Haiga Gallery 18.1
Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
It was a pleasure to read through the many haiga submissions for this issue. I found many familiar names as well as some newcomers to these pages, and it’s lovely to see all of them trying different approaches and media to broaden the haiga form. I‘m always looking for new expressions in haiga, so I encourage everyone to choose an artistic medium, hone those haiku/senryu skills, and look for ways to link and shift between words and art to create that magical resonance. Give it a go!—Ron C. Moss
About the Artists
Montrealer Maxianne Berger co-edited Cirrus: tankas de nos jours for six years with Mike Montreuil.
She writes book reviews for Tanka Canada’s Gusts and coordinates reviews for Haiku Canada Review.
E. L. Blizzard lives in Kentucky, USA. She values having poems, haiga, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction in several journals. Her haibun A 21st Century Season of Illumination,” centered on people who grow and harvest food in Appalachia, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
The haiga, haiku, haibun, free verse, and tanka of Pris Campbell have appeared in numerous print and online journals. She also has placed or had honorable mention in a number of competitions and published eight books/chapbooks. A former clinical psychologist until sidelined by ME/CFS in 1990, she makes her home with her husband in Southeast Florida.
Ram Chandran is a corporate lawyer and a freelance journalist. A haijin since 2020, he has written more than 1,200 haiku, haibun, senryu, tanka, rengay, and haiga/photo haiku. Many of his works have been published in various prestigious print and online haiku journals.
Robert Erlandson has published his work in cho, Haigaonline, Daily Haiga, failed haiku, Frogpond, Bones, Cattails, Ribbons, The Heron’s Nest, and Prune Juice. His chapbook, AWE, of poetry and images, speaks to the incredible relationships between nature, art, and mathematics. See more on his website, Circle Publications.
John Hawkhead has been writing haiku and producing haiga for over 20 years, with work published all over the world. Apart from cho, you can see his haiga at Daily Haiga, Modern Haiga, Wales Haiku Journal, Human/Kind, and many other publications.
Barbara Kaufmann, a native New Yorker, is a retired nurse whose poems and haiga have been published in many online and print journals. Her haiga, several of which have won awards, have been shown on the Japanese television show NHK Haiku Masters. When not writing, Barbara enjoys hiking, gardening, photography and a regular yoga practice. Her website is www.wabisabipoet.wordpress.com.
Yvette Nicole Kolodji utilizes experiences and imagination to create art and poetry. Her poetry can be found in some of her art exhibits and many haiku journals. She loves the art of inspiration and enjoys assisting others in finding inspiration through her haiku presentations of unusual natural phenomena.
Oscar Luparia is an Italian trade unionist whose main passions are haiku, mountains, and photography. Some of his poems have been published in international journals and websites, including The Mainichi, Failed Haiku, Le Lumachine, Wales Haiku Journal, Les Fleurs ne dorment jamais, DailyHaiga, Incense Dreams, and Chrysanthemum. His haiku ebooks are available at issuu.com/oscarluparia.
Amrutha Prabhu, a computer engineer, discovered her love for haikai in her late thirties. She has several of her works published in reputed journals. She describes herself as a sprout in the garden … a drop in the flowing river … a bird that just learned to fly … in the world of haikai. She tries … to grow a little more, to flow a little faster, to fly a little farther, to be one with haikai each day.
Dian Duchin Reed is an award-winning writer whose poems, articles, essays, and photographs have appeared in many publications. Her books include Medusa Discovers Styling Gel (poetry) and Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Ancient Wisdom (translated from the Chinese). Learn more at dianduchinreed.com.
Debbie Strange is an internationally published short-form poet, haiga artist, and photographer whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. She is honored to be the recipient of the 2020 Snapshot Press Book Award.
Diana Teneva is a Bulgarian writer. Her poems have been published in many journals, including Sketchbook, World Haiku Review, The Heron’s Nest, The Mainichi, Asahi Haikuist Network, A Hundred Gourds, Shamrock, and Chrysanthemum. Some of them are translated into Russian, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Croatian.
William Vlach’s haiga, haibun and poetry have been published in the U.S. and the U.K. Other publications include a book of satiric prose poems, The Sagacity of the Nose, westerns, historical fiction, and essays. When not writing he practices clinical psychology in San Francisco.
Romano Zeraschi lives in Italy, between Parma, Bardi, and Cinqueterre/5 Lands. His haiku, haiga, and haibun have been published in many international magazines and anthologies, including one manga.