Danielle Woerner

From the chapbook I Never Promised You a Cherry Orchard:

Haiku:

This jazz trumpet wind
is wailing hard enough to
blow stars from the sky


Senryu:

The flat Prosecco
you left behind in your glass
still tastes of flowers


Tanka:

From our tight cocoon
we wriggle like butterflies
with wet crumpled wings:
cautious, changed, daring to sail
transformation’s heady winds


About the Author

Danielle Woerner’s first published collection, I Never Promised You a Cherry Orchard: Japanese Short-Form Poetry, Served with a Twist (Sunrise Song Press), came out in July 2021: a chapbook illustrated throughout with her own photographs, and tracing a life-journey from NYC to the Hudson Valley to the Bold Coast of Maine, where she now resides. Her haiku and senryu have been published in the arts and culture magazine Chronogram, and the Three Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers (Resolute Bear Press, 2017); she is a regular contributor to Eastern Structures, and her haiku will be included in a forthcoming sakura (cherry-blossom) anthology now in preparation by the Canadian Consul-General of Japan. Danielle’s features and op-ed pieces have appeared in Classical Singer, New Music Connoisseur, Hudson Valley Magazine and Newsweek, and she was a regular writer for the Woodstock Times. Her reporting for weekly newspapers in Maine was recognized in 2018 by the National Federation of Press Women. An acclaimed singer and recording artist as well as a BMI-affiliated songwriter, Danielle joined the Hudson Valley Haiku-kai in 2013, and the Woodstock Poetry Society in 2021.


Available from the author:
daniellewoerner.com/contact.php

her Etsy shop:
www.etsy.com/shop/SunriseSongStudio

or via Amazon:
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