In Gratitude

Thank you to Caroline Wermuth for serving as this week’s guest editor!

Thanks also to our recent tip jar contributors:

• Sarah Paris
• Risë Daniels
• Nancy Brady

all the windows
thrown open
lavender breeze

Barbara Sabol
Akron, Ohio, USA

playing the field
a bumblebee moves
from flower to flower

Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, India

barefoot
my favorite season

Jennifer Gurney
Broomfield, Colorado, USA

Editor Bio: Caroline Wermuth coordinated the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry, the Public Poetry Project, and the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State Libraries. Her poems have appeared in Northern Appalachia Review, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, World Haiku Review, Haiku Girl Summer and in the New Jersey Botanical Gardens (NJBG).

Tip Jar

Haiku Girl Summer will always be a free publication. If you want to make a financial contribution, please visit Allyson Whipple’s Buy Me a Coffee page. Mention Haiku Girl Summer in the comment box and your donation will go into a pool that will be divided among the guest editors at the end of the 2025 editorial run.

Merch

After repeated requests, I set up a Haiku Girl Summer merch shop. You can order T-shirts and tank tops, along with hats, mugs, buttons, and a spiral notebook. Email me if there are other items you’d like to see!