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| 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. Her work has also featured in various exhibitions at the 3LIGHTS Gallery. PAMELA A. BABUSCI Pamela A. Babusci is an internationally award winning haiku/tanka & haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon Competition (tanka category), First Place Kokako Tanka Competition, Basho Festival Haiku Contest (Japan) and Honorable Mention Suruga Baika Literary Festival (Japan). Pamela has illustrated several books, including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards and Taboo Haiku. She was the logo artist for Haiku North America in NYC in 2003 and HNA in Winston-Salem, NC in 2007. In her spare time she presses flowers, ferns & leaves to make cards & framings, abstract watercolor/oil painting, sumi-e painting, Chinese calligraphy, makes collages & jewelry. She has a deep desire to be creative on a daily basis, which feeds her spirit & soul & gives meaning to her life. Poetry & art have been an integral part of her existence since her early teen age years & will continue to be a driving force until she meets her creator. Pamela exhibited work in a solo show at 3LIGHTS in 2008. JON BALDWIN I am Jon Baldwin from Ramsgate, Kent. My haiku and tanka have appeared in journals such as The Heron's Nest, Acorn, Eucalypt, Riverbed, and Blithe Spirit. JOHN BARLOW John Barlow is the editor of The Haiku Calendar (which has appeared annually since 2000), and co-editor (with Martin Lucas) of The New Haiku (2002). Since 2007 he has also been on the editorial staff of The Red Moon Anthology. His own books include Waiting for the Seventh Wave (2006) and (with Matthew Paul) Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (2008), while his solo exhibition, The Bittern's Neck, appeared at 3LIGHTS in 2008. ROBERTA BEARY Roberta Beary grew up in New York City . In the early 1990s she spent five years living in Tokyo where she began to study and write haiku. She has since won numerous awards for her poetry. In 2006, she co-edited, fish in love, the Haiku Society of America's Members' Anthology, and she is currently on the Editorial Staff of The Red Moon Anthology. Her debut collection, The Unworn Necklace, (Snapshot Press, 2007) won the Snapshot Press Book Award. CHRISTINE BRUNESS Christine Bruness is a published poet and artist. She has had hundreds of poems, short stories, essays, articles, guest editorials, and artwork published both in print and online literary publications. Her first book: Imbalance, An Experimental Collection of Micro Stories and Poetry, (written under her maiden name: Christine McGuigan) received the Rose/Rosemary Zientek 2000 Award. Her haiku and senryu have appeared in numerous publications, including OCEAN, Seasons, Haiku Headlines, Haiku Haven, Timepieces, Frogpond, Flutter, Dreams of Decadence, The Casino Anthology, and Bolts of Silk. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Richard, and their two cats: Daisy and Shadow. Strays visit often and are always welcome and fed. 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's The Haiku Calendar (UK). Helen is currently exhibiting work in a 3LIGHTS solo show. SUSAN CONSTABLE Susan Constable's haiku and haiga have appeared in numerous print and on-line journals in the past two years. Retired from dual careers - education and business - she lives on the west coast of Canada , where nature provides many wonderful haiku moments. JENNIFER CORPE Jennifer Corpe is currently an Indiana based poet whose work has appeared in White Lotus, moonset, Simply Haiku, Riverbed, The Heron's Nest and 3LIGHTS. Recently, she was one of the third prize winners in the 13th Kusamakura Haiku Competition. MAGDALENA DALE Magdalena Dale was born in, and lives in, Bucharest , Romania . She is a member of the Romanian Society of Haiku and has published in Haiku, Albatros, Dor de Dor, Ribbons, Modern English Tanka, Taj Mahal review, Magnapoets. She’s anthologized in Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, Ambrosia, Atlas Poetica, Magnapoets Anthologies, and other Romanian bilingual anthologies: “Scoici de mare/Sea Shells” “Flori de tei/Lime Tree Flowers”. Her tanka and other poems have appeared in more literary sites online. She wrote a bilingual tanka book Perle de roua/Dew pearls and together with Vasile Modovan wrote a bilingual renga book Mireasma de tei / Fragrance of lime. CHERIE HUNTER DAY Cherie Hunter Day regularly contributes her haiku and tanka to journals in the USA , UK, and Australia . Her first tanka book, Early Indigo, won first place in the Snapshot Press Contest in 1999 and an honorable mention in the Merit Book Awards in 2001. Her first haiku book, The Horse with One Blue Eye, was published by Snapshot Press in 2006. Her most recent tanka book, Kindle of Green, is a collaborative tanka sequence with David Rice. Cherie lives in San Diego, California . LARYALEE FRASER I'm a retired reporter/photographer, living in British Columbia, Canada;my work has been in several online publications. BERNARD GIESKE I live in Kentucky, U.S.A. and enjoyed the experience of growing up with nature. Haiku provides me with the challenge of capturing its awe and wonderfulness. I have been successful in sharing some of my poems in moonset, paper wasp, haiku world, and other publications. CATHERINE GRAHAM Catherine Graham (UK) is a Newcastle upon Tyne poet and winner of the Northern Voices Poetry Award 2008. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies as well as on the web. JOHN HOLT John Holt (haigo: tori enu "bird dog") has been chasing after things all his life. He has lived off and on in Japan for seven years and has been studying and practicing the art of haiku for many years. CATHERINE J.S. LEE Catherine J. S. Lee began writing haiku last year after years as a writer of short fiction. She lives, writes, teaches, and gardens on an island on the coast of Maine near Canada , and recently joined the editorial board of the Maine poetry journal, Off the Coast. Her haiku has appeared in the 3LIGHTS exhibition Nocturne and is forthcoming in The Aurorean. A variety of print and online journals have published her fiction. BOB LUCKY Bob Lucky lives in Hangzhou, China, where he teaches history. His work has appeared in various journals. MANKH Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is a writer, small press publisher, and Turtle Islander.He is active with the Long Island, NY poetry scene and teaches workshops on haikuand brush calligraphy. Mankh published a 2009 Haiku and Brush Calligraphy Calendar,and he authored/edited Haiku One Breaths (2004) which is part how-to haiku and part anthology. His haiku have been posted online at simplyhaiku.com, and his haiku and essays have appeared in frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. He also writes "regular" poems and essays. His website: www.allbook-books.com. 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 has presented two solo exhibitions at 3LIGHTS. DEBORAH KEITH Deborah Keith lives with her husband and two cats on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Kent, Ohio. As a teacher and counselor, she has been intimately connected with the town of Kent for over five decades. Although Deborah has also lived in Colorado, Kentucky, California, China and a cabin she built in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, Kent has called her back each time. She draws much of her poetic inspiration from this relationship with place and the simplicity of her immediate surroundings. Deborah has published her poetry and short fiction in Ruben's Quarterly, Voices, Confluence, and Cup of Fiction. NATALIA KUZNETSOVA I'm a university assistant professor of English and a freelance conference interpreter.I write poetry mostly in Russian,not long ago published a small book of lyrical poems;participated in a few poetry projects.Quite recently "discovered" the world of Japanese poetry and started to write tanka and haiku in English.Contributed some to several international competitions, won a third prize at the 12th Kusamakura haiku competition and an"Honourable Mention"at the Vancouver2008 Haiku Invitational competition. JACEK MARGOLAK Jacek Margolak was born in Rzeszów, in 1964. He lives in Kielce (Poland) with his wife and two sons. He works as a print technologist. He has been interested in haiku and haiga since 2000 and now he is a member of two poetic groups writing haiku - "Haiku po polsku" and "Orient", and his poems have been published on the internet at The Heron's Nest, Mainichi Daily News, Haiku Harvest, Asahi Haikuist Network, Tinywords, Frogpond, Wisteria and anthologies (Big sky: The 2006 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, Dust of summers: The 2007 Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, Crickets and Chrysanthemums) and haiga at World Haiku Association. , Modern Haiga, Haigaonline. ANNETTE MINEO Annette Mineo lives in the seaside artist village of Rockport, Mass. Her poems have been published in a variety of tanka journals and she has written and published two chapbooks: empty baskets and six sunflowers and an inch worm. 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, they written a bilingual renga book, Mireasma de tei/ Fragrance of lime. DANA-MARIA ONICA My name is Dana-Maria Onica, 48 years old, eye doctor, from Romania . My interest in Japanese poetry began two years ago, reading Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book. Since then I am a pilgrim on the haiku path. My poems have been published in Simply Haiku, Tinywords and Lynx. I also have published two books of poems: Poppy Time (love poems inspired by Japanese Haiku) and First Flight (poetry inspired by Japanese haiku). 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. KALA RAMESH Kala Ramesh , an exponent of North Indian Classical music, took a sudden liking to haiku in 2005. Her work, consisting of haiku, tanka, senryu, haibun and renku, has appeared in leading e-zines and anthologies. Kala comes from an artistic and culturally rich South Indian family. She believes, as her father is fond of saying, that “the soil needs to be fertile for the plant to bloom” and feels that she owes this poetic streak to her mother. A proud mother of two young adults, Kala lives with her husband in Pune, India. ALTHEA ROWE WATSON Althea’s writing has been produced for audiences in New York City and Chicago among other cities. A writer for series of instructional and new age recordings, a voice for a myriad of books and episodic adventures on tape and a member of SAG, AFTRA and AEA. She is included in, Channeling The Heart and the Art, by Diana Muenz-Chen. Althea is a consultant, teacher and has been a guest for television shows regarding topics in: performance; physical and vocal alignment and stress management; the healing arts and metaphysics. SLAVKO SEDLAR Slavko Sedlar was born in 1932 in Jezersko near Krupa in Bosanska Krajina. During WWII he found himself, like other young Serbs who survived the war, in Vojvodina war orphanages, and afterwards in boarding schools in Vršac, Rijeka and Belgrade, where he completed his elementary and secondary education, as well as business school. In February 1980, with a haiku seminar held by Aleksandar Nejgebauer, he adopted haiku with Zen and discovered a new world, a world where he was to forget the Christian teachings and principles he had adopted until that time. The seminar developed into the so-called “Haiku class”, that is a haiku school organized at the Vršac Literary Community, where Sedlar instructed haiku beginners. In 1982 he 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 he was commended and awarded an honorary membership by The Novi Sad Haiku Club “Aleksandar Nejgebauer” for his exceptional contribution to Yugoslav haiku. His haiku have been published in a number of literary journals, in this country and abroad, in Serbian and other languages. He is the recipient of many commendations, recognitions and awards, both domestic and foreign, and he himself has awarded many haijin as a judge of haiku contests. ADELAID B. SHAW Adelaide B. Shaw lives in a rural area in upstate New York with her husband. Her haiku, tanka and haibun have appeared in several journals, both in print and on-line, in the United States and abroad. Her collection of haiku, An Unknown Road, is available at www.modernenglishtankapress.com/. SANDRA SIMPSON Sandra Simpson lives in Tauranga in the aptly named Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Her coastal home never has snow and a frost is sure to get people talking. Several winters in England and Lebanon means she is well acquainted with snow, ice and freezing conditions, but likes them nonetheless. Sandra judged the 2007 NZ Poetry Society haiku competition and last year won both the Kokako Haiku Contest (NZ) and miniWORDS (UK). PAUL SMITH Paul Smith lives with his Wife and family in Worcestershire UK. His poems have been included in such publications as Presence, Blithe Spirit, Modern English Tanka and The Ash Moon Anthology. WILLIAM SOULE William Soule is a Filipino-American poet from northern Utah. His short poems have been published or are forthcoming in elimae, Alba, A Handful of Stones, and Every Day Poets. He also plays the drums, advocates holistic nutrition and medicine, and raises his two year old pit bull. ALAN SUMMERS Alan Summers 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. ANDRÉ SURRIDGE André 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. BARBARA A. TAYLOR Barbara lives in northern NSW, Australia. Her poems appear in journals and anthologies including Landfall, Atlas Poetica, Crickets and Chrysanthemums, Ludbreg Calendar 2008, Lynx, qaartisiluni, Ribbons, Wisteria, Shamrock, Tiny Words, Simply Haiku, Kokako, Moonset, Eucalypt, and elsewhere. Poetry with audio is at http://batsword.tripod.com. DIANA WEBB Diana Webb believes strongly in the way participation in the arts can enhance well being.For this reason she is involved in several projects which encourage people with mental health problems to create with words with emphasis on the playful aspects.Haiku feature strongly in her projects.Diana is currently Events Officer for the British Haiku Society and her first book of haibun Takeaway has just appeared from Hub Editions who published her four previous haiku collections. VERICA ZIVKOVIC Verica Zivkovic was born on the 29 th ofSeptember, 1954.She graduated at the Faculty of lawin Belgrade.Until now she has won 37 awardsfor haiku poetry.She lives in Serbia.She had five books of poetry published: Someone's Standing Behind You;A Sickle in a Shirt;The Undressed Sky;The Passer-by and Shift of the Moon. |