Haiga Gallery 19.3
Selected by Ron C. Moss, Haiga Editor
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About the Artists
Montrealer Maxianne Berger began to focus on Japanese genres at the turn of the millennium. After 20+ years of haiku, tanka and the occasional haibun, she ventured into haiga in early 2021. Alongside French and English, photography is becoming her other language.
Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu, tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bottle Rockets, Cold Moon Journal, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, Haiku Seed, Poetry Pea, Ribbons, Scarlet Dragonfly, Time Haiku, Triya, Under the Basho, Wales Journal, and Zen Space.
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.
Billie Dee is the former U.S. National Library Service Poet Laureate. She earned her doctorate at UCI, has won numerous poetry contests, add publishes online and off. She lives in the Chihuahua Desert with her family and a betta fish named Ramon.
Katja Fox lives in Cambridge, England. Her poems have been published online and in print, including in Prune Juice, Akitsu, Trash Panda, Blithe Spirit, Failed Haiku, Presence, Scarlet Dragonfly, Cold Moon Journal, Hedgerow, and Kingfisher. She also enjoys hiking and all types of pickled herring. More of her artistic work can be seen at https://www.katjafox.com.
Pam Garry took up watercolor painting in her retirement, thanks to her daughter’s encouragement and wonderful teachers— June Webster and Robert Noreika. She fell into haiku during the pandemic, and this is her first haiga. She is tethered by her family and friends, tai chi practice and walking, her synagogue, daily routines and surprises, and whatever comes next.
John S Green, author of Whimsy Park: Children’s Poems for the Whole Family, currently resides in Bethlehem, Palestine, with his wife. He is a househusband who loves cooking but hates to dust.
John Hawkhead has been producing haiku, haiga, and haibun for over 25 years, with more than 1,500 published all over the world. His book Bone Moon won third place in the 2023 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards.
Lavana Kray lives in Iaşi, Romania. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications, and in 2023 the Laval Literary Society from Canada awarded her the André-Jacob-Entrevous Prize for a literary text (haiku) combined with an artistic visual. She currently serves as editor of haiga at Cattails (UHTS). See more of her work at https://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.com.
Oscar Luparia (born in Vercelli, Italy, in 1956) is a trade unionist. Mountains, photography, and haiku are his main passions. Some of his poems have been published in international journals and websites. So far, he has written six haiku collections, all available for free at https://archive.org/details/@oscar_luparia.
Michela Lupattelli is an Italian artist from Perugia, as well as an art teacher, a graphic designer, a restorer, and a student of ancient paintings and their techniques of realization. Before attending the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence in Italy, she dedicated herself for many years to music, playing the flute, and classical dance.
Annette Makino is an award-winning haiku poet and artist based in Arcata, California who combines paintings and collages with her poems. Her work regularly appears in the leading haiku journals and anthologies. Through her art business, Makino Studios, she shares her haiga, cards, calendars and books. www.makinostudios.com
At age 68, Gautam Nadkarni, having lived his entire life in Mumbai city, claims he’s seen it all. He finds human traits positively hilarious and loves to capture them as haiga. He has been drawing cartoons since age 13. When he found that he could marry his cartoons to humorous senryu, presto! His own brand of senryu-haiga was born.
Marianne Paul’s happy obsessions include haiku and related poetic forms, book arts and bookbinding, easy kayaking, shade gardening, and back porch birdwatching. Her chapbook Body Weight: A Collection of Haiku and Art won the inaugural Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award.
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 Timeless Wisdom (translated from the Chinese). Learn more at dianduchinreed.com.
Susan Lee Roberts hosts a weekly haiku study group, has edited the group’s anthology, Fun Friday Haiku, and attends several haiku critique groups. Her haiku have been published in Frogpond, on The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue, and in Song of the San Joaquin.
Alexis Rotella has been writing Japanese poetry forms in English since the late 1970s. Her recent books Scratches on the Moon (haibun) and the anthology Unsealing Our Secrets (MeToo Stories) earned Touchstone book awards. Her latest anthology, Grandmother’s Pearls, is available on Amazon/Kindle, as are a number of her books. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Retired and living her best life in Alaska, Bonnie J Scherer spends time in the garden during the summer and explores the arts during the long, dark winter. She won first place in the 2023 Marlene Mountain Memorial Contest. In 2022, one of her poems appeared in the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi as among the top 100 haiku in English.
Adelaide B. Shaw lives in Somers, New York, and has been creating Japanese poetic forms for over fifty years. Her books—An Unknown Road (third-place winner of 2009 HSA Merit Book Awards), The Distance I’ve Come, Travel Souvenirs, and Ancient History—are available on Cyberwit and Amazon. Some of her published poems are on
www.adelaide-whitepetals.blogspot.com.
Neena Singh is a Touchstone-nominated poet and an editor for The Wise Owl, Triveni, and Rhyvers. Author of two poetry books, she has won numerous awards. She runs a non-profit for the education and health of underprivileged children in Chandigarh, India.
Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist 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 for her full-length haiku collection Random Blue Sparks, forthcoming.
Corine Timmer is a visual artist, writer, publisher, award-winning haiku poet, and street-dog advocate. She has published six haiku anthologies keyed to the signs of the Chinese zodiac, and is a member of the British and American haiku societies and various online children’s literature groups. She lives in rural Portugal between the sea and the Algarvean hills.
Maria Tosti is an Italian poet from Perugia. Her passions are writing, photography, and drawing. She enjoys visual art and she is also a video maker. Her works have appeared in various art and literary publications as well as online journals. Her first sylloge is a multilingual book. Learn more at http://mariatosti.wixsite.com/mariatosti.
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.
Complimenti calorosissimi a chi, tra Parma, Bardi e Cinqueterre, ci regala queste chicche che deliziano mente, occhi e cuore.