Joshua Eric Williams is author of two full-length collections of haiku from Red Moon Press: The Strangest Conversation, which received an honorable mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2020 Merit Book Awards, and Silent After, which was just released. His haiku, "silent after," from Rattle' Poets Respond series, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won a 2022 Touchstone Award from the Haiku Foundation of America.

Find more information on Eric, visit his website:

https://thesmallestwords.com/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a song of someone or something, as a persona poem 32 lines long.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a haiku sequence that talks about love without mentioning it by name.

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