In January, Tim and I were thrilled to see we are both on the same page–with haiku accepted for the 2025 celebration sponsored by the Minnesota Sierra Club! A riff on traditional haiku structure, these haiku offer three-line poems with syllable counts of 8-5-4 in order to reflect the 854 cities in our state whose people care about the environment. Alerted to this challenge by D. E. Green and Becky Boling, we were really pleased to see many familiar names under selected haiku, and that our own Winona Street was represented five times: not only Doug and Becky, but also by Susan Jaret McKinstry, Tim, and me.

The North Star Chapter (Minnesota) of the Sierra Club represents 50,000 Minnesotans joined to protect our precious natural resources while enjoying the four distinctive biomes of our state (aspen parklands, deciduous forests, coniferous forests, and prairie grasslands).

Like all issues of the magazine, the North Star Journal contains great articles on what is going on in the state in terms of energy use and resource conservation. It is also responsibly printed and filled with artistic layouts. With a circulation far larger than most forums for poetry, it is also a vehicle for the literary arts that reachs 50,000 people.

Thank you, Sierra Club–North Star Chapter!