Roberta Beary's excellent book of haiku, The Unworn Necklace, won first prize in the 2006 Snapshot Press Haiku Competition.
In 2006, Roberta co-edited fish in love, the Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology and HSA Merit Award Winner for Best Anthology. In addition to serving as a judge for various haiku, senryu and haibun contests, she is also an editor for the Red Moon Anthology series. She has won top prize in many haiku contests, including Brady, Penumbra, Itoen, Haiku International, Mainichi, and Kusamakura, which included a trip to Japan to accept the award in December 2005. Roberta is a longtime member of towpath, the haiku group of the Chesapeake Watershed.
Ms. Beary shares her response to Haiku - Three Questions with us this week:
Hi Curtis,
Here you go:
1. Why do you write haiku?
To illuminate my journey in search of lost time.
2. What other poetic forms do you enjoy?
Narrative verse.
3. Of the many wonderful haiku you've written, what do you consider to be your top three? (Please provide original publication credits.)
3 favorites of mine:
snowed in
the dog clicks
from room to room
The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press, 2007)
American Pen Women Haiku Contest 2005 (Honorable Mention)
The Haiku Calendar 2006 (Snapshot Press, 2005)
blackout —
my son speaks a secret
i always knew
The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press, 2007)
Modern Haiku, Volume 36:1, Winter-Spring 2005
inside the mirror (Red Moon Press,2006)
harvest moon
the long pull
of faraway children
The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press, 2007)
The Heron's Nest Volume VII No. 1 March 2005
loose change (Haiku Society of America, 2005)
Please consider sending your answers to Haiku - Three Questions. You may submit your answers by clicking on the Contact link on this page.
Next week, Paul Williams.
2 comments:
Hi Roberta, Curtis,
The first of these reminds me of that American classic haiku:
distant thunder
the dog's toenails click
against the linoleum
--Gary Hotham
(from his 1979 collection Against the Linoleum, reprinted in Cor van den Heuvel's Haiku Anthology, 1986, 1999)
Not to suggest deja-ku, but rather the way intertextuality can deepen our experience of a given poem.
Bless,
Bill Higginson
I was not familiar with that haiku of Gary's when I wrote mine but see that both are listed on Tom Clausen's webpage of dog poems http://home.earthlink.net/~tclausen/id35.html. If anything my dog's clicking on our hardwood floors has increased in the years since I wrote that haiku. She now clicks even in her sleep due to her advanced age. I have not yet written a haiku about that but I am working on it!
xo
Roberta
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