CHANG,
YU: an electrical engineering professor at
Union
College in Schenectady, New York, Yu writes
haiku,
tanka, and renga. His poems have been published
in
Frogpond, Lynx, Modern Haiku, South by Southeast,
Still,
and Woodnotes. He is the winner of the 1996 and
the
1997 Shiki Internet Haiku Contest. Yu
Chang
CHENEY, MATTHEW:
teaches English and theatre at
The New Hampton
School in central New Hampshire.
Matthew Cheney
CLAUSEN,
TOM: As a child in upstate New York he early on
developed
an appreciation for the seasonal flow of
changes
encompassing consistent play outdoors through
four
defined seasons. Attended Cornell University during
the
height of the Viet Nam war protests and graduated,
although
feeling unqualified to do much beyond following
his
wanderlust dreams which he did for several years on
his
bicycle. His ventures always ended in returns back
to
his hometown, Ithaca, where he shares his childhood
home
with his wife and two children, 9 and 3 , who insure
that
he has scant opportunities to become as self involved
as
he once was. His work life is at Cornell's second
largest
library in the Circulation Dept. where the good
fortune
daily is a rich diversity of patrons from all over
the
world to meet and help. His haiku and tanka have been
published
in leading journals, including Modern Haiku,
Frogpond,
Lynx, Haiku Headlines, Mayfly, Hummingbird,
Woodnotes,
Raw Nervz, South By Southeast, Point Judith
Light
and American Tanka. Author of two haiku collections,
Autumn
Wind in the Cracks and Unraked Leaves as well as a
tanka
collection, A Work of Love. Tom
Clausen
CODRESCU,
IAN: lives in Romania with his lovely
and
talented wife, Mihaela, who assists him with the
editing
and production of their popular haiku journal,
Albatross.
Ian's haiku appear internationally in leading
journals
anthologies and websites. His beautiful artwork
illustrates
not only in his own collection, "Drawings
Among
Haiku" (1994), but in other haiku poets'
collections
as well. "Round The Pond: An Anthology,"
edited
and published by Ian, earned a Haiku Society
of
America Merit Book Award in 1994.
COHEN,
MARTIN: lives in Egg Harbor City, NJ. He says, “I
came
straight from Manhattan to this town more than fifteen
years
ago. And the only qualities this city has is its chicken
buzzards
and micro-brewery, the first restaurant/micro-brewery
in
Atlantic County I might add. Just a few blocks down from
my
apartment is, in my humble opinion, the best ale and german
lager
this side of the Atlantic. All I could want within walking
distance.
The owners serve it in half gallon growlers that I can
re-use.
And when I walk past the water tower, I can watch
the
buzzards bath in the winter sun spreading their wings about
the
length of a full sized woman. Once, I got nervous when I counted
fifty
heads on the tower. I walked away and noticed a group flying
off
to my right and circling. I picked up my pace and turned the
corner
never to see that many birds again.” Martin has recently
had
poetry acceptances from Tina Stanton's "Borders & Time" and
Serge
Tome's "Free Times". Martin
Cohen
COLÓN,
CARLOS. The Reference/Readers’ Advisory
Supervisor
for Shreve Memorial Library. He is also the
author
of six books of poetry (The Worstof Almira
Gulch,
Blue Jay on a Bowling Pin, Jiminy Limericks,
Mountain
Climbing, Clocking Out, and Nothing Inside)
and
the editor of Sunday at Four, a poetry magazine
published
locally by The Trapped Truth Society.
Carlos Colon
COMPTON,
ELLEN: born in the West Virginia mountains,
Ellen
has lived in eastern Ohio, New Orleans, Venezuela,
upstate
New York, and rural New Jersey. Currently lives
and
works in Washington, DC, with long and frequent
retreats
to the western shore of the Chesapeake. She is a
freelance
writer with a background in visual and theatre
arts,
and is on the editorial staff of The Red Moon Anthology.
Ellen
is an active member of "towpath" (haiku poets of the
Chesapeake
watershed), and traveled to Japan with the
HSA
delegation to the 1997 Haiku International/HSA Haiku
Conference.
She has always been close to the natural world
and
the cycles of the seasons. Haiku writing has taught her
more
about poetry than could ever have been learned in an
academic
setting. Her haiku and tanka have appeared in
Modern
Haiku, Frogpond, Woodnotes, Gendai Haiku, black
bough,
Tanka Splendor, and Brussels Sprout, among others.
Ellen Compton
CULLEN,
WILLIAM JR.: a software engineer who lives in
Brooklyn
and works on Wall Street. He is married and has
two
sons. His work has appeared in Modern Haiku,
Frogpond,
Mayfly, Cicada, Brussels Sprout and other
literary
magazines. In 1990 he won honorable mention in
both
HSA's Harold G. Henderson contest as well as the
1990
International Haiku Contest in Matsuyama, Ehime,
Japan.
William
Cullen Jr.
DACIC,
RADE: doctor of Mathematics and former
professor
of Belgrade University, Rade is now a
Senior
Research Fellow of the Mathematical Institute
in
the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Author
of
a number of books of poetry and prose, books (in
all
genres) for children, and texts. His haiku have been
published
in Yugoslavia, Japan, Netherlands, USA, and
Canada,
and included in WORLD HAIKU POEMS
ANTHOLOGY,
FROGPOND INTERNATIONAL,
ANTHOLOGY
OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN
HAIKU
POETRY, among others. Rade
Dacic
DAMERELL,
JULIE: Julie is a newcomer to tanka and sijo..
Publications
that have published her free verse poetry
are
The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, ByLine,
Conspire,
Melic Review, Moveo Angelus Literary Arts
Spring
2000, and Savoy and others She is the administrator
for
Sistine Chapbook, the bulletin board for Moveo Angelus.
Julie Damerell
DAVID,
ADELE: born in England and educated in
America,
Canada and England. She is a Jungian
Training
Analyst and Training Supervisor, a professional
astrologer,
artist and poet. Her poems have appeared in many
magazines
and newspapers from the "Scotsman," "Ambit,"
"The
Poet's Voice" and "Ko" in Britain, America, Europe
and
Japan, and in various anthologies in England and
Canada,
from a "PEN Anthology" to the recent "Iron Book
of
British Haiku". She has published a chapbook called
"Becoming",
is a winner of the Caernarvan Festival prize
and
the Appleby Cup. She lives and works in London.
Adele David
DE
GRUTTOLA, RAFFAEL. Founding member of The
Boston
Haiku Society. Past President of The Haiku
Society
of American and its present Treasurer. First
Northeast
Regional Coordinator of The Haiku Society
of
America. Mr. DeGruttola has published three books
of
poetry: Where Ashes Float, Flamenco Song, and
Recycle.
This latter is a longer haiku sequence with images
by
Wilfredo Chiesa. Mr. DeGruttola is active in the poetry
scene
in the Boston/Cambridge area and has given many
readings
over the years. His haiku, renga, and senryu have
beenpublished
widely in magazines in the US, Canada,
Europe,
and Japan. Cellinixo
DECKER,
KATHLEEN P.: a physician in the Pacific Northwest,
Kathleen
has been writing haiku for approximately three years,
and
free verse since childhood. She edited “My Neighbor’s Life,”
an
anthology of 20 HSA poets, and is editor of “Chiyo’s Corner,”
a
mixed haiku/free verse illustrated quarterly publication. She has
published
two chapbooks, “Essence of Woman,” and “Russian
Reverie,”
with haiku, tanka, renku, and other poems, in French,
Japanese,
and Russian, as well as English. Her first full-length book,
“Whispers
on Paper” featured haiku, haibun, and a short story, “The
Sand
Plant.” Kathleen says “It is the economy of words that appeals
to
me in writing haiku, and the precept that by observing and
reflecting
on nature, we can achieve peace.” Kathleen
Decker
DIORDIEVIC,
JASMINKA NADASKIC: lives in Smederevo, Yugoslavia.
An
electrical engineer, Jasminka is also an art photographer
who
writes haiku and other forms of poetry. Her haiku found
homes
on the Internet at The Heron’s Nest, Asahi Haikuist
Network,
HASEE, Temps Libres/Free Times, haijinx,
Haikumania”,
AHA!Poetry, among others. Her work has
been
published in eight countries and have appeared in
Blithe
Spirit (England), Ehime, Ginyu, Ko (Japan),
Woodpecker
(Netherlands), Modern Haiku, Point Judith
Light,
In Buddha's Temple (USA), Letni casi (Slovenia),
Haiku
(Romania), Poets International (India). Her list of
awards
include1st in YU - 2.99 haiku contest, Novi
Sad
1999;2nd in XII Yugoslav haiku festival, Odzaci 1999;
Golden
Star Award in the Toast Point Contest, 1998, and
2nd
in Mainichi’s 2001 annual competition.She is author
of
four poetry books: “Time of Nettles”, “The Patch of
Dark”,
“Jostling of Butterflies” and “An Upset Bird.”
Jasminka
is on the editorial staff of “Haiku Informator”
(Informer)
and has also edited "Parce neba" (Kousek nebe,
A
piece of the sky), Haiku iz sklonista (Haiku z krytu,
Haiku
from an air-raid shelter) (Czech).
Jasminka Nadaskic Diordievic
DIXON,
MELISSA: born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In
the forties, she found that the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation
was willing to pay her to act in their weekly
radio
dramas. Ignoring the oft-asked question, "Yes, but
what
do you do for a living?" she then established a
forty-year
career as a performer (working under the name
Peg
Dixon), branching out into stage, films, and TV as
these
outlets became viable professions for Canadians, in
Winnipeg,
Vancouver and Toronto. A love of writing
persisted
from schooldays, and in sparse acting seasons she
wrote
articles for newspapers. In the early nineties the creative
urge
found its way into haiku magazines. But 'Moments' were
never
enough! Tanka now satisfies deeply. Published in Haiku
Canada,
Frogpond, Modern Haiku, RAW NerVZ, LYNX,
American
Tanka, The Tanka Journal. Winner in Tanka
Splendor
2000; Third Place Winner in Japan Tanka Poets'
Society
contest, 2000; Second Place Winner, Japan Society
on
Water Environment, 2001. How can one NOT write poetry
when
living in beautiful B.C.? Melissa
Dixon
DJURBABIC,
SVETOMIR: born 1936 in Stolac, Bosnia, Svetomir
lives
in Nis, Serbia and is a journalist in the cultural department of
TV
"Global." An editorial member of the Yugoslavian haiku magazine
"Haiku
novine," he is also a writer of stories, essays, haiku, senryu,
and
haibun. His haiku have appeared in many haiku journals in Yugoslavia,
Japan,
USA, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Norvegen, Slovenia as
well
as in the following collections /anthologies: KNOTS, USA, Slovenia
1999;
A PIECE OF THE SKY, Prague 1999; GERMAN HAIKU
ANTHOLOGY
1998; EUROPOESIE COLLECTION, Paris 1999;
GROSCHEN
GEFALLEN, Kronach Germany 1999;WIE SCHNEE
VON
GESTERN, Germany 2000. Haiku awards: Special award, Odzaci
Competition,
Yugoslavia 1998; First Prize, Italian Spring Haiku Competition
1999;
Special Recognition Award, Haiku Headlines, USA 1999; First Prize
for
Senryu, Valjevo Senryu Competition, Yugoslavia 1999; Third Prize for
Haibun,
Novi Sad Competition, Yugoslavia 2000; HM, Valjevo Senryu
Competition,
Yugoslavia 2000; Second Prize, 5th Annual Mainichi Haiku
Competition,
Japan 2001. Svetomir
Djurbabic
DODEROVIC,
ZORAN: born in 1960 and now living in Novi
Sad,
Yugoslavia. His poems have appeared in more than 150
literary
journals since 1993 – in Japan: Azami, Ko, Mainichi
Daily
News, Suien, The Shiki Internet Salon; in USA: Modern
Haiku,
Frogpond, Haiku Headlines, Point Judith Light, Heron
Quarterly;
in Canada: Mirrors, RAW NerVz ; in Germany: Ein
Anthologie
- Haiku 1998; in Ireland: LA; in England: Presence;
in
Slovenia: Prijatelj, Apokalipsa, Letni Casi, Green Apples; in
Romania:
Orfeu; in Australia: Yellow Moon; in Greece: Ibykos;
in
Netherland: Woodpecker; and in Yugoslavia: Haiku novine,
Haiku
pismo, Paun, Lotos, Listak . Zoran has won a number of
awards:
Haiku Headlines ( three times the first place ), Taoism
&
Poetry ( internet - two times the second place ), Azami
(
honorable mention ), Yellow Moon ( honorable mention ).
Zoran
is a member of HASEE Haiku Association for Southeastern
Europe
and a local haiku club "A.Nejgebauer" ( Novi Sad ). Also,
he
is the editor and publisher of "Haiku Moment" magazine that
is
open to all haiku poets around the world. Zoran
Doderovic
DOTY,
GENE: teaches writing and literature at the
University
of Missouri-Rolla. Especially interested in
such
classics of world literature as the Mahabharata
and
the poems of Rumi, as well as contemporary fantasy
and
science fiction. Together with CK Tower, he edits
poetry
for the Webzine, Recursive Angel. Right now,
he
writes mostly tanka, haiku, and ghazals. In poetry,
forms
that are open, flexible, and yet forceful appeal
most.
While he couldn't give any exhaustive list, he says
he
has been influenced by Whitman, Pound, William
Carlos
Williams, Levertov, Villon, as well as painters
like
Dali, Dekooning, Ernst, Emil Nolde and Matisse.
His
greatest delight, however, is a marriage of 35 years
and
the 4 children and 7 grandchildren that have
resulted
from it. Gene has published haiku and tanka in
Woodnotes,
Frogpond, Brussels Sprout, Modern Haiku,
and
others. His ghazals and longer poems have appeared
in
Lynx, Phase and Cycle, The Rolling Coulter in hard
copy,
and in such Webzines as Thoth, Recursive Angel,
Plaintext,
Conspire, and (forthcoming) Road of Shadows.
Under
the name Eugene Warren, he has published
several
collections, including Geometries of Light, The
Similitudes,
Fishing at Easter, and Christographia.
Gene
has been using the name “gino peregrini” (no caps)
for
some of his writing and editing. He says that "gino" is
a
forty-year-old nickname. "peregrini" means wanderer or
pilgrim.
He is gino peregrini when editing The Ghazal Page
and
writing sijo. Gene
Doty Websites:
Gene
Doty's Homepage
THE GHAZAL
PAGE
DUBOIS,
JEAN: poet, essayist and photographer from
Golden,
Colorado whose work can be enjoyed at her
website,
Under Running Laughter, in the print media,
and
online at Sijo Blossoms, Sijo West, Chaba and
Chameleon.
Jean
Dubois
DUHAIME,
ANDRÉ. Born in Montréal (Canada) in 1948,
André
lives near Ottawa. Co-president for Haiku Canada
(1985-1988).
He has published four haiku collections:
Haïku
d'ici, Asticou, 1981; Pelures d'oranges/Orange Peels
(translation
by Dorothy Howard) Asticou, 1987; Au jour
le
jour, Noroît, 1988; and Cet autre rendez-vous, David,
1996.
One tanka collection: Traces d'hier, Noroît, 1990;
three
renku collections: Voyage parallèle/Parallel
Journey
with LeRoy Gorman, Asticou, 1989; D'une
saison
à l'autre with Lisa Carducci, Loup de
Gouttière,
1993; and Quelques jours en hiver et au
printemps
with Gordan Skiljevic, David, 1997; two haiku
collections
for children: Le Soleil curieux du printemps,
Asticou,
1990; and Châteaux d'été, Asticou, 1990. He has
co-edited
Haïku: anthologie canadienne/Canadian
Anthology
with Dorothy Howard; Asticou, 1985. He is
the
editor of an International multilingual/French Anthologie
Haïku
on the Internet. Andre
Duhaime
Website:
WWW
HAIKU ANTHOLOGY
DUTTON,
DENNIS H: a lay Buddhist monk, lives in El
Rito,
New Mexico, where he is the town librarian. He
began
writing haiku two years ago after a 35-year
hiatus,
and has had some 300 haiku and other poems
published
since in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, still, Ko,
Hummingbird,
Black Bough, RAW NerVZ, Haiku Headlines,
Lynx,
Heron's Nest, and other journals and ezines. Dennis
and
fellow New Mexican Thomas Fitzsimmons have
a
new book out, Zia, an illustrated collection of four
haiku
series set in The Land of Enchantment. Several
of
Dennis's works have been anthologized, and a haiku
series
earned a 2nd-place red ribbon in the Espanola
Valley's
"First Annual Biggest Vegetable & Best Poem
Contest."
A tanka by Dennis was one of the winners in
the
TankaSplendor 2000 Deninis
H. Dutton