Dust of Horses

by Chad Lee Robinson


High/Coo Chapbook Award 2026

ISBN 978-1-929820-41-2 • perfectbound
July 2026, 56 pages (4" X 5.75") • $15.00 US

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About the Author

Chad Lee Robinson wrote his first haiku for a creative writing class while earning his B.A. in English from South Dakota State University. In the twenty-plus years since, he has maintained a steady stream of haiku and related poems.

His haiku have been anthologized widely, including in: Baseball Haiku (W.W. Norton, 2007), Montage (The Haiku Foundation, 2010), Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press, 2011), Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013), as well as in twenty-two editions of the Red Moon Anthology. He served a three-year term as a panelist for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Distinguished Books Award and served as a regional coordinator for the Haiku Society of America.

His work has been honored with several awards over the years, including two Pushcart Prize nominations and four Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems from The Haiku Foundation. His four previous collections of haiku were all contest winners: Pop Bottles (True Vine Press, 2009), Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012), The Deep End of the Sky (Turtle Light Press, 2015), which also received second place in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards, and The White Buffalo (Backbone Press, 2023), which made the shortlist for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. In addition to his collections, Chad edited Gone Fishing, a daily haiku feature that appeared on The Haiku Foundation’s website in September 2014.

He lives in central South Dakota with his wife and son.

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small town diner —
in three crayons or less
the prairie landscape

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corral dust —
trying to break
this self-doubt

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company of horses
my opinions all
well-received

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Acknowledgments

My thanks to the editors and publishers of the following journals and publications where these poems previously appeared:

Acorn, Akitsu Quarterly, Bird Whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of Bird Haiku, Senryu, & Short Poems (bottle rockets press, 2023), bottle rockets, Frogpond, Haiku in the Workplace (The Haiku Foundation), Haiku 2024 (Modern Haiku Press, 2024), hedgerow, The Heron’s Nest, A Hundred Gourds, Kingfisher, Last Train Home: an anthology of contemporary haiku, tanka, and rengay (Pondhawk Press, 2021), Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Skipping Stones: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2022 (Red Moon Press, 2023), South Dakota in Poems (South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2020), tinywords, tsuri-doro, Upstate Dim Sum, and Wales Haiku Journal.

And a special thank you to all my family for their continued inspiration and support.

~ Chad Lee Robinson

 

giving a foal
the zoomies
pine breeze

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        meadlowlark song
        the vintage yellow
        of tractor wheels

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stick pony race
a butterfly changes
course

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        the softness
        of these faded jeans
        prairie starlight

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