Michael Dylan Welch has been writing haiku since 1976. Originally from England, he now lives in the San Francisco area in California. He is editor and publisher of Press Here haiku books and of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem. For information on Press Here books, please email WelchM-at-aol.com. In 1991 Michael cofounded the Haiku North America haiku conference, and in 1996 he co-founded the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento. He is currently president of the Tanka Society of America. Michael has placed first in both the Henderson and Brady contests from the Haiku Society of America, and his haiku have been published in many journals and anthologies in several countries. haiku (in juxtaposé feature): "meteor shower" - HSA Henderson Award Winner (2000) article: "The Difference Between Haiku and Senryu" - previously unpublished haiku: "voice on the trail" - from Thornewood Poems (Haiku Canada Sheet, 1998). haiku: "after the quake" - first published in Frogpond XIII: 1, February 1990. This poem has since been republished multiple times, including: The Haiku Anthology (third edition), Cor van den Heuvel, ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999); Global Haiku: Twenty-five Poets World-wide, George Swede and Randy M. Brooks, eds. (Iron Press, 2000); Open Window [online book at Brooks Books Web site, March 2000); and Best of the Electronic Poetry Network, Carlos Colon, Barbara Verrett Moore, and Jeffrey L. Salter, eds. (Shreveport, Louisiana: Shreveport Regional Arts Council Literary Panel, 2000). haiku: "sudden lightning" - First published in Modern Haiku XXIX: 2, Summer 1998; also published in Snow on the Water: Red Moon Anthology 1998 (Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 1999).
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haiku: "ponderosa grove" - previously unpublished
haiku: "one by one" - previously unpublished
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