Your comments are always very welcome. I hope you enjoy the poetry. Thank you for visiting this site. If you would like me to read  poetry to your women's/writing group, please do let me know. Every writer needs an inspirational break.
    


you can hear other samples of my women's poetry at
<http://www.realmoftheshadow.com/bataylor.htm>

recent publications:
1. a 15 line acrostic sonnet, Seeing Red, published at <http://redmorningpress.com/news> in January 2006
2. a haiku sequence, Thermal Energies, at <http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/211solo.html>
3. a poem, The Twelfth House, on line at The Salt River Review, Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 2005 - 2006 <http://www.poetserv.org/SRR24/taylor.html>
4. three triptychsenryu at <http://triptychhaiku.blogspot.com/2006/01/19_29.html> a new journal of experimental poetry
5. Fast fiction  at Doorknobs and BodyPaint On Becoming A Woman
http://iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html March 2006
6. 2 poems at <http://www.cezannescarrot.org>
 A Poisonous Poem and Contemplations <http://www.cezannescarrot.org/vol1iss2/index.html>
7.At Folly http://www.the-buckeye.org/folly/2006_04/senryu.html women on top...
8. Tanka in Ribbons, Tanka Society of America Journal, Spring 2006
9. Two poems, "So Long Old Mate" and "Moving On" in the new issue of Sinister Wisdom #68/69 on the theme of Death, Grief, and Surviving, available at http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/journal.html#current
10. Radio interview with Merry Gangemi Woman-Stirred Radio <http://www.wgdr.org>July  20, 2006
11. a poem with audio, The Ballad Of The Lonely City Drover, in the current issue of Contemporary Rhyme, Vol.3, No 3, Summer 2006, at http://www.yellowbat.com/contemporary_rhyme.html
12. First prize in the Contest, A Picture Worth 500 Words, with her poem "On Stage"
in the current Tattoo Highway #13 http://www.tattoohighway.org/13/13contest.html
13. haiku at Stylus Poetry Journal, October 2006 <http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=698>
14. A poem for today October 16 2006 at http://www.newversenews.com/
15. a tanka in Wisteria, A Journal of Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Issue 3, October 2006
16. a poem Vibes, Earthbeats, Tribes in Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, Vol 7, #2, October 2006
17a  poem, Perspectives at http://www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefifth/Fall2006/poems1F06.html
18.a poem, Stalking Faeries in An Anthology of Nimbin Poets, Midlight At The Oasis, 2007
19. two haiku in Stylus Poetry Journal, January 2007 at http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=719
20. four poems at Lynx, Winter Meets Spring http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/221solo.html and collaborative poems post gondwana: a chain reaction by Moira Richards & Barbara A Taylor, Facing The Truth by Barbara A Taylor & Moira Richards, Food For Thought by Barbara A Taylor, Shayla Mollohan & Moira Richards at http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/221sym.html Feburary 2007
21. haiga at http://www.worldhaiku.net/haiga_contest/41st/barbara_taylor.html Madame et Monsieur, January 2007
22. haibun Five Acres Keeps Me Happy at <http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages31/Barbara_Taylor.html> March2007
23. a poem At Year's End in That Festive Feeling Anthology, Forward Press, UK, April 2007
24. a cinquain, Waking Up in SP Quill, Spring Issue, April 2007  
25. a tanka  Fraud Squad at <http://newversenews.com/>April 26 2007
26. tanka at Chrysanthemum <http://members.aon.at/bregen/> April 2007
27. haibun Snowwalking at Simply Haiku,  Summer 2007 http://www.simplyhaiku.com/
28. a tanka,'walking hand-in-hand home' , and Not Only For Oranges, an alphenga, with Moira Richards, South Africa, and Shayla Mollohan, USA. in Kokako #6, May 2007, a New Zealand print magazine of haiku, haibun, tanka and related genres
29. two haiku, her lover's return, and, on guard, in Haiku Scotland Journal, Issue #13, June 2007
30. a haiku, and a haibun, The Day That Elvis Died, in The Shamrock Journal #2, on line at http://www.freewebs.com/shamrockhaiku/currentissue.htm
31. a haiku in International Haiku Anthology, Crickets and Chrysanthemums, published by la revue haiku in Romania, June 2007
32. two poems, Optimism and She's Gone, I'm Strong, published in Queer Collection: Prose and Poetry 2007,  Fabulist Flash             Publishing, NV, USA, June 2007 <http://www.QueerCollection.com>
33. a rengay, Silvery Streaks, collaborative piece with Moira Richards (SA), in Poemeleon, the form issue, June 2007 at http://www.poemeleon.org
34. a haiku at Kaleidowhirl, Summer 2007 at  http://home.alltel.net/ellablue/
35. a collaborative renga, cat seasons,with Moira Richards (SA) and Shayla Mollohan (USA) in  ken*again, Fall 2007 at <http://kenagain.freeservers.com>
36. a poem, After Heavy Wetting, finalist in the Fourth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition sponsored by The Binnacle,
Ultra-Short Volume, Fall,2007 http://www.umm.maine.edu/binnacle/index.asp
37. three hay(na)ku news poems published on 3By3By3, August 7 2007 http://3by3by3.blogspot.com/
38. a poem, Colored Highlights at http://www.alittlepoetry.com/versesf1.html Summer/Fall 2007
39. a haiku, rural tsunami at Haiku Reality http://www.geocities.com/ana_vazic/haikuodab1.htm Summer 2007
40.two poems A Rainy Day In Winter and à la cuisine avec the rough and the smooth  at http://www.dusie.org/taylor.html Dusie #6, 2007
41. haiga, green frogs, at Sketchbook Journal, September 2007 at <http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook2-3mar07/haiga_Mar07SKB_Barbara_Taylor_greenfrog.htm>
42. tanka, water phobia, in Eucalypt#3, A Tanka Journal (Australia) November 2007
43. five tanka in Landfall Anthology, Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, edited by Denis M. Garrison and Michael McClintock,  Modern English Tanka Press, Summer 2007 for hundreds of miles/braking/bull-dust balloons, my homeward route/koala available  at http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka
44. two tanka  by his side and how many moons in Kokako #7, New Zealand Magazine of haiku, tanka, haibun and related genres Fall 2007
45. a triparshva renku, A Python Coiled, by Barbara A Taylor (Aus) and Moira Richards (SA) at Moonset, The Newspaper, December 2007
46. haiku, dinky-di summer in Moonset, The Newspaper, November 2007
47. a tanka, under the cool shade, in Moonset Newspaper, December 2007
48. two rengay with Moira Richards (South Africa), Surfing Our  Century and Three-Sided Affairs. A haibun, Kitchen Castles, and a senryu sequence, Talking Destiny: The Truth Of It All at http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook2-5Nov07/0_Contents_2-5_November_2007_SKB.htm
49. haiku,  moonlight in FreeXpression, December 2007
50. short poem The Teddy Bears' Picnic at http://newversenews.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, 5 December 2007
51. a yenga, "Waiting For The Tooth Fairies" by Barbara A Taylor and Moira Richards, two tanka, without hearing and at self reflections, and a haibun, "Here and There" in February issue of LYNX 2008.http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/231asym.html
and http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/231asolo.html
52. poem "A Sonnet For My Botox Baby" in Letters To The World:Poems From The Wompo  Listserv edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace and Lesley Wheeler, Red Hen Press, February 2008 http://www.redhen.org/bhttp://www.redhen.orgookDetail.asp?bookID=237
53. three tanka sequences, Geriatric Tanka, Manhattans on the Mountain Top, Fighting Cloud Women, and an individual tanka in Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, MET Press, Baltimore, Spring 2008
<www.modernenglishtankapress.com>
54.three haiku in Haiku Calendar Ludbreg 2008,(now in a book form) Croatia
55.a tanka, On Top Of The World, poem of the day at The New Verse News <http://www.newversenews.comsenews.com> March 21 2008
56. ten tanka published on Modern English Tanka #7 Spring 2008 <http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/dhttp://www.modernenglishtanka.com/digital/2008a/igital/2008a/>
57. two haiku and two tanka in "Promenade" at http://www.threelightsgallery.com/promenade.html April 2008
58.two poems, You: A Big Word in Poetry and Playing Duets in The Loch Raven Review, Spring 2008 at <http://www.lochravenreview.net/2008Spring/>
59.  a poem, The Olympic Spirit, poem of the day at <http://www.newversenews.com> April 9 2008
60. free verse, Betrayed Children Evacuated, poem of the day, Wednesday 16 April 2008, at < http://3by3by3.blogspot.com/>
61.a poem, How Sacred Is Sacred?, poem of the day 18 April 2008 at <http://www.newversenews.com>
62. a tanka, they've all gone to the ball... in Eucalypt#4, May 2008 <www.eucalypt.info>
63. a poem, There Is Nothing Lovelier, the Queer Collection: Prose and Poetry 2008, an international collection of gay, lebian,bisexual and transgender and queer authors, Fabulist Flash Publishing, Nevada, June 2008 http://www.queercollection.com/
64.a rengay, Can't Stop The Rain, poem of the day, June 9 2008, at http://newversenews.blogspot.com/
65. a poem, Sensoria, Sensoria, Sensoria, in Umbrella, June 2008, special feature "hot" poems <http://www.umbrellajournal.com/>
66.a haiku, washing dirty dishes, in Haiku Reality, June 2008, http://www.geocities.com/ana_vazic/haikuodab1.htm
67. a haiku, olympic athletes, on newversenews, 24 July 2008 http://www.newversenews.com/
68. a tanka, only twelve steps, in Haiku Presence Magazine #36, UK, forthcomingAutumn, 2008 http://haiku-presence.mysite.orange.co.uk/site_news.html
69. a haibun, New Horizons, forthcomingd in Frogpond, the official journal of the Haiku Society of America, Fall 2008. http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond.htm

































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