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Marianne Paul is a Canadian novelist and poet. In recent years, she has become fascinated with minimalist poetry, studying haiku, tanka, haiga, and haibun. Her work has been published in many contemporary journals, both online and in print. Learn more about Marianne’s writing at literarykayak.com and on twitter @mariannpaul.
high
on the branch
the
snow-hearted
Sun
a l l p o m e g r a n a t e s s m i l e
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Güliz Vural is museologist and classical philologist. She lives and works in Ankara, Turkey. She is a francophone poetess of six books and she has many literary prizes in France: Prize Renée Vivien 2011, Grand Prize of Francophone Writing 2012, Special Prize of Jean Aicard 2012 etc.
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Debbie Strange is a widely published Canadian short form poet, haiga artist, and photographer. Her first collection, Warp and Weft, Tanka Threads, is available through atlaspoetica.org. She invites you to visit her archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca.
longest night…
and the candles
go dim
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Archana Kapoor Nagpal is an internationally published author of four books – 14 Pearls of Inspiration, The Road to a Positive Life, A Haiku Per Day and The Fragrance of a Beautiful Life. She often participates in short story competitions, and her winning stories are now part of international anthologies – New Love: Anthology of Short Stories and 12 Facets of a Crystal. She has seen her short stories, poems and haiku published in other anthologies as well – A Pinch of Love, Peace and Humanity and Ripples of Love. She has also been actively involved in the editing and book designing of these two anthologies.
untide
the sea just drifts
away
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David Kelly lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He started writing haiku in 2007 and has been learning more about the spirit of Japanese short forms ever since. He has been published in a number of print and online journals.
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Bill Waters, a lifelong poet and writer, lives in Pennington, New Jersey, U.S.A., with his wonderful wife and their three amazing cats. You can find more of his writing at Bill Waters ~~ Haiku and Bill Waters ~~ NOT Haiku.
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Mary Kendall can often be found in her Chapel Hill, North Carolina garden, tending plants, feeding birds, watching dragonflies and playing with her dog. She meditates and writes there as well. Mary is the author of Erasing the Doubt (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and blogs at A Poet in Time.
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Debbie Strange is a published tanka and haiku poet and an avid photographer. She enjoys creating haiga and tanshi (small poem) art. You are invited to see more of her work on Twitter @Debbie_Strange.
spring breeze
the saree slides down
her shoulder
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Neck deep in haiku, her face barely visible, Kala Ramesh, an award winning poet has been instrumental in bringing school kids and college youth into haiku. Her latest obsession: to paint city walls with haiku, to weave a pause, a breather into our hectic lives!
read-letter day
the cold, stone touch
of my coffee cup
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David Kelly lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He started writing haiku in 2007 and has been learning more about the spirit of Japanese short forms ever since. He has been published in a number of print and online journals.
