Author: Don Socha

Don Socha (socha1de at cmich.edu) teaches writing full time at Central Michigan University and received bodhisattva ordination in the Deshimaru lineage of Soto Zen on June 2nd 2002. Besides haiku, he is very much interested in haibun or "haiku prose," specifically as it relates to lyrical nonfiction, journaling, weblogging, nature writing, and auto-ethnographic invention. Specifically, he considers himself something of a neo-Sophist and believes that hope for humanity lies exclusively in the calm mind and simplified, thoughtful nature.