Poet Profile

Billy Guerriero

Billy Guerriero is an editor and photographer based in Denver, Colorado. His poems have appeared in Modern Haiku, bottle rockets and failed haiku.

Awards and Other Honors:

Nominated for a 2022 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems.

railyard morning
birds sing on collapsed 
rooftops of rain

pay day
shirt pockets
full of plums

my side of the story blackbirds all around

tossing dice
the voices of those 
who know each other

Credits:

“railyard morning” – bottle rockets #47, August 2022; “pay day” – Modern Haiku Vol. 53.3, Autumn 2022; “my side” – Modern Haiku Vol. 54.1, Winter 2023; “tossing dice” – failed haiku Vol. 8, Issue 85, December 2022.