Don Wentworth of the Lilliput Review and the weblog Issa’s Untidy Hut, has announced today (October 16, 2008) that our lawyer-poet friend Roberta Beary is the winner of the 1st Annual Basho Haiku Challenge, with this poem: on the church steps a mourning dove with mother’s eyes ….. by Roberta Beary (1st Place, Basho Haiku … Continue reading Beary wins the Basho Haiku Challenge, challenges some haijin flaws