Works on the Web
A Selection of James Penha's Recent Online Publications
Poetry​​
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[Yo-Yo Ma playing haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 24 January 2026.
[midnight in Bali haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 1 January 2026.
"Bardot and Me." ONE ART: a journal of poetry 30 December 2025.
[old Christmas stocking haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 24 December 2025.
[a pillow of suspicion haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 5 December 2025.
[red rice monoku.] Shadow Pond Journal 3 December 2025.
"Haiku for Tory Medley." The New Verse News 2 December 2025.
[I saw him jogging haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 2 October 2025.
[dressed for Halloween haiku.] HaikUniverse 31 October 2025.
"Certainties" and "See Saw." Stone of Madness 31 (2025).
"Nobody... But Odysseus." The Sciku Project 25 September, 2025.
[elderly poodle— hard of sniffing senryu.] The Solitary Daisy 59 (2025).
[self-proclaimed monarchs politiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 07 September 2025
[herons fly after haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 30 August 2025.
[she-wasp pierces fig haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 27 August 2025.
"Familial." MacQueen's Quinterly 29 (2025).
[their lies haiku.] Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians Summer 2025: 59.
"Straggler." Silver Birch Press (Bugs and Insects Series) 11 August 2025.
[visiting the States? haiku.] Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal August 2025.
"Ephrastiku." 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 16 July 2025.
"Vitreous Humour." 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 23 July 2025.
[my aged poodle haiku.] Leaf 7 (2025): 15.
“Ode to a Barefaced Longfellow: A Cento In His Words.” The Ekphrastic Review 25 June 2025.
"Like My Dog," "Game Room," "Lucille's Lament." Offcourse Literary Journal 101 (2025).
"A Pox on Dementia." The Sciku Project 12 June 2025.
[at twenty teaching haiku.] The Dewdrop 28 May 2025.
[he found me roaming haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 21 May 2025
[approaching the bridge haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 16 May 2025.
[like Ibsen's Nora haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 5 May 2025.
[in Washington do haiku.] Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal May 2025.
[midst NY parkways haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 26 April 2025.
[caramelize beef haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 17 April 2025.
"A Hard Life." Stone of Madness 29 (2025).
"Ngaben: at Pangkung Tiba Beach, Bali." Dog Throat Journal 6 (2025).
[dulled footstep stickers haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 6 March 2025.
"Matriarch." The Sciku Project 6 March 2025.
"Lost Sock," "Pen Holder," "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Too." Poetry Super Highway 24 February - 2 March 2025.
"Old Friends." Silver Birch Press 19 February 2025.
"Executive Order." The Skinny Poetry Journal February 2025.
"Monitoring." 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 1 February 2025.
"Tanka." Stone of Madness Press 28 (2025).
"Becoming Out." 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 15 January 2025.
"Giving Pieces a Chance." Rpt. Fevers of the Mind 24 December 2024.
"Sonnet on Edge." A Plate of Pandemic Winter 2024.
"The Capriciousness of Crackers." Poem Alone 30 November 2024.
"Down Dog." The Sciku Project 22 November 2024.
"No Easy Fix." The Piker Press 4 November 2024.
"The Fix." The Piker Press 7 September 2024.
[Meninggal Haibun]. 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 22 October 2024.
[surf batters the beach haiku.] 5-7-5 Haiku Journal 5 October 2024.
"The Passion of Dionysus." Click on "Healing" at Brown Bag Online 8 (2024).
"Political, But Not a Screed." MacQueen's Quinterly September 2024.
"La Cage." Rpt. Silver Birch Press All About My Mother Series 21 September 2024
"A Prose Poem About Dark." "Spinning," "Once Popular," "Cursively," "Missing Crichton." The Mackinaw: a Journal of Prose Poetry 5 (2024).
"This Is Not Erasure Poetry!" Oddball Magazine 7 August 2024.
"Immortelle." Ekphrastic Review 1 August 2024. Scroll alpha list of contest finalists.
“A Memoir in Bookmarks.” t-ART Online Summer Edition 2024.
[the curtain parts haiga.] Black & White Haiga/Haisha 2 April 2024.
“Quicksilver.” A Plate of Pandemic Spring 2024.
“Stitches in Time.” The Westchester Review Spring 2024.
[Two Politiku.] Setu Magazine February 2024.
[beneath solemn boughs haiku.] Pure Haiku 25 February 2024
[branches prolongate haiku.] Pure Haiku 21 February 2024.
“Secrets in My Indonesian Garden.” Secrets in My Garden: A Fifth Wheel Anthology 19 January 2024.
“From Empathy to Tonglen.” MacQueen’s Quinterly 21 (2024).
“Justin Peck.” MacQueen’s Quinterly 21 (2024).
[The UnBorneo.] Cold Moon Journal 1 January 2024.
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Fiction
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"He Knew No Fear." WilyWinchesters 16 September 2025.
“The River Where There Are Forks.” Open Door Magazine 27 (2023): 139-141.
“In Equilibrium.” Lothlorien Poetry Journal Blog 29 August 2023.
“Tattoos Tell the Tale.” The Creative Zine 6 (2023): 7.
“The Sensitive Sons.” Orion’s Beau Summer 2023.
“Star Turn.” The Blue Mountain Review September 2022: 263.
"Dust and Stone." Carmina Magazine September 2022.
"The Poet, His Husband, and The Fox" Part I & Part II. Soft Star Magazine 8 & 10 September 2022.
"Kuntilanak." Indecent Magazine 1 (2022).
"Will Be Boys." Unlikely Stories Mark V 28 July 2022.
"Jessica." Rhodora Magazine 5 (2022). Scroll down pdf to page 87.
"Tinta Putih." Brown Bag Online 4 (2021).
"His Last Post-Game." Burningword 100 (2021).
"The Snake Boy." Carmina Magazine September 2021.
"The Great Encyclopedia." Book of Matches 1 (2021).
"Junk." Levitate 4 (2020): 73-80.
"Filling Station." Rpt. Bewildering Stories 884 (2020).
"Chutes and Ladders." Sad Girls Club 30 August 2020.
"All Fall Down." Rpt. Down in the Dirt 172 (2020).
"Charming." Rpt. Bewildering Stories 858 (2020).
"Unlocking Purple." Unlikely Stories Mark V 18 May 2020.
“Candlenut Farm.” Rpt. Bewildering Stories 848 (2020).
“Leaves of Peace.” Rpt. Bewildering Stories 839 (2020).
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Non-Fiction
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"Rights of Passage." Kreatif Magazine Winter 2026.
“Our Hands.” Poetry Super Highway 18 April 2024.
“It’s Now Or Never.” Emerge Literary Journal 29 (2024).
“Good Things.” Magazine1 1 (2024).
“Earning Points.” The New York Times Metropolitan Diary 19 November 2023.
"Better Off." The Good Life Review 1 (2020).
"Smith's Last Season." New Pages Blog 24 September 2020.
“First to Last.” Amsterdam Quarterly 27 (2020).