Born in Omaha, Nebraska, David Lanoue earned his B.A. at Creighton University (1976) and his M.A. & Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1977, 1981). He is presently a full professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. From 1984 on, he has published original haiku, translations, and haiku-related essays in various magazines and anthologies--including Modern Haiku and Frogpond. He conducted research in Japan in 1987 and 1988, and participated in the N.E.H. Literary Translation Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1989. The result of this labor was his book, Issa: Cup-of-Tea Poems; Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa (Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1991). In 1993-97 David taught as an associate of Bard College's Writing and Thinking Institute. At the Global Haiku Festival, held at Millikin University in April 2000, he presented a paper on Issa and Buddhism, and launched his website, "The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa" which contains over 2,100 of Issa's haiku. David's most recent project is Haiku Guy (Red Moon Press 2000), a novel about haiku, life, love, and mad, moonstruck poets. A sample chapter is available on his website. In December 2000 he read from this book at the Haiku Society of America's quarterly meeting in San Francisco. In March 2001, he gave a paper on "The Globalization of Haiku" at the Xavier University Faculty Colloquium. Currently, he is working on a second "haiku novel" — a work of prose fiction with haiku sprinkled into the mix. article: "Issa's Comic Vision" - previously unpublished
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