ELLARAINE LOCKIE

SPRING/SUMMER 2021 ISSUE #02 POET

Ellaraine Lockie’s recent poems have won the 2019 Poetry Super Highway Contest, the Nebraska Writers Guild’s Women of the Fur Trade Poetry Contest, and New Millennium’s Monthly Musepaper Poetry Contest. Her fourteenth chapbook, Sex and Other Slapsticks, from Presa Press is her latest chapbook release. Earlier collections have won Poetry Forum’s Chapbook Contest Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Chapbook Competition, Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest, Best Individual Poetry Collection Award from Purple Patch Magazine in England, and The Aurorean’s Chapbook Choice Award. Lockie also teaches writing workshops and serves as poetry editor for the lifestyles magazine LILIPOH.

HAIKU

In their crown of bloom

cut flowers on the altar

My brother in an urn