MODERN HAIGA : 2009

Digital Edition ISSN: 1941-4870

Presenting modern graphic poetry at its best

   

The 2009 Collection Foyer

    New art added December 22nd. •

Marnie Brooks; Cary, North Carolina, USA.     flowers     heaven •     sunrise •    

Mary Davila; Buffalo, New York, USA.     autumn leaves     tug horn •    

Audrey Downey; New Haven, Connecticut, USA.     confession     toddler     winter night     turtle    

M. Frost; Baltimore, Maryland, USA.     moonlight    

Judith Gorgone; West Newton, Massachusetts, USA.     dessert •    

Dan Hardison; Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.     dreams remembered •    

John Hawkhead; Somerset, United Kingdom.     Hawkmoth •     shell •    

Colin Jones; Aberdeen, Scotland.     burberry    

Jacek Margolak; Kielce, Poland.     fiolki1kopia     zonkilekopia    

Ruth Mittelholtz; Ontario, Canada.     solitary tree     snow angel     breaking through    

Elena Naskova; Seattle, Washington, USA.     heated argument    

Linda Pilarski; Spring Lake, Alberta, Canada.     untraveled path    

Carol Raisfeld; Atlantic Beach, New York, USA.     afternoon nap •     afternoon calm •     coastal road •     ebb tide •     morning sun •    

Sarah Rehfeldt; Washington, USA.     Morning •    

Violette Rose-Jones; Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.     surf •    

Alexis Rotella; Arnold, Maryland, USA.     curandera     fisherman's eyes     ruminations     dream tiger     white night in Leningrad     crabapples     pizza pie     Easter rabbit     chestnut hair     fairy dust     men on horseback     gourd garden     case of bud     carnivale     baguette lady     America    

Manoj Saranathan; Rochester, Minnesota, USA.     raindrop    

Liam Wilkinson; Yorkshire, England.     gulls in the harbour    

The Editorial Board for the 2009 Issue

Liam Wilkinson, chief editor of Modern Haiga, was born and still resides in Yorkshire, England. His poetry, including haiku and tanka, has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Ribbons, Simply Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Lynx, Presence and Modern English Tanka. Liam co-edited The Rose and Thorn Literary E-Zine for three years before founding the 3LIGHTS Online Gallery of Haiku & Tanka, which was launched in 2007 and continues to promote the visual enjoyment of haiku and related forms. Liam also works as a Librarian.

Linda Papanicolaou lives in the Bay Area of California. A middle school art teacher and art historian, she became interested in haiku and haiga when she taught an art lesson that combined leaf printing and haiku; since then, her favorite forms of creative expression are haiku, haiga, any art that offers the possibility of combining text with images. She is the editor of Haigaonline, assistant director of WHChaikumultimedia and a resident artist at Moonset. Her art and poetry have appeared in Amaze, Autumn Leaves, Contemporary Haibun Online, Fire Pearls, Frog Pond, Geppo, Heron's Nest, Haigaonline, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lynx, Mariposa, Moonset, Nisqually Delta Review, Ribbons, Santa Fe Broadside, Simply Haiku, Soundings, Temps Libres, WHC World Kigo Project and World Haiku Review.

Raffael de Gruttola. Founding member of the Boston Haiku Society in 1987 and Past President of the Haiku Society of America as well as Treasurer and first Northeast Regional Coordinator of HSA. He has published one book of haiku, Recycle/Reciclo. His haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga have appeared in many journals throughout the United States and Europe. He has been invited to Japan on two occasions to participate in Renku sessions with poets from around the world and has presented papers at HNA, Haiku Canada, and at the First International Haiku Conference in Romania. In the summer of 2008, he will participate in an International Poetry Conference in Cesena, Italy. He has two portfolios of haiga: Echoes in Sand with visual artist Wilfred Croteau, and the rattle of bamboo windchimes with artist, Peggy McClure. His haiga collaborations have been exhibited in various exhibits in the Boston area and have been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has also collaborated with Carlos Colón on two books of concrete haiga: Circling Bats and Wall Street Park.

Carol Raisfeld lives in Atlantic Beach, New York. Photography and poetry are an integral part of her life, as well as yoga and boxing. As an inventor, she holds US and foreign design patents. She serves as Director of WHChaikumultimedia, Multimedia Editor, World Haiku Review, Associate Editor of Simply Haiku. Carol's poetry, art and photography have appeared worldwide in print, online journals and anthologies, including Green Leaf Files, tinywords.com, Temps Libres, Printed World Haiku Review, haigaonline, New Leaves-Collection of World Haiku, Red Moon Anthology, Haiku Pacific Rim, The Daily Yomiuri, Frogpond, Heron's Nest, Simply Haiku, Autumn Leaves, Full Moon Magazine, Moonset, Ribbons, Amaze:The Cinquain Journal, Modern English Tanka, The Dreaming Room Anthology, Ash Moon Anthology, Modern Haiga 2008. Her work may be seen on HaikuBuds.com.

Ron Moss lives in Tasmania, an island state of Australia and a place of stunning wilderness that inspires his art and poetry. He resides in the mountains with his wife, two dogs and cat. He works in the film and photography department of the Tasmania Archives, and has been a volunteer fire-fighter for 10 years. Ron is a member of the Australian Haiku Society and a past secretary and has been an editor and competition judge. Ron's art and poetry has been translated into several languages and is widely published in journals and anthologies. He has won numerous awards both within Australia and overseas (including Japan). He enjoys using visual media and poetry in combination and has had many exhibitions of his work. Ron has designed and contributed artwork to poetry collections and highly regarded anthologies. Ron's Redbubble Website Gallery is http://ronmoss.redbubble.com/.