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| Nadia Adams
is from Cape Town, South Africa. During office hours, she is a buyer
for a laboratory distributor but out of the office, she indulges in
all her passions and crafts. The passions are blogging, reading,
tree-hugging and travelling even if it's just a weekend getaway up
and down the coast of South Africa. The crafts are cross-stitch,
knitting, crochet especially amigurumi, origami, quilling and
card-making. She most enjoys blogging about her interests and
she has a craft blog, a charity blog and now that she has discovered
haiku, a poetry blog. Nadia also blogs for Cape Town Tourism on
their travel blog. Do pay a visit any time to
http://haikucollage.blogspot.com |
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Michelle V.
Alkerton (formerly Lohnes) is an artistic spirit
who cannot contain her excitement when inspired. An
internationally published poet, she thrives best when close to
nature and enjoys the therapy her writing, art, photography
and other creative outlets provide. Her haiku and related
forms have been published in the journals
Frogpond,
Modern Haiku,
Acorn and Raw NerVZ Haiku (among others)
and will be appearing in upcoming issues of
Haiku News.
While her collaborations of linked verse forms with marlene
mountain, as well as Marco Fraticelli, have seen publication,
her most recent appearance in
Lynx (issue
XXIV:3) were for three solo renga. Michelle has recently
become interested in the study and creation of digital poetry
and shares her constantly evolving digital poetry experience
with her beta test site
“On the Surface”
which includes links
to her main web site
“Brain Angles” originally created to show
her online computer art exhibit “A brain from all angles”.
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| Barbara
Anderson has lived in Colorado for the
last 25 years. After reading her first haiku in 2005, she became
captivated by the form’s beauty and power. Her goal is to write just
one perfect haiku before she dies; she needs nothing more. |
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| Hortensia Anderson
has been living in nyc with the exception of four years in
southern California. Her main interest poetically has been in
collaborative and experimental ventures. She has been on
dialysis since 1981. |
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| Karin
Anderson: I live in beautiful Australia; I am 64 years
old and am married as are my children. I have been writing
poetry for twenty years and have qualifications in
copywriting and writing for public relations. I belong to
a group of poetry writers called Wordweavers and we have
published three poetry books, my favorite being
Ocean to Moon, where we used the moon's cycles as
chapter headings. I enjoy river walking, folk dancing,
interior decorating, listening to music, and going to
cinema. I write for others to enjoy my journey through
life and to discover the beauty and power of words... |
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Norla Antinoro is a research
biologist cross trained as a pyshcotherapist. Finding
herself forced to retire from both professions, she
bumbled about until she discovered that writing did not
have to be technical to be fun. In short, she discovered
poetry and opinion. A bit of a footloose wanderer since
her husband's death, she has lived in Canada, New York,
and is now roosting at least for a while in Oregon. Norla
spends her time writing poetry and politics as well as
finding expression in painting, photography and fiber art.
She sees art as easy to intertwine with the social justice
issues that absorb her passions and energies. She now
edits two magazines online: We!, a weekly
progressive op-ed journal, and Jabberwocky' s Garden,
a literary jourmal that showcases the work of some of the
most talented poets out there. Both zines are hosted pro
bono by MyTown.ca.
We!: a Progressive Voice:
http://www.mytown. ca/we
Jabberwocky' s Garden:
http://www.mytown. ca/jabberwocky
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an'ya is of
Serbian/American heritage, and lives in Oregon, USA. This
published haijin previously taught Balkan dance troupes, was a
former Nascar-track trophy girl, Slavic foods caterer, and a
pre-school teacher. She is the Past-Director/Editor of
“beginners” for the World Haiku Club, and the
past-editor-in-chief of haigaonline. She is the past editor
of the Tanka Society's journal Ribbons. Currently
she is editing
moonset, The NEWSPAPER at
http://moonsetnewspaper.blogspot.com
She is the original
founder and President of the Oregon haiku and Tanka Society, and
is now serving as its Vice President. an'ya has been printed in
numerous publications and anthologies and has won quite a
few contests. |
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| R. D.
Armstrong (Raindog): How about: Old too soon, smart
too late. Or: Raindog lives in Long Beach, CA amidst the
ruins of a career as a small press publishing mogul. Visit
the remains at Lummox
Press
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Cheryl
Ashley lives on Protection Island in the Strait of
Georgia, BC. She is a writer and artist - published:
poems, articles and haiku (two
Sakura awards from
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.
I love the brevity of haiku; a moment captured in time.
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| When not writing,
Sharon Auberle may be found hanging pictures and poems at her
website, Mimi's
Golightly Café. Her work has appeared in numerous
publications and on-line magazines and in a variety of
anthologies. She has two recently published books—Saturday
Nights at the Crystal Ball, a memoir in poetry from
Cross+Roads Press; and Crow Ink, a collection of
poetry and photographs from Little Eagle Press. |
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| Nnorom Azuonye is the author
of The Bridge Selection: Poems For The Road (2005) and Letter
To God & Other Poems (2003). He has published widely in print and
e-journals including Orbis, Drumvoices Revue, World Haiku Review,
Eclectica Magazine and Keystone among others. He is the
Founder/Administrator of Sentinel Poetry Movement
www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk and Managing Editor, SPM Publications - the
publishing arm of Sentinel Poetry Movement - publishers of Sentinel
Poetry (Online) and Sentinel Poetry Quarterly (Print). |
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Pamela A.
Babusci is an internationally award winning haiku/tanka &
haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku
Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards,
First Place Yellow Moon Competition (tanka category),
First Place Kokako Tanka Competition, Basho Festival Haiku
Contest (Japan) and Honorable Mention Suruga Baika
Literary Festival (Japan).
Pamela has illustrated several books, including:
Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards and
Taboo Haiku. She was the logo artist for Haiku
North America in NYC in 2003 and HNA in Winston-Salem, NC
in 2007.
In her spare time she presses flowers, ferns & leaves to
make cards & framings, abstract watercolor/oil painting,
sumi-e painting, Chinese calligraphy, makes collages &
jewelry. She has a deep desire to be creative on a daily
basis, which feeds her spirit & soul & gives meaning to
her life. Poetry & art have been an integral part of her
existence since her early teen age years & will continue
to be a driving force until she meets her creator.
Pamela is interested & welcomes any reader feedback of her
poetry/art works at:
moongate44
at
gmail
dot
com |
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| Originally
from
St. Andrew,
Jamaica,
Raquel D. BAILEY is a proud mother, Event Planner,
Administrative Consultant & child advocate. She enjoys
writing fiction, poetry,
creative nonfiction, and love songs. As a Florida
State University, English graduate, she is the Founding
Editor &
Publisher of
Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine with specialized
focus in Japanese short form poetry. Her poetry works are
forthcoming and also published in
The
Heron's Nest, Simply Haiku, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Asahi
Haikuist Network, The Aurorean, (EPN) Electronic Poetr y
Network, Shamrock, Wisteria,
Chrysanthemum, The
Tallahassee Democrat, **Red Lights, Taj Mahal
Review, Presence, Other Poetry, Mainichi Daily News and
Cider Press Review. Her literary works have also
received runner up and/or honorable mentions in the
Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition (2008), The
Haiku Calendar Ludbreg Competition (2008), Mainichi Daily
News Haiku Contest (2007), 7th Annual Chistell Writing
Contest for Fiction (2007) and the
Big Pond Rumour Contest for Fiction (2007).
My web site:
Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine |
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Don Baird is an internationally known and respected
martial arts teacher and poet. For the past ten years or
so he has been specializing in eastern poetry forms such
as haiku and tanka. He has been published in ezines and
magazines including Simply Haiku several
times. He won third place in the International Kusamakura
Haiku Contest two years in a row. Recently, he took first
place in his division in the Shokon Tadashi Kondo Award.
For the last five years he has been teaching advanced
haiku studies for a poetry site of almost 200,000 members.
A teacher: a student. Don remains committed to his journey
of a haijin.
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Ed Baker
here 66 years
lives his writing and art..
Recent works: Things Just Come Through
(Red Ochre Press, 2006),
POINTS/COUNTERPOINTS (2006/1972), RESTORATION LETTERS (Corman-Baker
correspondence: 1972-2003, tel let press), Song of Chin, full
moon,Wild Orchid, Stone Girl E-Pic, vols 2 & 3 (tel let), Stone Girl
E-Pic, Vol. 5 via Ed's web site.
Ed has recently put out his first issue of DOZEN magazine
featuring Chuck Sandy & John Vieira also including - Bob Arnold, Ed
Baker, Shizumi Corman, Ted Enslin, David Giannini, John Levy, John
Martone, John Phillips, Jeremy Seligson, and Karma Tenzing Waaaangchuk.
Ed has more than 55,000 poems, 400 watercolors, 600 3-d pieces...and
adds to, every moment:
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| Janet A. Baker
grew up in the Iowa farm country. She now lives in Enicinitas,
California, and is a professor at National University in San Diego.
Her work has recently appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Lilliput
Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, and
qarrtsiluni. |
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| Magdalena Banaszkiewic
lives in a small village in western Poland. She was a
teacher, but now she's taking care of children, running a
family emergency house. She's fond of poetry, hatha yoga and
alternative medicine. She also creates and solve charades.
Haiku poems written by her have been published at
Tinywords, Asahi haikuist network magazine, Shamrock
and the haiku.pl
forum's anthology. |
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Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York City in 1942. She has lived in
Israel for 35 years. She holds a degree in Anthropology from California
State University, Northridge, 1972. Since 1976 Helen has devoted herself
to art: painting, teaching and writing poetry. From 1989 until 2001 she
was a member of the Safad Artists’ Colony in the Upper Galilee where she
had her own gallery.
Today Helen paints and teaches in Jerusalem. To date Bar-Lev has
participated in 80 exhibitions, including 30 one-person shows. Her poems
and paintings have appeared in many online journals such as The Other
Voices International Project, The Coffee Press Journal, Boheme Magazine,
The Poetry Bridge, River Bones Press and also print anthologies,
including Meeting of the Minds Journal, Voices Israel Anthology,
Manifold Magazine of New Poetry, Lucidity Poetry Journal and Across The
Long Bridge, An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry, Sailing in the Mist
of Time, An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry, Harvest International, Palabras-Press, Poesy first international issue.
Helen is a member of Voices Israel English Poetry Society and The Israel
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Sculptors’ Association. She is the global correspondent in Israel
for the Poetry Bridge and Editor-in-Chief of the Voices Israel
annual Anthology.
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Christopher Barnes,
UK: in 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 2000 I
read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology Titles
Are Bitches. Christmas 2001 I debuted at Newcastle's famous
Morden Tower doing a reading of my poems. Each year I read for
Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and I partake in
workshops. 2005 saw the publication of my collection Lovebites
published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
On Saturday 16th Aughst 2003 I read at theEdinburgh Festival as a
Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.
I also have a BBC webpage
www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/gay.2004/05/section_28.shtml
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/videonation/stories/gay_history.shtml
(if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.
Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored me
to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North.
I made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about my writing
group. October-November 2005, I entered a poem/visual image into the
art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown
in Betty's Newcastle. This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne.
I made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands
at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture
which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords, it contains my
poem "The Old Heave-Ho". I worked on a collaborative art and
literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes,
facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton
Gallery, Newcastle University funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life
Sciences Research Institute, Bioscience Centre at Newcastle's Centre
for Life. I was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard
event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children's literature
building. In May I had 2006 a solo art/poetry exhibition at The
People's Theatre why not take a look at their website
http://ptag.org.uk/whats_on/gulbenkian/gulbenkian.htm
The South Bank Centre in London
recorded my poem "The Holiday I Never Had", I can be heard reading
it on
www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=18456
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REVIEWS: I have written poetry
reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine
and in August 2007 I made a film called 'A Blank Screen, 60 seconds,
1 shot' for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema
Newcastle, reviewing a poem...see
my space
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Vince Beck: I was born in New York City. I've lived most of my
life on the road, a military up bringing gave me a good grounding in
"the rules of the road". That's probably why I've survived, even tho my
address was on the wild side, marijuana, benzedrine, alcohol, LSD, and
the heavy one--heroin. I abused them all and managed to escape. Today
I'm pretty much drug-free, except for the occasional bit of the "herb
superb". I immigrated to Australia 1970...No regrets. I've traveled
Australia and I love it, naturalized in 1978 "here to stay"! My
band--"Vince & the Vipers" play all sorts of music. Beside myself
there's Steve Berriman on reeds, tenor ukulele, vocal back-ups....Brian
Mollet, ukulele, back-up vocals. I do the main vocals and play guitar.
Jazz, rhythm & blues, country--we play 'em all. Aside from a couple of
charity gigs a month, we've been laying low for the winter (April to
October) months. |
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| Robin Beshers was
transplanted from Oklahoma to beautiful Sonoma County California at
a very young age. After living in, and raising her children in
Amador and Mendocino counties throughout her adult life she has been
happily back in Sonoma County for three years. Professionally, she
is a Certified Professional Coder and a Medical Assistant. She
discovered a serious love of Haiku in 2007, studying the craft and
writing ever since. She also dabbles in photography, and polymer
clay art. |
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| Patricia Biela is
a native of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Virginia
with a BA in Psychology. A first generation American, she is of
Angolan paternal and Haitian maternal descent. Biela participated in
the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. She is a 2007 Archie D.
and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship recipient from the Fine
Arts Work Center Summer Poetry Workshop. She is a 2006 Hurston/Wright
Workshop Alumna. Biela has studied poetry under Dr. Tony Medina,
Professor of English, Howard University. She was a poetry venue
review columnist for the Spring/Summer 2004 One Heart
Publication – Holistic Journal. Her poems appear in the book
Cracking Walnuts and Other Goodies by Arlene
Carter-Pounds, Drumvoices Revue, Warpland, Stanford
University’s Black Arts Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, Void
Magazine (on-line), Howard University’s The Amistad (on-line), and X
Magazine. |
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Ginka Biliarska: 1946—Bulgaria graduated from The Sofia
University with a major in Slavonic Languages. She has worked as a
journalist and editor at different publishing houses; author of 6 books,
radio plays, a large number of articles for the central and literary
newspapers. She took part in some theater performances, tv and radio
programs and broadcasts. Since 2003 she has been the president of the
Bulgarian Haiku Club. Compiler of the haiku anthologies with
international participation: The Flower, 2002; The Rose, 2003; The
Road, 2004. She has received numerous awards: 1996, National
Contest—Poetry for the Sea; 2000, Poetry Contest—Yavorov's Days; 2002,
Poetry Contest—Yavorov's Days; 2005, Russian Haiku Contest; 2005,
National Play Contest; 2006, Haiku Contest—Croatia. Ginka Biliarska
passed away 31 July 2007. |
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| Gary Blankenship
is a sometime poet, editor and judge from Bremerton WA , who is much
too fond of poetic series based upon whatever crosses his path. He
is the author of A River Transformed poetry based on
Wang Wei’s River Wang poems and available at
http://www.lulu.com/content/178110
He is currently working on a long series based on Walt Whitman’s
“Song of Myself.” Part may be seen at
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm |
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Wilfredo R. Bongcaron, who is fondly called Willie by his
associates and friends, is a government employee in Manila. He works
as a line supervisor in LRTA, the first mass transport system in the
city. He is happily married, with a very loving and supportive wife
and three brilliant kids who are "gems" in their own right. He
writes in the English and Filipino languages; and usually writes in
the haiku/senryu genre. He has contributed his poems and haiku in
the internet.
Willie is a proponent of the Save the Earth movement. He writes to
make other people conscious about our environment, among other
considerations. He is very much concerned about environmental
degradation and all the likes. He also believes in karma; and works
towards maintaining an aura of good karma and inner peace within
him.
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| Ralf Bröker was
born in Ochtrup, Germany, in 1968. He used to be a local journalist
and worked as a pr-writer in Frankfurt am Main and Dortmund. With
his family he returned the Münsterland, which is a countryside quite
close to the Netherlands. Ralf is earning his money as a media
service provider and pr-consultant. His clients are cooperative
enterprises in the Rhein-Ruhr-area. First publication of poetic work
in 1986; started to read haiku, senyru and haibun in 2007, tries to
write them since spring 2008. |
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| Shawn Bowman is
a lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio. His poems have recently
appeared in a variety of publications in the U.S. and England. He
views the cinquain as the perfect marriage of the sonnet and the
haiku, and he believes that the form is capable of developing as
rich a tradition. |
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Gerald Bravi from Winnipeg ,
Manitoba , is an educational psychologist and holds a Ph.D. in that
area. He began writing poetry at an early age, but this
passion was shelved as his career took most of his time. In 1998 he
became involved in writing again and now spends more time at this
endeavor. He enjoys writing in all forms and loves experimenting with
each. His poetry has been published in a number of anthologies, e-zines
and journals. |
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| Leslie Brockway,
US: I recently took up writing haiku
almost immediately after signing up for Twitter. That was in April
of 2009. Oddly, it was at Twitter where I chose the word "haiku" for
my first subject search. My other personal interests are cooking,
hiking and reading. I am an avid reader. I am also married, and I
have one daughter who attends college. I, myself, had some college
studies in liberal arts. I enjoy my work with retail industries, and
share my free time with my family. |
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| Bouwe Brouwer (08-03-1977).
Born, raised and still living in Emmeloord, a small town on
reclaimed land in the middle of the Netherlands. I became
interested in haiku writing in August 2008 and have been
writing ever since. I try to combine my writing with my love
for designing and publishing handmade books in a very
limited edition and my love for travelling. Examples of this
can been seen on:
www.deoudezeeman.web-log.nl (The Old Sailor publishings).
Some of my work has been published in Vuursteen
(Flint) the magazine of the Dutch and Flemish haiku society.
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| Helen
Buckingham was born in London, 1960, and currently lives
in Bristol in the southwest of England. Her haiku and senryu
have appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the
world, including A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in
English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007). Her
work has also been placed in a number of competitions, such
as the HIA, the Hackett and the Basho Memorial. She is a
member of the British Haiku Society. |
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Marlène Buitelaar (1951) lives
in the Netherlands. She works at the only Dutch Veterinary
Faculty, Utrecht, situated at a beautiful spec of nature
which is a daily source of inspiration. An avid reader,
music lover and photographer, she started writing haiku
and rengay in the beginning of 2007, shortly after being
introduced to the subject.. Some of her haiku and rengay
have already been published in Dutch and English.
Combining her new love for haiku with her existing ones,
she now enjoys making photo haiga and rengay together with
partner Max Verhart. Her other project is writing a series
of essays on music and haiku (in English and Dutch) for
which she is collecting music haiku (or music as
inspiration for haiku) from all over the world. An
anthology of music haiku is a future project. She’s very
interested in receiving a copy of any kind of music haiku
you have written,
published or nonpublished. Emailadress
is m.n.buitelaar@uu.nl |
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Silvija
Butkovic was born on December 6, 1964. in Osijek – Croatia.
She graduated from Commercial School in Slavonski Brod, lives and
works in Djakovo. She works in the National Studfarm of lipizaners
in Djakovo - Croatia, as manager in tourism.
Silvija is a member of the Association of Croatian Haiku Poets and
an active member of Photoclub Djakovo. She has held several
independent photography and haiga exhibitions, has received prizes
in Croatia and abroad, and published poetry, short stories and
haiku. So far Silvija has published three books of poetry,
Touched by the dream, book with haiku/haigas (Oslobodjena
kap/A released drop/La goccia Assolta in English, Italian and
Croatian) and a book, Intricate in the nets.
Her haigas may be seen on
www.worldhaiku.net/haiga; they are highly prized, she was given
a title, Master of Haiga. At this date, she has assembled five of
her own photo-exhibitions. |
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| Lauren Byrnes
was born in Mattoon, Illinois in 1985. She is a 2007 graduate of
Northern Illinois University, earning her degree in Business
Administration with special studies in Finance and Spanish. She
began writing poetry while in high school and has never stopped, as
most good poets don't because they can't. For her, writing began and
continues to be an outlet for her emotions. Nothing could prevent
her from saying how she felt when it was between just her and the
paper. Her poems are from the heart and though some are filled with
pain she strives to be inspirational for others with her words. At
the age of twenty-four she has experienced many obstacles that
people of all ages could relate to. She allows her relationship with
her Higher Power to guide her to share her experiences, strength and
hope with others, in the hope of exuding hope and compassion. She
currently manages a coffee shop in her hometown of Mattoon, IL and
continues to feel inspired to write daily. |
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| Pris Campbell:
Pris Campbell’s full-length book of poetry with accompanying log
notes, Sea Trails, was published in the fall of 2009
by Lummox Press. Abrasions, her first book by Rank
Stranger Press now has only a limited number of copies left.
Interchangeable Goddesses, with Tammy Trendle, was published
by Rose of Sharon, a press run by S.A. Griffin, editor of The
Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and David Smith.
Hesitant Commitments, was released 2008 by Lummox Press in
its prestigious Little Red Book series.
Pris Campbell's poetry appears in
journals such as Chiron Review, Main
Street Rag, The Cliffs: Soundings, Wild Goose Review, MiPo
Productions, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Boxcar
Poetry Review. In 2008 and 2009, she was featured poet in
Empowerment4Women, In The Fray and From East to West. Her
haiga and haiku have appeared in Simply Haiku, Haigaonline.
Moonset, Sketchbook, Ink, Sweat, and Tears and several other
journals. Her poem in the spring 2007 issue of Boxcar
won the Peer Award for the issue and was nominated by that journal
for a 'Best of the Internet' Anthology. She was again
nominated for that honor by two journals in 2009. Pris also was
nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize (2008/2009). A former
Clinical Psychologist and former sailor, sidelined by ME-CFS since
1990, she makes her home in the greater West Palm Beach, Florida,
with her husband, a runaway dog, and a cat who sits on her poetry
drafts. |
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Patricia Carragon
is a New York City poet
and writer. Her publications include Poetz.com, Rogue
Scholars, Poets Wear Prada, Best Poem, Big City Lit, CLWN WR,
Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Ditch Poetry Magazine,
Mobius the Poetry Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, and
more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My
Mind (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas,
a group dedicated to short poems. Patricia hosts and curates the
Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor of the annual
anthology.
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| Amitava Chakrabarty
is a class I Marine Officer of Kolkata Port Trust by profession and
a writer, journalist and poet by passion. As a freelance journalist,
he has contributed several reports in Hindustan Times.
The Statesman has published his letters/ articles/
stories and poems in its respective columns. His poems were
published in Times of India and Asian Age.
He is regularly published in numerous journals, e-magazines and
anthologies in India and abroad. He is an Honorary Life member of
Metverse Muse and a member of World Poets' Society, Greece. His
first anthology of poems, entitled Solitude, has
received favourable review in the domain of poetry. |
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| Tholana Ashok
Chakravarthy hails from Hyderabad City, India; he is a
Poet-Review Writer. He has been composing poetry for the past
25-years and several of his poems have been published in literary
magazines, journals, newspapers, anthologies, e-zines etc. across
the world in over 40 countries. He is presently working in a
Government-Partnered bank, "The A.P State Co-op Bank Ltd" at
Hyderabad city. His poetry collections
titled (1) Charismata of Poesie, (2) The
Chariot of Musings, (3) Serene Thoughts,
(4) Twinkles, are in circulation. Conferred
with D. Litt (Doctor of Literature), he is a Universal Peace
Ambassador, Vice-Chairman of Peacefrom Harmony, Love
Ambassador etc. to quote a few. |
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John Tiong Chunghoo: "I started writing poetry during my
secondary school
years after having been introduced to greats like Blake, Clare, William
Wordsworth, and Shakespeare among others. During the early 2000s, I fell
in love with Matsuo Basho on the net after signing up with a
site to have a poem delivered to me every day; his haiku is really
great. It always succeeds to set me into another realm. I have written
thousands of poems posted on the world wide web. Readers need only to
google my name john tiong chunghoo to get to them. Now I am working as a
travel journalist with the New Straits Times, one of the oldest English
dailies in Asia." |
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| Serban
Codrin: born 10 of May 1945 in Bucharest, Romania. He published
several books of classical poetry and also tanka and haiku books: Dincolo
de tacere/Aux confind du silence/Beyond Quietness – editura
Haiku, Bucharest 1994; Intre patru anotimpuri/Entre quatre
saison/Between for seasons – editura Haiku, Bucharest 1994;
O sarbatoare a felinarelor stinse / A fest of the Extinguished
Street Lamps, ed. TEMPUS DACOROMANIA COMTERRA, Bucharest
2005, Missa requiem – 1997. He lives in Slobozia city,
Romania and is a librarian. |
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Martin
Gottlieb Cohen was born in the
South Bronx somewhere on Simpson Street, went to a Yeshiva on
East Broadway and Canal Street, and then lived in the South of
Brooklyn, the South of Long Island, The Southern Tier of Upstate
New York, The South of Manhattan, and finally South Jersey in
Egg Harbor. |
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| Susan
Constable has numerous forms of poetry
published in both print magazines and on-line journals. Since 2006,
however, haiku has become her form of choice and early in 2007 she
ventured into haiga. She lives with her husband on Canada’s west
coast, where the natural world provides much of her subject matter,
inspiration, and pleasure. |
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| Leslie Cohen
is a native New Yorker. After receiving her B.A. and M.A.
degrees in cultural anthropology, she taught at the
University of Alaska for three years. Then she moved to Los
Angeles where she met her husband. They spent an extended
honeymoon traveling through Europe and ended up living on
Kibbutz Ein Hashofet. Leslie teaches college English courses
and has published many poems, short stories and articles.
Her first book, Facets of the Poet was
published in 2001. Her biography of a Holocaust survivor,
called Trapped Inside the Story (which
includes many poems that were translated from Polish and
Ukrainian and re-worked by the author) was published by
Level 4 Press, in 2007. |
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| Armando H. Corbelle
(Catbird 55)—was
born in Cuba and except for early childhood has lived in various
cities, towns, and rural places in the USA since. He came to haiku
early—as
a 5th grader - abandoned it for decades until embracing its brevity,
immediacy a few years ago. Visit his haiku blogs:
http://haikubycatbird.blogspot.com/ and
http://nakedhaiku.blogspot.com/ |
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Gillena Cox: I live in St James,
on the island of Trinidad; of the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago. I was born in 1950. Married in 1971 to Anthony
Cox, Since 1978, though still married, living apart from
Anthony. I am mother of a daughter named Yanda, and a son
named Khama. I am a retiree, I last worked as a
cataloguer. I write poetry for the sheer joy of writing;
some of my poems are illustrated. I have work published in
anthologies, and at numerous e journals. My first solo
book of haiku poems is at the publishers and should be
released before the end of this year. My poetry website is
"PatchWork". |
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Agnieszka
Ćwieląg (age 30) lives in Cracow (Poland) and works in a
publishing house. She finished literature and creative writing at
the Jagiellonian University. Agnieszka writes poetry and has
published 11 books.
In 2004 Aneta Kania and Agnieszka Ćwieląg published their first
common book To Believe in Spring (poetry and photos).
Haiga of Going By will have an exposition in an art
gallery in Poland next year. Other expositions are planned.
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| Magdalena Dale
was born in 1953 in Bucharest, Romania. She is a member of the
Romanian Haiku Society and has been published in several national
and international reviews. Her poetry is published in the bilingual
anthologies: Flori de tei /Lime-tree flowers, Greieri si
crizanteme /Crickets and chrysanthemums, Scoici de mare/Sea shells
and she is anthologized in Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of
the Human Heart published in Perryville, Maryland (S.U.A.)
by M. Kei. Her tanka and other poems have appeared in more literary
sites online. She published a bilingual tanka book Perle
de roua / Dew pearls. Together with Mr. Vasile Moldovan they
have written a bilingual renga book Mireasma de tei /
Fragrance of lime. She is one of the winner poets of the
Tanka Splendor Contest 2007. |
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John Daleiden lived in Oskaloosa, Iowa from 1978-2007, a rural community south-east of
Des Moines, Iowa where he taught high school language arts for 28 years. He has retired after teaching 43 years as a high school
Language Arts teacher. After retirement he returned to writing poetry.
In July 2007 John and his wife Deborhanne moved to Avondale, Arizona, a west suburb of
Phoenix, Arizona. His work has appeared in Amaze # 9, World Haiku Review: The Poetrybridge,
Lynx, SP Quill Magazine, May Dazed, The Scorched Earth, Full Moon, Temps Libres - Free
Times, Autumn Leaves, Sketchbook, Ribbons, Fire Pearls,
Ribbons, and other e-zines. |
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| Jon Davey was
born in Redruth, Cornwall in 1969. He earned his degree in English
and European Thought and Literature from Cambridge College of Arts.
He has worked as a Primary School teacher since 1991. He has had a
lifelong interest in poetry and nature. He is now residing in a
converted barn in the small village of Brea, Cornwall with his
partner Pippa and dog Tricky. Fatherhood imminent! |
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Mary Davila
started writing poetry at the age of 50. In 2006, she was introduced
to haiga, and it has become her main focus. Mary and her husband
enjoy being members of a Creative Expression writers group.
Mary is the moderator for the "haiga showcase" forum on Jane
Reichhold's online AHApoetry forum. Her haiga have been published
online at Simply Haiku, Haigaonline, Sketchbook,
Modern Haiga, Lynx and World Haiku Association. She has also
been published in print in the Moonset Literary Newspaper
and also in the print edition of Modern Haiga 2008.
In addition to poetry and haiga, Mary enjoys photography, enhancing
her photos and taking online courses.
In 2006, after a career of over thirty years, Mary retired from U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services. She lives in Western New York
with her husband, Frank. They enjoy taking frequent trips to
California to visit their son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons.
Mary’s website is
http://www.petalsinthelight.com |
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Tatjana Debeljački,
born on 23.04.1967 in Užice. Member of Association of Writers of
Serbia UKS since 2004 and Haiku Society of Serbia HDS Montenegro-HUSCG&HDPR,
Croatia.
Up to now I have published three collections of poetry: A
House Made of Glass, published by ART – Užice; Yours,
published by Narodna Knjiga Belgrade, and Vulcano by
Haiku Lotos, Valjevo. CD-BOOK, A House Made of Glass.
ART+ Uzice. "AH-EH-EEH-OH-OOH" published by Poeta Belgrade. 2008. |
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| Andrzej Dembończyk
lives in Silesia, Poland. He is an employee of the local
government. He began writing haiku and haiga in 2008. |
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| Michael Dickel is
a poet and photographer with degrees in psychology, creative
writing and English Literature from the University of Minnesota,
teaches at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dickel's
prize-winning work has appeared in literary journals, art books, and
anthologies for over 20 years. His debut book,
The World Behind it, Chaos magnificently explores chaos
and mystery. View
Michael Dickel's website. |
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Tanya Dikova:
born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is an
art-designer - member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists and has
taken part in many design exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad, with
many national and two international prizes for design of toys. From
1997 she lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. In Israel she works as
a designer of television and theatrical puppets. Member of UNIMA –
Israel from 2000. She is also a lecturer in the Academy of Drama and
Puppet Theatre in Tel Aviv. Tanya loves Nature, poetry, music
(classical, New Age, jazz…etc), theatre, fine arts, photography. In
2005 she started to write haiku and create haiga. Her poems has been
published in tinywords, Asahi, LiterNet-ezine. Her
haiga has been regularly accepted for WHA Haiga Contest from 2006.
She has received some awards:
2006- 11th “Kusamakura” International Haiku Competition – Third
Prize
2007- 18th Ito En “Oh-I, Ocha New Haiku Contest – Honorable Mention
2007 - Haiku Contest - Croatia.
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Jasminka Nadaskic
Djordjevic was born in 1958 in Smederevo, Yugoslavia (now Serbia
:-) . She is an electrical engineer, a computer specialist, and is
now teacher of computers and informatics.
She writes classical poetry and haiku and has five poetry books
published. Her poetry is published in many magazines, collections
and anthologies, in Serbia & Montenegro and abroad. Her work appears
on more then 40 Internet web sites (The Heron's Nest, Mainichi
Daily News, Asahi Haikuist Network, World Haiku Review, Poetry In
The Light, Aozora haiku, Temps Libres/Free Times, Shiki Haiku Salon,
Digital Haiga Gallery (See Haiku Here), World Tempos Journal, Ginyu,
Electronic Poetry Network - Poem of the Day, Tinywords, ... )
She is also an art photographer, and has taken part in more then 100
group and 6 independent photo exhibitions. Her photo-works have
earned a great number of awards.
She won many international haiku awards on Kusamakura Kumamoto
Competition, Itoen, Mainichi Daily News Annual Selection, The
Mainichi Haiku Contest, JSWE Competition, HIA Competition, Snapshot
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| My name is
Mark Dohle, I am from a large family of 11 brothers and
sisters, of which I am the third oldest. I was born on 3 DEC 48 in
Steeleville Mo. When ten my family moved to Panama Canal Zone, I
lived there from 58-67, when I graduated from High School. I joined
the Navy for four years. I have only been writing for 10 years,
which actually came as a surprise to me, since before that time I
actually hated to write. Now it is a source of healing for me. I am
Catholic and my faith means a great deal to me. Though I often
struggle to live up to the love I profess. At times this is shown in
my poetry and other essays. |
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| Audrey Downey was
born in China; I was trained and have worked as a Chemist. I became
a wife and mother late in life; everything else became secondary. I
freelanced as a graphic designer, interpreter, and school volunteer.
I play tennis, badminton, and love to travel. I like to read, draw,
sculpt, take photos, knit and do needlepoint, go to concert
(especially free concerts at Yale School of Music). Too many interests too little time. Since 2003 I
learned and loved haiku and haiga, a few of my works have been
published. |
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Doug Draime
has been a presence in the 'underground' and small press since the
late 1960's. He was part of the notorious Los Angeles poetry scene
of the latter 20th century. Most recent books include: Spiders
And Madmen, (Scintillating Publications), Next
Exit:Three w/Misti Rainwater-Lites (Kendra Steiner
Editions). Forthcoming from Tainted Coffee Press, Dancing On
The Skids and Last May coming out from Kendra
Steiner Editions. His wide range of writing, including poems, short
stories and plays, continues to appear in print and online
publications worldwide. Awarded
PEN grants in 1987 and 1991. He currently lives in the foothills of
Oregon. |
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Jerry Dreesen
has been painting since his retirement in 2002. He has published
numerous watercolor paintings on-line as well as pen and ink
drawings and sketches. His haiga, the combination of art and haiku
into one art form has also been widely published. Jerry's watercolor
haiga has been featured in Simply Haiku, Moments, Reeds,
Mindfire Revisited and Haiga-On-Line as well
as print journals such as the Gator Springs Gazette
and Artella. He is past Haiga editor of Simply
Haiku. Jerry is a member of the Hamilton County Artist
Association and the Hoosier Salon in Indianapolis. He has exhibited
works in various local art shows and exhibitions during the last 2
years.
He currently exhibits selected art work in the Birdie Gallery of the
Hamilton County Art Center in Noblesville and the Hoosier Salon in
Indianapolis as well as other local venues.
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Berenice
Dunford was born in England and moved to Wales nearly a quarter
of a century ago. She writes poetry and prose and has had her work
published in Blackmail Press, featured in Kensington
and Norwood Writers' Group 2003 Retrospective and 2005 Voice
Print 1. She has also been published in an anthology,
representing her town in a national competition. Berenice runs the
Bag End Poetry & Message Board, a poetry critique forum. Her blog
and website are called 'grasshopper singing' and 'the poet at rest'
respectively. She wrote her first poem at the age of ten, making the
accidental but pleasing discovery that her thoughts put down in a
diary looked like a 'real' poem. She carries her camera with her and
enjoys using it. Berenice currently lives on a tiny Welsh peninsula,
surrounded by the mountains and the sea.
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| Curtis Dunlap
lives near the confluence of the Mayo and Dan rivers in Mayodan,
North Carolina. He has been published in several anthologies and
journals including Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Magnapoets, Modern
Haiku, A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku,
Simply Haiku, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, red
lights, Ribbons, and Valley Voices. He was awarded the Museum of
Haiku Literature Award in 2008 and 3rd Prize in the 11th
International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in 2006. His web site is
located at
http://www.tobaccoroadpoet.com/ |
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Stacey Dye has
had a fondness for words forever. She is moved by music,
inspirational quotes and even rocks engraved with motivational words
she carries in her pockets.
Having written everything from poetry to radio and television ad
copy, it wasn’t until the past few years that she truly began to
pursue the art of poetry. Her primary focus being the human
condition.
She has been featured in the Camroc Press Review, Mused, Café
Del Soul, Dew on the Kudzu, Here and Now among others. |
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| Kathy Earsman
lives in Maleny, a small rural town in Queensland, Australia, but
was born in New Zealand. Registered Nurse. Works at a major
hospital. Mainly a cyber-poet but has been published here and there
over the years. Widow of the poet Peter Earsman; three sons, five
grandchildren. |
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| Garry Eaton is
semi-retired in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada, where he lives
with his long-time partner, Maureen Matthews, the finest reference
librarian on the West Coast. After graduating in English Literature
from the Univ. of Alberta, he pursued a graduate degree, but two
semesters of teaching freshman English cured him of the illusion
that he was cut out to teach, and since then it's been whatever came
along. He has lived and worked at many occupations in several
cities, including Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Calgary and
Vancouver. His interest in haiku/haibun is of recent origin, but the
satisfaction it provides is a growing part of his life. He is also
at work on a biography of Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a famous figure in
American business, who is a distant relative of his. |
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| Gerald England
is a British poet, living at Gee Cross, Hyde on the edge of the
Pennines. He has been active on the Small Press Scene for almost 40
years, first editing Headland and then New Hope
International. His poetry has been published in many
countries and been translated into Croatian, German, Japanese,
Spanish, Portuguese & Romanian. He is an honorary member of the
International Writers & Artists Association, and serves on the
Council of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Of Limbo Time,
the latest of eleven collections, Poetry Quarterly Review
wrote "his work is both personal and accessible and presents an
original view of life." In 2006 he received the "Ted Slade Award For
Service To Poetry". He is also an accomplished photographer,
maintaining Hyde Daily
Photo as well as the
photoblog. The website
www.geraldengland.co.uk
includes a guide to photoblogs around the world, some 600 small
press poetry reviews, the archives of several ezines, many travel
photographs, details of books and magazines for sale and many other
useful links. His
personal blog.
Gerald England: New Hope
International; Haiku Talk, reviews, poetry, photography and more.
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/,
http://hydedailyphoto.blogspot.com/,
http://ackworthborn.blogspot.com/ |
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| Sally
Evans: Sally Evans lives in Callander, Scotland, where
she and her husband run a bookshop. Here, Sally is sitting
in the bookshop garden, having lunch with some Canadian
signwriters who painted the glass on the front of the
shop. Her bookbinder husband, Ian King, is standing at the
back, keeping an eye on the shop door. Sally and Ian run
diehard publishers and Sally edits
Poetry Scotland,
a broadsheet with a lively website (webmaster Colin Will).
Sally's own website,
desktopsallye, gives information about her poetry
books, her writing and other aspects of her life. |
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Ignatius Fay grew
up in Levack, Ontario, Canada and now resides in nearby Sudbury. His
love of words, language and learning extends back to those early
years. He holds a PhD in Invertebrate Paleontology, but became
unable to work due to severe lung/heart disease in 1986. He was
introduced to the Japanese poetic form, Haiku, by an accomplished
practitioner, and has been writing Haiku and Senryu since 1990.
Some of his work has appeared in small, local publications and
collections, the Mensa Canada Newsletter, Heron's Nest and The
Haiku Canada Anthology. In 2008 he self-published a
collection, Haiga Moments: Pens and Lens, that
included some of his more contemporary Haiku chosen and illustrated
by a talented new photographer, Ray Belcourt.
His motivation is to keep writing - striving to capture the moment.
Even though he fears "a lot is crap, he has learned not to throw anything
away". |
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Lorin Ford
writes haiku and longer poems. She lives in Brunswick, Victoria
(Australia). Much of Lorin's early childhood was spent on the
foreshore and beach of the Melbourne bay-side suburb, Seaford. From
age nine she lived with her father, who ran the pub in a small East
Gippsland timber town. She left school early, at fourteen,
preferring a ‘glamorous’ career in hairdressing to her year 9
correspondence lessons. Later, she received an Honours degree in
English Literature and subsequently taught high school English and
ESL in Melbourne's north-west. Lorin wrote a few poems in her
teenage years and returned to writing again this century. Over 300
of her haiku have been published in Australian and overseas
journals.
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Hugh Fox:
Born in Chicago, 1932, polio at age 5, cured with new pre-Saulk
experimental medicine, childhood immersed in opera, violin, piano,
musical composition, art by his ex-violinist-turned-M.D. father, and
frustrated actress mother, then forced into 3 years of pre-med and a
year of Medicine, dropped out of medical school and got a B.S.
(Hum.) and M.A.(English) from Loyola U.in Chicago, first trip to
Paris, then a Ph.D.in American Literature from the U. of Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign). Married Peruvian poet Lucia Ungaro de Zevallos.
Prof. of American Literature, Loyola University in Los Angeles (now
Loyola Marymount University) , 1958-1968,Professor in the Department
of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
(1968-1999). Now retired, Professor Emeritus. Fulbright Professor of
American Studies/Literature, U. of Hermosillo, Mexico, 1961,
Universidad Catolica and Institutoi Pedagogica, Caracas, 1964-1966, U. of
University of Florianópolis, Brazil, 1978-1980. Married Maria Bernadete Costa M.D. 1 yr. studying
Lt. Am. culture at Mendoza Foundation (Caracas) with Mariano Picon-Salas.
Organization of American States Grant to study Latin American
Studies/Argentinian Literature, U. of Buenos Aires, 1971. John
Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown U., 1968 (Studies in
sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish economics and avant-garde
literature). OAS grant as archaeologist, Atacama Desert, Chile,
1986. In Spain and Portugal, 1975-1976. Founder and Board of
Directors member of COSMEP, the International Organization of
Independent Publishers, from 1968 until its death in 1996. Editor of
Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental
Poetry, 1968-1995. Latin American editor of Western
World Review & North American Review, during 60's. Former
contributing reviewer on Smith/ Pulpsmith, Choice etc. currently
contributing reviewer to SPR and SMR.105 books published, the most
recent Defiance (Higganum Hill Press, 2007) (poetry),
Finalmente/Finally (Solo Press, 2007) (poetry),
Opening the Door to French Film (World Audience, 2007),
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Rediscovering
America (World Audience, 2008) (archaeology), Alex
(poetry chapbook, Rubicon Press), Peace/LaPaix (Higganum Hill,2008,
another poetry chapbook), The Collected Poetry (World
Audience, 2008).
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| Now
retired, Laryalee Fraser has switched from reporting news
to writing haiku, and the old darkroom has changed to
Photoshop. Her work has been published in various online ezines and print publications. Lary enjoys small-town life
in British Columbia, Canada, and along with writing, she
keeps busy with gardening and visiting her grandchildren.
Her website is "a
leaf rustles". |
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| Ray Freed’s
poems have appeared in journals and periodicals in the US
, Canada , and Britain . He has published several
chapbooks and books of poetry, most recently All
Horses Are Flowers, and given numerous public and
private readings of his work. He served as
Poet-In-Residence at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook in 1990 and currently lives on the Kona coast
of the Big Island of Hawaii. |
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| Terri L. French
is a writer and poet living in Huntsville, Alabama. Her work
has appeared in The Valley Planet, Boston Seniority,
Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, Canadian Organic Growers,
and The Ruffed Grouse, and The Heron's Nest. |
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| Born in 1945
in Libourne (France), Georges Friedenkraft is
presently Research Director at the CNRS (the French
National Center for Scientific Research) and gives
lectures in several universities. Married to Malaysian
artist and journalist Wan Hua Goh-Chapouthier, he is
father of four children. He has contributed to poetry
anthologies and reviews from many parts of the world. His
main works include : La saison avec Miralna
(1972), Un deux trois, nous n’irons au bois
(1977), Poemes fantaisistes (1996),
Images d’Asie et de femmes (2001), Esquisse
d’une femme de seve (Haikus, 2005).
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Jadwiga Gala-Miemus vel IGA GALA-MIEMUS born in 1958
in Poland. Graduated from University of Wroc³aw - Faculty
of Natural Science. Holds a master's degree in Biology,
however she owns a private firm and works there.
Publications: anthologies "Cieñ serca" (1995), "Almanach
Wa³brzyski"(1997) and magazines "Integracje" (1991,
no.27), "Niezale¿ne s³owo" (1990, no.16),
Sketchbook.
Currently publishing poems, aphorisms and haiku on her
webpage
www.poezja.com.pl (soon to be translated into
English). |
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| Bill
Gainer is known for the openness
of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the
founding contributors to the modern movement of "After
Hours Poetry". Gainer says, "My poetry is written with an
economy of words. I believe that the strongest way for
poetry to achieve its goal, to express an emotion or
feeling, is through the minimal poem." Gainer has
contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor,
promoter, publicist and poet. He is a co-founder and
current board member of the Nevada County Poetry Series.
Gainer has read and worked with a wide range of poets and
writers, including readings on KUSF radio with Punk-Rocker
Patti Smith and a recent performance with California's
Poet Laureate, Al Young. Gainer is nationally published
and continues to be a sought after reader. He can be
previewed at
www.billgainer.com |
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Garry Gay was born in Glendale,
California, 1951. He received his B.P.A. degree in
photography in 1974. He has been a photographer by
professionnbfor the past 33 years. He started writing
haiku in 1975. Greatly influenced by Basho's Narrow
Road To The Deep North he has steadily written
haiku over the past 30 years. He is one of the co-founders
of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He became their
first president from 1989-90 and in 2001-2008 again served
as president. As president in 1989 he founded the Two
Autumns haiku reading series. In 1991 he was elected as
president of the Haiku Society of America. In 1991 he
co-founded Haiku North America. In 1996 he also co-founded
the American Haiku Archives in Sacramento, California. He
is the creator of the poetic form called Rengay. He is the
author of The Billboard Cowboy, The Silent Garden,
Wings of Moonlight, River Stones and Along
The Way. |
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| Victor Gendrano:
Since high school, Gendrano has been writing bilingually in English
and Tagalog, a major Philippine language. From 1987 to 1999, in
California he published and edited Heritage magazine,
an English-language quarterly dealing with Filipino culture, arts
and letters. In November 2005, he published his first book,
Rustle of Bamboo Leaves: Selected haiku and other poems.
Aside from haiku, he also writes senryu, tanka, haiga, haibun,
Korean sijo, American cinquain, and free verse. His works have been
published in numerous online and print magazines here and abroad as
well as in anthologies. He is a member of the Haiku Society of
America, World Haiku Club, Tanka Society of America, and the
Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society. Gendrano is a retired librarian with
degrees from Syracuse University, New York, and the University of
the Philppines. Here is my
Haiku and
Senryu Harvest website (since December 2001)
My new blogsite,
since June 2008 |
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Paul Gent is an artist (painter and muralist) from Loughbrough,
UK. I work in schools and in the community in the UK and abroad,
(Balkans, India and Palestine) generally on the theme of social issues
and peace and reconcilliation.
My Website: www.linkpalestine.org |
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| Being retired Bernard
Gieske has more interests to purse than time: languages, arts,
music, photography, nature, reading - all of which are sources
inspiring his poetry, a late blooming passion. He lives with family
in Bowling Green, KY. |
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Katherine L. Gordon, literary
critic, resident columnist for Ancient Heart Magazine.
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Judith Gorgone: Artist/Writer
Judith Gorgone gets much of her inspiration from much
loved travel! Her surface designs appear on an array
of products worldwide. Innovative ideas and forward
thinking has brought her to explore other media. Her
popular characters and website planetpals.com has been
helping educators teach and kids learn to save the planet
in a fun way since 1998. It is now rated among the top
kids websites worldwide. After PLANETPALS international
debut in London and Tokyo, Planetpals characters are soon
to appear in a store near you! Her newest inspiration
ikidsclub.org (online since 2001) similarly encourages
children of all ages to be pro active about world peace
and tolerance through activities, fun concepts and
history. Like |
Planetpals, It's the only site of it's kind.
Then again, that's what we have come to expect from her!
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Andrea Gradidge:
"British and now Canadian. I aspire to
compose haiku and feel honoured to be included in the company of
fellow enthusiasts. I moderate the Scifaiku group and I'm a regular
participant in the shiki monthly kukai." |
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The writing bug bit
Phyllis Jean Green at age 8. A small essay prize at 12 sealed
the deal. She was not able to write regularly until her children
were grown and she finished her education. Her poetry, fiction, and
nonfiction began meeting acceptance in 1986. Her experiences as a
speech and language pathologist working with brain-injured adults
and people with developmental disorders eventually added grist to
her mill. In 1999, Diverse City Press published a special
education-related biography biography she wrote on behalf of
Patricia M. Apple. Her work has appeared in hundreds of
publications, on and off the Web.. Her awards include first prize,
Dan Sullivan Memorial Contest; first prize, Poetic Liberty, and
multiple Sensations Magazine awards. Other credits include
Timbuktu, Sulphur River, Visions, Snow Monkey, The Pedestal
Magazine, Cold Mountain Press anthologies, and a Thunder-Rain Press
anthology. She only recently began writing haiku. Taj
Mahal Review and Harvests of New Millennium
[India] have published a number. Pudding House published her
chapbook, Above and Below. A former L'Intrigue editor
and contributor, she writes for Angels That Care, an organization
dedicated to reducing domestic violence and helping victims and
their families. Her affiliations include the NC Poetry Society. The
Illinois native's interest include art in virtually any form,
history, psychology, movies, crostics, flora and fauna, and Nicky
the Dog. She and her husband live near alma mater UNC-Chapel Hill.
They have three great grandchildren and one on the way.
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Andreas Gripp is a London, Ontario poet and writer. He
lives with his cats, "Clea" and "Sheba". He is the author of six books
of poetry as well as six chapbooks. His website can be found at
http://www.andreasgripp.com
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Gabor G Gyukics
(b.1958): I am a Hungarian-American poet and literary translator
presently residing in Vienna, Austria. I have translated an
anthology of Hungarian contemporary poetry to the English language (Swimming
in the Ground, St Louis: Neshui Press, 2002), and the
selected poetry of Attila József, A Transparent Lion
(Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2006). My co-translator to English is
Michael Castro in St. Louis. I also published a bilingual edition of
my own poetry, Last Smile, in 1999, with a preface by
Hal Sirowitz (Merrick: Cross Cultural Communications).
To date, I have translated two contemporary American poetry
anthologies, the selected poems of Ira Cohen and the poetic works of
Paul Auster into Hungarian. At present, I am working on selecting
and translating Native American poetry for a forthcoming anthology
in Hungarian.
I have been writing poetry in English and Hungarian since 1988. It
is the year when I emigrated to the United States from the
Netherlands where I have spent two years after leaving Hungary in
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Judi Hall: I am a
Canadian digital/textile artist, a wanna-be sci-fi writer, and I
love haiga. My career was as a theoretical physicist, but I was
forced to retire more years ago than I care to remember due to
illness.
Please visit my web site:
http://www.gingezel.net |
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Kim Hambric: I am a self-taught artist living in State College,
Pennsylvania. Quilting has been part of my life for the past 12 years.
My love of color and texture has prompted me to work with several types
of media: paint, paper and fabric. While I love experimenting and
learning from other media, I always return to fabric. My newest work
combines commercial and hand-dyed and painted fabric that I imprint
using hand-carved stamps. I also embellish many pieces with beading and
embroidery. I view each piece I create as a story or poem, rather than a
picture. Kim
Hambric—sah19@psu.edu See Kim's Fiber Art at her
web page. Kim's art is
for on sale at her
ebay store. |
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Jan Oskar Hansen
is a poet, story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He
joined the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his life at sea
until settling in the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been
widely published in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers have
generally commented that a love and honoring of living things stands
out in Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals with
unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his efforts to love,
telling what there is to tell in a first person, deeply resident
universal voice.
The poet is widely read and fluent in several languages, knowledge
often acquired at night during his many years at sea. He chose to
write primarily in English following enthusiastic reception of his
work from English-speaking editors and readers.
His books Include Murmur From
The East (Lapwing Publications, Belfast 2008), End Of
The Voyage (Water Forest Press, US 2007), La Strada
(Lapwing Publications, Belfast 2006), Lunch in Denmark
(Lightningsource, UK 2005) and Letters from Portugal (BeWrite
Books, UK 2003). Both Letters from Portugal and
Lunch in Denmark are available at Amazon.com.
His poems have been published in
over 20 literary magazines worldwide, including: Hudson Review, USA;
Skyline, USA; Skald, Wale; La rue Bella, England; The Bards,
England; War is a dangerous place, England; The Black Mountain
Review, Ireland; ARS Poetica India, India; Metvere Muse, India;
Poets International, India; Braquemard, England; Fvirefly Magazine,
USA; Pphoo, India; Taj Mahal Review, India; Remark Magazine, USA;
Journal Of Anglo-Scandianvian Poetry, England |
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Michele Harvey is a professional
landscape painter, living and working in New York since 1977. She
divides her time between a Brooklyn stable and a rural, central New York
farmstead. Her paintings are in collections around the world and she has
shown in galleries across the country since 1988. She shares her studio
and workspace with a husband of thirty years and two oriental cats. View
Michele's work at her
website.
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| Marilyn Hazelton
is a poet and essayist. As a teaching artist rostered by the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts since 2000, she thinks about why
writing poetry is an act of self-liberation, how creative acts
inform the soul and how to raise those issues within a broader
community. She has facilitated classes with
elementary-through-college students, mentally ill men and women,
adjudicated youth, women in prison, and senior citizens. Marilyn is
editor and publisher of red lights, an international
tanka journal. Her haiku, haibun and tanka have been published in
Modern Haiku, bottlerockets, Gusts, the Snapshot Press Haiku
Calendar 2008 , and red lights. |
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| Peggy Heinrich’s
poetry has been published in two collections: A Minefield of
Etceteras and Sharing the Woods. Her poems
have appeared in Texas Review, San Fernando Poetry Review,
Future Cycles and many other small press magazines. A native
New Yorker, she recently resettled in Santa Cruz, California after
many cold winters in Connecticut. |
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| Mary Hillier:
Artist and writer, I live in cajun country - Lafayette,
Louisiana to be exact! Four dogs follow me from room to room
as I paint and process an artwork. I handle my own sales, except for
the pieces that are now being shown at Magnolia Creek & Company in
Encinitas, California.. About
2003 I painted the first of what would become the Greyhound Dawg
series to celebrate retired racing greyhounds. Collectors all over
the world have their favorites - some like the dawgs to stand
regally, or playfully, and some love them to be covered with roses.
I try to oblige, though I never plan ahead. I work intuitively...by
simply facing a blank canvas and letting the image become what it
wants to be... Each greyhound portrait becomes real to
me as if he is a real animal...during the painting a name comes and
sticks. The greyhound on the Sketchbook cover for July
2008 is titled
Beauty, a Greyhound Dawg.
Magnolia Canopy is on the February 28, 2009
Sketchbook cover.
My website is
maryhillier.com
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| Melinda B Hipple,
a native of
Missouri, USA, writes in several different genre including
poetry, short stories and novels. She was a feature writer and
monthly columnist for the outdoor sporting newspaper “Up the Creek
News.” Her interest in haiku/haiga has blossomed in the last two
years, playing into her love of art/photography. She has won a
number of poetry competitions, and more recently self-published a
chapbook of haiku. |
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Doug Holder's
work will or has appeared in The Long Island Quarterly, the new
renaissance, The Boston Globe Magazine, Home Planet News, Poesy
and others. He is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, and his
latest poetry collection is The Man in the Booth in the
Midtown Tunnel ( Cervena Barva Press); he has a new
collection of interviews: "From the Paris of New England:
Interviews with Poets and Writers" ( Ibbetson Street)—Doug
Holder. |
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| John Holt, known
also by his haigo "tori inu" an American military officer and haiku
poet was born in 1971 and raised in Ohio and Florida. He has lived
in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, California, and Hawaii and now resides
in Japan. He has earned degrees from Park University and Webster
University and is also a former assistant professor at Loyola
Marymount University. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America
and his work has appeared in numerous leading haiku journals and
magazines and was recognized most recently at the 2009 Vancouver
Cherry Blossom Festival. |
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| Linda Hofke
has a B.S. in Elementary Education from Kutztown University. She
grew up in Pottstown, PA, but currently lives in Michelau, Germany,
where she teaches EFL. She enjoys reading, writing poetry and short
stories, long walks in the woods, and relaxing at the local
Biergarten. |
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Elizabeth Howard lives in a country home on the Cumberland
Plateau near Crossville, Tennessee. Her work has been published in
Frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, South by Southeast, Mariposa,
The Nor’easter, Ribbons, American Tanka, Lynx, and other journals. |
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Paul
Ingrassia: Paul ‘The Mystic Fool’ Ingrassia is a
native New Yorker living in Westchester County . Paul was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize in 2006 for his poem 'Adelaide Crapsey'. His
poetry, articles, and/or short fiction have appeared in AMAZE:
The Cinquain Journal, Sketchbook, Necrotic Tissue, Circle Magazine,
Isis-Seshat Magazine, Mirror of Isis, The Pagan's Muse Poetry
Anthology, Reflections, Getting Something Read, and several
local newspapers. To learn more about Paul and his writing visit his
blog at:
http://themysticfool.blogspot.com/ |
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John Irvine was born in
Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1940. John and his writer/poet
wife live in Colville on New Zealand’s picturesque
Coromandel Peninsula, surrounded by hills and ocean. Here he
occasionally lets his dark side out to play. He is the online
administrator for a Canadian-based international teen writer’s
forum. He has his own web site:
www.cooldragon.co.nz
John’s first collection of poetry, Man of Stone, was released
recently to enthusiastic reviews in
New Zealand
during 2005 by Zenith Publishing Group, and is available
internationally from the publisher’s website
www.zenithpublishing.co.nz.
He had a
second volume of illustrated poetry, Rat atouille for the
rindless (illustrated by Dave Freeman) published in 2007 by
Preshrunk Press.
John is
editor and contributor for the recently launched illustrated
collection of
speculative poetry, Anomalous Appetites, which can be seen
and purschased by visiting his website.
He has had poetry published in many international magazines and
anthologies, including Magazines in NZ. He has had
horror stories and
poems published in Wicked Karnival, Black Ink Horror
and the Horror Library. Also, he has had haiku
published in Stylus magazine, Kokako, NZ
Poetry Society
anthologies and Scifaiku, as well as
short stories and poems in Australian Reader magazine,
Static Movement, Sam Smith's Select Six, Illuminations and Non-euclidean
Café amongst others. |
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| M.J. Iuppa
lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Her most
recent chapbook is As the Crows Flies (Foothills
Publishing 2008) and second full length collection, Within
Reach, forthcoming from Cherry Grove Collections (2010). She
is Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Arts Minor Program at St.
John Fisher College, Rochester, NY. |
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Gypsy James: Born in 1949-same year as Tom Waits altho I am in in
n'way implyin' I be on same level as he as an artist, altho I try...born
o' a Welsh Gypsy mother 'n' a Black Irish father 'n' if y'ain' Hip t'
what a Black Irishman be well, begorrah!...started readin' at 4 as well
as drawin', 'n' by time I was 9 was bendin' an ear t' BeBop 'n' startin'
t' Dig Beat lit...had a very weird 'n' nomadic childhood...Dug "On the
Road" "Howl" etc by age 14 'n' hit the Road hitchhikin' 'n' havin'
adventures o' m'own fueled by drugs sex booze 'n', like, that...been
writin' poetry, prose, creatin' visual art since about 12(?)...always
considered m' "self" an authentic Hipster ie. never Dug hippies, y'DIG?...experienced
extremely traumatic 'n' devastatin' shit durin' 'nam era...have written
at least 7 prose "novels", countless poetry texts, got more collages 'n' paintin's than m'ol' house c'n hold!...will probably have
on m'boneorchard stone (if I even get one!) "NOTHIN' BE TRUE, EVERYTHIN'
BE PERMITTED"... |
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| My name is Edward
Jamieson, Jr. I live in Southern California with wife and kids.
I've been in several mags and I've been also known as editor of
Lummox Journal. He has a Little Red Book in Raindog's
book series, from Lummox Press called Digging My Grave and
Enjoying the Work. All inquiries can be sent to jamiesonfour@sbcglobal.net. |
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Damir
Damir Janjalija:
Damir
Damir is a sailor,
in love with rock'n'roll
and haiku
Damir
Damir is from Montenegro |
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| Harvey Jenkins
was born in Alberta but spent most of his growing up years on a
small, mixed farm in the southwest corner of Manitoba. Harvey and
his wife, Sharron, moved to Vancouver Island in 1989. He has a BA
from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Social Work from
the University of Victoria. Harvey always saw himself as a poet and
continues to write and publish his poems. However, in 2007, he tried
his hand writing haiku and received an Honourable Mention at the
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. He has had other haiku published
in a Gabriola Island’s issue of ‘The Imperfectionists Monthly’
and one haiku will be appearing in the Haiku Canada
Anthology set to come out in 2009. |
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Michael Lee Johnson
is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He is the
author of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom,
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7.
He has also published two chapbooks of poetry and is presently
looking for a publisher for two more. He has been published in USA,
Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fiji, Nigeria,
Algeria, Africa, India, United Kingdom, Republic of Sierra Leone,
Nepal, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Finland, and Poland
internet radio. Michael Lee Johnson has been published in more than
240 different publications worldwide. Audio MP3 of poems are
available on request.
He is also publisher and editor of four poetry flash fiction sites—all
presently open for submission:
http://birdsbywindow.blogspot.com/
http://www.poetriclegacy.mysite.com/
http://atendertouch.blogspot.com/
http://wizardsofthewind.blogspot.com/
Author website:
http://poetryman.mysite.com/
Special Note: Michael Lee Johnson,
United States, and Phillip Ellis, an Australian poet, are looking
for a chapbook publisher for a joint venture merging free verse with
more traditional verse. Mr. Johnson has two chapbooks ready for
publishing review. Manuscripts are available on request.
Michael Lee Johnson, 1531 W Irving Park Rd, 212C, Itasca, Illinois
USA 60143-1542
Advantage Marketing, PO Box 486, Itasca, Illinois USA 60143-0486
Ph/Fax (630) 467-1332/30
E-mail: promomanusa@gmail.com |
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| Alexander Joy,
better known as Lex, is a student of English and Philosophy from the
University of New Hampshire. He plans to pursue graduate study in
the near future. |
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| Vidur Jyoti: a Surgeon
by profession - exposed to the nuances of language by my mother - I took
to poetry rather unknowingly when I composed a free verse tribute to a
caged parrot. Thus I trace the beginning of this journey to the shrine
of Muse rather early in my school days. My foray into the field of
disease and healing found me looking at life rather more intently. I was
learning to attempt to unravel its messages and the result was some
prose and verse written in my mother tongue Hindi and in English. Some
of my work found its place in an e-zine www.boloji.com. When introduced
to Haiku I found a sudden surge in my earlier attempts at communicating
with life as it is. I have also contributed to some of the major Haiku
groups online. Some of my Tanka compositions have been published in
Modern English Tanka. When I am not involved with phenomenon
of life professionally I try to delve deeper into it through Indian
philosophy and my cameras. I live in Gurgaon, an upcoming IT hub, close
to New Delhi. |
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Manu Kant.
I am from India & live in Chandigarh, the capital of twin states of
Punjab & Haryana. I am a Haiku-er & the member of Yahoo! Haiku group
'outlawpoets'. I started writing Haiku early last year in 2007. I
first read the book of Haiku poetry some 20 years ago but managed to
write my first Haiku only in 2007.
I was born on March 18th, 1964. I am married & have a lovely
daughter Irina who is all of 4 years as of December 2007. I have
lived in Russia & America also.
I am a graduate of journalism department of Moscow State University
& very soon I will be launching my own news analysis website
www.focusindia.info.
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Benita Kape lives in the city of Gisborne
on the East Coast of New Zealand. In 2003 I took part in the Kasen Renku
"On The Road To Basra" led by William Higginson. Received an Honourable
Mention in Mainichi Daily News. Work has also appeared in
LYNX and Simply Haiku. And in New Zealand
online - New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre Fugacity05 and
nzepcOban06. |
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Betty Kaplan. Retired from the
Fashion Industry. Used to arrange clothes. Now arranging words. Started
to write haiku in the early '90s. Haiku changed my life. Published in
Frogpond, Lynx, Woodpecker, South by Southeast, World Haiku Review,
Sketchbook, American Tanka , Simply Haiku and CHO. |
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| Aneta Kania
(age 38) lives in Cracow (Poland). After her studies in Rome (Early
Christian and Ancient Literature and Social Communication Sciences)
she has worked briefly as a journalist, photographer and translator.
She fell seriously ill in 1996. These pictures of leaves were taken
in 2004 during severe illness. It was dazzling: in their nearly
not-being, they WERE and called for being, called her to resist and
fight. In 2004 Aneta and
Agnieszka Ćwieląg published their first common book To Believe in
Spring (poetry and photos). Haiga of going by will have an
exposition in an art gallery in Poland next year. Other expositions
are planned. |
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Breindel Lieba Kasher
is a poet, writing her whole life, published in many different
books and magazines.
Born in New York City, she was a child of the sixties, during a time
of art and anarchy.
She moved to Israel, half a life ago, and raised four children in
the country.
Breindel traveled throughout Eastern Europe, filming and documenting
the last remnants of Jewish life. From her travels, sge made a
documentary film in Yiddish with English subtitles entitled, "Der
Letzter Lubliner," (The Last Jew From Lublin.) The film is shown
all over the world, and taken up by Boston's Facing History,
teaching the legacy of the holocaust inAmerican schools.
Breindel wrote three books: Oral Torah from the Warsaw Ghetto,
Who Robbed The Moon, and Wandering Stars. |
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Doris Kasson (b. 1925 Petersburg, Nebraska, res. Belleair Bluffs,
Florida) started writing haiku and tanka in the early 1990s. She has won
numerous awards. With the arrival of digital photography, her interests
have expanded to include photo-tanka (taiga) as an art form.
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Lydia Kautz is a student at
Emporia State, Kansas. She has previously published poems in
The Aurorean.
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M. Kei lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. He crews
aboard a skipjack, a traditional wooden sailboat used to fish for
oysters. He also serves as a member of the board of directors for a
local maritime museum. His poetry has been accepted for publication by
Eucalypt (AUS), Kokako (NZ), Gusts (CAN),
American Tanka, Modern English
Tanka, Wisteria, Bottle Rockets, Red Lights, Ribbons, Moonset, Nisqually
Delta Review, Haiku Harvest, Lynx, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku,
Mayfly, Cecil Soil, Cecil Child, Sketchbook and others. His work also appears in
the anthologies Sixty Sunflowers, To Find the Moon, and Haiku Miscellany
(CRO). He moderates the Kyoka Mad Poems e-list and edits the Chesapeake
Bay Saijiki. He is also the Editor of Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of
the Human Heart, on the theme of love and passion, now available from
www.Lulu.com/firepearls.
M. Kei can be contacted through his blog at
http://kujakupoet.blogspot.com/ |
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| Frank Kelly is a
poet and playwright who lives in New York on Long Island. His poems
have been published in The Best of STAIN, Volume 1,
and online in Danse Macabre, XXVI, and The
Bicycle Review, Issue #2. He has collaborated on two
musicals, Pageant: The Beauty Contest Musical (which
ran off-Broadway in 1991-92) and The Texas Chainsaw Musical. |
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| Bill Kenney,
a retired college professor lives in Queens, New York, with his wife
Pat, who took the accompanying photo. For reasons he has never
understood, since at the time he knew next to nothing about it, he
decided a few weeks before his seventy-second birthday that he ought
to write haiku. He's been at it ever since. His work has appeared in
online and print journals and anthologies, including appearances in
both the 2006 and 2007 editions of the Red Moon Anthology of
English Language Haiku. He is one of the poets featured in
A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku
(Red Moon Press, 2007). |
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Karina
Klesko: I have been a writer all my life. I began by
writing Sunday school plans and children's books. For the
past ten years I have been concentrating on eastern
poetry. I was the Deputy-Editor-In-Chief of WHCReview, and
Director of the WHCpoetrybridge. I am the publisher and
editor of Sketchbook. I enjoy collaborative
work. My work has been published in many magazines,
journals in many countries. I established the OutlawPoets
in 2004, a group for eastern and western poets to work
together. Presently I am writing free verse to some extent
and I am involved in three projects: the little black book
of frac/tured poetry, a Love Anthology, and the
Sketchbook. On the lighter side ...I am a shoe
artist!
the American flag
homesteading in cajun country
a little blue heron
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| Since 2005 Mike
Keville has been writing poetry and has come to haiga as that
includes his other love photography and mucking about with the odd
graphic, he’s an expert on nothing, (doing and knowing), he lives
with his wife of 28 years in Richmond, England. Mike’s goal in life
is to learn something new everyday. |
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| Larry Kimmel is
primarily known as a tanka-poet and writer of haibun, though over
the years he has been quietly writing longer poems in free verse
form. He has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor
and is a frequent contributor to Lynx; Ribbons; red lights;
gusts; Eucalypt; bottle rockets; and other haiku and tanka
magazines, both domestically and internationally. His latest books
of poetry are this hunger, tissue-thin
and Blue Night & the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses
(Modern English Tanka Press). |
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Jens-Christian Kjær (Ashi)
born in 1951, lives in Denmark. Haiku writing is a fairly new
activity (2006) but I have been writing since 1975. I have a small
publisher firm “The Ravenbanner” which can be found at
www.kjaersweb.dk but my
main activity as a writer is on my weblog
www.ashi-words.dk. I’m a
member of “The Four Seasons of Haiku” which can be found at
www.4seasonhaiku.com
I also participate at WHA Haiga Contest, Creative Poems and Digte.dk
(the last is in Danish only).
When not writing haiku and other poems I maintain a website, where I
take photos of my hometown;
www.brande-lokal.net |
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Krzysztof Kokot -
pharmacist, living in Nowy Targ (POLAND). He is stamp collector with
big passion for travel. In 2007 he published his first poetry
volume.
Haiku is his newest hobby. |
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Angelika Bygott Kolompar is a winner of
the prodigious Suruga Baika Literary Award in Japan. Her work has
appeared in numerous publications, particularly in Europe and Japan. She
has a B.A. in History. Angelika came from Europe to live on Vancouver
Island, Canada, where she draws daily inspiration from the beauty that
surrounds her. Her first book of haiku, Vancouver Island Poetry,
was published in 2006. Her first joy is haiku, but she has started to
write tanka also. |
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Tracy Koretsky
is the author of: ROPELESS,
www.readropeless.com,
a 15-time award-winning family drama that celebrates
possibilities despite disabilities. Read an interview with her
about ROPELESS at
Wordgathering
She would like to
invite you to a complimentary download of her
collection of free verse, EVEN BEFORE MY OWN NAME from
http://wwwTracyKoretsky.com The widely-published poems
in this
collection have earned prizes ranging from haiku to prose poem,
including two Pushcart nominations.
Tracy's Japanese genre work has appeared in Acorn, Haibun
Today,
Haiga Online, Lynx, Moonset, SimplyHaiku and tiny
words.
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Richard Krawiec's first chapbook,
Breakdown, was recently published by Main Street Rag
Publishing. He also published 2 novels, a story collection, and
4 plays. His work has appeard in Shenandoah, Witness, many
mountains moving, Artful Dodge, Negative Capability, sou'wester,
Blue Moon Review and elsewhere. Richard received
fellowships from the NEA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
and the NC Arts Council (twice). He directs VOICES, a non-profit
that teaches writing to people in homeless shelters, literacy
classes, prisons and elsewhere.
Check out
Richard's website!
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| Doug Kutney is a commuter
from New Jersey. His poems can be found in tea leaves, rabbit
holes, waffle irons, hat boxes, crawlspaces wineskins, and the
hollows of trees. Visit Doug Kutney's Den of Poetry at
https://sites.google.com/site/dougkutney/the-den-of-poetry
for links to his published work. |
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Elizabeth Searle
Lamb was born in Topeka, Kansas on January 22, 1917. She
graduated from the University of Kansas with majors in Music and
Harp. In December of 1941, she married her husband, Bruce Lamb, and
lived with him in Trinidad, Spain for two years. Because Lamb was
only in the United States for brief periods of time through out the
next few years, she did not have a chance to pursue her music
career. Therefore, she began to write and publish different types of
materials, and this eventually led to poetry.
In 1961, Lamb and her husband moved to New York. This is where she
was first introduced to the art of haiku. She began to study, read,
and write about this form of poetry. She became a member of the
Haiku Society of America (HSA) in 1968.
In 1971, ten years after she learned of haiku, she became the
president of the HSA. Since this time, she has had her work
published in many haiku magazines and newspapers. She has
participated in many festivals and held various offices. Lamb has
also been the editor for the HAS’s quarterly, which is entitled
Frogpond.
Elizabeth Searle Lamb passed away February 16, 2005 in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
Books: In this blaze of sun
(From Here Press, 1975); Picasso’s "Bust of Sylvette": haiku
and photographs (Garlinghouse Printers, 1977); 39 blossoms
(High/Coo Press, 1982); Casting into a cloud: southwest haiku
(From Here Press, 1985);
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Lines for my mother, dying
(Wind
Chimes Press, 1988); Ripples spreading out: poems for Bruce and
others (Tiny Press Poems, 1997); Platek irysa (Miniatura,
1998); Across the windharp: collected & new haiku (La Alameda
Press, 1999)
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| John Landry is the
poet laureate of his birthplace New Bedford, Massachusetts. He
is the founding
editor of Patmos Press, collision magazine, and served as a
contributing editor to New College Review and the
50th
anniversary anthology of Beatitude, the historic San Francisco
poetry journal. He hosts the poetry series Whaling City Review
LIVE. His books, coming in 2010,
include Sconticut: the reaches, Whaleopolis/Orpheus in Whaletown,
and ROAD DOES NOT END.
He has read his work at the Library of Congress at the
invitation of Gwendolyn Brooks. |
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| Catherine J.S. Lee
lives, writes, teaches, and gardens on an island on the coast of
Maine, USA, and enjoys capturing the ever-changing ocean in her
haiku. A published short-story writer in online and print journals,
she began her haiku journey in July, 2007. Her haiku have recently
appeared in Acorn, Chrysanthemum, Magnapoets, The Heron’s
Nest, White Lotus, and World Haiku Review, and
she is one of six featured contributors in the Spring/Summer 2009
edition of DailyHaiku. She is a member of the Haiku
Society of America, Haiku Canada, and HaikuOz. |
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| Heiko
Lehmann is a musician, singer, composer, producer, actor,
translator and writer. He was born and grew up in East Germany and
lives in Berlin. With Toronto-based writer Michael Wex he founded
Golus Storytheatre (Toronto-Berlin) in 1994; he translated Wex’s
plays and stories and wrote the music. He is also running a
children’s theatre in Berlin for which he performs, plays and
writes. For his band THE HAZI BROS. he has written most of the songs
of their debut CD “Culture to the People!” (2008). The lyrics for
this collection are all published on this CD which is available at
all major internet music portals. |
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| Therese Leone-Unger
lives on a farm in a small, Midwestern town outside of Fort Wayne,
Indiana with her husband. After obtaining her Bachelor's in English
Literature at Indiana Purdue of Fort Wayne, she did freelance work
for local magazines and newspapers. Currently, she teaches English
Writing at Ivy Tech Community College and is pursuing her Master's
Degree in English Writing, as well. She is trained with the Fort
Wayne Literacy Alliance, is enrolled in a program with The Institute
of Children's Literature, and specializes in fiction and poetry
writing. In her free time, she reads, gardens, writes, and enjoys
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Alice Lenkiewicz
is a practising artist and poet who lives in Liverpool. She was born
in 1964, Devon and brought up in Plymouth. From an early age she was
interested in writing and art. Her father,the artist, Robert
Lenkiewicz introduced her to an eclectic world of painting,
fairytales and books on the occult. These experiences have always
initiated her own interests in the esoteric, magical realism and
popular culture, inspiring her to persue her individual style
and voice in Art and Poetry. She later studied these subjects in
more depth at Edge Hill University gaining a BA hons 1st in Art &
Design and English as well as an MA in Writing Studies.
In 2005 her final thesis, a book of illustrations, poems and prose,
‘Maxine’ was published by Bluechrome Publishing. Her first debut
collection of poems and illustrations, Men Hate Blondes
is due to be published by Original Plus.
Alice's poems have been published in the journals,
Stride,Pages, Smoke, Peggy's Blue Skylight, Fire, The People’s Poet,
Marymark Press, The anthology, 'Listening to the Birth of Crystals',
The Other Voices Project, Erbacce and The Journal.
Cd’s and sound projects include: Clubbing, Men Hate Blondes, Oval
Blue, Blacestonia, Poems from Maxine and Points of Reference.
Information on
Neon Highway can be found on the facebook group.
Further information on Alice and her work can be found on the links
below:
http://www.myspace.com/alicelenkiewicz
http://www.facebook.com/alice.lenkiewicz
http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile.php/Alice+Lenkiewicz/105737.html
http://twitter.com/LandofAlice |
Alice edits the poetry
magazine Neon Highway. She set this up in 2002 and has
organised various poetry readings with local and guest poets
throughout the city of Liverpool. Guests have included Allen Fisher
and Phil Davenport at the Walker Art Gallery, Steve Sneyd at the
Planetarium, Bill Griffiths in the Hornby Room at Central Library,
Geraldine Monk at 33-45 Club, Women's Poetry at the Bluecoat Arts
Centre and a performance on the Credit Crunch at Tate Liverpool as
well as many others.
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| Arthur Lewandowski: I was born in 1960. I
live in Sieradz (centre of Poland). I learned how to write a haiku
among my friends who publish with me at the polish site
http://abc.haiku.pl/ I am
interested in old motorbikes and old clocks. I'm keen of Pink
Floyd's, Genesis' and Yes' music. My poems have been published on
the internet at Asahi Haikuist Network, Tinywords, and
Lynx. |
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| Russell Libby
writes from Three Sisters Farm in central Maine, where he has been
planting trees for 25 years now. Balance, A Late Pastoral
was published by Blackberry Press in 2007. One of his poems was
selected for American Life in Poetry in December, 2008. |
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Just out from
Lyn Lifshin: The Licorice Daughter: My Year
With Ruffin, Texas Review Press. Also
just out: Another Woman Who Looks Like Me from Black Sparrow
at Godine, selected as the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary
Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry
Prize. She has over 120 books & edited 4 anthologies. Her
website: www.lynlifshin.com. Her last two Black Sparrow
books, Cold Comfort and Before It's
Light, won Paterson
Review Awards. New also: In Mirrors, An Unfinished
Store, The Daughter I Don't Have, She Was Found Treading Water,
August Wind, and An Unfinished Journey.
Comming soon: Tsunami Poems, and All The
Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living And Dead, All True,
Especially The Lies, Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness will be
published by Texas Review Press in March 2008 and Desire
will be published by World Parade Books in March 2008.
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| Roy Lindquist:
Born 1950 in Oslo, Norway. Educated ballet dancer at The Norwegian
Opera and was a performing artist for 10 years at different stages
in Norway and Sweden. Acting was also a part of my education. After
some years in the dancing world I became a Drama teacher in a
preparatory school in YMCA in Norway.
Painting abstract pictures is one of the
main hobbies and today Haiku writing. I live in the mountainous part
of Norway, along the fjords at the west coast of Norway. Married and
have two sons.
Japan has been a part of my life as
an esthetically experience and love of the culture. Visited Japan in
1969 and 1972. In writing Haiku ( English ) I enjoy the Zen mind in
its simplicity and the greatness of the total 4 dimensional state of
mind; present, feeling, heart and mind. I have a Blog;
http://haikuroy.blogspot.com
where I write often, if possible daily. |
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| Darrell Lindsey's
haiku and tanka have won awards in the United States, Japan,
Croatia, Bulgaria, and Canada. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
in 2007. |
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Ramona Linke
was born in 1960 and lives with her family
in Beesenstedt ( Germany ). She has written lyrics for many years
and haiku since 2003. Also she writes tan-renga, renku and rengay,
takes photos and paintings (mainly sumi-e and aquarelle). Her haiku
and haiga have been published in anthologies and in such magazines,
for example: Chrysanthemum, Der Sperling, Mainichi Daily News,
Asahi-Shimbun, WHC-German, Lynx, WHA-Haiga-Contest and
elsewhere.
She is a member of the German Haiku Society and of the World Haiku
Association.
She is the editor of the internet-forum ‘wortART’, contemporary
lyrics like haiku and haiga are the subjects she focus on.
Her websites:
http://www.haiku-art.de/ &
http://haiku-wortart-forum.de/ |
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Louise Linville (Cladyelle) was
born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's currently residing
in S.W. Florida. She has contributed to and been featured in World Haiku
Review and contributes to Mitty's (Museki Abe's) haiku photo gallery.
Her Hobbies include photography, writing, traveling, and the beach. She
plays piano, and attempts to play the dulcimers; she loves drawing,
painting, etc. |
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| Chen-ou Liu is a
freelance writer. He lives in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto, where he
has been struggling with a life in transition and translation. His
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Ribbons, Modern
English Tanka, Gusts, American Tanka, Magnapoets, Simply Haiku,
Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu & Kyoka, Concise Delight Magazine of
Short Poetry, Four & Twenty, Haiku News, The Heron’s Nest,
and Haibun Today. |
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| Bob Lucky
lives with his wife and son in Hangzhou, China, where he teaches
history, plays the ukulele, and eats a lot of Chinese food. His
work, mostly nonfiction and poetry, has appeared in various
journals. |
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Maya Lyubenova lives in Bulgaria and teaches English to
musicians. She’s been writing poetry for many years, not quite sure
where the urge to write in English came from. Perhaps, because she
tried to translate some of her Bulgarian poems and saw it was easier
to write them directly in English. Her book Open the Door,
a collection of free verse poems describing life under communism,
was rewarded a Seal of Quality at www.fanstory.com.
Haiku and haiga are her newest passions. She’s been studying and
trying to write haiku for less than two years. She had four haiku
and three haiga published in 2007 – at Electronic Poetry Network,
Shamrock Haiku Journal and in the Haiga Contest at WHA.
Diagnosed breast cancer last year, she’s quite well at the moment.
Hurrying to write down her inspiration and revise all her previous
stuff, she knows there isn't much time to be wasted.
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| Stosh Machek is from
Chicago ...his father was a cinderblock & his mother was a ragged
freudian impulse, & he had a grandmother who was a stewardess on the
luftwaffe ...he writes poems & reads them aloud in public.
Stosh and his partner Theresa Antonia
put out a small magazine of poetry & stories called: '...a kiss
amidst the lead'. Stosh Machek maintains his own
web site, Anvilhead Cafe. |
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| Carole MacRury,
of Point Roberts, Washington, is an active member of the arts
community on both sides of the US/Canadian border. After serving for
three years as one of the judges for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom
Festival's Haiku Invitational, she leads haiku workshops for the
VCBF Haiku Garden. Her haiku and tanka have been widely published in
both national and international journals. In December, 2008, she
released her first book, In the Company of Crows: Haiku and
Tanka Between the Tides. An exhibition at the Blue Heron
Gallery in 2007 was titled Wabi-Sabi Photography, and
her photographs have appeared on the covers of the Tanka Society of
America's journal, Ribbons, and Modern Haiku. She is the
secretary/treasurer of the Tanka Society of America. |
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Rich Magahiz is a former
Californian, former scientist, current entrepreneur, current blogger,
future mystic, future recollection. He is originally from San Francisco
but lives with his wife in the suburbs of New York city. Trained as an
experimental particle physicist, he owns his own small business and
writes in his free time. His work appears online and in print at World
Haiku Review, Autumn Leaves, Amaze, iscifistory, tinywords, Abyss &
Apex, clouds peak, Tales from the Moonlit Path, LYNX, and Triptych
Haiku. Poems of his will be in forthcoming issues of Scifaikuest, The
Sword Review, Dreams and Nightmares, and The Shantytown Anomaly. His
website is at
http://magahiz.com:8080/frabjous/index.html |
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Angela Consolo
Mankiewicz: I have four chapbooks out, the most recent are
An Eye, published by Pecan Grove Press
(2006) and As If, just released from Little Red
Books-Lummox. I have a Grand Prize sestina coming in
Trellis, a 1st-prize broadside from Amelia,
a Pushcart nomination from Hammers, and a Writers Digest
Honorable Mention for my play, Judgments.
Publications include: PRESA, Montserrat, Re)Verb, Seldom
Nocturne, Arsenic Lobster, Temple/Tsunami, Butcher Block,
Slipstream, Chiron Review, Hawaii Review, Cerberus, Karamu, Lynx
Eye, Pemmican, Blind Man's Rainbow, ArtWord, Lummox Journal.
My childrens' stories, The Grummel Book, are being
reissued on CD this year by SHOOFLY.
I've also been the Contributing Editor and Regional Editor,
respectively, for the small (now defunct) journals
Mushroom Dreams and New Press.
Combining poetry and my love of music, I am collaborating with a
composer on an opera and song cycle.
www.POETACMANK.blogspot.com
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| Dave March,
originally from Kensington Philadelphia now lives in Harlan IN. I’ve
dabbled with my pen for as long as I can remember with no intention
of ever sharing or trying to establish myself as a writer or poet as
I don’t consider myself to be either. I love to write especially in
the moment. I find myself lost in a whirlwind of thoughts in which I
have to quickly scribble down before they are lost forever. I guess
my only hope for someone reading my writings is to invoke thought in
anyway. “We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the
dream.” W.W. |
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Tomislav
Maretić: Born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1951, Tomislav
Maretić works in Zagreb as an infectologist on the HIV Ward of the
"University Hospital for Infectious diseases".
He has been writing haiku for the past 25 years and the majority of
his haiku was published in Marulic - The Magazine of Croatian
Literary Society "Saint Jerome". His haiku was published in
several national and international periodicals and electronic haiku
magazines. He won several awards and honourable mentions on the
international haiku contests and his haiku was presented in several
international and national haiku anthologies and almanacs.
In 1988, together with Vladimir Devidé and Zvonko Petrovic, he wrote
the first
renga in Croatian language and in 1995 the book Renge
(Sipar, Zagreb) was
published. He is one among the authors of common, billingual
(Croatian/English) haiku
collection Seven Ways (Zagreb, 2000). In 2002 he
published the collection of free verse poetry Naplavine.
His first haiku collection The butterfly over the open sea
will be published soon („in spe“).
He lives in Gornje Vrapce, a little village near Zagreb on the foot
of Medvednica mountain, with his wife Ana and four children (12, 16,
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| Jacek Margolak
was born in Rzeszów, in 1964. He lives in Kielce (Poland) with his
wife and two sons. He works as a print technologist. He has been
interested in haiku and haiga since 2000 and now he is a member of
two poetic groups writing haiku - "Haiku po polsku" and "Orient",
and his poems have been published on the internet at The
Heron's Nest, Mainichi Daily News, Haiku Harvest, Asahi Haikuist
Network, Tinywords, Lishanu and anthologies (Big sky:
The 2006 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, Dust of
summers: The 2007 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku,
Crickets and Chrysanthemums) and haiga at World Haiku
Association. |
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William J. Margolis--edited
and published his first magazine, Experiment, at
Roosevelt College (now University of), Chicago, 1949. From 1954-59
he edited and published Miscellaneous Man (15
issues) from Berkeley & San Francisco: co-founded and co-edited
Beatitude 1-12 from San Francisco until 1959 when
he had an accident and became a paraplegic. After he got out of VA
Hospital in Long Beach he moved to Venice and edited and published 1
issue of Mendicant (withhelp from Stuart Z.
Perkoff and James Boyer May). He was editor of one issue of a
renascent Miscellaneous Man, published by L.A. FREE
PRESS. The second issue was camera-ready, guest edited by Jack
Hirschman, when FREEP's
publisher, Art Kunkin reneged on $$$ -- got a new publisher who paid
$1000 advance to Ben Hiatt of Sacramento, who absconded with cash --
it took over 2 years to get back [damaged] paste-ups -- so it never
came out. He and his wife recorded many L.A. poetry readings with
many poets, which were broadcast on KPFK-FM in the late '60s and
early '70s. He has lived in Mexico; the first time in 1951, after
graduating from college when he worked with the American Friends
Service Committee as a volunter work-camper digging a ditch in rural
Mexico for a water system to a small village. In 1962 on the way to
Guadalajara, in wheelchair and Ford Ranch Wagon with hand controls,
he sustained a broken leg in an accident. A friend who had agreed to
take care of him after he got out of the hospital got strung out on
barbiturates instead. So he moved out to a wealthy (Vet pensioner)
quadriplegic's ranchero until his leg would bend enough to let him
get into an airplane back to VA Hospital to get his leg fixed -- the
hospital in Guadalajara had messed it up. He was flown to his
mother's in Boston where he saved up Social Security money ($95 per
month) and then returned to Gaudalajara alone. There he was joined
in 1964 by the woman who became his wife after returning to Long
Beach in October, 1965. She had an accident in June, 1968m which
disabled her and she died in September, 1972. After living a while
in L.A. he returned to Venice in February, 1976.
His collections of poetry include
The Anteroom of Hell, Inferno Press, SF, 1957; The
Little love Of Our Yearning, Mendicant Editions, 1960;
The Eucalyptus POoems, Croupier Press, 1974; and Selected
Poems, 3 vols.; Rustle & Break and Other Poems,
1948-1962, Venice, 1987; The Summer Cycle, Poems
1958-1960, Venice, 1988; and A Book of Touch and Other Poems,
1960-1975, Venice , 1988.
http://www.etext.org/Poetry/Grist/gol_3.asc
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| Ioan Marinescu-Puiu
was born in Bucharest - Romania on 28 April
1940. Poet, jurnalist, epigram writer and humorist, member of the
Romanian Union of Writers and Romanian Society of Haiku, he is
mentioned in Contemporary Poets and Poets
Dictionary and in several Romanian haiku antologies:
One Hundred Poles, The Dew Harvesters, etc.He published lots
of haiku in magazine and is present with his works on some internet
national and international sites. Books published: 21, but only 5 of
these of haiku - The Citadel's Session, From Beside of my
Heart, Rider on Sparrows, Marine and The Return of the
Crane. He was twice a prizewinner of the National Festival
of Poetry "Octavian Goga" and a prize of Romanian Union of Writers.
Also he has two prizes of "Haiku" romanian magazine and laureate of
the Annual Haiku and Tanka Contest, third edition, Slobozia. On the
internet - "The Winner of the day" - www.poetry.com /haiku contest -
in feb and dec 2008. Ioan Marinescu-Puiu |
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Vaughn Marlowe: Vaughn L. Snipes (Marlowe) was born in 1931.
After serving in the United States Army during the Korean War, Marlowe
moved to the west coast and ran a left-wing bookstore in Venice (a beach
suburb of Los Angeles) and by 1962 was a supporter of the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Socialist
Workers Party (SWP) and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). |
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| K. A. Martin
is a software developer and a married
father living in Ottawa, Canada. He enjoys listening to music,
reading, and has been involved in haiku and related forms of poetry
since late 2007. He is also active in sports and the outdoors, and
is still trying to put the hockey puck in the net. He blogs at
http://fullmoonofnovember.blogspot.com/ |
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Terra Martin is a Toronto Ontario
therapist; stainglass artist, potter and seminarian. Her writing over
the last 15 years deals with self-help subjects in the form of
individual and personal seminars. She has written poetry in several
forms but has always admired and studied haiku. She recently turned her
pen in this direction. |
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| Patricia J. Maynard
is a free spirit in search of ultimate truth; she is inspired by
the beauty and simplicity of nature. She is a painter working in
acrylics on canvas and woods. Her paintings and poetry are
composites of her impressions and experiences of the world around
her.
Please visit Patricia's website. |
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Joyce Maxner is a native of the Massachusetts seacoast north of
Boston, and has been a resident of New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania over the last 30 years. Her educational and
professional experience is wide-ranging and impressive. She has
studied at Centenary Junior College, Harvard University School of
Extension Studies, College of the Performing Arts in Philadelphia,
and she has a Masters Degree in Counseling and Human Relations from
Villanova University. She has had careers in advertising, in both
radio and newspaper journalism, and as a psychotherapist in juvenile
justice, and in marriage and family therapy.
Joyce is now semi-retired and living in Audubon, Pennsylvania. She,
has a daughter in Bethesda, Md, and a son and, his wife living in
Mountain City, Tennessee. Her granddaughter of 19 years is currently
living in Hawaii, attending Hawaii University...
In her early teens, she began composing short poems including haiku,
and she continued writing haiku and other poetry forms over the
years. She has published two well known children's books in
narrative verse, Nicholas Cricket, with illustrations
by William Joyce (Harper Collins, 1989) and Lady Bugatti,
illustrations by Kevin Hawkes (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1991).
She has been a participant in various Internet haiku groups, notably
WHChaikumultimedia, where she has served as 'haiku coach' and has
earned the deep respect of all the list's members for her insightful
critiques.
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| Terry McCarty
was born on July 31, 1959 in Electra, Texas. He moved to Southern
California in 1988. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as a background
actor and occasional stand-in for actors including Joe Pesci (THE
PUBLIC EYE, LETHAL WEAPON 3, and JIMMY HOLLYWOOD ) and Wallace Shawn
(HOUSE ARREST). Terry began writing poetry in 1997.
Terry McCarty is the author of
several chapbooks containing poems which blend humor with occasional
social and/or political commentary: Hollywood Poetry, Use Your
Delusion, Wichita Fallos, Love Poems, The Green Album, Adjustment
Disorder and two volumes of Greatest Hits.
Recent Chapbooks includ Born to Walk and
Insufficient Gravitas. In
addition, Terry’s poem “Icarus’ Itinerary" can be found in Tebot
Bach’s 2003 anthology of California poetry So Luminous The
Wildflowers (for sale through Amazon.com).
His blog is
Poetry-Arts Confidential. |
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John McDonald is
a retired stone-mason living in Edinburgh Scotland. He came to haiku
in the mid-nineties and fell in love with the genre. John writes in
scots, one of the two languages native to Scotland - the other being
the Celtic rooted Gaelic. In 2006 he created a bi-lingual blog
http://zenspeug.blogspot.com
and ever since tries to add a haiku a day.
In 2008 he was the recipient of the Sugura Baika Literary award and
published two collections of bi-lingual haiku: The Throu-Gaun
Chiel and Tuim Tin Tassie. He is currently
putting together another collection for early next year.
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Margaret D.
McGee is the author of Sacred Attention: A
Spiritual Practice for Finding God in the Moment and
Stumbling Toward God: A Prodigal's Return. Her
poetry and other short work has been seen in
Northwind Anthology, Alive Now, and Episcopal Life
Magazine. On her web site IntheCourtyard.com,
Margaret shares her further adventures on the spiritual
path.
www.IntheCourtyard.com
margaret@inthecourtyard.com
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| Joan McNerney
has been published widely. Her haiku has been printed in
Modern Haiku, California, Spectrum (Northeastern University,
MA) and Getting Something Read, an on-line zine. "I
love nature and like to observe the details of each glorious
season,. Haiku is particularly suited for that task." |
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Tracy
McPherson: Born in the northwest and grew
up in Southern California, I consider Hawaii home (Don Blanding led
me there). Something about blue water and yellow ginger in bloom. I
have myriad interests, hobbyist and artist, jewelry designer, fiber
arts. I started writing as a pre-teen. I love snorkeling and deep sea
fishing, horticulture, gourmet cooking. Lived in Hawaii and
California, studied trans-cultural shamanism and International
Banking Law. I was a banker, single mom ( he still calls me Major
Dood) have been a bartender, coffee farmer, Sunday school teacher,
office manager, tournament winning fisherwoman. Now I am back to
spiritual counseling, professional psychic and "fun "artist. Life is
not a spectator sport. "I have lived the breadth and width of it as
well as the depth of it." Sort of retired now I appreciate adventure
at a leisurely pace. Aloha Tracy.
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| Stephen
Mead: In the early
1990's Stephen Mead's poems began appearing in such
journals as Onionhead, Bellowing Ark, and
Invert, but upon moving to Provincetown, Mass.,
Stephen decided to concentrate more on visual work. It was
in the year 2000 that Stephen started seeking publication
again for both his writing and his art combined. Since,
then, thanks to the wonders of the World Wide Web, his
work has appeared internationally both in cyberspace and
hard copy. Often the writing has appeared along side the
paintings, and at other times with the text superimposed.
In 2004 Stephen began experimenting even more with these
poetry/art hybrids creating a series of e books, including
the award winning We Are More Than Our Wounds.
From there Stephen began experimenting with his art and
poem as films, at first creating slideshows with captions,
and then doing his own soundtracks and voice overdubs. In
2006 Stephen put this technology to use releasing a CD of
poems set to music Safe & Other Love Poems,
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| Sarah Menefee is
a San Francisco poet whose recent books include Human Star
[Factory School] and In Your Fish Helmet [Transmission
Press]. |
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Jadwiga Gala-Miemus vel IGA
GALA-MIEMUS born in 1958 in Poland. Graduated from University of
Wroclaw - Faculty of Natural Science. Holds a master's degree in
Biology, however she owns a private firm and works there.
Publications: "Cien serca" ( Swidnica 1995 ), Almanach
Walbrzyski (Walbrzych 1997), " Integracja " (1991 nr 27), "Niezalezne
Slowa" ( 1990 nr 16), "Rocznik Swidnicki" (1986,1988/1989 ),
Almanach Swidnickiej Kultury titled "Pegaz nad Swidnica"
(1945-2000), haigaonline, issue 9-2 Autum/Winter 2008 -
celebration of Earth Day 2009, Contemporary haibun online -
April 2009 and Sketchbook .
Currently publishing poems, aphorisms and haiku on her webpage
www.poezja.com.pl
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Malvina Mileta
was born in Istria on December 10, 1955 and lives near Labin,
Croatia. She writes poetry and short stories, published a poetry
collection ZAD NAŠ PORTON and a novel CRNI SNIH,
which is the first novel written on the Labin Chakavian dialect.
She is the author of two theater plays and the speaker for the NIT
Television.
For her poetry she received numerous prizes. For her haiku she
received a Kusamakura award in 2008, publishes in IRIS and joint
collections in Croatia and abroad. She takes part at haiku meetings.
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| Allison Millcock
works as a Youth Counsellor in the Barossa Region of South
Australia. She is co-moderator for the haiga forum on Jane
Reichhold's AHApoetry forum and recently published her first book,
pausing for a moment . . . haiga and tanga. Allison has had
haiku published with FreeXpresSion, Paper Wasp, and
Haiku Dreaming Australia. She has also had haiga published
with Haigaonline and the World Haiku Association. |
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Cristian Mocanu was born on August 8-th, 1968 in Deva, Romania, where he
still lives and works as a freelance translator/interpreter. He holds a
B.A. in English and Romanian litterature from the Bucharest University
(1993). He started writing poetry (Western and Eastern style, in several
languages) as a teenager. His poetry was included in several Romanian
antologies. He received numerous awards, among which: A) In Romania:
"Ion Minulescu" Poetry Contest & Festival (1995):1-st prize,"Porni
Luceafarul" Poetry Contest & Festival (1996):3-rd prize,The "Lumina
Crestinului" Religious Poetry Award for the year 1998. B) Outside
Romania: The “Pesme na jastuku” Contest (ex-Yugoslavia)
3-rd prize (1990), 2-nd prize (1991), the “Benvenuta Europa”
Contest & Festival (Rome, Italy), prize for the Poetry section; the
Suruga Baika Litterary Festival, Japan, Honourable Mention (2004). At
present he is a contributor to various poetry webzines, including:LYNX,
suflete.ro, “Haiku Harvest”, “World Haiku Review”, “Karolina Rijecka”.
He is the editor of the Romanian Saijiki for the World Haiku Club. His
first books of poetry (in Romanian and English) are due in the near
future. |
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| Vasile Moldovan is a
Romanian poet. Since 2001 he is the president of Romanian Society of
Haiku. He published some haiku and senryu books: Via dolorosa
(1998), The moon's unseen face (2001),
Noah's Ark (2003), Ikebana (2005).Together
with poetess Magdalena Dale, Vasile Moldovan has written a bilingual
renga book: Mireasma de tei / Fragrance of lime
(2008). |
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Shanna Baldwin Moore: well. let's
see—originally
from the tall tree country of Washington state, I surfed the tree tops
in the wind... My grandmother was a poet in Greenwich Village and
inspired me to write...I am also a painter in oil and this was what
connected me to the beat poets—I
was the art director of the gas house in Venice—we
had poetry readings to jazz and learned this awesome sound of music to
poetry... came to Hawaii 36 years ago for a vacation and I'm still
vacationing...a lot of my artwork was of Pele the goddess of the volcano
and now I write for her...my Hawaiian poetry can be found at "my
town". Hope to have a book out by the end of the year. |
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| My name is Ron Moss
and I live in Tasmania, an island state of Australia and a place
of stunning wilderness that inspires my art and poetry. I reside in
the mountains with my wife, two dogs and cat. I work in the film and
photography department of the Tasmania Archives, and I have been a
volunteer fire-fighter for 10 years.
I have been deeply interested in
Eastern art and philosophy from an early age. I have pursued this
interest through extensive reading and through the study of Japanese
writing forms including haiku. I also study and practice martial
arts, Zen meditation, sumi-e (ink painting) and haiga (an art form
that combines haiku and watercolour painting) and I have
participated in several exhibitions.
My poetry work has been translated
in several languages and is widely published in journals and
anthologies. I have won numerous awards both within Australia and
overseas (including Japan). I enjoy using visual media and poetry in
combination.
My creative expression is with
mixed media, including photography, painting and digital fine art.
Portfolios can be found at
www.ronmoss.com and
http://www.redbubble.com/people/ronmoss |
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| Cameron Mount
is a poet and fiction author and a member of the Davis
Square Bagel Bards. He served as an officer in the US Navy
from 2001 to 2007, rising to the rank of Lieutenant before
leaving to pursue a career in writing. In 2008 Cameron
earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His
poems have been published in The Somerville News,
Wilderness House Literary Review, and Phoenix Lore,
and have received awards from the Writer's Digest
Annual Writing Competition. He has had poems published in
Wilderness House Literary Review, and
Phoenix Lore. He currently works as a substitute
high school teacher in Somerville, MA. |
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| Robert Moyer,
Winston Salem, NC, wrote haiku for many years before he
published anything. His work has since appeared in
frogpond, MODERN HAIKU, bottle rockets, Acorn, and
simplyhaiku, among others. He has also been included in
a number of anthologies, most recently LOOSE THREADS,
the ten-year anniversary anthology of Acorn. He was
privileged to host the 2007 Haiku North America
Conference with Dave russo and Lenard D. Moore in his
home town of Winston Salem, NC. |
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Aju Mukhopadhyay is a bilingual poet, essayist,
feature and fiction writer. His features and articles
include those on travel, food, health, culture and
festivals, on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, on nature,
environment, spiritualism and many others. He has three
books of short stories and two books of poems among his 12
books in Bangla. He has authored 11 books in English which
include poems, biography, novel, short stories, essays on
environment and other subjects. Among them one is
exclusively on short verses like haiku and tanka. He has
been regularly writing in magazines, e-zines and sometimes
in newspapers. Some of his works have been translated in
other languages and included in anthologies.
Besides a Certificate of Competence as a Published Writer
by the Writers Bureau, Manchester and prize on short
story, he has been declared the best poet of the year 2003
among others, by the Poet’s International. He has been
nominated as the member of the Research Board of the
American Biographical Institute. |
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Christopher
Mulrooney has written poems and translations in Ezra,
Vanitas, Guernica, New Translations, Calque and Beeswax.
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