This week on The Poetry Peacast, we drift into a river-inspired collection of haiku and senryu from our March video prompt. While Patricia is (technically) in Zürich, today’s episode is carried by the warm currents of South Africa, where the original footage was filmed during a memorable family trip.

The poems featured here have been carefully edited and curated by Johnny Moran—thank you, Johnny—and capture a range of voices responding to water, movement, and the quiet details that make haiku and senryu so powerful.

Congratulations to the poets whose work is included in this episode. Their poems will also appear in the upcoming issue of the 1:26 poetry journal.

In this episode:

• A showcase of original haiku and senryu
• Poetry inspired by rivers, travel, and observation
• Reflections on the March Poetry Pea video prompt
• Community voices from poets around the world

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Featured Poets

March Video Prompt

Herb Tate

Neena Singh

David Cox

Jennifer L. Blanck

Mona Bedi

Jacob Blumner

Lakshmi Iyer India

Melissa Dennison

Ralph Matthews

Joshua gage

Christopher Seep

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy

Alicia Samson

Rohan Buettel

Tony Williams

Bonus poetry

Robert Kingston, PPJ Autumn 2021

Mark Gilbert, PPJ Autumn 2021

Anne Morrigan, PPJ 2:23

MartinLucas from Freewheeling

Brett Brady, PPJ 2021

John Hawkhead, PPJ Autumn 2020

Edward Cody Huddleston, Autumn 2020