| MEGAN ARKENBERG Megan is a student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in Simply Haiku, Tiny Words and Modern English Tanka's "Landfall" Anthology, and in the Tankafall exhibition at 3LIGHTS Gallery earlier this year. JOHN BARLOW John Barlow is the editor of The Haiku Calendar, which has appeared annually since 2000, and co-editor of The New Haiku (2002) and the forthcoming Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku. His own collections include Flamingo Shapes (2001) and Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006), and his haiku have received awards in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan . HELEN BUCKINGHAM Helen Buckingham was born in London, 1960, and presently lives in Bristol. Her poems have appeared throughout the world, in journals and anthologies such as Presence and Snapshots (UK), Frogpond, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, and A New Resonance 5 (US) and The Mainichi Daily News (Japan). Her work has been placed in competitions including the HIA, The Basho Memorial, The Suruga Baika and The Mainichi Daily News (Japan) and The Hackett and Snapshot Press Calendar (UK). MAGDALENA DALE Magdalena Dale lives in Bucharest, Romania . She is a member of the Romanian Society of Haiku and has been published in bilingual national and international anthologies: “Flori de tei /Lime-tree flowers”, “Greieri si crizanteme /Crickets and chrysanthemums”, “Scoici de mare/Sea shells”. She has published in international anthology of tanka “Fire Pearls” published in Perryville, Maryland (S.U.A.) by M. Kei. Her poems have appeared in several reviews as: “Haiku”, “Albatross”, “Dor de Dor”, “Ribbons”, “Modern English Tanka”, “Simply Haiku” and Japanese review “Ginyu”. She published a bilingual tanka book “Perle de roua / Dew pearls”. Together with Mr. Vasile Moldovan they have written a bilingual renga book “Mireasma de tei / Fragrance of lime”. Her poems have appeared in more literary sites online. SUSAN DELPHINE DELANEY Susan Delphine Delaney MD is a psychiatrist living in Plano, Texas. She has a private practice in Plano thee days a week and also works with homeless mentally ill persons in downtown Dallas two days a week. She has been writing haiku and related forms for many years. Her poems have appeared in frogpond, woodnotes, tundra, heron quarterly, modern haiku, lynx, south by southwest, world haiku review, bottlerockets, simply haiku, fire pearls and small canyons. AMELIA FIELDEN Amelia Fielden is a professional Japanese translator, and a lover of tanka. She lives in her homeland, Australia, and frequently visits Japan to lecture and research. BERNARD GADD (1935 - 2007) Bernard Gadd was a teacher and co-editor of New Zealand's small poems magazine "Kokako". He was also 2005 judge of NZ Poetry Society's international haiku contest. Bernard's final collection of poems was "End of the Snapshots". Bernard Gadd sadly passed away shortly before this exhibition opened, just weeks after Mr. Gadd kindly submitted work to 3LIGHTS. It's an honour to include his beautiful haiku, 'lines about the moon' and we would like to dedicate this exhibition to his memory. For Bernard's obituary, please click here. DENIS M. GARRISON Denis M. Garrison, editor of Modern English Tanka, lives in Baltimore Maryland, USA. His poetry’s published in Ribbons, Tangled Hair, Eucalypt, red lights, Trilopia, Lynx, Moonset, Simply Haiku, Paper Wasp, Roadrunner, Poetry Scotland, Nightingale, Wisteria, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, Nisqually Delta Review, Short Stuff, Full Moon, and others. Garrison’s published books include Hidden River, Eight Shades of Blue and The Brink at Logan Pond; he’s anthologized in May Dazed, Poets Gone Wild, Fire Pearls, The Five-Hole Flute, The Dreaming Room, Sixty Sunflowers, and Landfall. Garrison was the editor of Haiku Harvest, 2000-2006 (digital & print). Websites: www.TankaCentral.com www.ShortVerse.com www.TankaNews.com OZ HARDWICK Oz Hardwick is a York-based poet, photographer and occasional musician, whose latest collection, Carrying Fire, was published by Bluechrome in 2006. BILL HART Bill Hart is a poet and novelist living in Los Angeles. He's published haiku and senryu in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Presence, HQ Poetry Magazine, Mainichi Daily News, Yomiuri Shimbun, The International Herald Tribune and many others. Of the four published haiku collections, one, Paris (Timberline Press, 1996), won a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. Hart has published two novels, is working on the third, and produces feature documentary films with his wife Jayasri Majumdar for play on American public television (PBS). MAUREEN IRVINE Mo Irvine was born in the UK and now lives in rural New Zealand with her writer husband. Mo has had poetry and short stories published in six countries. She has recently grown fascinated with Japanese forms of poetry and has had several haiku and haibun accepted for publication in Kokako, a prestigious New Zealand specialist magazine. Earlier in 2007 some of her haiku were published in Australian Stylus, an online magazine. Her work can also be seen in The Review of Contemporary Poetry (Bluechrome Press, UK, 2005). Mo is currently working on a new set of haibun, and a science-fiction novel. She enjoys diversity. M. KEI M. Kei is an award-winning poet who 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 is the editor of the Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, as well as the author of Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, and the editor of the anthology Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart. Over 750 of his poems have been published in ten countries and five languages. In addition, he writes scholarly articles about tanka and compiles the Bibliography of English-Language Tanka. M. Kei's solo exhibition, Autumn Water, was featured at 3LIGHTS Gallery in Autumn 2007. CATHERINE LEE As well as being a writer of haiku, Catherine Lee has published short fiction in a variety of literary journals, including The Rose & Thorn. BOB LUCKY Bob Lucky lives in Hangzhou, China, where he teaches history. His work has appeared in various journals. ALAN McKEAN Alan McKean lives in Lancashire, England, and has been writing for four years. His work has appeared in magazines & webzines, including Parameter, Boyne Berries, Deficit, Poets Letter (Poet in residence for April). Alan also has around 240 of his football poems posted on www. footballpoets.org. JENNI MEREDITH Jenni Meredith’s poetry has been broadcast in England, Italy, Greece, published in magazines, anthologies and collections. In 1995, with Arts Council funding, she produced the first of many experimental animated poetry videos, Commissions include hypertexts, interactive webart, Poetry CD Rom, schools and hospitals installations and residencies aboard International ferries. VASILE MOLDOVAN Vasile Moldovan is a Romanina poet. Since 2001 he is the president of Romanian Society of Haiku. He published some haiku and senryu books: "Via dolorosa" (1998), "The moon's unseen face" (2001), "Noah's Ark" (2003), "Ikebana" (2005). Together with poetess Magdalena Dale,Vasile has written a bilingual renga book, "Mireasma de tei"/ "Fragrance of lime". CIARÁN PARKES Ciarán Parkes lives in Galway. He is the founding editor of the Galway literary magazine, Crannóg. His poems have been published in a number of magazines, in Ireland and beyond. PATRICIA PRIME Patricia is co-editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine Kokako and reviews editor of the Australian online magazine Stylus. Besides writing poetry, she writes articles and reviews. Patricia enjoys interviewing poets and editors and has had several of her interviews published in Takahe (NZ), and online in Simply Haiku and Stylus. Patricia recently judged the Junior Section of the NZPS International Haiku Competition. Future work includes an essay on African poetry and an essay on haiku by Indian poets. K. RAMESH K. Ramesh's poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies published in India and abroad. Recently Red Moon Press brought out his collection of haiku titled 'Soap Bubbles'. K. Ramesh works as a teacher in a school in Chennai, India. R. K. SINGH Born, broughtup and educated in Varanasi, Prof. R. K. Singh is a university professor, teaching English language skills to students of earth and mineral sciences. He has authored over 140 articles,155 book reviews and 32 books, including twelve collections of poems, among them, two jointly with U S Bahri, TWO POETS (1994) and COVER TO COVER (2002), and two others, EVERY STONE DROP PEBBLE (1999) jointly with Catherine Mire and Patricia Prime, and PACEM IN TERRIS (2003, a trilogy collection, containing his haiku collection PEDDLING DREAM). MY SILENCE AND OTHER SELECTED POEMS:1974-1994 (1996) and ABOVE THE EARTH'S GREEN (1997) are his other two important poetry books. NEW INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY: AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE: R.K.SINGH (ed: I.K.Sharma) is the latest publication of his poetry. It contains 22 critical articles, six interviews and over a dozen review/comments by about 30 scholars.(Details from bookenclave@yahoo.com). R. K. Singh has received several awards and honours, including honorary Litt.D. from the World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taiwan, 1984, Michael Madhusudan Award, Calcutta, 1994 and Peace Museum Award from Ritstumeikan University, Kyoto, 1999. ALAN SUMMERS Alan lives in Bradford on Avon, England. Early in 2007, Alan co-judged a haiku competition for children from the slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya. He was also on the panel for the first ever British Sign Language Haiku Festival, at which he gave out the Basho Prize. He has been poet in residence for the Bristol Festival of Nature and Haiku Week at Bath Spa University. Alan and his wife are the founders of With Words, an initiative to promote literacy projects and the love of words, be it haiku, fables, children's fiction or poetry. ANDRE SURRIDGE Andre Surridge was bornin Hull, England, now lives in the heart of the Waikato in the city of Hamilton, New Zealand. He has won several writing awards including the Shell Playwrights Award NZ 1984; Haiku Have-a-Go Competition, Katikati, NZ, 2004 and the Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Award, Australia 2006. André was awarded 3rd place in the 2006 Hoshi-to-Mori International Tanka Contest and recently won the 2007 Kaji Aso Tanka Award. TONY A. THOMPSON Tony A. Thompson is the publisher/editor of the print journal, Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka. He has work in Modern Haiku, bottlerockets, Acorn, moonset and other journals. He was honored to have James Hackett select one of his poems as Highly Commended in the 2006 James W. Hackett Haiku contest sponsored by the British Haiku Society. IVANA VANJA NIKOVIC Ivana Vanja Nikovic; freelance writer; lives in Belgrade, Serbia. She has lived in Dominican Republic for three years and a major part of her work is about Caribbian style of life. She has had haiku, haibun, short stories, novelettes and different articals in various literary journals, magazines, newspapers, antologies in Serbia, Dominican Republic, Japan, Swicherland. VID VUKASOVIC Vid Vukasovic is a poet and writer, published in various haiku and haibun collections and winner of several awards. DIANA WEBB Diana Webb has been writing haiku for over 15 years and belongs to the British Haiku Society where she is currently working with three other members to update their haiku teaching kit which should be adaptable for use with both children ad adults.Diana believes strongly in the contribution writing and reading haiku can make to well-being. Her work has been widely published in both printed and on-line journals and Hub Editions have brought out three earlier collections of hers: Dancing Stones; Stilling the Pen; and Already Along the Stream. LIAM WILKINSON Liam Wilkinson is the curator of the 3LIGHTS Gallery. His haiku and tanka, including sequences, have appeared in such publications as Bottle Rockets, Simply Haiku, Ribbons, Modern English Tanka and others. His latest ebook is The Darkening Tide, a collection of tanka. Liam lives in his native Yorkshire, England. MARTIN WILLITTS JR. Martin Willitts, Jr. has four chapbooks of poetry including "Falling in and Out of Love" from Pudding House Publications, an on-line chapbook which includes some haiku "Farewell---the journey now begins" on www.languageandculture.net, and a full length book "The Secret Language of the Universe" from March Street Press. |
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