Poet Details

Kathy Lippard Cobb

Kathy Lippard Cobb resides (with her cats) in Bradenton, Florida and is a recent graduate from Manatee Community College (graphic design). Kathy has been writing haiku since 2000. Her haiku have been published worldwide, and she has won numerous awards. More of Kathy's poetry may be found in American Tanka, Modern Haiku, Presence, Ribbons, and various anthologies.

Awards and Other Honors: First place – Harold G. Henderson Haiku Competition (Haiku Society of America, 2001); First place – British Haiku Society/James W. Hackett International Haiku Award (2001); First place –Haiku Presence Award (2001); Second place – Betty Drevniok Award (2001); Second place –Yellow Moon Literary Competition (2002); First place – Florida State Poetry Contest [Haiku] (2002); Winner – The Haiku Calendar Competition (2002); Third place – International Kusamakura (2002); Second place – Haiku Presence Award (2002); Second place – AN5 Haiku in English (2002); First Place – British Haiku Society/James W. Hackett International Haiku Award (2002); Second place – Mainichi Haiku Competition (2003); Second place – Haiku Presence Award (2004); First place - Betty Drevniok Award (2004); First place - Penumbra Poetry Competition [Haiku] (2005); First place - Yellow Moon Literary Competition (2006); First place - Penumbra Haiku Competition (2006); Close second British Haiku Society /James W Hackett International Award (2009); and many other honorable mentions, commendeds, and highly commendeds.

broken easel—
the front yard blue
with wildflowers

scattering at sea . . .
the great blue heron
glides through him

tiny headstone—
a pinwheel turns
the wind

a catfish twitches
at the end of the line—
fading daylight

gangsta rap echoes
through the bayou . . .
moonlight mist

veterans day parade—
the homeless man stands
on a different corner

Credits: "broken easel" – First place - Harold G. Henderson Haiku Competition (Haiku Society of America, 2001); Frogpond XXV:1 (2002); echoes 1 (Red Moon Press, 2007); "tiny headstone" – Second Place - Haiku Presence Award Competition (2002); "gangsta rap echoes" – Presence No. 39; "scattering at sea" – First place - British Haiku Society/James W. Hackett International Haiku Award (2002); echoes 1 (Red Moon Press, 2007); "a catfish twitches" – Acorn 10 (2003); "veterans day parade" – Frogpond XXV:1 (2002); A New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2003).