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Gary LeBel
Titles published by MET Press:
Abacus: Prose poems, haibun and short poems
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Gary LeBel was born in Bath, Maine in 1953, the son of a nurse and a welder. He has lived variously in Austria, California, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and now lives in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area. He has two grown children. He is the founder and co-owner of an optical alignment consulting firm that serves heavy industry throughout the southeast. Self-taught, he has been image-making in words and pictures for many years. After beginning field service work in 1988, he began to write haibun as he traveled. He credits Bashō’s Narrow Road in particular, like so many other writers, for the impulse to begin writing in that genre. His first few western-style poems appeared in the early nineties and his first short story, Fresh Bread, appeared in 1996. Modern English Tanka Press published Abacus, his first collection of short poems, haibun and prose poems as an e-book in 2008. His haibun have appeared in Contemporary Haibun, Haibun Today, Kō, Lynx and Modern Haiku. His haiga have been shown in Haiga Online, Modern Haiga, Modern Haiku and Reeds Contemporary Haiga. His tanka prose was included in The Tanka Prose Anthology (2008) and in the premier issue of Modern Haibun and Tanka Prose, also from the Modern English Tanka Press. His tanka and/or or five-lined poems have been included in Modern English Tanka and Atlas Poetica journals as well as MET Press anthologies, The Dreaming Room, Ash Moon Anthology, Landfall, Streetlights and Take Five, as well as in American Tanka and In the Ship’s Wake. He is currently working on a second volume of haibun, short poems and prose with poetry including verses in short but alternate forms. There is insufficient space to list all his pivotal influences, the artists, poets and writers to whom he is indebted.
Email: glebel@bellsouth.net
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