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Literature & Fiction

Welch, Michael Dylan

Poetry

Hamilton Haika

Michael Dylan Welch lives in Sammamish, Washington. When he isn't writing, he likes to ski, play racquetball, hike, take photographs, plan outings with his wife and two children, build his music library of great guitar solos, read books, and tend to his website at www.graceguts.com. Michael is especially active with haiku poetry, and he's published his writing and translations in dozens of books and hundreds of journals and anthologies in at least twenty languages, including on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps.   Tanya McDonald is known for her love of haiku, chickens, and bird-watching. Fond of wearing bright colors and drinking tea, she lives with her husband and their orange cat in a house full of books in Woodinville, Washington. An active member of Haiku Northwest, she was one of eighteen poets featured in A New Resonance 7, and was one of four featured readers at the twenty-fifth annual Two Autumns haiku reading in San Francisco. When she's not writing haiku, she's busy working on a trio of young adult novels set in the Seattle area.         "Michael Dylan Welch is known for his fresh takes on haiku and readers will be delighted by this new collection, a serendipitous collaboration with Tanya McDonald. For readers of this book, the sun and moon will never be the same--they will become mantras for encountering each day's noteworthy events." George Swede, cofounder of Haiku Canada and former editor of Frogpond   "The excellence of these poems, together with their engaging arrangement, produces a dazzling reading experience." James Bertolino, author of Ravenous Bliss: New & Selected Love Poems   "The poems in Seven Suns / Seven Moons range back and forth through daily and surrealistic images, arousing our poetic imagination and showing dynamic new possibilities in haiku."  Toshio Kimura, Head of International Affairs, Modern Haiku Association, Japan, and comparative literature professor at Nihon University, Tokyo

Seven Suns / Seven Moons

McDonald, Tanya

NeoPoiesis Press, LLC

Here, There, and Everywhere, edited by Michael Dylan Welch, collects 120 poems by 70 poets who have been active with the Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP) in Redmond, Washington since this literary arts organization was founded in 1997 (its website is www.raspread.com). The book's poems are divided into three sections—here, there, and everywhere. This anthology celebrates a full range of poetry from this active region of the Pacific Northwest. Editor Michael Dylan Welch has been curator for RASP readings since 2008. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS: Kelli Russell Agodon, Elizabeth Atwood, Elizabeth Austen, Lana Hecthman Ayers, Peggy Barnett, Janée J. Baugher, Laura Lee Bennett, Katherine Grace Bond, Leslie Brown, Terry Busch, Dennis Caswell, Ana Christensen, Mary Eliza Crane, Pamela Denchfield, Tom Flynn, Erin Fristad, Jeannine Hall Gailey, William Scott Galasso, Maya Ganesan, Richard Gold, Cora Goss-Grubbs, Shane Guthrie, Elizabeth Carroll Hayden, Bill Hayes, Michael Heavener, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Janka Hobbs, David D. Horowitz, Winifred Jaeger, Christopher J. Jarmick, Aarthi John, Donald Kentop, Jared Leising, Marjorie Manwaring, Jack McCarthy, Rebecca Meredith, Denise Calvetti Michaels, Kevin Mooneyham, Paul E. Nelson, Dawn-Marie Oliver, Ken Osborne, James Parrott, Wendelle Peoples, dan raphael, Susan Rich, Stephen Roxborough, Raul Sanchez, Michael Schein, Monica Schley, Martha Silano, Annette Spaulding-Convy, H. R. Stahl, Heather Stark, ChiChi Stewart, Barbara Stoner, Adora Svitak, Ann Teplick, Linda Thompson, Vonnie Thompson, John Tripp, Marie Helen Turner, S. A. Upton, Qiaolan Wan, Michael Dylan Welch, David Lloyd Whited, Mark K. Whittington, Carolyne Wright, Bill Yake, Maged Zaher, Jason Zions.

Here, There, and Everywhere: Redmond Association of Spokenword Poetry Anthology

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Close to the Wind: 2013 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Press Here

Learn the key techniques and strategies for writing haiku in English from acclaimed haiku poet, teacher, and translator Michael Dylan Welch. This book emphasizes the most effective targets for haiku poetry, ones that are usually not taught in schools. There's more to haiku, and less, than you might think. This concise book provides just the information you need to learn the art of haiku and to start becoming a haiku poet. About the Author Michael Dylan Welch has published his essays, reviews, translations, haiku, and other poetry in hundreds of journals and anthologies, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, where he also curates two poetry reading series. Michael also cofounded the Haiku North America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996), founded the Tanka Society of America (2000), and started National Haiku Writing Month in 2010 (www.nahaiwrimo.com and on Facebook). Visit his personal website, devoted mostly to haiku, at www.graceguts.com. Endorsements “The real secret to becoming a haiku poet is to start writing haiku.” From the foreword by Aubrie Cox “For many years Michael Dylan Welch’s essays on haiku have guided newcomers and seasoned poets alike. With characteristic authority and humor, Becoming a Haiku Poet is yet another of his important contributions to the study and understanding of haiku poetry.” Charles Trumbull, editor emeritus of Modern Haiku “Michael Dylan Welch’s knowledge and experience with haiku is recognized internationally. He always has time to assist new poets starting out on the haiku path, to engage in a conversation about poetics, or to recommend a current essay or book. He never tires of answering the question: What is a haiku, anyway? Becoming a Haiku Poet is Michael’s concise and informative answer.” Terry Ann Carter, president of Haiku Canada

Becoming a Haiku Poet

NATIONAL HAIKU WRITING MONTH, also known as NaHaiWriMo, celebrates the world's shortest poetry. When? Every February, the year's shortest month. This book's 324 haiku and senryu represent 100 participating poets from around the world, selected by NaHaiWriMo founder Michael Dylan Welch. Ron C. Moss contributes haiga artwork for 28 featured poems. Open the jumble box "NaHaiWriMo gets me writing every day." -Johnny Baranski, Vancouver, Washington "NaHaiWriMo is an endless inspiration " -Kashinath Karmakar, Durgapur, India "Thanks, NaHaiWriMo, for being my psychotherapist for February." -Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Spring Grove, Illinois "NaHaiWriMo offers a sense of community and belonging and sharing-it is just wonderful " -Daphne Purpus, Vashon, Washington "I did it-one haiku a day throughout February And now I'm not sure if I can stop." -Tore Sverredal, G teborg, Sweden Visit NaHaiWriMo at www.nahaiwrimo.com, or on Facebook at https: //www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo/.

Jumble Box: Haiku and Senryu from National Haiku Writing Month

Sitting in the Sun collects haiku and senryu by more than ninety attendees of the 2019 Haiku North America conference, held August 7 to 11, 2019 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Crystal Simone Smith, this anthology features many leading poets writing haiku in English, together with North Carolina-themed artwork by Kate MacQueen. "Sitting in the Sun celebrates the fifteenth biennial Haiku North America conference, held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2019. These conferences provide an array of academic research and inspired readings and presentations, but they're also a kind of 'sitting on the porch a spell, ' a gathering of friends to enjoy the day, to talk about a favorite poetic subject, and to ponder-or avoid-the ups and downs that life has to offer. In the very first Haiku North America anthology in 1991, the collection's poems were arranged by each poet's first name, and we've been doing that ever since. It's a sort of front-porch familiarity that we continue to value-and seek to promote. So please sit a spell with these poems and poets." -adapted from the introduction MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH is a poet, editor, and publisher. In 1991 he cofounded Haiku North America, and has edited all HNA conference anthologies. In 1996 he cofounded the American Haiku Archives, and in 2000 he founded the Tanka Society of America, serving as its president for five years, then returning again as president in 2018. In 2008 he cofounded the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, which he continues to direct, and in 2010 he founded National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com). He has also served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. His poems have won first place in numerous contests (including the Henderson, Brady, Tokutomi, Bacopa, and Drevniok contests), and have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than twenty languages-including a tanka translation on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps in 2012. He has also published numerous books of haiku and related poetry, the latest including Jumble Box: Haiku and Senryu from National Haiku Writing Month (Press Here, 2017) and Seven Suns, Seven Moons, a collaboration with Tanya McDonald (NeoPoiesis Press, 2016). His website, which features his essays, reviews, and poems, is www.graceguts.com. CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Routes Home (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Running Music (Longleaf Press, 2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, Nimrod, Barrow Street, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora, African American Review, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband and two sons where she teaches English composition and creative writing. She is the managing editor of Backbone Press (www.backbonepress.org).

Sitting in the Sun: 2019 Haiku North America Anthology

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