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Alexis Rotella

Alexis Rotella

Titles published by MET Press:

Eavesdropping: Seasonal Haiku
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Lip Prints: Tanka and Other Short Poems, 1979–2007
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Ouch: Senryu That Bite
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Looking for a Prince: a collection of senryu and kyoka
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Elvis In Black Leather
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Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka, edited by Alexis Rotella.

Black Jack Judy and the Crisco Kids: Bronx Memories
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Ash Moon Anthology: Poems on Aging in Modern English TankaPress Release


Alexis Rotella served as President of the Haiku Society of America (Japan House) in 1984 and edited Frogpond, Brussels Sprout and The Persimmon Tree. Her haiku, senryu and tanka have won many awards and recognition. Her work appears in numerous anthologies including Global Haiku (Twenty-five Poets World-wide), George Swede and Randy Brooks, Mosaic Press; How to Haiku, Haiku Moment, both by Bruce Ross, Tuttle; Beneath a Single Moon (Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry), Johnson and Paulenich, Shambhala; The Haiku Anthology 3rd ed., Cor van den Heuvel, Norton; Haiku I (Poesies Anciennes et Modernes) Jackie Hardy, Editions Vega; Haiku for Lovers, Manu Bazzano (MQP); Czeslaw Milosz/HAIKU (Krakow, Poland); Synesthesia in Haiku and Other Essays, Toshimi Horiuchi (University of Philippines Press) and Haiku in English, Hiroaki Sato (Simul Press, Japan).

Rotella’s longer work and Japanese related poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and magazines including The New York Times (Metropolitan Diary), Christian Science Monitor, Family Circle, Glamour, New Letters, The Paterson Literary Review , Chiron Review, Blue Mesa Review, The Madison Review, Lynx, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, Red Lights, and Bottle Rockets. Alexis is author of the poem "Purple" which appeared in numerous publications including Chicken Soup for the Soul and Love, Magic and Mudpies by Bernie Siegel, M.D. (Rodale Press). Alexis was the 2007 grand prize winner of the Kusmakura Haiku Competition where she traveled to Kumamoto, Japan for the awards ceremony. Rosenberry Books recently published A SPRINKLE OF GLITTER (one liners). Alexis's ASK!, aphorisms and zen drawings, as well as an illustrated volume of PURPLE (A Parable) were published by Rosenberry in '08. Rotella maintains a blog at www.alexisrotella.com. Check out her six readings on YouTube. Email: akrotella@gmail.com Alexis Rotella lives in Arnold, Maryland where she is a licensed acupuncturist.

Elvis In Black Leather was nominated for The Pushcart Prize in 2009.

Black Jack Judy & the Crisco Kids was commended under "Best Books of Poetry" Summer 2010 by The Montserrat Review


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