Mike Andrelczyk has had haiku published in The Heron's
Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, Road Runner, and Masks.
David Ash is the poet and publisher behind Basho Press, which produces the Haiku
for Life® series of gift books. This is the first English language series
of humorous 5-7-5 haiku to be demographically targeted by interests,
occupations, foods, or lifestyles. The series should consist of a dozen
titles by the end of 2009 such as Haiku for Coffee Lovers and Haiku for Dog Lovers.
Whether Matsuo Basho would roll with laughter or roll in his grave, Ash figures
rolling is good exercise. But every now and then, Ash's frog likes to
exercise his literary legs and hops into a different pond. When not
on the road shamelessly selling his books, he resides in Mukilteo,
Washington with his wife and son.
Raquel D. Bailey is a mother and Special Event Manager for the Children's
Campaign, Inc. Her poetry has been published in The Heron's Nest,
Other Poetry, Modern Haiku, Acorn, Simply Haiku, Presence, Frogpond,
Mainichi Daily News, Chrysanthemum, Shamrock, Wisteria, and Cider
Press Review. She is the founding editor of Lyrical Passion Poetry
E-Zine:
http://lyricalpassionpoetry.page.tl
Don Baird describes
himself as a simple man looking at nature's things through the lens of a
haiku. He has placed third twice in Japan's Kusamakura International
Haiku contest (foreign division). Between special moments of
capturing glimpses of nature in haiku, he is a kung fu teacher, musician
and photographer. He's always searching . . . yet deep inside,
he knows there is nothing to be found but himself.
Alan S. Bridges began writing haiku in
2008 after a chance meeting with a well-known American haiku poet on a
cross-America and back train trip. His haiku have been published by The
Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku and Bottle Rockets Press. When not
writing haiku he is a small independent natural gas producer with interests
in wells in Texas, Louisiana and Wyoming. He lives in Massachusetts with his
wife, Margaret, daughters, Holly and Emma, and a pug, Ruby.
Susan Constable's haiku and senryu
have been published in Canada, the United States, Australia, Ireland, and
Germany, both on-line and in print. Most recently, her work has been featured in
New Resonance 6, July 2009. She has also achieved recognition through The
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Canada's Betty Drevniok Award, the 6th White
Lotus Haiku Contest, and a Reader's Choice Award, also in White Lotus. She lives
with her husband on Canada's west coast, where the natural world provides much
of her subject matter, inspiration, and pleasure.
Tish Davis lives in central Ohio with her husband and two children. She
works as a New Product Development Program Manager. Early publications were
written under the name of Theresa Kiko and include poetry and a technical
handbook on printed circuit boards. Her recent interests include haiku and
haibun. Her haibun have been accepted for publication in Contemporary Haibun,
Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online and Haibun Today.
Wende Skidmore DuFlon lives in a semi-rural town outside La Antigua,
Guatemala with her husband and three children. She has lived and worked in
Mexico and Central America for the last 25 years working to reduce poverty
through improved reproductive health, basic education, and nutrition. She
enjoys her newfound living through the haiku optic and relishes the learning
process that comes from mutual sharing of work with other writers. Her
poems have been published in Ribbons, The Heron's Nest, and the Haiku Society of
America 2009 Anthology.
Garry Eaton is a newcomer to the world of haiku/haibun. He has been published only recently by Red Thread
Haiku Sangha and by Contemporary Haibun Online. He is
retired, and lives in Port Moody, British Columbia,
Canada.
Lisa Greer is an adjunct English instructor and online lead tutor living in
Mississippi. She enjoys writing and autism activism in her spare
time.
Carolyn Hall lives in San Francisco and is an active
member of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Her haiku have been widely
published and anthologized in the U.S. and abroad, and she has received numerous
awards, including both "Poem of the Year" and "Poet of the Year" in The
Heron's Nest Readers Choice awards and the Museum of Haiku Literature Award.
She was an editor of Mariposa (the membership journal of HPNC) and served
as a member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial staff. She currently is
editor of Acorn: a journal of contemporary haiku. Water Lines, her
award-winning individual collection of haiku and senryu, was published in 2006
by Snapshot Press. As winner of the True Vine Press Autumn Chapbook Contest, her
chapbook In and Out of Shadow was published in 2008.
John Holt, known also by his haigo
"tori inu" is an American military officer and haiku poet currently living
in Japan. He has earned degrees from Park University and
Webster University. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and his work
has appeared in numerous leading haiku journals and magazines and was recognized
most recently at the 2009 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.
Peggy Willis Lyles, Tucker, GA, is an associate editor of The Heron's Nest and a Red Moon Anthology staff member. Her most recent collection is To Hear the Rain: Selected
Haiku of Peggy Lyles (Decatur, IL: Brooks Books, 2002.)
Francis Masat moved to Key West, Florida, after
35 years as a university professor in the Midwest and New Jersey. He now enjoys
living, volunteering, and writing in a tropical setting. His older work appears
in Avant, Instructor, Liberal Education,
Mathematics Magazine, Pony Tracks and Buffalo Trails,
and The Pentagon. Recent work, which reflects his Midwest roots, some
new directions, and the tropics, has been accepted by Amaze,
Artistry in Poetry, bottle rockets, Frog Pond,
Haiku Harvest, Haiku Spirit, Heron's Nest,
Illinois Times, Life in Alaska, Lynx,
Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Muse, Apprentice
Guild, Paper Wasp, Poetry Midwest, Prairie
Poetry, Short Stuff, Solares Hill, Tiny Words,
and others.
Ashraful Musaddeq was born in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh in 1958. He is a public servant, currently living in Dhaka. His published books are: Beckoning Jade-dreams (2007),
Firefly Can't Make A Day (2008), and other 10 books in Bangla. His poems may be seen at: http://www.poemhunter.com/ashraful-musaddeq.
Lars Palm is
the author of several short books of poetry. He also runs ungovernable press,
publishing free pdf-books. He doesn't write very many haiku these days, though
he once used the form to learn poetry. He works in healthcare and lives in
Malmö in southern Sweden.
Linda Pilarski has lived and worked in the USA, Australia and Canada. With her notebook and camera, she has hiked in wild and beautiful places on all seven continents. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DailyHaiku, the World Haiku Association Haiga Contest, Modern Haiga, Haigaonline, Simply Haiku, Acorn, Wisteria, White Lotus Shadow Poetry, Chrysanthemum, Moonset, World Haiku Review 2009, Prune Juice, Canadian Zen Haiku, Haiku Dreaming Australia and Frogpond. She is the editor of DailyHaiga.
Jennifer Gomoll Popolis lives in
Springfield, IL, where she writes everything from literary fiction to crochet
patterns. Her haiku have most recently appeared in bottle rockets,
Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Mayfly, The Heron's Nest, Acorn, and The Mainichi
Daily News.
David B. Ring lives in Palo Alto, California. This is his first submission of haiku. He also enjoys writing poems about nature in alliterative meter.
Camilla Sayf, currently residing in
Holland and a mother of two, is a haiku poet, freelance writer and
the author of various works that include poetry and short fiction. She is
a former language teacher and translator who finds her greatest
inspiration in researching cultural heritage left to the world by past
civilizations. Some of her writing, including "Lebanese Chronicles" and
"Innocent Heart" have been translated and published in other languages.
Her favorite quote is "A single rose can be my garden, a single friend my
world," by Leo Buscaglia.
Peter Scacco, born in Cleveland, Ohio, in
1951 and a graduate of Fordham University in New York, has lived in Paris,
Tokyo, Brussels and cities throughout the US. He spent his career as a
corporate communications executive, retiring to pursue his love of the arts.
He is a woodcut artist and illustrator whose work can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com . He has been writing poetry since the late
1960s.
Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Millbrook, NY with her husband. Her haiku and other Japanese
short form poetry, such as tanka and haibun, have been published in a number of
journals, both in print and online, in the US and abroad. She has published
one collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, available at www.modernenglishtankapress.com .
Her blog is: www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com .
Susan Solomon is an MFA
candidate at Hamline University and the editor of Sleet Magazine, an online
literary journal.
Diana Webb is very much interested in the connection between haiku and
well-being. She has run workshops in haiku related writing at an arts
centre for people with experience of mental distress. Much of the
inspiration for her own writing comes from the area around the River Mole
in Leatherhead near London where she lives. Currently she is events
officer for the British Haiku Society and is hoping to promote haiku and
haiku related forms among a wide range of people.
Christopher White lives in Dorset on the South coast of Great Britain. His interest
in haiku developed whilst at university where his study of philosophy
inadvertently led him to the form.
Dick Whyte is a haiku poet
from Wellington, New Zealand. He recently got his Masters in Film
writing on New Zealand experimental film-maker Joanna Margaret Paul.
One of the central points of his masters thesis was developing a
connection between experimental film and the Japanese haiku poem,
particularly in terms of "floating lines," quantum physics and
multiplicity. Dick's haiku and tanka have been published
in Roadrunner Journal, Modern English Tanka, Three Lights
Gallery and
Chrysanthemum.
Robert Wilson is the Co-founder, Owner, and Managing Editor of Simply Haiku. A retired educator and magazine columnist, he lives in the Philippines.
Nora Wood is a
writer and poet living in Atlanta, Georgia with her two daughters. She
took up daily haiku in 2007 as a discipline, creative outlet, and
challenge. She has had poems published on line and in print, and one of
her haiku is included in the upcoming Lilliput Press Basho Challenge
chapbook.
Peter Yovu is currently, for the next two or three minutes anyway, a deconstruction worker living in Vermont, though at the moment it's too dark to tell. His first name, from the Greek, means "rock" or "stone"; his last name, he claims, means "forty or forty one steps away from enlightenment", though he refuses to say in what language. He is therefore caught between a rock and no place at all.
David Ash is the poet and publisher behind Basho Press, which produces the Haiku
for Life® series of gift books. This is the first English language series
of humorous 5-7-5 haiku to be demographically targeted by interests,
occupations, foods, or lifestyles. The series should consist of a dozen
titles by the end of 2009 such as Haiku for Coffee Lovers and Haiku for Dog Lovers.
Whether Matsuo Basho would roll with laughter or roll in his grave, Ash figures
rolling is good exercise. But every now and then, Ash's frog likes to
exercise his literary legs and hops into a different pond. When not
on the road shamelessly selling his books, he resides in Mukilteo,
Washington with his wife and son.
Raquel D. Bailey is a mother and Special Event Manager for the Children's
Campaign, Inc. Her poetry has been published in The Heron's Nest,
Other Poetry, Modern Haiku, Acorn, Simply Haiku, Presence, Frogpond,
Mainichi Daily News, Chrysanthemum, Shamrock, Wisteria, and Cider
Press Review. She is the founding editor of Lyrical Passion Poetry
E-Zine:
Don Baird describes
himself as a simple man looking at nature's things through the lens of a
haiku. He has placed third twice in Japan's Kusamakura International
Haiku contest (foreign division). Between special moments of
capturing glimpses of nature in haiku, he is a kung fu teacher, musician
and photographer. He's always searching . . . yet deep inside,
he knows there is nothing to be found but himself.
Alan S. Bridges began writing haiku in
2008 after a chance meeting with a well-known American haiku poet on a
cross-America and back train trip. His haiku have been published by The
Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku and Bottle Rockets Press. When not
writing haiku he is a small independent natural gas producer with interests
in wells in Texas, Louisiana and Wyoming. He lives in Massachusetts with his
wife, Margaret, daughters, Holly and Emma, and a pug, Ruby.
Susan Constable's haiku and senryu
have been published in Canada, the United States, Australia, Ireland, and
Germany, both on-line and in print. Most recently, her work has been featured in
New Resonance 6, July 2009. She has also achieved recognition through The
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Canada's Betty Drevniok Award, the 6th White
Lotus Haiku Contest, and a Reader's Choice Award, also in White Lotus. She lives
with her husband on Canada's west coast, where the natural world provides much
of her subject matter, inspiration, and pleasure.
Tish Davis lives in central Ohio with her husband and two children. She
works as a New Product Development Program Manager. Early publications were
written under the name of Theresa Kiko and include poetry and a technical
handbook on printed circuit boards. Her recent interests include haiku and
haibun. Her haibun have been accepted for publication in Contemporary Haibun,
Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online and Haibun Today.
Wende Skidmore DuFlon lives in a semi-rural town outside La Antigua,
Guatemala with her husband and three children. She has lived and worked in
Mexico and Central America for the last 25 years working to reduce poverty
through improved reproductive health, basic education, and nutrition. She
enjoys her newfound living through the haiku optic and relishes the learning
process that comes from mutual sharing of work with other writers. Her
poems have been published in Ribbons, The Heron's Nest, and the Haiku Society of
America 2009 Anthology.
Garry Eaton is a newcomer to the world of haiku/haibun. He has been published only recently by Red Thread
Haiku Sangha and by Contemporary Haibun Online. He is
retired, and lives in Port Moody, British Columbia,
Canada.
Lisa Greer is an adjunct English instructor and online lead tutor living in
Mississippi. She enjoys writing and autism activism in her spare
time.
Carolyn Hall lives in San Francisco and is an active
member of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Her haiku have been widely
published and anthologized in the U.S. and abroad, and she has received numerous
awards, including both "Poem of the Year" and "Poet of the Year" in The
Heron's Nest Readers Choice awards and the Museum of Haiku Literature Award.
She was an editor of Mariposa (the membership journal of HPNC) and served
as a member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial staff. She currently is
editor of Acorn: a journal of contemporary haiku. Water Lines, her
award-winning individual collection of haiku and senryu, was published in 2006
by Snapshot Press. As winner of the True Vine Press Autumn Chapbook Contest, her
chapbook In and Out of Shadow was published in 2008.
John Holt, known also by his haigo
"tori inu" is an American military officer and haiku poet currently living
in Japan. He has earned degrees from Park University and
Webster University. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and his work
has appeared in numerous leading haiku journals and magazines and was recognized
most recently at the 2009 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.
Peggy Willis Lyles, Tucker, GA, is an associate editor of The Heron's Nest and a Red Moon Anthology staff member. Her most recent collection is To Hear the Rain: Selected
Haiku of Peggy Lyles (Decatur, IL: Brooks Books, 2002.)
Francis Masat moved to Key West, Florida, after
35 years as a university professor in the Midwest and New Jersey. He now enjoys
living, volunteering, and writing in a tropical setting. His older work appears
in Avant, Instructor, Liberal Education,
Mathematics Magazine, Pony Tracks and Buffalo Trails,
and The Pentagon. Recent work, which reflects his Midwest roots, some
new directions, and the tropics, has been accepted by Amaze,
Artistry in Poetry, bottle rockets, Frog Pond,
Haiku Harvest, Haiku Spirit, Heron's Nest,
Illinois Times, Life in Alaska, Lynx,
Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Muse, Apprentice
Guild, Paper Wasp, Poetry Midwest, Prairie
Poetry, Short Stuff, Solares Hill, Tiny Words,
and others.
Ashraful Musaddeq was born in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh in 1958. He is a public servant, currently living in Dhaka. His published books are: Beckoning Jade-dreams (2007),
Firefly Can't Make A Day (2008), and other 10 books in Bangla. His poems may be seen at: http://www.poemhunter.com/ashraful-musaddeq.
Lars Palm is
the author of several short books of poetry. He also runs ungovernable press,
publishing free pdf-books. He doesn't write very many haiku these days, though
he once used the form to learn poetry. He works in healthcare and lives in
Malmö in southern Sweden.
Linda Pilarski has lived and worked in the USA, Australia and Canada. With her notebook and camera, she has hiked in wild and beautiful places on all seven continents. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DailyHaiku, the World Haiku Association Haiga Contest, Modern Haiga, Haigaonline, Simply Haiku, Acorn, Wisteria, White Lotus Shadow Poetry, Chrysanthemum, Moonset, World Haiku Review 2009, Prune Juice, Canadian Zen Haiku, Haiku Dreaming Australia and Frogpond. She is the editor of DailyHaiga.
Jennifer Gomoll Popolis lives in
Springfield, IL, where she writes everything from literary fiction to crochet
patterns. Her haiku have most recently appeared in bottle rockets,
Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Mayfly, The Heron's Nest, Acorn, and The Mainichi
Daily News.
David B. Ring lives in Palo Alto, California. This is his first submission of haiku. He also enjoys writing poems about nature in alliterative meter.
Camilla Sayf, currently residing in
Holland and a mother of two, is a haiku poet, freelance writer and
the author of various works that include poetry and short fiction. She is
a former language teacher and translator who finds her greatest
inspiration in researching cultural heritage left to the world by past
civilizations. Some of her writing, including "Lebanese Chronicles" and
"Innocent Heart" have been translated and published in other languages.
Her favorite quote is "A single rose can be my garden, a single friend my
world," by Leo Buscaglia.
Peter Scacco, born in Cleveland, Ohio, in
1951 and a graduate of Fordham University in New York, has lived in Paris,
Tokyo, Brussels and cities throughout the US. He spent his career as a
corporate communications executive, retiring to pursue his love of the arts.
He is a woodcut artist and illustrator whose work can be seen at www.scaccowoodcuts.com . He has been writing poetry since the late
1960s.
Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Millbrook, NY with her husband. Her haiku and other Japanese
short form poetry, such as tanka and haibun, have been published in a number of
journals, both in print and online, in the US and abroad. She has published
one collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, available at www.modernenglishtankapress.com .
Susan Solomon is an MFA
candidate at Hamline University and the editor of Sleet Magazine, an online
literary journal.
Diana Webb is very much interested in the connection between haiku and
well-being. She has run workshops in haiku related writing at an arts
centre for people with experience of mental distress. Much of the
inspiration for her own writing comes from the area around the River Mole
in Leatherhead near London where she lives. Currently she is events
officer for the British Haiku Society and is hoping to promote haiku and
haiku related forms among a wide range of people.
Christopher White lives in Dorset on the South coast of Great Britain. His interest
in haiku developed whilst at university where his study of philosophy
inadvertently led him to the form.
Dick Whyte is a haiku poet
from Wellington, New Zealand. He recently got his Masters in Film
writing on New Zealand experimental film-maker Joanna Margaret Paul.
One of the central points of his masters thesis was developing a
connection between experimental film and the Japanese haiku poem,
particularly in terms of "floating lines," quantum physics and
multiplicity. Dick's haiku and tanka have been published
in Roadrunner Journal, Modern English Tanka, Three Lights
Gallery and
Chrysanthemum.
Robert Wilson is the Co-founder, Owner, and Managing Editor of Simply Haiku. A retired educator and magazine columnist, he lives in the Philippines.
Nora Wood is a
writer and poet living in Atlanta, Georgia with her two daughters. She
took up daily haiku in 2007 as a discipline, creative outlet, and
challenge. She has had poems published on line and in print, and one of
her haiku is included in the upcoming Lilliput Press Basho Challenge
chapbook.
Peter Yovu is currently, for the next two or three minutes anyway, a deconstruction worker living in Vermont, though at the moment it's too dark to tell. His first name, from the Greek, means "rock" or "stone"; his last name, he claims, means "forty or forty one steps away from enlightenment", though he refuses to say in what language. He is therefore caught between a rock and no place at all.