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Author: William J. Higginson

William J. Higginson, poet and writing teacher, lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Author, with Penny Harter, of The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, and author of The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World and Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, as well as Quantum Spring: Haiku on the Los Alamos Fire (forthcoming); co-translator with Tadashi Kondo of Red Fuji: Selected Haiku of Yatsuka Ishihara and Over the Wave: Selected Haiku of Ritsuo Okada. (buy these books) Also, editor of the "Haiku and Related Forms" pages of the Open Directory. William Higginson's web site Contact: wordfield at att.net

a gun in the wildflowers
one young man
more or less

Posted on 14 August 20011 October 2025Author William J. HigginsonCategories Issue 015 Comments on

withering lilacs
and the scent of some body’s
old clothes

Posted on 3 May 20011 October 2025Author William J. HigginsonCategories Issue 016 Comments on

cherry-petal shells . . .
even the sand crabs live
in that light

Posted on 5 March 20011 October 2025Author William J. HigginsonCategories Issue 015 Comments on

almost a Harvest Moon
this disk over the bloody mountains’
late-winter white

Posted on 22 January 20011 October 2025Author William J. HigginsonCategories Issue 016 Comments on
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