Simply
Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Haiku and Related Forms
Spring 2005, vol 3 no 1
Modern Haiga
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an'ya haiku & ink drawings |
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Besides editing haigaonline, an'ya is the director for the World Haiku Club beginners sessions and the Newsletter Editor for the Tanka Society of America. She has been bestowed numerous top world-class awards and honours for her haiku poetry, as well as other verse forms, not only throughout the United States, but in Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, India, the UK, Brazil, and throughout the Balkans. an'ya has five books out currently, haiku for a moonless night, haiku wine, crosswinds, haiku in my apron pocket and haiku for the birds. Her personal website can be viewed at The Natural Light Press. Her extended biography is found at: www.haigaonline.com under staff members. Merrill
Ann Gonzales writes
of her work: "Since that time, I've come to understand that haiga starts with the haiku, and from the spirit of the haiku, a certain form/shape/painting . . .'drawing' (which is what I call my artwork) emerges. Then somewhat the same process, only in another direction. In Chinese brushwork, I've learned how to accept that which I had not planned
for . . . that which came of itself in the artwork. As the drawing comes to
me line-by-line, the words start to form, line-by-line, and the whole comes
of itself. It has a life of its own . . . a 'chi'." |
an'ya,
whose
haigo (haiku nom de plume) loosely translates to 'a peaceful light in the
moonless night,' lives in Oregon, USA.Copyright 2005: Simply Haiku