Mark Brooks retired to be a stay-at-home dad. He lives in Temple, Texas, with Karen and their two sons, Dylan and Casey. Mark’s haiku and renku have been published around the world. Some have been translated into other languages, from Japanese to Earth Language. In his spare time, Mark is the publisher and editor of haijinx, an international journal that examines humor in haikai. You're there now. He also has a hand in other haijinx sites and publications, including the haijinx weekly wire (the Internet’s first weekly newsletter about haikai) and the haikai.info | haikai.org (hiho) project. He also founded the haiku reading group which is now part of the hiho project. Recently Mark has given talks on haiku and renku in the Central Texas area. His presentation on kigo to the Haiku Society of America (HSA) quarterly meeting in Long Beach ("The Poetics of Kigo", December, 2001) was generally well-received and that talk is being revised for publication. Meanwhile, Mark is working on a presentation ("Humor and Haiku") for the HSA’s national meeting in September, 2002. In 2002, Mark will take over from Charles Trumbull as the editor of the Haiku Society of America newsletter and become a member of the HSA's executive board. If you are incredibly interested in Mark, or simply bored, read his blog. Among other things, it covers the happenings at haijinx and other haiku news. Mark also tries to maintain a personal website at: <http://www.epiphanous.org/mark/haiku/> Mark is the incoming editor of the Haiku Society of America's newsletter, as well as an incoming HSA officer and executive board member. Mark is also a member of the British Haiku Society (when he remembers to pay his dues), HaikuOz, the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, the World Haiku Association, and the World Haiku Club.ark is a member of the Haiku Society of America, the British Haiku Society, HaikuOz, the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, the World Haiku Association, and the World Haiku Club Mark's haiku and renku have done well in a few contests: BHS James W. Hackett International Haiku Award (2001): Highly Commended. Haiku Society of America's Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition (2001): First Place for "winter stars" written with Christopher Herold. Snapshots Haiku Calendar Competition (2001): one Winner and four Runners-up. Penumbra Haiku Competition (2001): Two haiku received Finalist Awards. 5th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2001): First prize in the International Section. Actually, haijinx did pretty well in that contest. Both Alan Summers and Carmen Sterba received honorable mentions in that same section. Haiku Society of America's Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition (2000): Second Place (3-way tie) for "through the barley" written with Ferris Gilli. One of Mark's haiku was chosen for "tokusen" (poems of special merit) by Takashi Hoshino for his first column in the World Haiku Review. A haiga of this haiku is the cover for haijinx II:1. World Haiku Poems Competition (WHF2000): short listed haiku. Mark had three haiku selected for boat harbour, the paper wasp jack stamm haiku anthology 2000; one haiku selected for Voices and Echoes, the HSA Anthology, 2001; three haiku selected for the loose thread: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, 2001. Mark was Cornell University's Mann Library "Daily Haiku" poet for October 8-14, 2001. Mark's credits include: haijinx, Acorn, Asahi Haikuist Network, Frogpond, Haiku Alpha, Haiku Headlines, The Heron's Nest, In Buddha’s Temple, The Japan Economic Review, Mainichi Daily News, Mainichi Shimbun, Mayfly, Midwest Poetry Review, Modern Haiku, Nightingale, Paper Wasp, Poetry In The Light, Presence, RAW NerVZ, Snapshots, South by Southeast, temps libre/free times, tinywords, Tundra, The Writer, World Haiku Review, and others. feature: "juxtaposé" - previously unpublished feature (w/ haijinx editors): "editors' picks I-1" - previously unpublished haiku: "new hammock" - Modern Haiku Vol XXXII, No 1
biography
organizations
contests & awards
chapbooks, books, collections, & anthologies
newspaper, magazine, & journal appearances
feature (w/ haijinx editors): "editors' picks I-2" - previously unpublished
haiku (in haiga): "spring rain" - World Haiku Review Vol 1, No 1 [tokusen (poem of special merit) from Hoshino Takashi's Corner]
haiku: "first honeysuckle" - South by Southeast 8:1
haiku: "winter night" - temps libre/free times (weekly favourites 1-22-2001)haijinx I:1 (spring 2001)
haiku: "mom's birthday" - previously unpublished
the links below were all live through 2003. some have been disabled in this archive here about haijinx | subscribe to haijinx | submit your work | haijinx products now john crook award 2002 results | haijinx weekly wire | editor's blog | status then I:1 | I:2 | memorial | II:1 | contributor index there haikai.info | haikai.org | other links Originally Published: 2001-2003 The copyrights of individual poems, articles, translations, and images belong to their individual authors. The editors do not necessarily endorse the opinions of authors, nor do they assume responsibility for factual errors, infringements of copyrights, or omissions in acknowledgements. Comments or Questions? info-at-haijinx-dot-org
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Revised Archive: March, 2010