OLD
PAJAMAS: lives with his wife, Barbara, and three children,
Tommy,
Rebecca, and Little Ray. He says, "Behind our home
are
three paths leading to the river, where you'll find the Blue
Cottage,
where i was raised. Like many places, it evokes many
potent
memories. I was the last of my family to live there; at
times,
it houses very special guests. Neither Barbara nor I have
been
taken over by our work (whatever that happens to be), so
she
plans activities with the kids while I roam around, mostly
without
purpose. In May, I will be handlining with live herring,
out
of my skinboat for large striped bass. I do some wool spinning
and
weaving, and on calm days push it in my racing canoe. The
little
ones and their Mama swim in the river's deep sections. I lie
on
the bank, wondering about stuff. Old
Pyjamas
OSTERHAUS,
MARK ALAN: reading and writing haiku
since
1981. His first haiku was published in Modern Haiku
in
1986; he is now a regular contributor to Modern Haiku
and
Frogpond. Mark's work is also published in many
other
haiku journals and anthologies. A frequent
contributor
to the Shiki Internet Mailing List, much of
Mark's
work is included in various internet haiku web
sites.
Mark's first haiku book, "When Glaciers Melt",
will
be published in 1998. Currently, Mark is the owner
of
a marketing &graphic arts business, and he has just
started
a business dedicated to small press publishing
and
game design and publishing. As a martial arts
enthusiast,
Mark earned his Tae Kwon Ko Black Belt
in
1995. Mark is married and has two teenage children.
Mark
Alan Osterhaus
Website:
MARK
ALAN OSTERHAUS' HAIKU HOMEPAGE
OVERMIRE,
LAURENCE: an actor/director/writer
who
has worked on stage, film and television, Laurence
hails
from Columbus, OH. A newcomer to haiku, his
poetry
has been or will be published in Kimera, The
Penwood
Review, Nuthouse, Lynx Eye, Emotions,
Angelflesh,
Maelstrom, The Laire, Uprising, Office
Number
One, Superior Poetry News, Main Street Rag
Poetry
Journal, Children, Churches and Daddies, Short
North
Gazette, Nomad's Choir, Improvijazzation Nation,
The
Writer's Exchange, Over the Back Fence Magazine,
Niederngasse,
Apples and Oranges/Oranges and Apples,
Pegasus,
Blind Man's Rainbow, Wings, L'Intrigue,
Mobius,
Footprints, Vol. No. Magazine, Some Words:
A
Place for Poetry, Shadyvale Magazine, Transcendant
Visions,
Art Villa, Bonfire, Unlikely Stories, Webstatic,
Ixion,
Barbaric Yawp, Ygdrasil, Aileron, Horsethief's
Journal
and others. Larry
Overmire
OWEN,
W.F.: a Professor of Communication for 18 years,
Bill
is well published in the area of interpersonal interaction
(about
30 academic journal publications). He also has been an
Associate
Editor for six academic journals. He has haiku in
print
or in press with: acorn, Modern Haiku, frogpond and
Haiku
Headlines. He recently won second place in a haiku
contest
sponsored by the e-zine Inscriptions. W.F.
Owen
PARKS,
ZANE: Email: Zane
Parks
Websites:
ZANE
PARKS' HOMEPAGE
PORAD,
FRANCINE: lives, writes and paints in the Seattle,
Washington
area. Former President of the Haiku Society
of
America; editor for eight years of Brussels Sprout, an
international
journal of haiku and art.There are sixteen
collections
of Porad's published work. Her haiku are in
current
issues of publications in the U.S., Canada, England,
Croatia,
Australia, Romania and Japan; in many
anthologies,
including Haiku Moment,Charles E Tuttle,
1993),
and Haiku World: An International Poetry
Almanac
(Kodansha, 1996). Francine is a frequent guest
lecturer,
an award winner, and has juried many national
and
international haiku /senryu/ tanka competitions.
Francine
Porad
PRIME,
PATRICIA: born in England, Patricia migrated to
New
Zealand in 1973. A teacher, she is completing a degree
in
English and Education She is a member of The New
Zealand
Poetry Society and is New Zealand editor of the
American
magazine Slugfest. Her articles, reviews,
poetry
and haiku have been published extensively In
the
small press and in anthologies, including Catching
the
Light, the shortcut home, The World Poetry
Anthology,
and others. She has recently contributed an
essay
on New Zealand women poets (Pakeha and Maori)
for
a special edition of Language Forum India. Currently
she
is working on articles on contemporary Indian/English
poets,
Australian poetry, and is preparing a book of haiku
with
two other poets. Working with women and their
families
is the main area of interest.