Writing - KERRY J HECKMAN, LICSW

Haiku & Related Forms

List of Published Haiku, Senryu, & Short Poems
(as seen in):

Rainign Rengay, Issue 5, April 2025: Another Turn with Ben Oliver & Richard Tice
Raining Rengay, Issue 4, October 2024: Reverberations with Lisa Sparaco

Poetry

Talking River Review, Issue #59: some reminders for the journey & to defend you in the battle against yourself
Canid Literary & Arts Journal, Vol. 1, 2025: my soulmate is an old dog
Thimble Literary Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer2025: do your ancestors know you are the one they are waiting for?
Multiplicity Magazine, Issue 6: Refuge, Spring/Summer 2025: Three Poems of the Natural World

Creative Nonfiction & Essays

Sonderers Magazine, Spring 2017: Changing Course in the Arizona Desert

Fiction

OneFortyFiction: Almost Home
Six Sentences: Fresh Start

Anthologies & Collections

turf cottage: Haiku and Senryū from the pages of tsuri-dōrō, tsuri-dōrō Press, edited by Tony Pupello
Ocean Poetry Anthology: Volume II, Kelp Books, edited by A.M. Larks
Bird Whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of Bird Haiku, Senryu, & Short Poems, bottle rockets press, edited by Stanford M. Forrester/sekiro & Johnette Downing
The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader's Response Approach by Randy Brooks
Millikin University Haiku Anthology, Bronze Man Books, edited by Randy Brooks, Emily Evans, Rick Bearce, and Melanie McLay

Book Review & Articles

North American Review: A Review of This One We Call Ours by Martha Silano
Soundings, Fall/Winter 2025: Greeting, A Peek Behind the Editor's Curtain with RWW Faculty, Summer Residency Redux
Soundings, Spring 2025: Writing the Pilgrimage: A Conversation with Marty Salgado and Dabu
Soundings, Fall/Winter 2024: From Blank Page to Publication: Celebrating New Faculty Publications

Editing

Soundings: Editor, 2025-2026
Soundings: Assistant Editor, 2024-2025
Soundings: Contributing Writer, 2024-2025

Recognitions