Editor Richard Krawiec

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About The Editors

Richard Krawiec has been awarded Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council(twice) and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

His first novel, Time Sharing, was published by Viking Penguin. It made Publisher's Weekly Recommended List and the Village Voice's Real Life Rock Top Ten. His second novel, Faith in What? was published by Avisson Press and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has also published a collection of short stories, And Fools of God, and sports biographies for children. His plays have been staged at theaters in North Carolina.

For over twenty years he has published haiku,senryu, and free verse poetry in dozens of the finest international literary magazines.

He has edited anthologies featuring Reynolds Price, Lee Smith, Fred Chappel, Allan Gurganus, and other award-winning writers.

He directs VOICES, a non-profit that teaches writing to children and adults in homeless shelters, literacy classes, prisons and elsewhere.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Raffael de Gruttola has published two books of poetry, Where Ashes Float and Flamenco Song. His poetry has been published in journals throughout the world.

His first book of haiku, Recycle/Reciclo was published in 1989 and a second book of haiga echoes in sand, in collaboration with painter Wilfred Croteau, won honorable mention in the 2001 Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award. The portfolio of haiga is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo. He was President of the Haiku Society of America, its Treasurer for six years and its first Northeast Regional Coordinator. He is a founding member of the Boston Haiku Society. He edited three chapbooks from the Boston Haiku Society and is the founding member of two renku groups: the Metro West Renku Association and the Immature Green Heron. He has done workshops on the different Japanese poetic forms at Universities, Haiku Conferences, and public and private schools throughout the Northeast.

Jim Kacian is the longtime editor of Frogpond, the international

membership journal of the Haiku Society of America, owner of Red Moon Press, and a co-founder of the World Haiku Association.

Lenard D. Moore is the executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society. He has been writing and publishing haiku for 22 years. His haiku have appeared in more than 30 anthologies, including W. W. Norton's The Haiku Anthology.

He is the author of Forever Home (St. Andrews College Press). Red Moon Press published Gathering at the Crossroads, a chapbook of Lenard's haiku about the Million Man March, with photographs by Eugene B. Redmond.

Lenard won Museum of Haiku Literature Awards in 1983, 1994, and 2003. He taught his "jazzku"workshops at the Haiku North America 2003 Conference, the Haiku Society of America National Meeting in 2002, as well as at colleges and universities around the country.

Dave Russo has been writing and publishing haiku for about six

years. He is the webmaster for haijinx and the North Carolina Haiku Society. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.

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Featuring poems by over 70 writers, including Franci Alexander, an'ya, RM Atkinson, Pamela A. Babusci, Roberta Beary, Ron Bell, Janick Belleau, Tara Betts, Jan Bostok, Derrick Brown, Jason Sanford Brown, Helen Buckingham, James E. Cherry, Tom Clausen, Keith T. Coleman, Wanda Cook, Andrea D'Allesandro, Andrew Dethridge, John Dunphy, Gerald England, Stanford M. Forrester, David Gershator, Desiree S. Gezentsvey, Ferris Gilli, Scott Glander, Raffael de Gruttola, Lee Gurga, Jeffredy Harpeng, Tonya Cheir Hegamin, Peggy heinrich, Vida Henderson, Graham High, imago, Jim Kacian, Larry Kimmel, Alan King, Nancy Trip King, Tony Kiuchi, Mark Koerber, Myron Lysenko, Ed Markowski, Paul Mena, Michael Meyerhofer, Lenard Moore, Portia Moore, Ron Moss, Graham Nunn, Mendi Obadike, Stanley Pelter, Patricia Prime, Daniel Py, Andrew Riutta, Chad Lee Robinson, Gabriel Rosenstock, Miriam Sagan, John Shuttleworth, Lesley Singh, Richard Stevenson, Peter Suche, Alan Summers, Jon Summers, George Swede, Dietmar Tauchner, Mike Taylor, Julie Thorndyke, Stephen Toft, Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Sheila Windsor, Tad Wojnicki, and Alenka Zorman.