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an'ya is of
Serbian/American heritage, and lives in Oregon, USA. This
published haijin previously taught Balkan dance troupes, was a
former Nascar-track trophy girl, Slavic foods caterer, and a
pre-school teacher. She is the Past-Director/Editor of
“beginners” for the World Haiku Club, and the
past-editor-in-chief of haigaonline. Currently she is the Editor
of the Tanka Society's journal Ribbons. She is the original
founder and President of the Oregon haiku and Tanka Society, and
is now serving as its Vice President. an'ya has been printed in
numerous publications and anthologies and has won quite a few
contests (her extended biography can be seen at her website:
www.thenatal-lightpress.com ).
Nnorom Azuonye is the author
of The Bridge Selection: Poems For The Road (2005) and Letter
To God & Other Poems (2003). He has published widely in print and
e-journals including Orbis, Drumvoices Revue, World Haiku Review,
Eclectica Magazine and Keystone among others. He is the
Founder/Administrator of Sentinel Poetry Movement
www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk and Managing Editor, SPM Publications - the
publishing arm of Sentinel Poetry Movement - publishers of Sentinel
Poetry (Online) and Sentinel Poetry Quarterly (Print).
Ed Baker
Ed Baker
here 66 years
lives his writing and art..
Recent works: Things Just Come Through
(Red Ochre Press, 2006),
POINTS/COUNTERPOINTS (2006/1972), RESTORATION LETTERS (Corman-Baker
correspondence: 1972-2003, tel let press), Song of Chin, full
moon,Wild Orchid, Stone Girl E-Pic, vols 2 & 3 (tel let), Stone Girl
E-Pic, Vol. 5 via Ed's web site:
http://edbaker.maikosoft.com
Edhas recently put out his first issue of DOZEN magazine
featuring Chuck Sandy & John Vieira also including - Bob Arnold, Ed
Baker, Shizumi Corman, Ted Enslin, David Giannini, John Levy, John
Martone, John Phillips, Jeremy Seligson, and Karma Tenzing Waaaangchuk
Ed has more than 55,000 poems, 400 watercolors, 600 3-d pieces...and
adds to, every moment;
from behind
cloud
full moon
Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York City in 1942. She has lived in
Israel for 35 years. She holds a degree in Anthropology from California
State University, Northridge, 1972. Since 1976 Helen has devoted herself
to art: painting, teaching and writing poetry. From 1989 until 2001 she
was a member of the Safad Artists’ Colony in the Upper Galilee where she
had her own gallery.
Today Helen paints and teaches in Jerusalem. To date Bar-Lev has
participated in 80 exhibitions, including 30 one-person shows. Her poems
and paintings have appeared in many online journals such as The Other
Voices International Project, The Coffee Press Journal, Boheme Magazine,
The Poetry Bridge, River Bones Press and also print anthologies,
including Meeting of the Minds Journal, Voices Israel Anthology,
Manifold Magazine of New Poetry, Lucidity Poetry Journal and Across The
Long Bridge, An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry, Sailing in the Mist
of Time, An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry, Harvest International,
Palabras-Press, Poesy first international issue.
Helen is a member of Voices Israel English Poetry Society and The Israel
Artists’ and Sculptors’ Association. She is the global correspondent in
Israel for the Poetry Bridge and Editor-in-Chief of the Voices Israel
annual Anthology.
Ginka Biliarska: 1946—Bulgaria graduated from The Sofia
University with a major in Slavonic Languages. She has worked as a
journalist and editor at different publishing houses; author of 6 books,
radio plays, a large number of articles for the central and literary
newspapers. She took part in some theater performances, tv and radio
programs and broadcasts. Since 2003 she has been the president of the
Bulgarian Haiku Club. Compiler of the haiku anthologies with
international participation: The Flower, 2002; The Rose, 2003; The
Road, 2004. She has received numerous awards: 1996, National
Contest—Poetry for the Sea; 2000, Poetry Contest—Yavorov's Days; 2002,
Poetry Contest—Yavorov's Days; 2005, Russian Haiku Contest; 2005,
National Play Contest; 2006, Haiku Contest—Croatia.
Gerald Bravi from Winnipeg ,
Manitoba , is an educational psychologist and holds a Ph.D. in that
area. He began writing poetry at an early age, but this
passion was shelved as his career took most of his time. In 1998 he
became involved in writing again and now spends more time at this
endeavor. He enjoys writing in all forms and loves experimenting with
each. His poetry has been published in a number of anthologies, e-zines
and journals.
Daniela Draghia-Bullas (signs her works as
Daniela) was born in 1969 in Deva, Romania. Holds a degree in
archaeology and museology. Following her marriage, she lives in the U.K.
since 2001. She started writing poetry and prose in her teens. Her short
stories won her the "Scanteia tineretului"Award (1988). Her editorial
debut was the "Umbra Libelulei" (Dragonfly's Shadow) anthology (Edit.
SRH, Bucharest, 1993). Between 2003 and 2005 she was a member of the
editorial staff of two Romanian magazines "Ardealul literar" and "Calauza
noastra". Since 2005 she is a member of the Hunedoara County (Romania)
Writers'Association. Books published: -Dictionarul verbelor neregulate
din limba engleza/Dictionary of English Irregular Verbs(together with Cristian Mocanu)(Edit.Ianua, Deva,
1994) -- (C)opyright sign (poetry)(2002, Calauza vb; 2004, Calauza vb,
2006. Lulu – bilingual editions: Romanian-English) http://www.lulu.com/content/172177
- Scufita Albastra [Little Blue Riding Hood](children's prose) (2005,
Calauza vb, inRomanian). - Little Blue Riding Hood (2006, Lulu, in
English) Website Writer’s English Website:
http://danielabullas.tripod.com/daniela1/
John Tiong Chunghoo: "I started writing poetry during my
secondary school
years after having been introduced to greats like Blake, Clare, William
Wordsworth, and Shakespeare among others. During the early 2000s, I fell
in love with Matsuo Basho on the net after signing up with a
site to have a poem delivered to me every day; his haiku is really
great. It always succeeds to set me into another realm. I have written
thousands of poems posted on the world wide web. Readers need only to
google my name john tiong chunghoo to get to them. Now I am working as a
travel journalist with the New Straits Times, one of the oldest English
dailies in Asia."
Gillena Cox lives in St James, on
the island of Trinidad -of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She was
born in 1950. She is mother of a daughter named Yanda, and a son named
Khama. She writes poetry for the sheer joy of writing and is published
in anthologies from Poetry dot com and Midnight Edition dot com. Her
work can be read at numerous e journals. She is known
particulary for her "stitchaiga" (haiku presented on sewn pictures). Her
website is "PatchWork".
John Daleiden lives in Oskaloosa, Iowa, a rural community south-east of
Des Moines, Iowa. He has retired after teaching 43 years as a high school
Language Arts teacher. After retirement he returned to writing poetry.
His work has appeared in Amaze # 9, World Haiku Review: The Poetrybridge,
Lynx, May Dazed, The Scorched Earth, Full Moon, Temps Libres - Free
Times, and other e-zines.
Andreas Gripp is a London, Ontario poet and writer. He
lives with his cats, "Clea" and "Sheba". He is the author of six books
of poetry as well as six chapbooks. His website can be found at
http://www.andreasgripp.com
Kim Hambric: I am a self-taught artist living in State College,
Pennsylvania. Quilting has been part of my life for the past 12 years.
My love of color and texture has prompted me to work with several types
of media: paint, paper and fabric. While I love experimenting and
learning from other media, I always return to fabric. My newest work
combines commercial and hand-dyed and painted fabric that I imprint
using hand-carved stamps. I also embellish many pieces with beading and
embroidery. I view each piece I create as a story or poem, rather than a
picture. Kim
Hambric—sah19@psu.edu See Kim's Fiber Art at her
web page. Kim's art is
for on sale at her
ebay store.
Elizabeth Howard lives in a country home on the Cumberland
Plateau near Crossville, Tennessee. Her work has been published in
Frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, South by Southeast, Mariposa,
The Nor’easter, Ribbons, American Tanka, Lynx, and other journals.
Betty Kaplan. Retired from the Fashion Industry. Used to
arrange clothes. Now arranging words. Started to write haiku five years
ago. Published in Frogpond, Lynx, Woodpecker, South by Southeast,
World Haiku Review, and American Tanka.
M. Kei lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. He crews
aboard a skipjack, a traditional wooden sailboat used to fish for
oysters. He also serves as a member of the board of directors for a
local maritime museum. His poetry has been accepted for publication by
Eucalypt (AUS), Kokako (NZ), Gusts (CAN), American Tanka, Modern English
Tanka, Wisteria, Bottle Rockets, Red Lights, Ribbons, Moonset, Nisqually
Delta Review, Haiku Harvest, Lynx, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku,
Mayfly, Cecil Soil, Cecil Child, and others. His work also appears in
the anthologies Sixty Sunflowers, To Find the Moon, and Haiku Miscellany
(CRO). He moderates the Kyoka Mad Poems e-list and edits the Chesapeake
Bay Saijiki. He is also the Editor of Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of
the Human Heart, on the theme of love and passion, now available from
www.Lulu.com/firepearls
M. Kei can be contacted through his blog at kujakupoet.blogspot.com.
Rich Magahiz is a former
Californian, former scientist, current entrepreneur, current blogger,
future mystic, future recollection. He is originally from San Francisco
but lives with his wife in the suburbs of New York city. Trained as an
experimental particle physicist, he owns his own small business and
writes in his free time. His work appears online and in print at World
Haiku Review, Autumn Leaves, Amaze, iscifistory, tinywords, Abyss &
Apex, clouds peak, Tales from the Moonlit Path, LYNX, and Triptych
Haiku. Poems of his will be in forthcoming issues of Scifaikuest, The
Sword Review, Dreams and Nightmares, and The Shantytown Anomaly. His
website is at
http://magahiz.com:8080/frabjous/index.html
Terra Martin is a Toronto Ontario
therapist; stainglass artist, potter and seminarian. Her writing over
the last 15 years deals with self-help subjects in the form of
individual and personal seminars. She has written poetry in several
forms but has always admired and studied haiku. She recently turned her
pen in this direction.
Cristian Mocanu was born on August 8-th, 1968 in Deva, Romania, where he
still lives and works as a freelance translator/interpreter. He holds a
B.A. in English and Romanian litterature from the Bucharest University
(1993). He started writing poetry (Western and Eastern style, in several
languages) as a teenager. His poetry was included in several Romanian
antologies. He received numerous awards, among which: A) In Romania:
"Ion Minulescu" Poetry Contest & Festival (1995):1-st prize,"Porni
Luceafarul" Poetry Contest & Festival (1996):3-rd prize,The "Lumina
Crestinului" Religious Poetry Award for the year 1998. B) Outside
Romania: The “Pesme na jastuku” Contest (ex-Yugoslavia)
3-rd prize (1990), 2-nd prize (1991), the “Benvenuta Europa”
Contest & Festival (Rome, Italy), prize for the Poetry section; the
Suruga Baika Litterary Festival, Japan, Honourable Mention (2004). At
present he is a contributor to various poetry webzines, including:LYNX,
suflete.ro, “Haiku Harvest”, “World Haiku Review”, “Karolina Rijecka”.
He is the editor of the Romanian Saijiki for the World Haiku Club. His
first books of poetry (in Romanian and English) are due in the near
future.
Shanna Baldwin Moore. well lets see originally from the tall tree
country of Washington state I surfed the tree tops in the wind... My
grandmother was a poet in Greenwich Village and inspired me to
write...I am also a painter in oil and this was what connected me to the
beat poets I was the art director of the gas house in Venice we had
poetry readings to jazz and learned this awesome sound of music to
poetry.. came to Hawaii 36 years ago for a vacation and I'm still
vacationing...a lot of my artwork was of Pele the goddess of the volcano
and now I write for her...my Hawaiian poetry can be found at "my town"
http://www.mytown.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=109597&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SEC
TIonfiltered=201
hope to have a book out by the end of the year
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.
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
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;
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 H EA;
South by Southeast;
New Cicada;
Nightshade;
Pine
Mountain, Sand & Gravel;
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.
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.
Vaughn Seward (aka Masago) is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and became
interested in Haiku in 2005. He has since written numerous haiku, senyru,
and tanka. He participates in several Yahoo haiku news groups and in
Februrary, 2006 started a haiku blog (http://masago-no-haiku.blogspot.com/).
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 (http://haikuworkshop.pbwiki.com/RubricKu). Vaughn
joined TheOutlawPoets in September, 2006.
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.
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.
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 Senegal, where he is working on his first novel.
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.
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.
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.
Graduate of San Francisco State University. Former editor and publisher
of Second Coming. Widely published.
Jeffrey Woodward resides in Detroit. His poems and articles
appear widely in periodicals in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia
including, most recently, Acumen (England), Blue Unicorn,
International Poetry Review, Poem, Re: Arts & Letters, The Christian
Century, Galley Sail Review, The Hypertexts, Lines Review
(Scotland), The Lyric, Envoi (Wales), Plains Poetry Journal,
South Coast Poetry Journal, Studio (Australia), Haiku Scotland,
New Hope International (England) and many others.
F.N. Wright was born and raised in
Mattoon, Illinois. He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and spent four
years with Naval Amphibious Forces. He is a Veteran of the Quemoy-Matsu
Islands Crisis & the Vietnam War. He now resides in the coastal
mountains of Southern California where he paints and writes.
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