Best of the Haiku Challenge (November 2025)
Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge
Poetry
‘January 1st’
In a poem from his posthumous collection, the late Larry Ward reminds us to let go of our sadnesses as the trees shed their leaves.
Her Gaze
Poet Li-Young Lee on his mother, the first mystery
‘Toward Temple Risshaku’
Two poems from Japan’s “far north poet” on pilgrimage, return, and the “afterdeath”
After Death Haikus
Following multiple near-death experiences, a poet turns to death haikus to relearn how to live.
Best of the Haiku Challenge (October 2025)
Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
The Serene Mirror
A poem by Nguyen Thieu
CultureMagazine | On Haiku, Openings
To Go, to Move, to Lie Down
The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge uses the season word “blanket” as a powerful symbol of dislocation.
Writing in Exile
An excerpt of a conversation between Bhuchung D. Sonam and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
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