Kat Lehmann is winner of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize and previously appeared on Rattlecast 8 in 2020. She is a founding editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. Her haiku have won The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poem and are featured in A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2023). Kat holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Utah. She lives in Connecticut at the edge of an old forest where she loves to think about the way each piece holds the whole. Find more at katlehmann.weebly.com.

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem set in a garden you’ve only been to once before and include a metaphor.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a different kind of haibun than you ever have before that features a big leap.

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