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Issue 34: Sept. 2026
Hybrid: Shahai
Photograph + Haiku or Senryu
By Terri L. French

Five Shahai

 

(Line 1: bad hair day): Shahai © by Terri L. French
Copyrighted © by Terri L. French. All rights reserved.

 

 

(Line 1: moonrise): Shahai © by Terri L. French
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(Line 1: shinrin-yoku): Shahai © by Terri L. French
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(Line 1: Spring wedding): Shahai © by Terri L. French
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(Line 1: Sunday best): Shahai © by Terri L. French
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Terri L. French
Issue 34 (September 2026)

formerly served on the Board of Directors of The Haiku Foundation. She is past Southeast Regional Coordinator for The Haiku Society of America and former editor of Prune Juice Journal of senryu and kyoka. Terri served on the editorial teams of Haibun Today and contemporary haibun online (aka cho).

She and her husband, Ray, and dog, Chaka, spent four years as full-time RVers and now make their home on a mountain in Huntsville, Alabama. Pulling Sunset is Terri’s travelogue of poetry and photography inspired by those adventures on the road. Her latest book, Kaleidoscope Dream, was published in 2025 by Red Moon Press.

Author’s website: https://www.terrilfrenchhaiku.com/

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

Dimitroula Mou, cheribun story by Terri L. French in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 33, August 2026); tied for Third Place Winner in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #4

Solfeggio, cheribun story by Terri L. French in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 25, September 2024); longlisted Finalist in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #2

Winging It, duostitch sequence (a rare form) by French in Issue 24 of MacQ (August 2024)

Vespertine Sun, haibun by Terri L. French in The Wise Owl Daily Verse (Week 1, September 2025)

Precipice, haibun by French in cho (Issue 18.3, December 2022)

Tongue-tied, haibun in cho (Issue 17.3, December 2021)

Tzur Hei HaOlamim, haibun story in Issue 5 of MacQ (October 2020)

 
 
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