Marita Gargiulo
Marita discovered haiku at MIT while editor of a poetry magazine. She has organized poetry contests, haiku nights, and collaborations with an orchestra. Marita has made video haiga and was a Haiku Foundation guest editor. In 2019 she received the Senryu Prize in the Kaji Aso Studio International Haiku Contest.
Times Square chestnut vendor
dad’s accent
returns with the change
Senryu Prize 2019, Kaji Aso Studio’s International Haiku Contest
in broken English
my uncle’s
card tricks
Modern Haiku, 48.1, Winter – Spring, 2017
light snow a thin excuse
Frogpond, 40.3, 2017
a heated argument
the length of the quiet car –
in sign language
Cattails, October, 2018
the emptiness
of all inboxes –
insomnia
at the water’s edge, Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2019
hometown dime store …
counting out small
memories
bottle rockets, 38, 2018
dysgraphia
still my friend and I
compare notes
Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2018
padlocked to the gate
in a bad neighborhood
Santa’s reindeer
Frogpond, 41.3, 2018
a splash of poppies
in my knitting –
late snow
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer, 2018
playing “air piano”
still that cursed
wrong note
Presence, 61, July 2018
paying the fine
though my car wasn’t abandoned –
frozen sleet
Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2018