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MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH is a poet and editor who lives near Seattle, Washington. He has published his poetry, essays, and reviews in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including three Norton poetry anthologies, and his poems have been translated into at least twenty languages. He edited the poetry journals Woodnotes and Tundra, and he also runs a small press, called Press Here (since 1989). From 2013 to 2015 he served as poet laureate for Redmond, Washington. He has won first place in numerous poetry contests, and in 2012 a translation from one of his books (cotranslated from the Japanese with Emiko Miyashita) appeared on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps. He is also a contributing editor to "Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummin ...more

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	Fire in the Treetops: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Haiku North America by Michael Dylan Welch (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christopher Patchel (Illustrations) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance Into the World 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here, There, and Everywhere: Redmond Association of Spokenword Poetry Anthology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Becoming a Haiku Poet 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For a Moment it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A vote for Alice 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Through the Spirea: The Herb Barrett Award, 1998 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In haiku, don't write about your feelings. Instead, write about what caused your feelings.”
― Michael Dylan Welch, Becoming a Haiku Poet

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“In haiku, don't write about your feelings. Instead, write about what caused your feelings.”
― Michael Dylan Welch, Becoming a Haiku Poet

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message 2: by Michael

Apr 14, 2009 04:29PM

Bryson wrote: "I think that your library definitely proves that I have a lot of haiku reading to do."

Ha! I just marked a bunch of books, and they're a small fraction of what I have (I'd guess about 4,000+ haiku books and journals, and another 300 (?) tanka books. Trust me, though, lots of the books I have aren't entirely worth reading. And there are so many haiku books I haven't read yet either . . .

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message 1: by Bryson

Apr 14, 2009 04:26PM