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| Robert Naczas
was born at the beginning of 1976 in the Subcarpathia region of
Poland but he is now living in Ireland with his wife - Aneta and two
kids - Amelia and Yeshe; teaching English to immigrants. He
published two haiku chapbooks; some of his haiku also appeared in
various online magazines. Enjoy. |
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| Stephen Nelson
was born in Motherwell, Scotland in 1970. He has recently published
at Otoliths, Double Room and elimae, and
is very much option d) all of the above. He blogs at
http://afterlights.blogspot.com |
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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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| Magnus Amudi Nwagu is from
Enugu State of Nigeria. He is currently enrolled in a Law
programme at Enugu State University of Science and
Technology. He has published one book, We Must Learn
Again To Fly: (A Call for change) |
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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. |
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| Mariusz
Ogryzko was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1977 and he lives there
with his wife and son. He works as a biology teacher in a primary
school. Enjoying writing haiku and haiku related forms he is a
member of Polish Haiku Forum 'Haiku po polsku'. His poems were
published in Modern Haiku, Asahi Haikuist Network, Frogpond
and haiga at World Haiku Association.
http://link.interia.pl/f1f93 |
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| Lisa Okon was
born in Brooklyn, studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
and has lived for most of her life in Jerusalem, where she raised
her family. She works in private practice as a marriage therapist
and family mediator and has recently completed her first novel,
dealing with the relationship between two bereaved parents, an
Israeli and a Palestinian. For over ten years she has been involved
in a love affair with Japan and writing haiku has been one of its
manifestations. |
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| 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.
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| Shannon O'Leary
is a Christian from North Dakota majoring in Elementary Education. I
have published some poetry through the writing forum. I continue to
write in hopes of learning through not only my writing, but other
people 's writing as well. |
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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 |
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| Peter Pache
is a retired environmental manager/biologist now living in rural New
Mexico, with interests in heritage livestock, pottery and, of
course, haiku. Peter and his wife are pictured here on their 2007
trip to Glacier National Park. |
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| Dejan
Pavlinovic, born in 1968, is an English teacher and occasional
tourist guide from Pula, Croatia. He has been writing haiku since
2007. So far his haiku has received awards and commendations in
Croatia (Krapina 2008-2nd prize) and Japan (Kusamakura 2009-2nd
prize, Itoen 2009-Merit award). When not being captured by his
family, work, travel, sea, sun, football, music and other blessings,
Dejan occasionally publishes his haiku both in English and Croatian
on his blog
http://smilingcricket.blog.hr/ |
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| Eric Pederson is a senior at the
University
of
Wisconsin,
La Crosse; he is majoring in English and High School
Education. In addition to writing poetry, Eric is writing a
novel which he hopes to have completed by the end of summer,
2009. He enjoys all types of outdoor activity, including
biking, Frisbee, snowmobiling, snowboarding, and hiking.
Eric is pictured with
Kristi Sauer, his fiancée; the couple will be
married in the summer of 2009. Kristi is an English major at UWL. |
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| 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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Marija Andjela
Pogorilic was born Radovan in Rovinjsko Selo in 1948 where she
lives today. She graduated from Pedagogical Academy in Pula
(Geography and History).
Marija publishes poetry and prose in the Chakavian dialect of
Rovinjsko Selo and standard Croatian. She writes down sayings and
proverbs of her place. So far she has published three collections of
poetry: Dih ljubavi (A Breath of Love), Kap rose (A Dewdrop)
and Zrno soli (A Grain of Salt). She is presented in 12
joint collections and over 50 literary magazines and takes part in
poetry recitals in the country.
She publishes Haiku in IRIS haiku magazine and joint
haiku collections in Klostar Ivanic, Ludbreg, Obrovac („Rene
Matousek“ haiku meeting). For her haiku she has received an award
and commendment. (The 12th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2008 - Honourable
Mention, The Klostar Ivanic 2009, 2nd Prize |
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My name is Katarzyna
Predota. I was born in Poland, in 1983. I live there with my
husband. I have been interested in haiku since 2007 and now haiku is
my passion. My poems have been published
on the internet at Asahi Haikuist Network, Mainichi Daily
News, Shamrock Haiku Journal. My poems were noticed in the
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2008 (Sakura Award) and at the 1st
Polish Contest HAIKU 2008. |
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Aleksandar
Prokopiev is a short story writer and essayist. Born 24 February 1953, in
Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature and Theory of Literature. Works at the Institute of
Macedonian Literature in Skopje. Works: The Young
Master of the Game (short stories, 1983), ...or...
(short stories, 1986), Sailing South (short
stories, 1986), A Sermon on the Snake (stories,
1992), Was Kalimah a Post-Modernist? (essays,
1994), Fairytale on the road (essays, 1996),
Let's make a movie together (stories for children,
1997), Ars amator-ia (stories, 1998),
Image which rolls (haiky, 1998),
Anti-instructions for personal use (poetical diary,
2000), Postmodern Babylon (essays, 2000). He
tried his skills at scenarios for stage projects, comic
strips, quiz-shows, texts for rock-and-roll songs,
feuilletons, translations and radio adaptations.
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| Dorota Pyra lives
in Gdansk, a spectacular city in the north of Poland, where she
works as a pre-school teacher. She commenced her haiku hike in 2005.
Beside this genre, she writes longer poetry and also children's
short stories and songs. Dorota's haiku can be found on Polish and
foreign websites as well as in paper publication. "Icy moon", her
first book of haiku and free poems, was published by Bernardinum
Press of Pelplin in 2009. By winning The 2009 Shiki Special Kukai in
memory of William J. Higginson and getting the prize - the journey
to Matsuyama - she was given the chance to feel the air that created
this miniature poetry. Dorota's fascination with photography and
visual art as well as the kind of education she got (Academy Of Fine
Arts in Gdansk) allow her to draw joy from joining word to image in
the form of photo-haiga.Her works can be seen on
WHA Haiga Web site,
Haigaonline,
DailyHaiga, and on her blog
rozsypany czas (scattered time). |
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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 (in Russian) and of WHCpoemsforchildren (in English).
She was the previous President of the Athens, Georgia Branch of
National League of American Pen Women. She is a member of: Georgia
Poetry Society, USA; Southeaster Writers Association; Society of
Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; and Greensboro Art
Alliance, GA, USA. She is a winner of many haiku, senryu and
children’s poetry contests. She has been published since 1986 in
numerous magazines, anthologies and books in several countries,
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, Moonset; “Na Pua’oli puke’eono”, Anthology of
HEA; South by Southeast, New Cicada, Nightshade, Mountain,
Samoborski Susreti, Sand & Gravel Press; Only Morning in her
Shoes, Utah, 1990; “The Reach of Song,” Georgia State Poetry
Society;
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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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Terrie Leigh
Relf (AKA semi), a life time member of the SFPA, lives
in Ocean Beach, located in San Diego, CA. In addition to
teaching Academic Writing and Critical Thinking at San Diego
City College and Woodbury University of Architecture and
Design, she is on staff at Sam’s Dot Publishing, where she
edits Hungur Magazine and The Drabbler,
and serves on the Special Projects Committee. Recent
releases from Sam’s Dot Publishing include The Poet’s
Workshop—and Beyond, Blood Journey, a vampire novel,
co-authored with Henry Lewis Sanders, and My friend,
the poet, and other poems about people I think I know.
She has been nominated for two Rhysling Awards, most
recently for a collaborative poem with her daughter, Willow
Katsumi Relf-Discartin, “Space Envelopes”. You may contact
her at: tlrelf@gmail.com
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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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| Karol Rosiak,
born in 1962 in Poland, is a psychologist (Ph.D.). He specializes in
social psychology. He lives in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He loves reading
and writing haiku - it is his passion. He also publishes his poems
at Polish haiku forum:
http://forum.haiku.pl/. |
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| Durda Vukelic Rozic,
was born in 1956, lives in Ivanic Grad, Croatia, graduated from the
Faculty of Economy, Zagreb, now retired. She publishes poetry,
humorous sketches and haiku, editor-in-chief of bilingual (Croatian
and English) haiku magazine IRIS, founder of The
International Haiku Meeting in Klostar Ivanic and Haiku Association
"Three Rivers" Ivanic Grad. So far she published four books; three
collections of humorous sketches and a collection of haiku, For her
humorous sketches, haiku and poetry she received a number of awards
in Croatia and abroad. From time to time she puts her poems to
music. During 1972-1978 period she lived in Chicago, USA. |
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Stjepan Rozic
is an amateur musician, born in 1946 in Ivanic Grad, where he enjoys
his retirement. He has three sons and three grandchildren.
He has written haiku since 1996 and received a number of awards and
commendations in Croatia (The Haiku Days Dubravko Ivancan, Krapina
1st Prizes 2004 and 2007), and Japan (Itoen 1997, Kusamakura 1999,
2000, 2005, 2008, Mainichi 2004). His haiku have been published in
haiku magazines: Iris, Haiku, Kō, Moonset, on the
internet and several anthologies. He published the haiku collection
Proljetni vjetar/Spring Wind in 2005 and took part in
joint haiku collections Sedam prozora/Seven Windows,
Klostar Ivanic 2002, and Sedam novih putova/Seven
New Ways, Zagreb, 2003. He is among the founders of
the Haiku Association, "Three Rivers", Ivanic Grad and Klostar
Ivanic Haiku Meetings since 2003. Stjepan won 2nd Prize on 13th
Mainichi haiku contest, 2009. |
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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 Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary
Writing (Impassio Press). |
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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. |
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Sarojini Sahoo:
Well known for her frankness, Sarojini Sahoo, is a prime figure and
trendsetter of feminism in contemporary Oriya literature. For her;
feminism is not a gender problem or any confrontational attack on
male hegemony. So, it is quite different from that of Virginia Woolf
or Judith Butler. She accepts feminism as a total entity of female
hood which is completely separate from the man's world. She writes
with a greater consciousness of women bodies, which would create a
more honest and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation and
non-linearity. Her fictions always project a feminine sensibility
from puberty to menopause. The feminine feelings like restrictions
in the adolescence, the pregnancy, the fear factors like being raped
or being condemned by society and the concept of a bad girl etc
always have the thematic exposure in her novels and short stories.
Born in a small town of Dhenkanal in Orissa (India), Sarojini has an
MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature and a Bachelor of Law from
Utkal University. She now teaches at a Degree college in Belpahar,
Jharsuguda of Orissa. She is the second daughter of Mr.Ishwar
Chandra Sahoo and Mrs.(Late) Nalini Devi and has married to
Mr.Jagadish Mohanty , a veteran writer of Orissa.and has a son and a
daughter. She has been conferred with the Orissa Sahitya Academy
Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair
Award and the Prajatantra Award. She has published eight anthologies
of short stories and five novels. Recently an English anthology of
her translated stories is published by ‘Grassroots' of Kolkata/Bhubaneswar.Her
other anthologies are: Sukhara Muhanmuh (1981), NijaGahirareNije
(1989), Amrutara Pratikshare (1992), Chowkath (1994), Tarali
Jauthiba Durga (1995), Deshantari (1999), and Dukha Apramita (2006).
The novels are: Upanibesh (1998), Pratibandi (1999), Swapna Khojali
Mane (2000) Mahajatra (2001) and Gambhiri Ghara (2006).
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extended biography read this link. |
She has been widely
translated and published in different Indian languages. Her stories
have been included in anthologies published by Harper Collins,
National Book Trust, Gnanapith and Sahitya Akademi.Once she was also
the editor of Oriya Literary Magazine the Pallaba and fiction
oriented English timely journal the Breakthrough. Delhi Doordarshan,
the National Channel of India has featured her life style and
creations in its special tele-serial "Literary Postcard ."
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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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Mel Sarnese is a
Toronto poet, published in anthologies and literary journals. Her
work has been broadcast on the CBC Radio and TVOntario. Mel has
performed her work at venues such as, 'Clinton's art bar series in
Toronto and The Bowery Poetry Café in NYC. She has published a
chapbook, Leper's Cave (Beret's Day Press, 2008) and
is editor of the anthology, 'The Poetry of Relationships'
(Federation of Canadian Poets). Mel Sarnese is an executive member
of the Canadian Author's Association and is a professional member of
the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. Mel writes poetry, short
stories and essays with a novel underway.
Mel Sarnese lives with her physician husband and their three
daughters.
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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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Rebecca Saxon
resides in a Washington DC suburb. An engineer by
profession, Rebecca has been writing song lyrics for several years.
Recently she started writing poetry as another artistic outlet. For
her, the lure of haiku is the ability to express the beauty of the
everyday, whether seen, remembered or imagined. |
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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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| Greg Schwartz
is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine. His
haiku and other poems have appeared in various journals including
Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Writers' Journal, bear creek haiku,
Barbaric Yawp, and bottle rockets. In addition
to haiku, he also writes horror, and is a member of the Haiku
Society of America, Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction
Poetry Association, and Mid-Atlantic Horror Professionals. He can be
found online at
http://greg-schwartz.blogspot.com |
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Iolanda
Scripca lived in Eastern Europe for the first 20 years
of her life, in a loving family. Her mom was a teacher and
high school principal and her dad a published writer, poet
and TV producer. She is a graduate of Foreign Languages
and Literatures from the University of Bucharest. Nowadays
she enjoys Southern California and possesses a CA Teaching
Credential. Ms. Scripca publishes in several
Romanian-American Newspapers both in Romanian and English.
She is married to Ron; they own a business and enjoy
traveling to exotic places.
Scripca@aol.com
Web site:
www.scripca.com
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Slavko
Sedlar: I was born in 1932 in Jezersko near Krupa in
Bosanska Krajina.
During WWII I found myself, like other young Serbs who survived
the war, in Vojvodina war orphanages, and afterwards in boarding
schools in Vršac, Rijeka and Belgrade, where I completed my
elementary and secondary education, as well as business school.
In February 1980, with a haiku seminar held by Aleksandar
Nejgebauer, I adopted haiku with Zen and discovered a new world,
a world where I was to forget the Christian teachings and
principles I had adopted until that time. Тhe seminar developed
into the so-called “Haiku class”, that is a haiku school
organized at the Vršac Literary Community, where I instructed
haiku beginners.
In 1982 I started the Yugoslav poetry/haiku marathon of Vršac,
to which a haiku contest was added in 1985, the first and, for
several years, the only one in the country.
In 1996 I was commended and awarded an honorary membership by
The Novi Sad Haiku Club “Аleksandar Nejgebauer” for my
exceptional contribution to Yugoslav haiku.
My haiku have been published in a number of literary journals,
in my country and abroad, in Serbian and other languages.
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I am the recipient of
many commendations, recognitions and awards, both domestic and
foreign, and I myself have awarded many haijin as a judge of haiku
contests.
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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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| Zvi A. Sesling has
published poems in Midstream, Saranac Review, New
Delta Review, Voices Israel Anthology, Cyclamens & Swords,
Ship of Fools, The Chaffin Journal, Poetica, Ibbetson
Street, Istanbul Literary Review, Illya’s Honey,
Wavelength, Asphodel, Main Channel Voices and Hazmat
Review, and many others. Additional poems are due
to be published in 2009. In 2004 he was awarded Third
Place in the Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition
and in 2007 he received First Prize in the Reuben Rose
International Poetry Competition. He was selected to read
his poetry at New England/Pen “Discovery” in 2008 by
Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. |
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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
in August 2008 he completed a year-long rengay project. He
has just started a
one-year
Renhai project. |
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Frances
Shaffi: A beginner in the pleasures
of Haiku but carried away with the intensity of feeling 17
syllables can convey, can encapsulate so succinctly.
I have traveled widely perusing different fields of endeavor
and now reside in California. Poetry, painting, and
music all are part of my life. |
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| 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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Joy
Sherri: Songstress and dweller
amongst the trees Upstate NY and now in the desert of the
Negev—Israel.
I come from a pretty long lineage of teachers and
musicians, word smiths and innovators.
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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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Bronislawa
Sibiga lives in Tychy (Poland); she
graduated a school for nurses. Her passions are poetry, and
handicraft (with the usual twists—she
creates angels). The author has written haiku since 2004.
Bronislawa's haiku can be read at
http://antologia.haiku.pl/.
Some of her poems have
been published in English. |
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Johnmichael Simon, born in
England, grew up in South Africa and has
lived in Israel since 1963. He has published three solo books of
poems and two collaborations with partner Helen Bar-Lev. His
poetry and short
stories have been awarded many prizes and he is published widely
in print and website collections. He is the chief editor of
Cyclamens and Swords publishing. The “Cyclamens and Swords”
website is
http://www.cyclamensandswords.com
His personal website
is
http://johnmichaelsimon.webs.com/ |
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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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| Born on 28th July
1979 at Budaun(U.P.), India, Shaleen Kumar Singh
after his post-graduation in English did his doctorate on
"Panorama of
Mahashweta's Indo-English Verse- A Critical Evaluation." He is a
poet, critic, reviewer and translator. He has several research
papers,
articles, poems and reviews published in esteemed journals,
magazines and
news papers of India and abroad including Remarkings
(Agra),
Poet (Chennai), Poets International
(Banglore), Metverse Muse (Vishakhapattnam),
Helicon Views (Amroha), The Green Lotus
(Bhubneshwar), Bizz Buzz (Mysore),
Contemporary Vibes ( Chandigarh), Free
Xpression (Australia) Voice of
Kolkata (Kolkata), Skylark (Aligarh),
Indo Asian Literature (New Delhi),
Poetcrit (H.P.), Shine ( Tamilnadu),
Mandakini ( Bareilly), The Golden
Vase (Bhubneshwar), Indian Book Chronicle
(Jaipur), Replica (Cuttack) etc. A number of his
poems have appeared in several National and International
journals
like Kritya, Muse India, Poetsindia, Literary India,
Boloji, Lit.org, Neopoets and several others. Lectured
severally on A.I.R. Attended several Literary Seminars.
Translated the book Mahendra Bhatnagar Ke Geet in
English under the title Lyric Lute. Edited
collection of English poems entitled Creation and Other
Poems and
Hindi poems entitled Dohe Tabib Ke. At present he is
editing the ezine
www.creativesaplings.com and a book of Critical essays
on Stephen Gill
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| I am Anne Smith.
I started writing poetry again ( I wrote all the time when I was
young) when my husband died in February 2006. I do not only write
such short poems as I find with the Outlaw Poets but some longer
pieces. I am 70 years old and was a college principal before I
retired in 1999. I have three sisters and two children and my elder
granddaughter is training to become a blues and soul singer. |
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Monica E. Smith
enjoys writing about everyday things, and feels that a poem can be
found anywhere. Her family continues to play a most important part
in her writing. About her writing, Monica explains "I feel poetry
need not be written in a complicated language for the select few. I
find, even in the brevity of poetry the freedom of expression, and
in that there is freedom in expression." She feels what is most
important in writing a poem is the sharing, as it is the
sharing/experience of the poem which makes it live.
Monica is the author of two poetry books,
Days of Fine Gray Ash, available through her web site, and
Kindred: A Family Portrait, available at
iuniverse.com,
barnesandnoble.com
and
amazon.com,, as well as their affiliate
online bookstores. Her poems have been published in many
national and international journals.
Monica enjoys reading and exploring her family ancestry, as well
as her love of photography, which she calls "silent poetry". She
has been experimenting with creating Haiku-Photography, a form
which has recently risen from the original Haiga (Haiku
Painting). In August 2008, she released her first book of
photography with
blurb.com, Going Coastal, a
coffee table book containing photographs of coastal areas within
the United States. Since then, she has released two more books
with Blurb: Dog-matized: The Comical Truth of Life with a
Jack-A-Bee and Menagerie, a collection of her essays,
poetry, haiku and photography.
In 2009, Monica was asked by the chaplain at Mount Carmel Medical
Center in Columbus, Ohio (where she works) to create a photographic
work depicting the rhythms and harmony of birth and death. The
posters will hang in the palliative care unit at Mount Carmel. |
Monica invites you to visit her website,
Purple Quill.com, and her blog
Rantings of a Mad
Poet.
Monica welcomes all correspondence at
monica@purplequill.com
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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. |
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| terrytipTerry Steudlein:
Born in New Orleans 1940. Spent six years in the US Navy, nine
months in Yokouska Japan in 1959-60. Returned to New Orleans to work
in the Space industry. Worked on the Apollo Program,
Saturn I and Saturn V Boosters and then the Space Shuttle program,
External Tank. I'm now retired, and live in
Slidell Louisiana. Became interested in Haiku and Senryu in 2007 and
enjoy trying my hand at it...... My web page is
http://terrytip.blogspot.com/2008/04/today.HTML |
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| Richard Stevenson
lives in Lethbridge, Alberta, and teaches at Lethbridge College. He
is the author of 22 books and a CD of original jazz and poetry on
the life and music of Miles Davis. Recent collections of haikai
literature include Hot Flashes (Ekstasis Editions, 2001),
A Charm of Finches (Ekstasis Editions, 2004), and Flicker At
The Fascia (Serengeti Press, 2005). Two new collections of
haiku, senryu, tanka, and zappai will be out later this year:
Tidings of Magpies (from Spotted Cow Press) and The Emerald
Hour (with photos by Ellen McArthur, from Ekstasis Editions). |
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| 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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Richard S. Straw
copyedits technical documents and prepares bibliographic databases
on health and substance use. He has lived in or near Raleigh, North
Carolina, since 1984. Before then, he lived in central Ohio, where
he taught freshman English composition at Ohio State University,
edited technical papers for a trade journal, proofread for a digest
of news from the former Soviet Union, and graduated from Ohio State
University (BA in English, 1977; MA in English, 1980).
He has collected and read books of haiku, senryu, haibun, and haiga
since 1966. In the late 1980s, he served as an editor of Pine
Needles, a quarterly newsletter for the North Carolina Haiku
Society (NCHS). He self-published A Hiker Sees His Shadow
(2001), an eight-page chapbook dedicated to the memory of his dad.
Selections of his published haiku are available at
http://nc-haiku.org/haiku-by-us.htm, courtesy of Dave Russo of
the NCHS. Along with other NCHS members, he attends monthly haiku
meetings, ginkos, and the annual NCHS Haiku Holiday. |
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| Richard
Stevenson lives and teaches in Lethbridge, Alberta.
His most recent publications are Wiser Pills
(Frontenac House Quartet 2008 series), Tidings of
Magpies (Spotted Cow Press, 2008), and The
Emerald Hour (Ekstasis Editions, 2008) |
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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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André Surridge:
Born in Hull, England, André lives in the city of Hamilton,
New Zealand. He is the winner of several writing awards for
both poetry and playwriting.
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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.
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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
Area 17:
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Carl Scharwath:
I am a father and that means the
most to me. My interests include competitive running and I have
a 2nd degree black belt in TKD. Print publishing credits
include; Not Popular Magazine (short story),
Lake Healthy Living, Pulse and Abandoned Towers.
Web publishing credits include; Lake County Library, Pens
On Fire, Calliope Verve, World Salad, Haiku Ramblings
(Haiku) and Language & Culture. I recently had a
news story in the Orlando Sentinel and a two page
feature in Lake Healthy Living Magazine. Both
articles discussed the "Running Poet."
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Kim Tairi
is a seventeen syllable poet and librarian living in the
antipodes. She has a passion for cheese, vodka, running
and riding a bike. She also writes flash fiction. Good
things come in small packages! She is 5ft 2.
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Yayoi Tanida, US
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Born in Kobe, Japan;
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Been in New Mexico since 1998;
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Working as a quality engineer;
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Started to write English haiku early
in 2008;
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A certified Ikebana (Japanese style
flower arrangement) teacher with Ichiyo School of Ikebana.
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| Barbara A. Taylor
is inspired by her Rainbow Region of northern New South Wales,
Australia where she lives. Her work has appeared in journals and
anthologies including Atlas Poetica, crickets and
Chrysanthemums, Ludberg Calendar 2008, Presence, gaartisiluni, Lynx, CHO, Folly,
Flashquake, Shamrock Journal, Haiku Scotland, Simply Haiku,
Tinywords, Chrysanthemum, Stylus, Wisteria, Eucalypt, Kokako,
Triptychhaiku, Ribbons, Landfall: A Tanka Anthology,
Sketchbook, Wisteria, Shamrock, Tiny Words, Simply Haiku, Kokako,
Moonset, Eucalypt 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. |
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Joy Sherri:
Songstress and dweller amongst the trees Upstate NY and now in the
desert of the Negev--Israel. I come from a pretty long lineage
of teachers and musicians, word smiths and innovators.
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| 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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Manuela Thiess is
from
Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico.
Manuela Thiess was born in Germany, lived most of her life in
California and plans to die in Mexico, thus coming to a kind
of full circle of her own personal evolution. She has spent
time as an actress in Los Angeles, a college ESL instructor in
Monterey, Ca., and a correctional educator at CTF Soledad, CA.
She and her husband, Gustavo Garcia Aguilar, moved to
Guanajuato in 2008 and opened an optics business there in 2009
as her husband is an optician.
She has written poetry through her life, and several
productions of her one-act plays in Los Angles where she
received favorable reviews in the LA Times as well as the
Santa Monica Herald.
In addition, she is an avid photographer, a sometimes painter,
and she enjoys doing abstract painting on furniture.
Her philosophy on life is to attempt to keep it as simple as
possible.
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| Janice Thomson is
a multi-media artist residing on Vancouver Island BC, Canada. She is
a Chinese brush painting and digital graphic artist whose works have
been shown and sold across Canada. She also writes all forms of
poetry and has been published in various anthologies, chapbooks,
magazines and newspapers. She has been studying Japanese poetry
forms for some time writing haiku, tanka and now renhai. She is also
a photographer creating haiga and taiga with her photos. A book of
these is to be released sometime in 2009/2010. |
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| Juhani
Tikkanen: I'm was born in 1945. I live in Turku, Finland. I
published my first collection of poems in Finnish 1966. I served as
a radio-man in the Finnish Navy. I began writing haiku (or just
three-liners) in English three years ago.
http://juhatik.blogspot.com.
I'm an old sailor and Radio Officer. I sailed many places over these
Seas and Oceans, but twenty years ago I dropped my anchor. After
that I worked with computers and electronics, and now I am going to
retire in 2010. I write short texts almost daily. I am married with
a excellent blog-keeper (http://mataleena.blogspot.com).
There I am allowed to publish some of my photos. I have translated
some poems into Finnish. My e-mail: juhani (dot) tikkanen (at)
gmail(dot)com
juhani.tikkanen@gmail.com
Blogging in Finnish:
juhanitikkanen(dot)blogspot.com
http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.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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| Cheryl A
Townsend used to publish Impetus
magazine (poetry, reviews, artwork, lots of yadda, yadda, yadda) and
ran Implosion Press. She hosted umpteen poetry reading venues in the
80's before opening cat's Impetuous Books in Kent, Ohio. None of the
above does she now do. She does write poetry, reviews, fiction,
comedy-mysteries, and is an avid photographer. Her poetry, prose,
reviews & photography have been published somewhat consistently
since 1982. She lives in Ohio with her husband of 26 years, two cats
and a yard full of demanding perennials |
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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. |
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| Eric V.
a.k.a. “El Coyote” works and lives in San
Francisco, California. He has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from
The University of California Santa Cruz. He writes haiku and poetry
in his spare time. Eric posts haiku on different online websites and
occasionally reads at open mics throughout San Francisco.
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Saša Važić is a
freelance journalist, astrologer, translator, writer of prose and
poetry, essays, book reviews. Author of over 1000 articles on
various topics which appeared in newspapers and journals, member of
the editorial board of Haiku Novine, Niš, Serbia,
Balkan Advisor and News Editor for moonset the Newspaper
(Oregon, USA), and member of the World Haiku Club, her haiku have
been included in over ten national and international haiku
anthologies and in a number of national and international haiku
magazines. They have been translated into English, Japanese,
Chinese, Macedonian, Slovenian, Croatian, German, Czech, Bulgarian,
Russian, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Italian, Hungarian and
Romanian. She is the recipient of several awards and commendations
in contests held in her country, in Japan (Water, Lake and Sea;
Suruga Baika; Basho Festival; Ito en; Mainichi), Germany , Croatia ,
Bulgaria , Canada , the USA , France and Romania . Largely, through
her translation efforts she has brought English language haiku
poetry, articles and books to Balkan readers and vice versa. Važić
is the editor of the bilingual Haiku Reality
(
http://www.geocities.com/ana_vazic/indexeng.htm ). She is the
author of an e-book of haiku poetry entitled muddy shoes candy
heart, edited by Anita Virgil and published by Peaks Press,
USA (avirgil2@verizon.net).
She also creates haiga, some of which have been published at the
World Haiku Association’s website and at Kuniharu Shimizu’s website
See Haiga Here, as well as in the Contemporary Haibun published by
the Red Moon Press, USA .
Apart from haiku, Važić also writes tanka, haibun and collaborative
rengay. |
She has translated more
than 20 books of haiku poetry by Serbian and some foreign authors
(into English), as well as David G Lanoue’s novels Haiku Guy
and Laughing Buddha into Serbian.
Her many longer poems and short stories as well as some literary
articles and book reviews have also been published in a number of
journals, in her country and abroad.
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| 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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Patrick Wafula: I am 38 years old,
a high school literature and language teacher. I have studied
Education and School Management from Kenyatta University.
I am married to Loise and we have four children: Faith,
Esther, Elizabeth and Vittorio. We live in Nairobi. I love
teaching children and youth and I enjoy writing stories and
poems for them. I also enjoy writing stories for adults. My
favourite poetry genre is haiku and haibun. My favourite hobby
is reading supernatural and adventurous stories, watching
adventurous and detective movies and listening to country
music. I also love traveling and learning more about the world
and foreign cultures.
Thank you for reading my stories. Leave your comments here in
the comments section or get in touch with me through:
pwwanyama@yahoo.com or Tel: +254 721 99 14 13.
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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,
http://www.ewchameleon.com
She lives with her husband,
Adrian, in West Brabant. |
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Ruth Walters: I live in
the U.K. just outside London. I'm 58 now and have two sons aged
33 and 30 who also write poems and my brother writes very funny
poems too. I divorced in 1984 and brought my two sons up by
myself while working for the National Health Service as an Oral
Health Promoter which I still do.
My poetry is diverse, funny, serious, witty, sexy, sad, spooky,
strange but always entertaining I hope.
I also write Haiku and dabble in all types of poetry. My sense
of rhythm comes from my love of music. I used to have a
classical singing voice, but these days, due to health problems,
it has gone. Nevertheless I still attempt to sing sometimes,
mainly when I'm vacuuming so nobody can hear me. Both my sons
write songs, play guitar and sing. My favourite pleasure is when
we gather in my little sitting room to play music and have a
sing song.
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Wandering Poet is
a Buddhist monk, San Francisco poet and author. He has a masters
degree from California State University, where he also taught
English, liberal studies and library science. His books include a
translation of “Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry,” by the T’ang
Zen poet, Han-shan; and “Geronimo’s Song of the Apaches,” an epic
poem by Geronimo about the history and culture of the Apache people.
He lives a solitary life in the mountains of northern California.
Visit Wandering Poet’s websites at
www.lulu.com/wanderingpoet and
www.authorsden.com/wanderingpoet |
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Joyce Watkins:
"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work
instinctively and paint as naturally as he breaths or walks."
—Emile
Nolde
When I write or paint....it is with the thought of discovery,
awareness and awe. I know I am tapping into a region not of my own.
My part is to get still, to make the space for the muse to appear.
Sometimes the words just come, and it is my pleasure to write them
down. Other times...I sit and wonder, ponder...till the thoughts
flow through me. It is not mine...great spirit blows through...like
the clear air on a high mountain top. Then, I can hear the trees
speaking, the clouds singing, see the stars dance...and the words
tumble out, freely and spontaneously. It is a spiritual path, a
communion, a meditation, and I am very grateful for this gift.
Joyce's website.
Blessings
joyce watkins
san diego,CA
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| Susan Weaver is a
poet, cycling journalist and travel writer from Allentown,
Pennsylvania, who cares more about what she discovers on a bicycle
than how many miles she goes. For a year she's been writing a
two-wheeled journal in haibun and tanka prose. Married to landscape
painter Joseph Skrapits, she has finally caught the bug and is
experimenting with sumi-e painting. Weaver's tanka has been
published in red lights. Her haiku has appeared in
Modern Haiku and in the 2005 anthologies Common
Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and
Unexpected Harvest: A Gathering of Blessings. |
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| Sharon Weimer
resides in Central New Jersey, United States. Happily married with
two beautiful children. I am a proud Founding Member of Global Poets
Guild, an organization of poets who create projects where proceeds
benefit charities. Poetry has become my passion only within the last
few years. It is beginning to become a most enjoyable and rewarding
obsession. |
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| Edward Wells II
is currently working in Antarctica. He is also contributing Poetry
Editor at
The Houston Literary Review (an online e-zine). His work
has appeared in numerous publications both online and in print. He
is currently planning his next two years. He hopes that they will
prepare Him to begin what has become a long-term goal of
co-Authoring a book in Mexico with a multi-lingual native Mexican.
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| Ben
Wesling was born in Cambridge, England in 1962. The small town
of Colchester where he grew up had a Roman wall around the town, and
an 11th century haunted castle in its midst, where he frequently
played as a child. In his 12th year he discovered H.P.Lovecraft, and
this changed him forever. The hidden, dark, strange and occult
became his passion, and would influence his writings in later years.
His family moved to California in 1974, where he went to school and
then joined the job market in the graphic arts field. You will find
Ben's stories and poems at:
http://benwesling.com |
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Neal Whitman lives on
California's Monterey Peninsula, where he is a member of the
Pacific Grove LIbrary Board and a volunteer docent at Robinson
Jeffers Tor House in nearby Carmel. He has published over 40
poems in 18 journals, in an effort to make a public statement of
a private labor. |
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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 |
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| 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 in the Philippines
with his wife Jinky. |
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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. |
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| 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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| Monika Wojtenka
lives in the heart of Green Lungs Poland (the
north-eastern area of Poland with wild and exuberant
nature). Mother of two wonderful girls - Alice and Joanne,
she likes family traveling among lakes and forests. She
enjoys learning about human nature and behaviour and she
works as a psychologist (PhD) and school pedagogue. To
improve her working ability she studies finger language
and English. Because of her brother Mariusz she began to
write haiku poems and she tries to discover the essence of
haiku spirit. |
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Nora Wood grew up
near the Tetons in Wyoming. She is a writer and poet living in
Atlanta, Georgia with her two daughters. She took up daily
haiku-writing in 2007 as a discipline and creative outlet. Nora has
published haiku in Simply Haiku, The Heron's Nest, World Haiku
Review, and the Lilliput Press Basho Challenge
chapbook. Find her work on line at haiku a day.
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| Although born in the
United States, Diana Woodcock has spent the best part of her
life living abroad—nearly eight years in Asia and the past five in
Qatar. Her first chapbook, Travels of a Gwai Lo, was
just released in September as one of four poetry chapbooks included
in Toadlily Press’s fifth quartet of poetry, By Way Of. Her
forthcoming chapbook, Mandala, is dedicated to the
Tibetan people and will be the 14th in Foothills Publishing’s Poets
on Peace series. In 2009, she received first, second and third
prizes from Artists Embassy International and an International
Publication Award from Atlanta Review. Recipient of the 2007
Creekwalker Poetry Prize, her poems have appeared in Best New
Poets 2008 (selected by Mark Strand), Nimrod, Crab
Orchard Review, Portland Review, Southern Humanities Review,
and other journals and anthologies. Currently teaching writing
courses at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, she has lived
in Tibet, Macau and Thailand. She’s received residency fellowships
from Centrum, MICA/Rochefort-en-Terre, Vermont Studio Center,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Everglades National
Park. |
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| Beata
Wyszyńska lives in Warszawa, Poland; she works as an art
teacher in kindergarten. Beata began writing in 2008.
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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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Quendryth Young
is a retired cytologist who lives on the Far North Coast of New
South Wales, Australia. Retired after forty years in this field of
Pathology, her life remains filled as a wife, mother and
grandmother. She is a director and National Master in the
fascinating game of Bridge, sings alto in the local Chorale, and
after years of writing traditional and free verse, has developed an
escalating passion for haiku. Quendryth’s first haiku collection,
The Whole Body Singing, was recently awarded second place
in the HSA Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Award for
“excellence in published haiku, translation and criticism”. Her work
has been acknowledged in Australia, USA, Canada, UK, NZ, Ireland,
Japan and Romania and Austria. Quendryth edits the haiku section of
the magazine FreeXpresSion, and coordinates a group of haiku
enthusiasts, Cloudcatchers, for ginko and workshops. As a member of
the Wollumbin Haiku Workshop, her work appears on
http://www.wollumbin-haiku.com |
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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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| Eric V.
a.k.a. “El Coyote” works and lives in San
Francisco, California. I have a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from
The University of California Santa Cruz. I write haiku and poetry in
my spare time. I post haiku on different online websites and
occasionally read at open mics throughout the city.
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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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Mariana Zavati:
I am a published Romanian writer, member of the Uniunea Scriitorilor
RO/ Romanian Union of Writers. I have published poetry, two novels
and I write essays for several literary magazines. I was born in
Romania and I am a graduate in phylology. I live in the UK.
I have has been presented with:
- 4 Editor’s Choice Awards UK 1996, UK 1997, UK 1998, USA 2003
- The Third Prize and the Bronze Medal in the North American Open
Poetry Competition 1998
- The American-Romanian Academy Award for Poetry 2001
- The Ionel Jianu Award for Arts 2001
- Provincia Corvina – 2008 Diploma of Excellence for developing
Anglo – Romanian links and translations
- Award at the International Festival of Romanian Poetry (first
edition) RO 2008
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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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| Brian Zimmer is a
U.S. citizen living on the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada.
His work has appeared in various journals including: Gusts,
Modern English Tanka, Ribbons, Atlas Poetic, Simply Haiku,
Contemporary Haibun, Eratio & Moria. |
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