m e e t      t h e      w r i t e r s ______________________________________________   contributors to the second 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 a little better   bios, photographs and artwork that follow on are not in alphabetical order but in the order they were received by me

 

Stanford M. Forrester ______________________________________________   is the editor of bottle rockets: a collection of short verse and the 2nd Vice President of the Haiku Society of America. He writes haiku, tanka and renku and has won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award as well as first place in the Dublin Arts Council Haiku Contest in 2001. Stanford is a practising Buddhist in the Pure Land tradition. He spends what free time he has with his wife Mary, and his two baby daughters, Abigail and Molly.

 

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.

 

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

 

Felicity Brookesmith ______________________________________________   has been writing haiku "all the time" since 1998, alongside longer poetry  (that started, age 9, with writing hymns,) finding both mutually enhancing,  and haiku irresistible. Published in magazines& anthologies: Connections,  Equinox, Blithe Spirit, Presence, and is working towards a haiku  Collection. Lives close to and loves the sea, her daughters and  grandchildren, cats and other wildlife, her friends, flowers, and playworking  with words in kaleidoscopic order.

 

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).

 

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.

 

Cralan Deutsch ______________________________________________ foto by Yane, with Hima children in Kaokaland, Northern Namibia, September 2001     Born in London 1970. A few years ago, cralan's father showed him the black sandy beach in Mendocino, California, where he first learned to walk. Here I am 30 years later still reeling from the consequences. One of my first journal contributions was proudly in Still 3. Since then I have contributed to Fish Drum, Osiris, Sundog, Cafe Review, 580 Split, Drought, and Cross-Counter among others. Writing and contributing poetry brings me no end of pleasure.

 

Oz Hardwick ______________________________________________   I I am a photographer by training, a writer by vocation, and a university lecturer by accident. My recent publications have mainly been articles on literature and art, but poems have continued to sneak out. I occasionally play in rock bands, but probably shouldn’t, and have a fascination with the late Middle Ages, but wouldn’t want to live there.

 

K. Ramesh ______________________________________________    I write haiku, tanka and free verse.  My poems have appeared in Still, Presence, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Asahi Haikuist Network, Mainichi Daily News, Paper Wasp, American  Tanka, Haijinx, Tinywords, Midwest Poetry Review, Haiku Novine, Haiku Moment, and In Buddha's Temple. Some of my works have been accepted for  publication in Snapshots and Bottle Rockets. I work as a teacher in a J Krishnamurti School in Chennai, India.

 

a i    l i ______________________________________________   in the after-silence i write

original artwork and one-liner copyright ai  li  2002

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