Published Works
by Shelly Reed Thieman
POEMS
Two haiku, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 7:2
premature spring
a pink-lipped tulip
retracts
just out of reach
summer’s first mulberries
flicker in moonlight
One haiku, Under the Bashō 2024
One haiku, The Solitary Daisy, Issue 28
above the rowboat
a wisp of snipe startles
an army of frogs
3rd place haiku, The First Annual Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest
chest deep
in recollection
wildflowers
One haiku, Modern Haiku 55:3 (forthcoming)
“Notice Me” and “Tiris”, Young Ravens Literary Review, Issue 20 (forthcoming)
One haiku, The ONE ART 2024 Haiku Anthology
first spring blossoms
she plucks the white one
chin whisker
Ancestral Stew” and “Fortune Cookies”, The MacGuffin, Issue 40.1 (forthcoming)
“Reclamation” (page 91) and “Slideshow of a Mother Drowned” (page 124), Last Leaves Magazine, Issue 8
“The Numerology of Gardening”, The Cities of the Plains: Contemporary Iowa Artists and Poets, an Anthology
2023
“Pledging”, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Winter 2023
“The Truth About the 1968 Block Party”, “In Place of Pomp” and “Parade Wave”, Adanna Literary Journal, Issue 13 (pages 135-138)
“Wardrobe”, The Haibun Journal, 5:1
One haiku, 1st Honorable Mention, Lyrical Iowa 2023
flower moon burgeons
barred owls switch balsam branches
meteor shower
One haiku (page 25), Humana Obscura, Spring/Summer 2023, Issue 6