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Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry Keith Heiberg ~ Webmaster
Though not intentionally chosen to balance yin and yang, Keith's BA is a combination of creative writing (poetry) and linguistics. Since then he has worked as a Freelance Journalist/Photographer, Typesetter, Proofreader, System Manager, and Senior Web Developer. When the tech bubble burst in 2001 he retired early and now reads voraciously, writes sparingly, bikes energetically, and meditates daily. His haiku and senryu have appeared or are forthcoming in Acorn, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, Roadrunner, bottle rockets, TinyWords, moonset, Stylus (Australia), paper wasp (Australia), Chrysanthemum (Austria, translated into German), Asahi Shimbun (Japan), Mainichi Daily News (Japan) and elsewhere. They have been collected in big sky: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2006 and flower of another country: Haiku Society of America 2007 Members' Anthology. Awards include Second Prize in the 2008 Penumbra Poetry Contest, both Second Prize and Honorable Mention in the Kaji Aso Studio 20th Annual International Haiku Contest (2008), Runner-Up in The Haiku Calendar Competition 2008 by Snapshot Press, and Honorable Mention in the moonset Contest II (2008). Two haiku placed among the top 20 in the World Poetry Contest Vol. 2 (2007, New York and Japan, translated into Japanese). Recent prose has appeared in the Harvard Book Review and Modern Haiku. Currently he is finishing a Certificate in Publishing and Communications at Harvard Extension School, and is a member of the Boston Haiku Society, the Haiku Society of America, the Poetry Society of America, PEN New England, and the New England Poetry Club. He has been the Webmaster for Simply Haiku since 2005. He also maintains a personal site at Copyright 2009: Simply Haiku |
