Associates

Stephen Addiss, a scholar-artist-poet, is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities: Art at the University of Richmond. His paintings, including haiga, have been exhibited in China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, England, France, Germany, Austria, and many American venues. He is managing editor of South by Southeast: Haiku and Haiku Arts Journal, and his books include A Haiku Menagerie, The Art of Zen, Haiga: Haiku-Painting, Haiku People, A Haiku Garden, Haiku Humor, Haiku Landscapes, How to Look at Japanese Art, Zen Sourcebook, 77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy, The Art of Chinese Calligraphy, and the forthcoming Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems.

Dimitar Anakiev (b. 1960 in Belgrade ) began to write and publish poetry at the age of 13, and began writing haiku in 1985. He is the father of many Balkan haiku projects, such as Haiku Novine (Serbia), Prijatelj and Apokalipsa haiku edition (Slovenia). He is a co-founder of the World Haiku Association and co-editor and publisher of Knots – An Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry. Anakiev also edited the Slovenian haiku anthology Pond of Silence and an anthology of anti-war haiku, Piece of Sky. His awards include the European Award: The Medal of Franz Kafka, the Museum of Haiku Literature Award, the Haiku Society of America annual Merit Book Award, and prizes from Mainichi Daily News, Daily Yomiuri (both Tokyo) and Azami (Osaka). He also won several film awards, including the National Slovenian Award for best documentary film.

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). He also edited the haiku magazine Snapshots from 1998–2006, and since 2007 has been on the editorial staff of The Red Moon Anthology. Other works he has edited have been honoured by the Haiku Society of America and the Poetry Society of America. His own haiku (several of which appear in his exhibition The Bittern’s Neck and at Mann Library) have been translated into many languages and published extensively worldwide, receiving awards in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. His books include Waiting for the Seventh Wave (Snapshot Press, 2006) and (with Matthew Paul) Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku (2008).

Award winning poet Roberta Beary (www.robertabeary.com) was born and raised in New York City. In 1990 she moved to Japan for five years of haiku study. Her individual poems, an unconventional hybrid of haiku and senryu, have been honored throughout North America, Europe and Asia for their innovative style. Her book of short poems, The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press, 2007), selected as a William Carlos Williams Book Award finalist (Poetry Society of America), was named a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award prize winner. She and her husband, writer Frank Stella, live near Washington, DC.

David Cobb, educational writer specialising in EFL; high school courses, now standard in West Africa, Middle East; these actually mention haiku. Founded British Haiku Society, 1990, president 1997-2001, launched Blithe Spirit, 1991, produced loan exhibition, haiku teaching kit, 1993; organised seminal meeting of European haiku poets, under the English Channel, 1997; pioneering haibun, Spring Journey to the Saxon Shore, 1997; ed. Iron Book of British Haiku (70 contributors), 1998; organised national haiku competition for The Times, 2000; editor, British Museum Haiku, 2002; cross-media events, e.g. Haiku and Glass Exhibition, 2003-2004; a voice for haiku at UK poetry festivals. Honours include four HSA Merit Book Awards.

Tom Clausen was born and grew up in Ithaca, N.Y. After graduating from Cornell in 1973 he spent the better part of a decade alternating between jobs in Ithaca and travels around the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Guatemala by bicycle, bus, train and his father’s 67 Chevy Carryall. He married Berta Gutierrez in 1987 and they have two children, Casey and Emma. For over 30 years Tom has worked in the Access Services Department at Cornell’s Mann Library. At Mann he has a daily haiku feature, posting a new haiku each day on the library home page and on an LCD screen in the entry lobby. Tom’s interest in haiku was awakened and confirmed when he read a newspaper profile on Ruth Yarrow in 1988.

Billy Collins, served as U. S. Poet Laureate from 2001-2003 and has been called “The most popular poet in America,” (New York Times). His book of haiku, She Was Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in 2006. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Collins for additional information.

DeVar Dahl is a junior/senior high school teacher in Magrath, Alberta. He came to “real” haiku through the internet some 10 year ago. He is currently serving as the president of Haiku Canada. Besides haiku, DeVar is interested in municipal politics and has been a member of the Magrath town council for 20 years. He recently completed a goal to ride his bicycle across Canada. This was done over four summers where he rode a quarter of the way each year. DeVar and his wife Lesley are adopting and raising a two year old grandson after the tragic death of his mother.

Kristen Deming served as president of the Haiku Society of America in 1998. Active in poetry circles in Japan, she was a member of the organizing committee of two U.S.-Japan haiku conferences, one in Chicago, one in Japan. She was creator and co-author of “Haiku Moments,” a weekly column of translations of Japanese haiku for the Japan Times newspaper. She also served as English consultant for Tomoshibi (Light), a collection of the poetry of the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Kristen won the inaugural Mainichi Daily News haiku contest in 1997 and second prize in the Henderson contest in 2008, among others.

Kaj Falkman, Ambassador, President of the Swedish Haiku Society. Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1959-2001. Posts: Tokyo 1959-1961, 1980-1985. Other posts: London, Geneva, Lisbon, Luanda, Istanbul, Oceania. Writer of a dozen books, such as The Face of Japan; editor of April Snow (Swedish-Japanese haiku anthology); translator of The Story of the Spring Rain, Japanese haiku (1986), author of A String Untouched (Dag Hammarskjöld´s haiku and photographs, 2005); translator of Seoto, The Sound of the Stream, waka poems by Empress Michiko of Japan (2008). TV-documentary Japan Dream, Japan Reality. Founder of the Swedish Haiku Society 1999. Married to Sigrid Falkman, art critic. One son.

Abigail Friedman was born in Washington, D.C. As an American diplomat, she has lived in Japan, France, the Azores, and Quebec, and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. It was while living in Japan that she met haiku master Momoko Kuroda and became acquainted with Japanese haiku groups. Her membership in a haiku group near Mt. Fuji was the inspiration for her book, The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan (Stone Bridge Press, June 2006). In 2005, she founded the bilingual haiku group, Haiku Quebec, while serving as U.S. Consul General in Quebec City. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America, and Haiku Canada. Her haiku, which she writes in several languages, can be found in a number of anthologies, journals and newspapers in Japan, Europe and North America. She is a frequent presenter of haiku, including at the Montreal Zen Poetry Festival, and at conferences sponsored by Haiku Canada, Haiku North America, and the Association Française de Haiku.

Jack Galmitz is a poet and short-story writer whose work can be found in the Queensborough Public Library of the City of New York. He has written four collections of haiku, the first two of which won the Ginyu Prize for 2006. He edits haiku of poets from around the world for the World Haiku Association’s annual collection and finds his greatest delight in occasionally coming upon a haiku that revises his world.

Garry Gay received his B.P.A. degree in photography in 1974. He has been a photographer by profession for the past 33 years. He started writing haiku in 1975. Greatly influenced by Basho’s Narrow Road To The Deep North, he has steadily written haiku over the past 30 years. He is one of the co-founders of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He became their first president from 1989-90 and in 2001-2008 again served as president. As president in 1989 he founded the Two Autumns haiku reading series. In 1991 he was elected as president of the Haiku Society of America. In 1991 he founded Haiku North America. In 1996 he also co-founded the American Haiku Archives in Sacramento, California. He is the creator of the poetic form called Rengay. He is the author of The Billboard Cowboy, The Silent Garden, Wings of Moonlight, River Stones, Along The Way and The Unlocked Gate, published with John Thompson.

Richard Gilbert entered Naropa University in 1981, where he studied with Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and Gary Snyder. Japanese haiku became a focus, under the tutelage of Patricia Donegan. Richard completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Poetics and Expressive Arts in 1982, followed by a Master’s in Contemplative Psychology, 1986. He earned a Ph.D. in Poetics and Depth Psychology at the Union Institute and University, 1990. In 1997, he moved to Japan to pursue Japanese haiku research. He is currently Associate Professor, Department of British and American Language and Literature, at Kumamoto University. In 2006, Richard was awarded a two-year grant from MEXT (the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) for research on modern Japanese haiku. In March 2008 he published the book and dvd-rom, Poems of Consciousness: Contemporary Japanese & English-language Haiku in Cross-cultural Perspective (Red Moon Press, 306 pages). The dvd contains the gendaihaiku.com website, which presents subtitled flash-video interviews with notable gendai haiku poets.

Yoshinobu Hakutani is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University. Among his recent books and editions are Haiku and Modernist Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Art, Music, and Literature 1897-1902 by Theodore Dreiser (University of Illinois Press, 2007), Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Ohio State University Press, 2006), and Haiku: This Other World by Richard Wright (Random House, 2000).

Christopher Herold began writing haiku in 1968. He is former president of the Haiku Poets of Northern California and is a former co-editor of Woodnotes. He was a member of the first Haiku North America organizing committe and was co-organizer of the HNA in Port Townsend 2005. He was a co-founder of The Herons Nest haiku journal and was managing editor from 1999 to 2007. He has four extant collections of haiku: In Other Words (1981); Coincidence (1987); A Path in the Garden (2000; A Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award winner); In the Margins of the Sea (2000; A Snapshot Press Manuscript Award winner), and one haibun chapbook: Voices of Stone (1995).

Ken Jones is a co-editor of the quarterly Contemporary Haibun Online. He contributes regularly to UK and US haiku magazines, as well as being represented in British and American anthologies. For his contribution to Pilgrim Foxes: Haiku and Haiku Prose, co-authored with Jim Norton and Sean O’Connor, Jones was awarded the Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai. His haibun “Travellers” won first place in the 2005 English Language Haibun Contest. Other collections: Arrow of Stones (British Haiku Society, 2002); Stallion’s Crag (Iron Press, 2003); The Parsley Bed (Pilgrim Press, 2006). Jones is a Zen practitioner and teacher of thirty years’ standing, and author of books on socially-engaged Buddhism. He now lives in Ceredigion, Wales, with his Irish wife, Noragh.

Tadashi Shokan Kondo is a professor at Seikei University. He is author of various essays exploring poetics: “Principles of Universal Haiku Grammar” on the stylistics & poetics common to all languages; “World Renku (linked poetry)” on international semiotic perspectives; and “Link and Shift” on the guiding principles for renku writing. He started Renku Performance, exploring the potentials of linked verse as a multi-media arts fusion. He is also a member of the Renku Association; founder & coordinator of the United Nations of Renku; and the head of the Isehara Renku Society.

David G. Lanoue is a professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana and co-founder of the New Orleans Haiku Society. His books include Cup-of-Tea Poems: Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa, and two “haiku novels”: Haiku Guy and Laughing Buddha. Haiku Guy has been translated and published in Bulgarian, Serbian, French and Japanese; Laughing Buddha has come out in Bulgarian. His haiku and essays appear in American, English, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Japanese and Australian journals. He maintains The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, the most comprehensive English-language Issa site on the Web.

Martin Lucas was born in 1962 in Middlesbrough and now lives in Preston. He holds a B.A. in English Literature (University of Kent at Canterbury), an M.A. in Religious Studies (Lancaster University), and a PhD for his thesis on Haiku in Britain (Cardiff, University of Wales, 2001). He has co-edited two major haiku anthologies, The Iron Book of British Haiku (1998) and The New Haiku (2002), and written an anthology-with-commentary, Stepping Stones: a way into haiku (2007). He served as President of the British Haiku Society, 2003-2006. He has edited the journal Presence since 1996.

Peggy Willis Lyles is an associate editor of The Heron’s Nest and a member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial staff. Her most recent book is To Hear the Rain, Brooks Books, 2002.

Ban’ya Natsuishi was born in Japan in 1955. He received a Masters of Arts in Comparative Literature and Culture at Tokyo University in 1981. Currently works as Professor at Meiji University, and serves as Director of the World Haiku Association as well as President of Ginyu Press. Attended to many international poetry festivals. Organized the 2nd and 4th World Haiku Association Conference in addition to Tokyo Poetry Festival 2008. Authored countless publications including A Future Waterfall (USA, 1999 & 2004) and Flying Pope (India and Japan, 2008). He won prizes including the Modern Haiku Association Prize (1991), the AZsacra International Poetry Award for Taj Mahal Review (2008).

Gabriel Rosenstock is poet and haikuist, author/translator of over 100 books, mostly in the Irish language. He is a former Chairman of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of arts and letters, and has taught haiku at the Schule fuer Dichtung (Academy of Poetry) in Vienna. Some of his work in English, or in translation, can be viewed on the websites of Poetry Chaikhana and Poetry International. Early drafts of two book-length manuscripts, Haiku Enlightenment and Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing were serialized in World Haiku Review.

Alexis Rotella (www.alexisrotella.com) a former Haiku Society of America president (1984, Japan House) and editor of its house organ, Frogpond, she was also founder/editor of Brussels Sprout and an editor of Modern Haiga. She is presently editor of Prune Juice (a senryu journal). Rotella has published 50 books of poetry. Her well known longer poem PURPLE has appeared in hundreds of publications around the world and most recently appeared in Bernie Siegel, M.D.’s LOVE, MAGIC AND MUDPIES (Rodale Press). Rotella has won many haiku awards including the 2007 Kusamakura Haiku Contest where she traveled to Kumamoto, Japan. She is on the faculty of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis, Maryland where she teaches haiku and related forms.

Bruce Ross is a humanities educator, the editor of Haiku Moment, An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku and Journey to the Interior, American Versions of Haibun and co-editor of Contemporary Haibun. He is the author of four collections of haiku, most recently summer drizzles . . . haiku and haibun. He is also the author of a number of scholarly articles and books in the humanities, most recently Venturing upon Dizzy Heights, Lectures and Essays on Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. Bruce lives in Maine with his wife Astrid.

Hiroaki Sato is a leading translator of Japanese poetry into English, Hiroaki Sato, with Burton Watson, won the 1982 PEN American Center Translation Prize for From the Country of Eight Islands: Anthology of Japanese Poetry (Anchor Books, 1981; reprint, Columbia University Press, 1986) and the 1999 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Japanese Literary Translation Prize for Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saiko (Columbia University Press, 1997). Among his prose translations are Legends of the Samurai (Overlook, 1995) and My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima (Columbia University Press, 2002). His recent books are Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (University of California Press, 2007), The Modern Fable (poems by Nishiwaki Junzaburo (Green Integer, 2007), and Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). His books on haiku include One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English (Weatherhill, 1983) and Eigo Haiku (Haiku in English: A Poetic Form Expands, Simul, 1987). He was president of the Haiku Society of America, from 1979 to 1981.

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Japanese literature, including Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production; Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900; and Classical Japanese: A Grammar

John Stevenson (born 1948, Ithaca, NY) is a former president of the Haiku Society of America (2000), former editor of Frogpond (2005 – 07), and current managing editor of The Heron’s Nest. His most recent collection of haiku, Quiet Enough, won the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Award (2005). He is a founding member of the Route 9 Haiku Group, which publishes Upstate Dim Sum.

George Swede is the editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America and the Honorary Curator (2008-09) for the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento. He helped found Haiku Canada in 1977 and became an Honorary Life Member in 2007. Publishers in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. have brought out 32 collections of his poems and six anthologies he edited, as well as a selection of his essays on the haiku form. He lives in Toronto. For more information go to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Swede or to his website: /http://home.primus.ca/~swede/.

Charles Trumbull began writing and studying haiku in 1991. He served as newsletter editor (1996–2002) and president (2004–05) of the Haiku Society of America. He was a founder of the Chicago-area haiku club, an organizer of Haiku North America—Chicago (2001), proprietor of Deep North Press, and, since March 2006, editor of Modern Haiku. Before retirement in 2007 he was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica and earlier was employed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He lives in Evanston, Ill.

Michael Dylan Welch has written haiku since 1976. He is a past or current officer, director, or board member of the Haiku Society of America, the Haiku Poets of Northern California, Haiku Northwest, Haiku North America (cofounder, 1991), the American Haiku Archives (cofounder, 1996), and the Tanka Society of America (founder, 2000). He is editor/publisher of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem (since 1997) and of Press Here haiku and tanka books (since 1989). He previously edited Woodnotes (1989-1997). Michael’s own haiku and longer poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in at least fourteen languages.