Peter Newton and Kathe L. Palka
(tan renga)
family portrait
some look into the lens
some out of the picture
smiling for the camera
the sister I never knew
Bio
Peter Newton is an editor of the online journal tinywords.
He is the author of two books, What We Find (imaginary press, 2011) and Welcome to the
Joy Ride (imaginary press, 2013). His poems appear in the recently published Haiku in English;
The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013). See more of his work on
https://twitter.com/ThePeterNewton.
Kathe L. Palka lives and writes in west central New Jersey.
She won an eChapbook Award from Snapshot Press in 2011 for her short tanka collection,
As the Years Pass. Her latest book in free verse is
Miracle of the Wine: New and Selected Poems (Grayson Books, 2012).
Work of hers has been recently featured on Garrison Keillor's public
radio program The Writer's Almanac. Together with Peter Newton she
co-edits the online haiku and micropoetry journal
http://tinywords.com/.