INTERVIEW
Country of Residence: USA
Current Occupation: Working part-time as an archivist for the
Department of Defense
Past Occupations: Retired in 2014 after working for over 40 years as an intel analyst for the Department of Defense
Interests/Hobbies: Too many interests and not enough time. I do a lot of photography. Since I purchased a digital camera in 2004, I can take pictures of every fascinating thing I see with many variants. I am the grandsons’ (now 7 & almost 10) personal paparazzi.
Solo Collections: My first chapbook was published in 1976: Without the Mountain and now, twenty-three chapbooks later, Susan Entsminger of Pinyon Publishing in Colorado has created a handmade chapbook in 2023: Soft Serve: Haiku Remains.
Long Collections:
Breath Marks: Haiku to Read in the Dark (1999) Spilled Milk: Haiku Destinies (2010)
Stone’s Throw: Promises of Mere Words (2015)
Anthologies & Collaborations:
My haiku have appeared in many anthologies since the first one in 1974: The Haiku Anthology: English Language Haiku by Contemporary American and Canadian Poets edited by Cor van den Heuvel (Anchor/Doubleday). The sad thing about copies of that anthology is that they are falling apart with age – rather like me. My work also appears in the two later anthologies edited by Cor van den Heuvel in 1986 (Simon & Schuster) and 1999 (Norton).
