Confluence Fellow 2025-26
I'm thrilled to finally share that Confluence has officially listed me as one of eight chosen poets for their 2025-26 Fellowship!
I was so touched by the editor, David Green's, email explaining that their choice was based on my relevant essay and strong body of work. I look forward to joining my fellow poets in working to preserve and expand on Japanese short form poetry through several collaborative projects in the year to come.
What is Confluence?
Confluence is a Japanese short-form journal centered on innovation and community. Their mission is to make a significant and lasting contribution to haiku, tanka, and related literary forms by:
- Publishing outstanding work that stretches the possibilities of the forms,
- Providing a venue for emerging poets to showcase a representative sample of their work and receive readership and recognition,
- Creating a vital, global community of poet Fellows, who collaborate together and engage deeply with one another’s work, and
- Introducing Japanese short-form poetry as a vibrant literary form to new readers and writers, outside the current niche of haiku and tanka poets.