Just a note that there is a brief review of my second book, Haiku and Tanka Harvest, in the latest issue of FROGPOND, The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2012. 

Haiku Friendship

Taken at Pasadena, CA last month, February 19, 2010 at the SCHSG's hosting of the Haiku Society of America meeting.

Haiku Society of America meeting

Last night, I was brave enough to do a mic reading of my haiku poems for the first time. The occasion was in conjunction with the "Urban Haiku Reading" sponsored by the Southern California Haiku Study Group and its parent entity, Haiku Society of America. held in Pasadena, CA. Today, there will be a whole afternoon of activity at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles, Pasadena, CA tel (626) 449-2742. If you are in the Los Angeles area, check it out. I read my haiku poems below.


morning chill
she grabs me back to bed
a little longer

store sign
we mend broken hearts
Valentine's Day

LA storm
the Asian magnolia
remains in bloom

still in bloom
California flowers dance
to winter song