Nnorom Azuonye is the author
of The Bridge Selection: Poems For The Road (2005) and Letter
To God & Other Poems (2003). He has published widely in print and
e-journals including Orbis, Drumvoices Revue, World Haiku Review,
Eclectica Magazine and Keystone among others. He is the
Founder/Administrator of Sentinel Poetry Movement
www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk and Managing Editor, SPM Publications - the
publishing arm of Sentinel Poetry Movement - publishers of Sentinel
Poetry (Online) and Sentinel Poetry Quarterly (Print).
Ed Baker
Ed Baker
here 66 years
lives his writing and art..
Recent works: Things Just Come Through
(Red Ochre Press, 2006),
POINTS/COUNTERPOINTS (2006/1972), RESTORATION LETTERS (Corman-Baker
correspondence: 1972-2003, tel let press), Song of Chin, full
moon,Wild Orchid, Stone Girl E-Pic, vols 2 & 3 (tel let), Stone Girl
E-Pic, Vol. 5 via Ed's web site:
http://edbaker.maikosoft.com
Edhas recently put out his first issue of DOZEN magazine
featuring Chuck Sandy & John Vieira also including - Bob Arnold, Ed
Baker, Shizumi Corman, Ted Enslin, David Giannini, John Levy, John
Martone, John Phillips, Jeremy Seligson, and Karma Tenzing Waaaangchuk
Ed has more than 55,000 poems, 400 watercolors, 600 3-d pieces...and
adds to, every moment;
from behind
cloud
full moon
Daniela Draghia-Bullas (signs her works as
Daniela) was born in 1969 in Deva, Romania. Holds a degree in
archaeology and museology. Following her marriage, she lives in the U.K.
since 2001. She started writing poetry and prose in her teens. Her short
stories won her the "Scanteia tineretului"Award (1988). Her editorial
debut was the "Umbra Libelulei" (Dragonfly's Shadow) anthology (Edit.
SRH, Bucharest, 1993). Between 2003 and 2005 she was a member of the
editorial staff of two Romanian magazines "Ardealul literar" and "Calauza
noastra". Since 2005 she is a member of the Hunedoara County (Romania)
Writers'Association. Books published: -Dictionarul verbelor neregulate
din limba engleza/Dictionary of English Irregular Verbs(together with Cristian Mocanu)(Edit.Ianua, Deva,
1994) -- (C)opyright sign (poetry)(2002, Calauza vb; 2004, Calauza vb,
2006. Lulu – bilingual editions: Romanian-English) http://www.lulu.com/content/172177
- Scufita Albastra [Little Blue Riding Hood](children's prose) (2005,
Calauza vb, inRomanian). - Little Blue Riding Hood (2006, Lulu, in
English) Website Writer’s English Website:
http://danielabullas.tripod.com/daniela1/
John Daleiden lives in Oskaloosa, Iowa, a rural community south-east of
Des Moines. He has retired after teaching 43 years as a high school
Language Arts teacher. After retirement he returned to writing poetry.
His work has appeared in Amaze # 9, World Haiku Review: The Poetrybridge,
Lynx, May Dazed, The Scorched Earth, Full Moon, Temps Libres - Free
Times, and other e-zines.
Andreas Gripp is a London, Ontario poet and writer. He
lives with his cats, "Clea" and "Sheba". He is the author of six books
of poetry as well as six chapbooks. His website can be found at http://www.andreasgripp.com
Betty Kaplan. Retired from the Fashion Industry. Used to
arrange clothes. Now arranging words. Started to write haiku five years
ago. Published in Frogpond, Lynx, Woodpecker, South by Southeast,
World Haiku Review, and American Tanka.
M. Kei lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. He crews
aboard a skipjack, a traditional wooden sailboat used to fish for
oysters. He also serves as a member of the board of directors for a
local maritime museum. His poetry has been accepted for publication by
Eucalypt (AUS), Kokako (NZ), Gusts (CAN), American Tanka, Modern English
Tanka, Wisteria, Bottle Rockets, Red Lights, Ribbons, Moonset, Nisqually
Delta Review, Haiku Harvest, Lynx, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku,
Mayfly, Cecil Soil, Cecil Child, and others. His work also appears in
the anthologies Sixty Sunflowers, To Find the Moon, and Haiku Miscellany
(CRO). He moderates the Kyoka Mad Poems e-list and edits the Chesapeake
Bay Saijiki. He is also the Editor of Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of
the Human Heart, on the theme of love and passion, now available from <www.Lulu.com/firepearls>.
M. Kei can be contacted through his blog at kujakupoet.blogspot.com.
Cristian Mocanu was born on August 8-th, 1968 in Deva, Romania, where he
still lives and works as a freelance translator/interpreter. He holds a
B.A. in English and Romanian litterature from the Bucharest University
(1993). He started writing poetry (Western and Eastern style, in several
languages) as a teenager. His poetry was included in several Romanian
antologies. He received numerous awards, among which: A) In Romania:
"Ion Minulescu" Poetry Contest & Festival (1995):1-st prize,"Porni
Luceafarul" Poetry Contest & Festival (1996):3-rd prize,The "Lumina
Crestinului" Religious Poetry Award for the year 1998. B) Outside
Romania: The “Pesme na jastuku” Contest (ex-Yugoslavia)
3-rd prize (1990), 2-nd prize (1991), the “Benvenuta Europa”
Contest & Festival (Rome, Italy), prize for the Poetry section; the
Suruga Baika Litterary Festival, Japan, Honourable Mention (2004). At
present he is a contributor to various poetry webzines, including:LYNX,
suflete.ro, “Haiku Harvest”, “World Haiku Review”, “Karolina Rijecka”.
He is the editor of the Romanian Saijiki for the World Haiku Club. His
first books of poetry (in Romanian and English) are due in the near
future.
Shanna Baldwin Moore. well lets see originally from the tall tree
country of Washington state I surfed the tree tops in the wind... My
grandmother was a poet in Greenwich Village and inspired me to
write...I am also a painter in oil and this was what connected me to the
beat poets I was the art director of the gas house in Venice we had
poetry readings to jazz and learned this awesome sound of music to
poetry.. came to Hawaii 36 years ago for a vacation and I'm still
vacationing...a lot of my artwork was of Pele the goddess of the volcano
and now I write for her...my Hawaiian poetry can be found at "my town"
http://www.mytown.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=109597&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SEC
TIonfiltered=201
hope to have a book out by the end of the year
Helen Ruggieri lives in Olean, NY. A book of haibun,The Character for Kokoro (Spirit), will be out soon from foothillspublishing.com Recent
essays have appeared in anthologies: Illuminations: Expressions of the
Personal Spiritual (Celestial Arts Press) and in In Pieces: An Anthology
of Fragmentary Writing (Impassio Press).
Kevin Ryan is the Director of Charnwood Arts, a committed
community artist, a keen photographer, writer and haijin. He has
published a wide range of books and magazines and has developed,
managed, produced or delivered well over 1,000 different arts programmes,
projects, residencies, festivals and events across all art forums. He is
also a documentary short video maker and an Ustad in a South Asian
martial art.
Vaughn Seward (aka Masago) is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and became
interested in Haiku in 2005. He has since written numerous haiku, senyru,
and tanka. He participates in several Yahoo haiku news groups and in
Februrary, 2006 started a haiku blog (http://masago-no-haiku.blogspot.com/).
In April, 2006, after being involved in several Renku projects he
discovered the idea of 3x3 interlocking renku. Later this came to be
known as Rubricku (http://haikuworkshop.pbwiki.com/RubricKu). Vaughn
joined TheOutlawPoets in September, 2006.
Trish Shields studied Fine Arts and creative writing at Algonquin
College in Ottawa. Her first book of poetry, Soul Speak, was nominated
for a Lambda Literary Award in 2001. Her poetry and short stories are
published internationally. Trish’s first novel, Inferno, was on The Open
Book’s best seller’s list for 2004. The Canadian Poetry Association, The
League of Canadian Poets and the Canadian-Cuba Literary Alliance are a
few of the literary associations she belongs to. She lives on Vancouver
Island.
Brian Strand lives in Buckinghamshie, England (where he was born) and is
now retired. Some of Brian's writings (and some artwork) have been
published in a variety of small press magazines including Amaze, and a
number of internet poetry magazines. Brian has edited two isbn booklets,
Shorthand of the Heart (on short poetic form) and Flowers of Life
(American cinquains of William Soutar).
Brian Strand lives in Buckinghamshrie, England (where he
was born) and is
now retired. Some of Brian's writings (and some artwork) have been
published in a variety of small press magazines including Amaze, and a
number of internet poetry magazines. Brian Strand has published three
chapbook: William Soutar, Flowers of Life: A Selection of Cinquains,
Brian Strand, editor; Shorthand of the Heart: A selection of poetic
form, edited by Brian Strand; and POIEMA: A selection of
Ekphrasis poems, by Brian Strand.
Craig Tigerman was born and raised in Chicago and has lived in Illinois
for over 50 years with an eye on south Florida. He has published two
volumes of poetry, "Indigo Avenue" and "Tigertale," selections from over
30 years of writing. Craig is most comfortable writing structured
lyrical poetry, having also composed many dozens of original songs.
"Rhythm and rhyme are key to making a poem memorable," he states. Craig
is married, has four children and two grandsons. By day he is a software
support specialist for a well-known computer company. He fervently prays
daily for a massive outbreak of peace and love throughout the world.
Max Verhart (1944, the Netherlands) writes and publishes
haiku since
about 1980. 1999-2003 president of the Haiku Circle Netherlands, since
2003 editor of Vuursteen (Flint), the oldest haiku journal in Europe.
Member of the editorial staff of the Red Moon Anthology (USA) since
2002. Translations published in English, German, Greek, Japanese,
Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian , Polish, French.
Linda Willets has been in Photography for about five years. I shoot with
Nikon cameras. My passion is floral photography. I love to get close up
to my subjects. I love to take photos of flowers from the back , a view
most miss but there is much beauty. The plant is Jimpson Weed. I'm in
Arizona, USA. I live in Southwest part of the state. The photo was taken
at the Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden.
A.D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer.
Graduate of San Francisco State University. Former editor and publisher
of Second Coming. Widely published. |
