Barrie Levine, USA

Introducing  : After her retirement from law practice, in Massachusetts, Barrie Levine discovered her creative side in her 70s and began to write haiku. For the past three years, her poems have been published in numerous online and print journals including The Herons Nest, Frogpond, Wales Haiku Journal, Akitsu Quarterly, Cold Moon Journal, Prune Juice, and bottle rockets. She was short-listed for a Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2022 and thirty of her haiku have recently been featured and archived at Cornell Mann Library. Aside from attending haiku workshops and conferences, Barrie teaches a memoir-writing course at her local senior center and serves as a volunteer mentor though the Haiku Society of America. She published a collection of haiku and senryu in 2022 entitled Cotton Moon (Transformations Press).


dynamite scars the skin of a mountain face


December 8th 2023 


baby’s bath . . .
the sing-song sounds
of a new mom


May 22nd 2024 


meadow ramble . . .
brushing our palms
through goldenrod


December 1st 2024


emotional support
the song I hear
in his bark        


May 16th 2025 


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