Whiptail: Journal of the Single-line Poem
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        • Issue 4 - with birdsong between
        • Issue 4 - words into flowers
        • Issue 4 - the other side of &
        • Issue 4 - reality enters from the back
        • Issue 4 - to insert what's missing
        • Issue 4 - bridge to the infinite
        • Issue 4 - emerging light
    • Issue 3: Into Oneness (May 2022) >
      • Issue 3 Cover Artist - Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
      • Issue 3 - yet purple dahlias
      • Issue 3 - light's thesaurus
      • Issue 3 - slippingthrough
      • Issue 3 - inside the wind
      • Issue 3 - funeral sky
      • Issue 3 - small wins
      • Issue 3 - Jonathan's Picks
      • Issue 3 - Pippa's Picks
    • Issue 2: Summoning the Sky (Feb 2022) >
      • Issue 2 Cover Artist - our thomas
    • Issue 1: Kinetic (Nov 2021) >
      • Issue 1 Cover Artist - Subhashini Chandramani
      • Issue 1 Spring
      • Issue 1 Summer
      • Issue 1 Autumn
      • Issue 1 Winter
      • Issue 1 Transitions
      • Issue 1 Sequences
      • Issue 1 Letter from the Editors


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Editorial Team Members
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KAT LEHMANN

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Co-Founder/Chief Editor


​Kat Lehmann (she/her) is an award-winning poet based in New England. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize (2021) and Best of the Net (2019), Kat’s haiku have been honored in The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2020), the Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson Haiku Award (2020), and Japan’s Basho-an Award (2020). Her haiku is included in Haiku 2022.

Kat is an Associate Editor at Sonic Boom and serves as a panelist for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Books Award.

Kat holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and works as a clinical trial regulatory specialist in Nephrology.

Read Kat
’s work, including her experimental “sudo-ku” multi-haiku form, on her website.  Social: @SongsOfKat.

ROBIN ANNA SMITH

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Co-Founder/Chief Editor


​Robin Smith (they/them) is a disabled artist who spends their days writing and drawing themselves into the bodies of other animals and plants. They look for truth in the wind, the grass, the birds . . . and relay it via the pen, the ink, the paint.

Their work has earned numerous accolades including
 The Haiku Foundation
’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem (2019).  

Links can be found on their website to their small collections of haiku, haibun, and experimental “meandering haiku,” as well as information on their other volunteer, editorial, and panelist positions.

Social: @komadorihaiku.

Support Team Members
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ANETTE CHANEY

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Twitter: Digital Engagement


​Anette Chaney (she/her) is a retired psychiatric nurse with a B.A. in English. She is in the HSA’s mentorship program and her haiku appeared in the mentorship anthology, The Unexpected Weight. Her haiku/senryu have appeared in Cold Moon Journal, whiptail, Poetry Pea Podcast, and Haiku in Action. She lives in a small rural community outside of Harrison, Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. Her interests include photography, watercolor, bookbinding, Native American flute, and everything nature.

KATI MOHR

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Newsletter Manager


Kati Mohr (she/they), born 1976, is a disabled, intuitive artist, known online as pi & anne, who lives in Germany with her family and two rabbits. She likes to jump into old ponds to pull up lost cargo, mostly in the form of poetry (but not exclusively!). Her art aims at tracing the filters humans apply; as how we see things says more about us than about the things themselves. Being a member of her city’s disability council is one of the means she chooses to empower and support people. Her heart beats for minimalist art, coffee, cuddles & pancakes.

CHIDAMBAR NAVALGUND

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Graphic Design & Digital Distribution


​Chidambar Navalgund (he/him), from Belagavi, India, is a graduate in Criminology.  He currently works as a Social Media Manager for multiple chess organisations. His interests include visual and found poetry, especially collage along with photography.

​Chidambar’s work has appeared in Human/Kind Journal, Unlost Journal, Failed Haiku and Sonic Boom. He aspires to be a civil servant. Graphic Design and nonfiction literature fascinate him.

Instagram: @chidambar_n. 
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VANDANA PARASHAR

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Feature Columnist: Contributor Profiles


​Vandana Parashar (she/her) is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator, and a haiku poet. 

Her haiku, senryu, and tanka have been published in many national and international journals of repute and have won her many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award in 2021. She is the Associate Editor of haikuKATHA and is also on the editing team of Poetry Pea.

Her debut e-chapbook I Am was published by Title IX Press in 2019. Her second chapbook Alone, I Am Not was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in April 2022.

RICH SCHILLING

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Proofreader


Rich Schilling (he/him) is an award-winning poet, husband, dad, musician, and runner living in Webster Groves, MO. He has been published in numerous haiku journals and a few anthologies including: wind flowers: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2019, Haiku 2021, and Haiku 2022. Proofreading has been his day job for over twenty years. 

Instagram: @rjssix.

RAGHAV PRASHANT SUNDAR

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Operations Manager


Raghav (he/him) is from Chennai, India and is a longtime student of Shloka Shankar (Editor of Sonic Boom, Co-founder of Yavanika Press). He loves to read and write haiku, senryu, and other Japanese short forms. His work has appeared thus far in whiptail and Failed Haiku. He also enjoys prose (science-fiction & fantasy) and is currently working on his first novel - an all-ages fantasy adventure with kids, ghosts, magical artifacts, and other assorted weirdness.

​Alumni Guest Editors

  • Pippa Phillips - Issue 3
  • Jonathan Roman - Issue 3, Issue 5

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  • Home
  • Info
    • About
    • Submissions
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  • Lizard Lounge
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  • Comments for Contributors
  • Read the Journal
    • Issue 4: Humbled Vessel (AUG 2022) >
      • Issue 4 Cover Artist - Melanie April >
        • Issue 4 - with birdsong between
        • Issue 4 - words into flowers
        • Issue 4 - the other side of &
        • Issue 4 - reality enters from the back
        • Issue 4 - to insert what's missing
        • Issue 4 - bridge to the infinite
        • Issue 4 - emerging light
    • Issue 3: Into Oneness (May 2022) >
      • Issue 3 Cover Artist - Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
      • Issue 3 - yet purple dahlias
      • Issue 3 - light's thesaurus
      • Issue 3 - slippingthrough
      • Issue 3 - inside the wind
      • Issue 3 - funeral sky
      • Issue 3 - small wins
      • Issue 3 - Jonathan's Picks
      • Issue 3 - Pippa's Picks
    • Issue 2: Summoning the Sky (Feb 2022) >
      • Issue 2 Cover Artist - our thomas
    • Issue 1: Kinetic (Nov 2021) >
      • Issue 1 Cover Artist - Subhashini Chandramani
      • Issue 1 Spring
      • Issue 1 Summer
      • Issue 1 Autumn
      • Issue 1 Winter
      • Issue 1 Transitions
      • Issue 1 Sequences
      • Issue 1 Letter from the Editors