2024 Touchstone Nominees

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!

Adele Evershed

dry season
i xeriscape
my body

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni

view of the sea and sunset an asterisk

Barbara Sabol

high noon
the garden snail catches up
to its shadow

Barrie Levine

Betsy Hearne

loose stitches
a goldfinch
mends the sky

Carly Siegel Thorp

heat bugs
a cool breeze overtakes
a distant pewee

C.X. Turner

sea pink
growing wilder
when you leave

Deborah Karl-Brandt

kissing better
leaning into the touch
of a cooling breeze

Eavonka Ettinger

coral
reefs
in
hot
water
rescue
crew

Esther Rohm

tan lines seeing myself in a new light

Jessica Allyson

off the clock
dandelion seeds
float away

Joanna Ashwell

slowly becoming
a part of darkness
the river swing

Jo Balistreri

sun-filtered cedars
a bench of glacier stone
at rest

Juliet Wilson

dandelion clocks —
already too late
for the bees

Katja Fox

finding love —
she drops
her butterfly net

Kelly Sargent

rainbow snow cones
our tongues
the same color

Kimberly Kuchar

sea glass
motherhood softens
my edges

Lakshmi Iyer

red frangipani blooms
outside the hospice care
the skyfall

Lorraine A Padden

season’s end
a beach gives up
its human shape

Mariel Herbert

long day her fingers remember corn silk

Marilyn Asbaugh

rain-water rinse
before their pronouns
bearded iris

Mary McCormack

a firefly here and gone my epiphany

Minal Sarosh

morning rooster’s call reworking the sky

Mona Bedi

letting go
of sour memories
pickled mango

Paula Sears

morning fog burning off a blaze of marigolds

Rupa Anand

a change in the weather mango droppings

Ruth Holzer

firecrackers
maybe gunshots
Fourth of July

Sangita Kalarickal

now fireflies here now gone

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams

blue into blue
the flight path
of a butterfly

Wilda Morris

another downpour
the smell of warm rain
in my mouth