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| Ruth Nott is
65, a native Floridian, who has found poetry to be a valued part of
her life. Her poetry reflects her faith and values and a deep love
for God and family. Her work has been published in various
anthologies of the
International Library of Poetry, small press
magazines, Poetry Canada magazine, The Quilter
magazine, The Joy of Living Poetry Collection by Hazel
Street Publications, Sea Oats Review a magazine by the
Panama City Writer’s Assoc., Mahogany and Molasses, Verse-a-tility
(chapbook of the Chiefland Poetry Group), Anthology
Twenty-Four of the Florida State Poets Assoc., Inc., Of Poets and
Poetry (newsletter of the Florida State Poets Assoc., Inc.),
various newsletters, and several poetry websites, blogs, and groups.
In January, 2005 Ruth self-published her first book of Christian
poetry, “A Pure and Simple Faith” and in January 2006
assisted her family in self-publishing a family anthology titled
“Family Matters.” In 2007 Ruth has self-published
“Crazy Patch”, “Haiku for Lovers”, “Where Memory Lingers”,
and “Garden of Faith”. Please visit
her website |
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Rita Odeh is a
Christian Palestinian who was born in Nazareth and, following a
B. A. in English and Comparative Literature from Haifa
University, returned to teach high school in her hometown. A
member of the World Haiku Association, she has published five
books of poetry in Arabic, and maintains a trilingual
website where
her poetry may be read in Arabic, English and Dutch
www.geocities.com/ana_keyan She began writing haiku on
Oct.15, 2006. Since then she's devoting all her time to this
type of poetry since she believes that: the scent, not the
flower, is driving her crazy.
Karen O'Leary is a wife, mother,
nurse, and freelance writer from North Dakota. Writing affords her an
outlet for her creativity. Her articles, short stories, and poetry have
appeared in various venues including SP Quill, Storyteller, Amaze,
Beyond Katrina, Purpose, Art With Words, and Sketchbook.
louis osofsky bumbles his way to
deeper understanding; sustains a wild
and nurturing relationship with his two teenage sons; provides fiscal
wellness to the local public health agency; sleeps most nights in
westwood, california … found in various poetry venues
osofskylouis@yahoo.com
| Pam Pignataro
lives in a small town in upstate NY with 2 grown children & assorted
pets. "Poetry is my escape from my real life, which includes
commuting to NYC, where I am a nurse case manager. Not much of a
talker, poetry has always been one of my primary means of
expression. I've found the Asian forms to be my favorite & have been
published in Moonset, Ribbons, Red Lights, White Lotus, Modern
English Tanka, and upcoming in Frogpond". |
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| Jennifer Quillen
teaches art in an elementary school in Crossville, Tennessee. She is
active in the promotion of the arts in the area. At the same time,
she is a busy wife, mother, grandmother. |
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| Zhanna P. Rader
writes a variety of poetry and short stories in Russian, her native
language, as well as in English. She is the moderator of WHCRussian
haiku forum of the World Haiku Club and has been an editor of
World Haiku Review. She is also the President of the Athens,
Georgia, Branch of American League of Pen Women. She is a winner of
many haiku, senryu and children's poem contests. She has been
published since 1986 in numerous magazines, anthologies and books,
among which are the following: Amaze; Brussels Sprout;
Canadian Zen Haiku canadien; Cicada; The Daily Yomiuri; Dragonfly;
Ecopoems. Winners of the Rhyming Haiku, 1991; Fire
Pearls; Four Seasons. Haiku Anthology, 1991; Frogpond; Haiku Canada
Newsletter; Haiku Zashi Zo; Haikumena; Hermitage; How to Write and
Publish Poetry. Larry Gross. Tallahassee, Florida, 1990;
In Buddha’s Temple; Ko; Lishanu; Lynx; The Lyric; Mainichi News;
Mayfly; Midwest Poetry Review; Modern Haiku; “Na Pua’oli puke’eono”.
Anthology of HEA; South by Southeast; New Cicada; Nightshade; Pine
Mountain, Sand & Gravel; Short Stuff; Only Morning in Her Shoes,
Utah, 1990; "The Reach of Song," |
Georgia State
Poetry Society; The Red Pagoda; Russia House; Short Stuff; Simply
Haiku; Sketchbook; Ulitka; Wind Chimes; World Haiku Review; “Write
On, HEA! Hawaii; Yellow Moon.
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Elena Ray: I am primarily a
photographer. My main subjects are people and natural
objects. The themes I am currently exploring are energy
and healing systems, and archetypal psychology. I work
extensively with Asian and handmade papers. I paint and
mix painting and collage with my photography. |
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| Wayne
(Scott) Ray was born in Alabama and spent most of his
first fifteen years with his family on Ernest Harmon Air
Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland until moving to
Woodstock Ontario in 1965. He lived in Toronto with his
(ex) wife and two daughters Leanne & Jaclyn from 1973-1988
when they moved to London Ontario in July of 1988. Wayne
is the founder of HMS Press Publishing, the Multicultural
Poetry Reading Series (University of Toronto), Scarborough
Arts Council Poetry Contest, co-founder and
Secretary/Treasurer of the Canadian Poetry Association
(1985-88 Toronto & 1992-1995 London) and co-chairman of
the League of Canadian Poets: Associates (Toronto) for
1985/86. He was co-director of the Beaches Poetry Workshop
(Toronto) in 1983. Since moving to London he has helped
form the Writers Resource Center & Online Bookstore and
was the National Coordinator of the C.P.A. He was the
recipient of the Editors Prize for 'Best Poet Published in
1989' from Canadian Author and Bookman. He was
instrumental in helping establish the London Arts Council
and is the Past President of the New London Arts Festival
for 1999-2001. He is listed in Who's Who in Ontario 1995.
Wayne has several books of poetry and non-fiction
published as well as credits in; anthologies, periodicals, |
journals and
newspapers across Canada between 1983 and 2006. He was
living in Fredericton New Brunswick in 2002/03 but is now
back in London where he is actively publishing and
writing. He operates a Book Repair business and a
Photography Archives.
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| My name is
Kristin Reynolds. I am a mother to five gorgeous
little ones and one husband. We live in the southern
Vermont green mountains now, which are a constant
inspiration, but I am originally from Winnipeg, Canada - a
true prairie girl at heart. I have been writing for as
long as I can remember, and I tend to write poems of
truth, nature, raw emotion and inspiration. |
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Moira
Richards lounges around the staffrooms of
absolutewrite.com, womenwriters.net and moondance.org -
usually sipping tea, sometimes Jack Daniels. Off-line, she
teaches accounting-related subjects at the Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan University in South Africa.
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Helen Ruggieri lives in
Olean, NY. A book of haibun,The Character for Kokoro (Spirit), will be out
soon from foothillspublishing.com Recent essays have appeared in
anthologies: Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual
(Celestial Arts Press) and in In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary
Writing (Impassio Press).
Kevin Ryan is the Director of Charnwood Arts, a committed
community artist, a keen photographer, writer and haijin. He has published
a wide range of books and magazines and has developed, managed, produced
or delivered well over 1,000 different arts programmes, projects,
residencies, festivals and events across all art forums. He is also a
documentary short video maker and an Ustad in a South Asian martial art.
Geoff
Sanderson’s photography has appeared in
Verse Libre Quarterly (VLO) and in Boxcar Poetry
Review, and his haiga have been published in Haiga
Online, Simply Haiku, Short Stuff, WHA Haiga Contest archives,
and in Moonset The Newspaper. After many years of
landscape photography and traditional poetry, he switched to digital
photography and caught the Internet bug when in his seventies, then
plunged into the arcane world of photo-haiga three years ago.
Retired from his 34-years career in the Royal Air Force more than
twenty years ago, Geoff now lives in North Yorkshire, England, with
his wife Jill – an amateur artist. Much of their leisure time is
spent in hill-walking in all seasons, in the Yorkshire Dales
National Park, The Lake District, and Scotland, pursuing their
hobbies of photography, painting and writing. |
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| Mark Savage:
I was born in the midwest, raised in OC, and now live in Los
Angeles.
I began shooting professionally
at 21. I have a variety of clients that range from celebrity, public
relations firms, magazine, print advertising, and weddings.
www.MarkSavage.com
I began to document the poets
of Los Angeles through portraits roughly in 1997. To date, I have
photographed well over 100 poets and am currently working on a first
book of portraits. The website devoted to the project is
www.SoulsAndPassions.com
Poets are encouraged to contact me at
MarkSavagePhoto@aol.com if they wish to participate. |
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G. David Schwartz - the
former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee.
Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue.
Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz
continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of
The Book is now in stores or can be ordered. Check out my
book on
Midrash:
Link to
G. David Schwaartz site. |
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Fred Jeremy Seligson was
born in 1945 (a "Haebang-dungi /Independence child") in Washington,
D.C.. A few days later, a stout, black nurse held him up to the
window, pointed across the street and declared, "Boy, someday you’re
going to live in that White House!"
F. J. earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University
of Southern California in 1967, and a J.D. from Indiana University
School of Law in 1970. J.D. means Juris Doctor, not "Jewish Doctor,"
as his wife first supposed. Joining the U.S. Peace Corps, he wrote
laws to improve the lot of peasant farmers under Haile Selassie’s
Government in Ethiopia. This one’s is not a joke!
From 1973 on, solo journeys took him into the Congo rainforest to
pygmies and learn about Nature. Then to India to inquire into Truth
from a guru. Australia to slave in a solar salt mine. And to Japan
to count syllables with a famous poet, Cid Corman. An old woman
caught him in Kyoto, set his bag of poems on her back, and sent him
packing to Korea.
Soon after arriving in Korea in 1977, he married his "pen pal" up on
a snowy Korean mountaintop.
From 1978 through 2003, F. J. taught at Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies in the Department of English Education, in S(e)oul.
Currently he is teaching Interesting Yoga English and, A Journey
through the World’s Religious Cultures on-line for Wangwan Buddhist
University in Ik-san, South Korea. Also, he is the Asia-Pacific Vice
President for the International Association for the Study of Dreams
F. J. is the author of Oriental Birth Dreams (Hollym
1988) and Queen Jin’s Handbook of Pregnancy (North
Atlantic Books 2001) as well as of various poetry chapbooks.
He founded the Children’s Peace Train in 2002.
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Vaughn Seward (aka Masago) is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He became
interested in Haiku in 2005 and has since written numerous haiku, senyru,
and tanka. He participates in several Yahoo haiku news groups and in 2006
started a haiku blog .
In April, 2006, after being involved in several Renku projects he
discovered the idea of 3x3 interlocking renku. Later this came to be known
as Rubricku. In
August, 2007 he completed
a year-long
linked haiku project and this year he is doing a
year-long rengay project with 12 other haijin. Vaughn joined
TheOutlawPoets in September, 2006.
Ami
Shecter, a native Baltimorean,
went to Drew University where she received a BA in
Anthropology and Religion in 1989. She now lives on the
Paulinskill River in Northern New Jersey and is a self
employed gardener. Her specialty and passion is container
gardening, but she also plants and maintains annual and
perennial gardens for homes and offices. She has been
writing haiku for a few years and is eternally grateful to
all the poets, teachers, editors, moderators, secretaries
and everyone in the haiku community keeping the haiku
spirit not only alive but rocking!
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Trish Shields
studied Fine Arts and creative writing at Algonquin College in
Ottawa. Her first book of poetry, Soul Speak, was nominated for
a Lambda Literary Award in 2001. Her poetry and short stories
are published internationally. Trish’s first novel,
Inferno, was on The Open Book’s best seller’s list for
2004. The Canadian Poetry Association, The League of Canadian
Poets and the Canadian-Cuba Literary Alliance are a few of the
literary associations she belongs to. She lives on Vancouver
Island. |
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Keith A. Simmonds was born in Barbados where he received his
early education at St. George’s Boys’ School, St George, and the
Modern High School, Roebuck, St. Michael, Bridgetown . He worked in
Barbados before migrating to Trinidad where he worked and studied.
He earned a B.A in French and Spanish at the University of the West
Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, then won a French scholarship which
allowed him to acquire a Phd in France . He likes walking, travel,
nature, reading, teaching French, and writing poetry which is an
integral part of him now. He has won several awards for his
writings, especially for verse. For him, poetry is indeed a source
of consolation, peace, a means of exploring the inner sense of the
human experience, a benediction! The word, for him, is life itself!
For him, true poetry puts a premium on the eternal quest for the
values of truth, honesty, probity, pride, the dignity and power of
the human spirit and our relationship with the Supreme Creator of
the Word! Keith Simmonds is a regular contributor to Wonder Haiku
Worlds. He is bilingual and writes in both French and English. He
spends three months of the year in France and the rest of the year
in Trinidad where he writes and teaches French at all levels.
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Monica Ellen
Smith has written poetry since 1991, and
is a member of the Quill & Parchment community of poets. She is also
an Author's Den poet (http://authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=7521
), and listed in the Poets & Writers Directory of American Poets and
Fiction Writers, The Academy of American Poets; the Ohio Arts
Council Directory of Ohio Creative Writers and The Internet
Directory of Published Writers (WritersNet).
She resides in West Liberty, Ohio and her work has been published
internationally in print/online magazines (The Fairfield
Review; Carnelian; Poetry Life and Times; Limestone Circle; Steel
Point Quarterly; The Other Voices International Project
(submission by invitation only); Folly; The Sidewalk’s End;
High Horse; Muse Apprentice Guild (M.A.G. (http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/)
etc.).
Most recently, Monica has also had her poems purchased to appear in
the following two books by June Cotner, To Have and to Hold:
Prayers, Poems, and Blessings for Newlyweds, June Cotner
(P.O. Box 2765; Poulsbo, WA 983700;
www.junecotner.com,
("Homecoming"; "Mask" -- April 2007 release); Miracles of
Motherhood: Prayers and Poems for a New Mother, June Cotner
(P.O. Box 2765; Poulsbo, WA 983700;
www.junecotner.co,
("Afterbirth" – March 2007
release).
Monica has one book of poetry, Days of Fine Gray Ash,
a collection of poems regarding the many nuances of love. The book
has been endorsed by Poet Nikki Giovanni; it can be purchased by
contacting Monica directly or through the Author's Den
(http://authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=7521 ) or via
paypal: http://purplequill.com/days.htm , where you may read more
about the book. Monica is currently working on her second book, a
collection of Nature poetry. |
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Sophie Song
teaches at a private elementary school in Maryland
and is a single parent and is a "Muse" to several poet/artists..
Sketch by Ed Baker |
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| Melissa Spurr
is currently self-employed as a web developer, marketing specialist,
writer of flowery hyperbole ad copy, and photographer. In 2003 she
accepted a buyout package from her employer of seventeen years and
ran screaming from her soul-numbing job as an industrial engineer.
For a brief period afterward, Melissa co-hosted and produced a
public affairs radio program that featured a spectrum of guests
ranging from a Nobel Prize winning scientist to a homeless heroin
addict. Melissa enjoyed 1 minute and 58 seconds of fleeting,
marginal fame in an appearance on NPR's All Things Considered. She
lives in California with her husband, two dogs and a cross-eyed cat. |
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J.E. Stanley is an accountant and
part-time guitarist from the grayscale suburban wilderness of Northeastern
Ohio. A member of The Deep Cleveland Tribe of Poetry, he is the author of
the book, Dark Intervals (vanZeno Press), the chapbook,
Dissonance (deep cleveland press) and the
short collection, Ink (Gypsy Lips Press). He has been a
frequent contributor to the deep cleveland junkmail
oracle and Sein und Werden. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming
in 103: The Journal of the Image Warehouse, Amaze, Asimov's, ChiZine,
The Ghazal Page, MoonLit, Stray Dog, tinywords, Three-Chord Poems: The
Poetry of Rock & Roll, water*fire*light and numerous other
publications.
| Brian Strand
lives in Buckinghamshrie, England (where he was born) and is now
retired. Some of Brian's writings (and some artwork) have been
published in a variety of small press magazines including Amaze, and
a number of internet poetry magazines. Brian Strand has published
three chapbook: William Soutar, Flowers of Life: A Selection
of Cinquains, Brian Strand, editor; Shorthand of the
Heart: A selection of poetic form, edited by Brian Strand;
and POIEMA: A selection of Ekphrasis poems, by Brian
Strand. PHANEROS: A selection of Lanternes by Brian
Strand. SEQUENCE: A selection of Fibonacci by Brian
Strand. INFORMEL & HEART OF CREATION: Art chapbooks of
a selection of Tanga by Brian Strand. |
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| John Stone
is a working musician living in Northern California. Some of his
work can be found in Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online, and a
slew of obscure journals that nobody really reads. |
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| Constantin
Stroe is a Romanian cameraman and poet. He has published poems
and haiku in the following poetry magazines: Albatros, Dor de
dor, Haiku. In the last year he obtained honourable mentions
at the contest of the Haiku magazine (Romania) and at
the Ludbreg Calendar Haiku Contest (Croatia). |
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E. E. Sule is the author of The Agatu Culture: Songs and Dances
(2002, a study of oral poetry); Impotent Heavens (2004, a
collection of short stories); Knifing Tongues (2005, a volume of
poetry); The Writings of Zaynab Alkali (2005, a critical work);
Naked Sun (2006, a volume of poetry); and Dream and Shame
(2006, a collection of short stories). He teaches African Literature,
Creative Writing and Modern Literary Theory in Department of English,
Nasarawa State University. His poems, short stories and scholarly essays
have appeared in both local and international anthologies, journals and
e-journals such as Asheville Poetry Review, Drumvoices Revue,
Camouflage: Best of Nigerian Contemporary Writing, Sentinel Poetry
Online, MindFire Africa, Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry, The Ker Review:
A Journal of Nigerian Literature, Benue Valley Journal of Humanities,
Ibadan Journal of English Studies, The African Journal of New Poetry,
KAROGS, and SemiCerchio. He is currently a writer-in-residence
with the PER SESH Writing Program in Popenguine, Senegal, where he is
working on his first novel.
Alan Summers: I live in Bradford on
Avon (just outside Bath, U.K.), but workshop and read around the U.K.
The haiku events I've been involved with range from the first ever
British Sign Language Haiku Festival, organised by the University of
Bristol; The Stars & Night Sky Challenge Haiku Competition for children
from the slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya; 'Rocket Dreams' a "live multi-haiga"
event matching haiku with NASA images, with a talk from award-winning
space historian Piers Bizony; the With Words Space Haiku competition
during National Poetry Day (U.K.) and World Space Week for local
schoolchildren in Bristol, including entries from Nairobi (Kenya) which
were so good that they became 'hidden haiku' for visiting local children
to find amongst the space exhibits in At-Bristol!
There have been a few haiku poet residencies including the U.K.'s
largest & month-long celebration of natural history, "Bristol Festival
of Nature 2004"; "Haiku Week" at Bath Spa University with projects
traditional & untraditional including a 24 Hour Haiku Answerphone;
Bristol café & art gallery Oppo} throughout 2006, even mentioned in the
Lonely Planet guide to Great Britain; various 'haiku inhabitances' and
'haiku karaoke' at a number of city Art Trails, and locally at the Ale &
Porter Visual Arts Centre, Bradford on Avon. |
Next year I'm going out in a mobile
library meeting people visiting out of the way villages.
Various details about my haiku activities are on
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Barbara A. Taylor
is inspired by her Rainbow Region of northern New South Wales,
Australia. Her work has appeared in Lynx, CHO, Folly,
Flashquake, Shamrock Journal, Haiku Scotland, Simply Haiku,
Tinywords, Chrysanthemum, Stylus, Wisteria, Eucalypt, Kokako,
Triptychhaiku, Ribbons, Landfall: A Tanka Anthology, and
literary journals including Triplopia, Cezanne's Carrot,
Kaleidowhirl, Dusie and The Blue Fifth Review.
Her diverse poems with audio are at <http://batsword.tripod.com>
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Cindy Tebo currently lives in
Catawissa, MO, with her husband and teenage son. Her collaborative
writings have appeared in Lynx and The Aroostook
Review.
| A. Thiagarajan,
IN: A postgraduate in English, A. Thiagarajan (b 1949) taught in
colleges in India, before joining the the finance sector. He has
been writing in English and Tamil since college days. His work
(poems, haiku, short stories and articles) has appeared in some
anthologies; it also has appeared in Subtle Tea, Poetic
Diversity, A Little Poetry, Poetry Canada, Ygdrasil, Lililitreview,
SAWF, Tinywords, pwreview, poetrysuperhighway, betterkarma, DNA,
NDTV, Indolink, The Heron's Nest, Haiku Harvest, Roadrunner, Simply
Haiku, Cloudspeak, Velvetillusion, Boloji.com, Meghdulam,
and Mainichi. Nuances of relationship between
individuals, mental pain and cruelty we inflict on each other and
ourselves are his obsession. Interests include finance, Sri
Aurobindo and mythology. He lives in Mumbai, India with his wife,
Rama. His only child, Ganesh, has just started working in the USA. -
email athiag@gmail.com |
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| Craig Tigerman
was born and raised in Chicago and has lived in Illinois for over 50
years with an eye on south Florida. He has published two volumes of
poetry, Indigo Avenue and Tigertale,
selections from over 30 years of writing. Craig is most comfortable
writing structured lyrical poetry, having also composed many dozens
of original songs. "Rhythm and rhyme are key to making a poem
memorable," he states. Craig is married, has four children and two
grandsons. By day he is a software support specialist for a
well-known computer company. He fervently prays daily for a massive
outbreak of peace and love throughout the world. |
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Maria Tirenescu
was born in village Sacel – Maramures – Romania, in 1949. She
graduated from Mathematics – Mechanics Faculty – Babes Bolyai
University Cluj Napoca. She is a mathematics teacher at technical
college “Ion D. Lazarescu” in Cugir – Romania.
Her haiku and other poems have appeared in many literary sites
online:
http://english.agonia.net/index.php,
www.poezia.lx.ro,
www.wonderhaikuworlds.com,
www.poetry.com,
www.voicesnet.com,
www.modernenglishtanka.com,
http://haiku-tanka.aceboard.fr, and
www.poetsinternational.com
She has published in several national and international reviews:
Poezia, Haiku, Albatross, Oglinda Literara, Poets International,
KO, Revue de Tanka Francophone.
She’s anthologized in the following
Romanian haiku anthologies: Surasul crizantemei–
2004, Primele viziuni – 2005, Primele viziuni II –
2006 and in the following bilingual anthologies Flori
de tei/ Lime-tree flowers – 2006, Greieri si crizanteme/Crickets and
chrysanthemum – 2007, Scoici de mare/ Sea shells – 2007.
She wrote some books: Risipa de parfum haiku booklet 2005
and Culorile viselor – 2007.
She won the following prizes: great prize at haiku contest AD VISUM,
the first edition, 2005 -VISEU DE SUS; first place in the haiku
contest of “Haiku” Romanian magazine – 2006; first place in the
haiku contest AD VISUM 2006 – Viseul de Sus- Romania; |
an commendable haiku as
one of the most interesting poems The First international haiku
contest of Bulgarian haiku club HAIKU AND MUSIK 2006; Honorable
Mention Chicago Cicada Haiku Contest – 2007; the fifth prize of the
Poems for Mother Earth and Honorable Mention Mainichi Haiku Contest
2007.
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Jennie Townsend's work is published
in Red Moon anthologies, "inside the mirror" and "pegging the
wind"; in S x SE; World Haiku Review; The Heron's Nest; Hermitage II;
and in the 7th volume of Contemporary Haibun. Jennie writes with
fine poets on Marlene Mountain's site--several "Connections" were
published in Lynx and Mindfire. She has been included in
New Resonance 4 and in the upcoming "Echoes". Haiku is a gift
that has changed how I live my life and how I see the world.
| Max Verhart
(1944, the Netherlands) writes and publishes haiku since about 1980.
1999-2003 president of the Haiku Circle Netherlands, since 2003
editor of Vuursteen (Flint), the oldest haiku journal in Europe.
Member of the editorial staff of the Red Moon Anthology (USA) since
2002. Translations published in English, German, Greek, Japanese,
Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Polish, French. |
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| Ella Wagemakers:
Born sometime towards the end of September 1961 in Manila, Ella
Wagemakers emigrated to The Netherlands in 1988 and became a Dutch
citizen in 1993. She obtained a Master's Degree in Education in
Tilburg in 2003, and is currently teaching English full-time at the
Dutch Police Academy. Her first book (written in Dutch) is a
genealogy of the Wagemakers family. An essay of hers, 'Dutch
Journey', was included in the anthology Not Home, But Here
edited by Virginia-based author Luisa A. Igloria. Her first poetry
collection, Sorrows of the Chameleon, was published in
February 2007, www.ewchameleon.com . She lives with her husband,
Adrian, in West Brabant. |
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Tammy Whisman resides in Southern,
West Virginia. She’s a member of the West Virginia Writers, Inc. and a
frequent contributor to several online poetry magazines. Author of two
poetry books, “Fireflies, Moonlight and All That Jazz” and “Sliced Ice
Cream” which is in post-production and soon to be released.
(www.freewebs.com/tlwhisman)
| Don Wiggins is
semi-retired and lives in his childhood home of North Carolina |
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| Colin Will,
formerly a scientific librarian, has had four poetry collections
published, the latest being Sushi & Chips (Diehard
Publishers). He chairs the board of St Anza: Scotland's Poetry
Festival, and He is webmaster for Poetry Scotland. His blog is 'Sunny
Dunny', a reference to his home town of Dunbar, Scotland. His
personal website is at http://www.colinwill.co.uk
He is also a publisher of poetry and other chapbooks,
under the name Calder Wood Press. In January 2008 he was appointed
Poet Partner to Elgin, in North-East Scotland, for a two year
period. |
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Robert D. Wilson
is the owner/managing editor of Simply Haiku. He lives near Yosemite
National Park in California and part of the year at his home in the
Philippines.
Linda Willets has been in Photography for about five years.
I shoot with Nikon cameras. My passion is floral photography. I love to
get close up to my subjects. I love to take photos of flowers from the
back , a view most miss but there is much beauty. The plant is Jimpson
Weed. I'm in Arizona, USA. I live in Southwest part of the state. The
photo was taken at the Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden.
| A.D. Winans
is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer, whose work
has appeared internationally, and has been translated into eight
languages. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University and a
member of PEN. He is the author of over forty-five books and
chapbooks of poetry and prose, including The Holy Grail:
Charles Bukowski and the Second Coming Revolution (Dustbooks).
A collection of Selected Poems was just published by
Presa Press. He is the former editor and publisher of Second Coming
Magazine/Press. He edited and published Second Coming for seventeen
years, where he met and became close friends with the late Bob
Kaufman, Jack Micheline, and Charles Bukowski. In 2005 a song poem
of his was performed at Tully Hally, NYC. In 2006 he was awarded a
PEN National Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. He can
be contacted at: slowdancer2006@netzero.com. |
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| Tad Wojnicki's
work has appeared in Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun, bottle
rockets, Poetry Midwest, The Jewish Spectator, ZYZZYVA, Noo Yawk,
Tattoo Highway, Poetry Motel, Sugar Mule, Rainbow Curve, Homestead
Review, Harrisburg Review, and poetry anthologies like:
AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from ZYZZYVA, ed. by
Howard Junker; In the Arms of the Words: Poems for Tsunami
Relief, ed. by Amy Ouzonian; and Taboo Haiku,
ed. by Richard Krawiec. Tad is the author of a novel, Lie
Under the Fig Trees, and a poetry chapbook, Where
Angels Catch Hell. He lives in Carmel, CA where he organizes
bohemian "poetry powwows" on the beach. Overseas on sabbatical,
currently he teaches Ginsberg and Bukowski in subtropical Asia.
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Since 1970 John
Yamrus has published 2 novels, 15 volumes of poetry and more
than 900 poems in magazines around the world. Selections of his work
have been translated into several languages...most recently,
Romanian.
His
newest book, Shoot The Moon, is available from
amazon.com
Sketch by
Swedish artist Henry Denander |
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| Scot Young
was born and raised in Missouri. He is a high school principal.
In his spare time he teaches a poetry class beginning with the
Beats. His recent poetry credits include: The Beat, Spoken
War, Asphalt Sky, Potpourri, and Pleiades. |
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| Rafal
Zabratynski was born in Rzeszow, Poland, where he
still lives. He is an English teacher in a lower secondary school.
Rafal writes mostly haiku but also haibun, rengay and creates haiga.
His works appeared in numerous Internet publications, such as (among
others): Haiku Harvest, Asahi Haikuist Network, Tinywords,
Simply Haiku, Mainichi Daily News, The Heron's Nest, Contemporary
HaibunOnline. Rafal is a moderator at the Polish forum
ABC haiku po polsku and a member of the English
AHApoetry Forums. Since 2005, he has been running his
personal website Wordographs. Writing haiku and mountaineering are Rafal's favourite
ways of admiring the world. |
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| Andrew
James Zimba is a writer, poet and
freelance journalist who has been published in the Polish American
Journal and the internationally-read Pol-Am newsletter. Andrew is a
member of the Texas-based Golden Triangle Writer's Guild and the
Louisiana-based Bayou Writer's Group. |
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