019)
"Squall", Haibun Today, volume 13, number 4 (tanka prose; 2019)
"Flicker", The Red River Haibun Anthology (2019)
"Attend", Human/Kind (2019) and Sundress Press "Best of the Net" nomination
2018 (5)
"Ubiquitous", Frogpond (2018)
"Heliotrope", Narrow Road, issue 6 (2018)
"Reality", Atlas Poetica, issue 33 (tanka prose; 2018)
"Dynamic", Atlas Poetica, issue 33 (tanka prose; 2018)
"Becoming", Atlas Poetica, issue 33 (tanka prose; 2018)
(93 includes 5 in 2026)
Copyright © 2014 - 2026 Kat Lehmann
"Body Work," Modern Haiku 57.1 (2026) & selected as favorite haibun of the issue!
"Describing the Air to a Trout", Contemporary Haibun Online 22.1 (April 2026)
"Points Along the Spiral Path", MacQueen's Quinterly 32 (2026)
TBR, Frogpond 49.2 (2026)
TBR, Frogpond (2026) erratum
2025 (9)
"Category 5" (concrete haibun), Rattle 87 (Spring 2025)
"As Nanci Griffith Sings "From Clare to Here" on Repeat Again", Frogpond 48:1 (Winter, 2025)
"An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory," MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025) and The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun Short List
"Not by the Hairs of My Chinny Chin Chin" (french braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly 30 (2025)
"Two Days Before She Dies" (ekphrastic haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
"The Invented Hours," MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025)
"She Lives in the Town Where Her Car Broke Down", Contemporary Haibun Online, 21.3 (2025)
"Continuation of the Story," Drifting Sands Haibun, 34 (2025)
A List of Foods for the End of the World
Chocolate.
go bag
eighty percent
won't fit
Prune Juice 47, (2025; a haibun with one-word prose. Tiny enough to share!)
2024 (15)
"It Went on for Three Hours Although He Said It Was Only Two" (free verse haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.3 (2024)
"The Predictable Arc of Sunlight", Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.3 (2024)
"Going Gentle", Frogpond 47:2 (2024)
"Take Only Photos", Cheribun Challenge Long List Finalist (This is the first cherita or cheribun I've written!) MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 25 (2024)
"Alone on Another Planet" (longer haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 24 (2024)
"Baby Toe" (free verse haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"Same Old Flower", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"Antropoceen", Frogpond, 47.2 (2024)
"Stirring Beneath the Surface" (inverted, concrete haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.1 (2024)
"Upturned" (inverted haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, 20.1 (2024)
"Links Along a Song" Frogpond, 47:1 (2024)
"Insecure Network", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"Falls Into Light", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 22 (2024)
"My Nose is Its Own Country", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 21 (2024)
"Clay Body", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 21 (2024)
2023 (9)
"Stepping off the Merry-Go-Round" (braided haibun), Frogpond, 46:3 (2023) and republished in Contemporary Haibun Anthology, volume 19, Red Moon Press, 2024.
"Event Horizon" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023) and republished in Contemporary Haibun Anthology, volume 19, Red Moon Press, 2024.
"Sensory Deprivation Tank" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023) and republished in Contemporary Haibun Anthology, volume 19, Red Moon Press, 2024.
"Materials and Methods" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023)
"Life Is a Highway" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 20 (2023)
"Between the Flashes" Modern Haiku, 54.3 (2023) and nomination for Alternating Current Press' Best Small Fictions
"For Whom" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 18 (2023)
"Home Making" MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 18 (2023)
"Unraveling" (braided haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, issue 19.1 (2023)
2022 (15)
"A Postcard from Ocean City" (braided haibun), Contemporary Haibun Online, issue 18.3 (December 2022)
"Time Scale of Stars" (braided haibun), Frogpond 45:3 (Autumn 2022)
"Inner Rising" (woven haibun with a vertical haiku), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 14 (2022)
"Energy Shift in the Storage Shed" (braided haibun, enjambed), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 14 (2022)
"Setting the See-Saw" (braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 14 (2022)
"Connecting the Stars" (braided haibun), Prune Juice, issue 37 (2022)
"De-can't" (braided haibun), Prune Juice, issue 37 (2022)
"Embodying the In-Between" (braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 12 (2022)
"Hiraeth", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 12 (2022)
"Mermaids", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 12 (2022)
"Long Exposure", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 11 (2022)
"Crossing" (braided haibun), MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 11 (2022)
"Thoughts a Second Before the Terrible Triad Elbow" (embedded haibun; i.e., three overlapping haiku are embedded within the prose), Frogpond, issue 45:1 (2022). Read this embedded haibun and self-commentary in Contemporary Haibun Online 18.2 (2022) "On Structure: An Exploration into Haibun’s Fourth Element"
"Nowhere to Be Found", Failed Haiku (ed: Roberta Beary; 2022)
Squirrel A Way
I search for hidden deer and a place to sit next to audible water. Try to find my mind again. Maybe a new bird. I sort the major from the minor, the shakers from the shaken. Dodge the falling acorns. But what really rules my moment is this disintegrating leaf. The autumn maple feeds its future vernal self with a little left over to share with the other trees. It surrenders everything for a hope in the unknown. Without it, the rest falls apart.
worm cycle
the crowdsourcing
of pink petals
Modern Haiku, issue 53.1 (2022)
2021 (14)
"Breaking Up With the Blues", #FemkuMag, issue 31 (2021)
"Pulled into Gravity", Drifting Sands Haibun, issue 12, Jo Balistreri, editor, (November 2021)
"Sensory Revelation Tank", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 10 finalist for Editor's Choice Award, (2021)
"Melting Clock", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 10 (2021)
"Revelations" (embedded haibun; haiku are embedded within the prose), Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Issue 2 (2021)
"You Just Do," #FemkuMag (2021)
"Armistice", #FemkuMag (2021)
"Riding Into Shore", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 9 (2021)
"Re-orientation" (braided haibun), Prune Juice, issue 34 (2021)
"Raining Daze", #FemkuMag, issue 29 (2021)
"Watercourse", Failed Haiku (April 2021)
"The Indescribable Nothing of Childhood" (braided haibun), Sonic Boom, issue 20 (2021)
"Bookmark" (braided haibun), Failed Haiku, issue 67 (pdf; 2021) and Burnt Diary haibun anthology (Moth Orchid Press, 2022)
"Latch", Prune Juice, issue 33 (2021)
2020 (14)
Letter to Loss
I didn’t recognize you, at first, in your many disguises. A home. A mother. A story I will never understand. When I removed your mask, there was nothing behind it. Still, you stand in the doorway. You want to be the space between my molecules. You want to pull my fabric into threads. You are nothing, made new. You took the walls but left the scaffolding, so I hang my pictures in your air. My little rebellion against what is not there.
Mariana Trench
an old darkness
becomes a depth
United Haiku and Tanka Society Samurai Haibun Contest, HM (2020)
"More Than a Sphere", Human/Kind (2020)
"Show and Tell", Drifting Sands Haibun, issue 2 (2020) and Contemporary Haibun 16 (2020)
"Water Cycle", Contemporary Haibun Online (Dec 2020)
"The Blue Estuaries" (tanka prose), Contemporary Haibun Online (Dec 2020)
"Gestation Lullaby", Drifting Sands haibun, issue 4 (2020)
"Dimensions", The Other Bunny (2020)
"Birth Story", The Other Bunny (2020)
"April", MacQueen's Quinterly, issue 3 (2020)
"The Song of Less", Kissing Dynamite (April 2020; the Serenity issue)
"Old Monsters", Narrow Road, volume 10 (2020)
"Reactive", Human/Kind (March 2020)
"River Therapy", Ribbons (tanka prose; Winter 2020)
"Whole", Frogpond (Winter 2020)
2019 (7)
"Taxonomy" (with reading), Rattle, issue 64 (2019)
"Residence", Contemporary Haibun Online (2019)
"Space Bar", Sonic Boom, issue 16 (2019) and Red Moon Anthology (2020)
"Hideway", Haibun Today, volume 13, number 4 (2019)
"Squall", Haibun Today, volume 13, number 4 (tanka prose; 2019)
"Flicker", The Red River Haibun Anthology (2019)
"Attend", Human/Kind (2019) and Sundress Press "Best of the Net" nomination
2018 (5)
"Ubiquitous", Frogpond (2018)
"Heliotrope", Narrow Road, issue 6 (2018)
"Reality", Atlas Poetica, issue 33 (tanka prose; 2018)
"Dynamic", Atlas Poetica, issue 33 (tanka prose; 2018)
"Becoming", Atlas Poetica, issue 33 (tanka prose; 2018)
(93 includes 5 in 2026)
Copyright © 2014 - 2026 Kat Lehmann
