Celebrating the TOP 5 Prune Juice Contributors of ALL TIME (2009-2019)

Which TOP 5 Contributors have appeared in the most issues of Prune Juice since 2009? Enjoy a sampling of their senryu over the years . . .

#Chen-ou Liu 

      26 issues since PJ #03 2010

#2  Bob Lucky 

      22 issues since PJ #01 2009

#3. Helen Buckingham

       21 issues since PJ #01 2009

#4.  Julie Warther

       20 issues since PJ #11 2013

#5.  Sondra J. Byrnes

      19 issues since PJ #07 2012


Enjoy all of these authors PLUS 80 more TOP Contributors in our FREE PRUNE JUICE BOOK of SENRYU: Celebrating 10 Years ebook!


TIP: While scrolling through the tagged archives on mobile devices, click “Older Posts” to see more of each poet’s contributions through the years.


2019 4th Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest Winners

First Place:

ultrasound gel
as she circles the probe
I read her face

— Madhuri Pillai


Second Place:

strip-o-gram
everyone’s standards
go lower

— Elizabeth Crocket


Third Place:

shriveled flesh
the impermanence
of bath bubbles

— Kelly Sauvage Angel


Read all 2019 honorable mentions and judges’ comments (PDF)

2018 3rd Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest Winners

First Place:

prayer book
all the funeral cards
but hers

— Gregory Longenecker


Second Place:

new tabla
the smells of India
in one strike

— Nicholas Klacsanzky


Third Place:

moving out —
the perfection
of pomegranate halves

— Kerstin Park


Read all 2018 honorable mentions and judges’ comments (PDF)