m e e t      t h e      w r i t e r s ______________________________________________   contributors to the first edition of dew-on-line are actively encouraged to send in their current biographies and/or  photographs/self-portraits/original artwork to enable the readers to get to know them better   bios, photographs and artwork that follow on are not in alphabetical order but in the order they were received by me

 

Michael Meyerhofer ______________________________________________   Michael Meyerhofer graduated from the University of Iowa in December of 2000,  after a suitable time spent having adventures, he hopes to return there to pursue an MFA and teach at the college level.  He writes poems, haiku, and fantasy stories on every scrap of paper within reach.  He has been previously published in Chiron Review, Tundra, still, and 2River View.

 

Pamela A. Babusci ______________________________________________   Pamela A. Babusci, has been writing haiku & tanka for the past seven years.  She won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award in 1995 & International Tanka Splendor Awards in 1996-1999 & 2001.  When she is not writing poetry, in the spring, summer & autumn, you will find her in a meadow, field or garden pressing flowers & leaves to create and design notecards & framings.

 

jb conway ______________________________________________   26 year old police officer in mobile, alabama. poems and haiku have appeared in Haiku Harvest, still (dew-on-line), Moments, Asahi Network, Autumn Leaves, Friction and submission pending for The Heron's Nest.

 

Larry Kimmel ______________________________________________   Larry Kimmel was born in 1940 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Pittsburgh University, and has worked at everything from steel mills to libraries. He has been publishing poetry for the past twenty-five years and has five collections of poetry, "Lights Across the River," "Pedal Point",  "alone tonight," "the inadequacy of long-stemmed roses," and "the necessary fly," as well as a short novel, "A Small Silent Ordeal." He lives with his wife in the hills of western Massachusetts.

 

Sonja Henrici  ______________________________________________   1974  Was born and raised in Bavaria, Germany, and moved to Brighton, England to study in 1994. She has been living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland since 1999, where she also practices Martial Arts. Wrote and directed a short film Mind the Gap (1997); selected in the writing competition First Edition (Asham Literary Endowment Trust) (1998); poems and prose, published in Don't Think of Tigers (The Do Not Press, 2001) and short poems in still (2000-01).

 

William M. Ramsey ______________________________________________   William M. Ramsey lives in North America where he is currently at work on his  next haiku.

 

John Hawkhead ______________________________________________   John Hawkhead has had haiku and short poems published in Bare Bones, Haiku Presence, Snapshots and Candelabrum. He also appears in The New Haiku from Snapshot Press.

 

Tim W. Younce ______________________________________________   Tim W. Younce, formerly a federal police officer, now writes full-time. He began his foray into tanka in late 2001. His tanka has appeared in Lynx, and in upcoming issues of American Tanka, Tangled Hair, and Bottle Rockets. A freestyle poem has appeared in Erased, Sigh, Sigh. He lives in Luray, Virginia with his wife Penny.

 

David Bingham ______________________________________________   For the past 10 years Dave has been a co-editor of 'Borderlines' magazine. He has had poems published in a wide variety of small press magazines including some which specialise in haiku and tanka ('Blithe Spirit' and 'Presence'). Dave has just completed a project with Border Arts. This involved working with young people to create new poetry and set it to music. The new work was performed at Shrewsbury Music Hall and St. Mary's Arts Centre. He is currently working on a project with the Anglo Welsh Poetry Society to create a sequence of poems about Offa's Dyke.

 

William S. Simms ______________________________________________   William S. Simms is an Exceptional Student Educator in Gainesville, Florida.  He began writing haiku last year after teaching his students a unit on  poetry. Publication credits include the Asahi Haiku Network, Paper Wasp,  In  Buddha's Temple and Raw NervZ and upcoming issues of Modern Haiku, Presence,  bottlerockets, WinterSpin, and American Tanka.

 

Linda Robeck ______________________________________________   In a former life Linda was a rocket scientist for NASA. Now she is delighted to be back home in New England where she writes full time when she's not gardening or catering to her cat's every whim. Her first collection of haiku, a chapbook titled 'arriving' was just released at the end of 2001.

 

Tim Chamberlain ______________________________________________   My interest in Eastern forms of verse began with the Poets of the T'ang Dynasty and continued with Japanese forms such as Haiku, Senryu and Tanka. A few years ago I was introduced by a friend to the Fu form of the Han and Six Dynasties Periods. When I first began writing seriously it was in short form poetics, but my interests are wide and I am also very interested in the Western Tradition, particularly the works of Keats, Byron and Shakespeare. In my approach to all my writing - whether poem or prose - my only concerns are sentience and honesty. Language provides a rich palette, and I feel the object is always to attempt at the worthy and the beautiful. To achieve this, freedom is the requisite paramount. Without freedom there can be no truth. gazing calm mind into brushstrokes

 

Arturas Silanskas  (Vilnius, LITHUANIA) ______________________________________________   32 years old, married, have got 3 kids (boys).   Interested in Japanese culture on the whole and especially in martial  arts: judo (have been practicing judo for over 20 years), jujitsu and poetry (mainly haiku).   Started to write haiku a couple years ago.    Publications so far: Mainichi Daily News (December 2001, February, March 2002); still (dew-on-line).

 

Albert W. Haley, Jr. ______________________________________________   After graduating from Temple with a B.A. in English and a year's graduate work at Penn State in the same - both on the G. I. Bill, and during which time he started trying to write poetry - Albert W. Haley, Jr. worked in industry for many years until his retirement in 1988. During his working years he had published his translation of the Old English BEOWULF (paperback, Branden Press, now Branden Publishing Co, 1978), and of the Old English JUDITH (chapbook, Modern Images, 1981). He also had published his translations of other Old English poems, as well as original poems, in magazines. He continues to write original poems and is having success having them published in magazines. In 1999 he published his chapbook of original poems AFTER THE ECLIPSE.  In 2001 he reissued JUDITH.

 

Mark Farid ______________________________________________   My name is Mark Farid. I live in Leicester go to stoneygate school. I am in year five. I am ten years old my birthday is December 17. My hobbies are football, rugby and cricket. I have an evil older brother and a dad and a mum.

Basem Farid ______________________________________________   My name is Basem Farid. I live and work in Leicester. I have two sons Mark and Simon. I like to tack frequent short trips.

 

Sheila Windsor ______________________________________________   Sheila lives in central England. After family and friends, her passions are  literature and art. She attended Art School in the early seventies and later  read B.A. dual-hons. English and Law at The University of Keele, being  awarded the University's Foundation Year Prize in 1981. From the age of  ten she has written poetry and made art-work of all sorts. She has  exhibited and sold her work, mostly expressionist watercolours and silk- paintings, in local galleries. Most recently she has branched into the field  of abstract and conceptual art and aims to develop these genre. Sheila's first began submitting poetry for publication seven years ago and  was immediately successful, having work accepted for a British  mainstream journal: 'Reach'. Further publication and awards for  mainstream poetry quickly followed, amongst them runner-up in the 'Poetry  Life' Annual Open International Poetry Competition, and 'The Hilton House'  Poet Of The Year Award, sponsored by The Poetry Society. When Sheila met haiku, approx. six years ago, it was 'love at first sight'  and she has been immersed in it ever since. She has been published in:  Britain, U.S.A., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Europe, in  quality haiku journals such as: still, Snapshots, Blythe Spirit, Presence,  Frogpond, RawNerVZ, Bottle Rockets and others. Her awards for haiku and tanka, runner-up positions and commendations,  number, at a rough count, some twenty-six, including The James W.  Hackett International Award 1998; several runner-up positions in the 'still'  award: in 2001, the last year of the award, receiving three runner-up  places, a first in the history of the competition, two for haiku and one for  tanka. Other recent honours include: first prize in The Third Annual  Suruga Baika Literary Festival Award for haiku (International English  language section) 2001; and three commendations in the Haiku Presence  International Award 2001 (one of them a highly commended). Sheila says that membership of haiku internet lists has opened lines of  communication, with kindred spirits, throughout the world, removed much  of the isolation that is often the norm for poets and artists and brought her  many precious friendships.

 

jim bernath ______________________________________________   jim bernath shares a yellow house on a hill in denver colorado with 16 year  old louise, a silent buddha shih tzu who gives him many haiku for his  journal...as do the crows...   lost in my sadness is it mockery or help all these laughing crows?

 

J. Marcus Weekley ______________________________________________    is 27 and currently lives in Hattiesburg, MS, with three roommates and their cat Oliver. He has been writing for the past eleven  years, and grew up reading poets who value nature in their depictions  and/or use unique rhythms and metaphors such as James Wright,  Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich. Marcus is also a  photographer and painter and he really digs the works of Georgia O'Keefe,  Gustave Courbet, Frank Stella, Bruce Davidson, Edward Hopper, and the  French Neo-Classicist sculptors. Marcus enjoys receiving email at:  whynottryitagain@hotmail.com.

 

K. Ramesh ______________________________________________

 

a i    l i ______________________________________________   i write to make loss tangible and then the healing begins

original artwork and one-liner copyright ai  li  2002

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