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Tapping Woodpeckers |
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kitsutsuki no
hashira wo tataku
sumai kana
(from pg. 153, "The Essential Basho", translations by Sam Hamill, Shambhala Productions, 1998. ISBN: 1-57062-282-5)
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I'm Gary Barnes, haiku name, soji. I'm a semi-retired computer tech,
semi-adventurer (I worked on deep sea & offshore drilling ships,
including the Glomar Challenger), and full time grandfather of six.
I've lived in Kansas (grew up there), California, Texas, Tennessee,
and now live in Virginia. I discovered haiku about 30 years ago and
have played with it since then, but have only been seriously involved
with it for about 6 years. I have a web page dedicated to haiku,
Haiku Poet's Hut, that is about to get its own domain name. The main
page of my current poetry site is called RetroPostNeoModernClassical
Poetry, and that's about my approach to haiku as well, a little of
the old, a little of the new, and a little experimentation. I've had
haiku published in Acorn, the Frogpond Anthology, and Herons Nest. I
have had photo haiku and haiga published on line in the WHC Review
multimedia pages. I am a member of the Haiku Society of America and
the World Haiku Association. This tournament will be my first
attempt at renku, of any kind, so I'm looking forward to the
experience and what's certain to be an education. I'm very pleased to
have been selected as a member of Tapping Woodpeckers and am
looking forward to the tournament.
sudden storm soji (Heron's Nest Vol. III, No.1, 1/2001) |