EGGER,
MARLENE: Raised near Chicago, having experienced
California
in the seventies, and now living in Salt Lake City,
Marlene’s
heritage is Alsatian and Bavarian. She is a kayaker,
health
services researcher, partner, aunt, and poet, in
varying
doses. Marlene says she is “relatively new to haiku.
However,
the beauty of the North American West as well as its
qualities
of heartland provide considerable opportunities for
haiku
moments.” Marlene Egger
EMRICH,
JEANNE: poet and artist living in Bloomington,
Minnesota,
USA. She was a recipient of the H. G. Henderson
Award
for Best Unpublished Haiku, Honorable Mention,
1995.
Besides haiku, Jeanne writes tanka, renga, and free
verse.
Author of The Haiku Habit, Lone Egret Press, 1996.
She
also is a watercolor artist and the co-founder of the
Minnesota
Watercolor Society. Her other interests include
nature
study, history, and historical reenactment. Her work
has
been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Cicada,
Lynx,
and the Canadian Writer's Journal as well on the e-zine,
Poetry
Cafe.
Jeanne
Emrich Website:
THE
HAIKU HABIT
ESCAREAL,
JUANITO L.: lives with his wife in El Sobrante,
Calif.,
USA. His introduction to haiku began about 1996 while
surfing
the internet and discovered the Shiki Haiku Salon where
he
participated and shared haiku with other haijin ever since. He
says
he “was fortunate to have met my sensei (via the net) who
helped
me appreciate haiku.” Juanito is originally from the
Philippines,
emigrating to the US some twenty years ago.
Juanito
L. Escareal
FERRELL,
DONNA: lives on a small farm near Westerville, Ohio,
with
her husband and two children. Donna has taught high school
English
for over 20 years and is currently teaching in an adult
literacyprogram.
A co-moderator of Mountain-Home, an internet
list
for the writing of modern waka in the traditional style, her
work
appears in "In Buddha's Temple," "World Haiku Review,"
"American
Tanka," "Mainichi," and David Coomler's
"Hokku--Writing
Traditional Haiku in English: The Gift to be
Simple,"
and "Tanka Light." Donna
Ferrell
FITZSIMMONS,
THOMAS: went into World War II as
an
underage merchant seaman just after Pearl Harbor
and
came out from the USAAF just after Hiroshima. He
was
born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Oct. 1926. Formerly
writer/editor,
The New Republic (Washington, DC), feature
writer,
The Asahi Daily News(Tokyo, Japan), he is author,
translator
or editor of more than 60 books, 32 of which
currently
are in print. At present he is editor of two book
series
from University of Hawai'i Press: Asian Poetry in
Translation:
Japan, and Reflections. Emeritus Professor of
Literature,
Oakland University, he has received a number
of
honors, including three National Endowment for the Arts
fellowships
(poetry, translation and belles lettres) and several
Fulbrights
to countries in Europe and Asia. In the mid-1970s
he
and Karen Hargreaves-Fitzsimmons did a 16 month, 18
nation
poetry-reading\performance\lecturing\workshop tour
through
the Pacific, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe
under
the auspices of USIS. They live just south of Santa Fe,
where
they publish Katydid Books, distributed by University
of
Hawai'i Press. Thomas' most recent works are: Fencing the
Sky
(a folio; art by Karen Hargreaves-Fitzsimmons) 1998, The
Poetry
and Poetics of Ancient Japan (a translation), 1997; The
Dream
Machine (poetry, in the collection Sextet: Six Powerful
American
Voices), 1996; Water Ground Stone (poetry and
prose;
art by Karen Hargreaves-Fitzsimmons), 1994; and The
New
Poetry of Japan: the 70s and 80s (an anthology), 1993.
His
Planet Forces, commissioned by 20th Century Unlimited
and
scored for soprano and 18 instruments by Peter
Michaelides,
had its premier December 12, 1998 in Santa Fe.
A
violin duo composed by Toru Takemitsu to his and Makoto
oka's
linked poems in the Japanese- English volume Rocking
Mirror
Daybreak was commissioned by and is in the repertoire
of
the New York Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
Other
works by Toru Takemitsu and Makoto oka to which he
has
contributed — A Way A Lone, and From Far Beyond
Chrysanthemums
and November Fog, Chamber music; From
Me
Flows What You Call Time, Suite for Percussion and
Orchestra;
and the Symphony, A String Around Autumn.
Thomas
Fitzsimmons
FRAMPTON,
ALICE (piper): originally from Washington State,
Alice
has lived in British Columbia, Canada since 1973. After
working
in the childcare field for twenty-five years, she returned
to
writing and stumbled into Japanese poetry by submitting some
three
line, non-haiku pieces to a very helpful editor named Jim Kacian.
Under
his tutelage, through reading, and joining both The Haiku
Society
of America and Haiku Canada, she has found success with
her
work and has enjoyed meeting many fine haijin. Her publishing
credits
include Frogpond, Poetry in the Light, Lynx, American Tanka,
Raw
NerVZ Haiku, Haiku Canada and Haiku Sociey of America
Anthologies,
The Heron's Nest, Countless Leaves, Haiku Canada
Newsletter,
pawEprint by pawEpress, American Haibun and
Haiga
- Stone Frog, Haijinx, and honorable mention in the Betty
Drevnoik
Competition 2001. Reaching as far as Japan, Alice has also
been
included on Kuniharu Shimizu's website "see haiku here."
Most
recently she has written an article for the Mie Times in Mie
Prefecture.
Alice lives in Delta with her husband, three sons, a cat,
a
dog, and lots of fish. Alice
Frampton
FRATICELLI,
MARCO: a poet from Montreal has been
writing
haiku for over twenty years. During that time he
has
been an active member of Haiku Canada and is currently
the
Membership Secretary. He has published a number of
books
of poetry, the latest being 'Voyeur' from Guernica
Editions.
He is also the editor of the Hexagram series of
haiku
books published by King's Road Press.
Marco
Fraticelli