Cezar F. Ciobîcă: Teacher and Author

thunders - 
dandelion fluff rises 
without a god

Second Place, 2011 Pen Haiku Contest  


kukai in orchard - 
a cherry petal 
settles as kireji

Honorable Mention, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, 2011  


back at 
the pawn shop - 
the moon in the window
 
Excellent Award, Fourth National Haiku Contest, Bulgaria, 2011

Cezar F. Ciobîcă, born in 1971, in Romania, lives and works in Botoșani as teacher and author. He began writing haiku in 2008 and his poems have appeared on several websites (Haiku Heute, Chrysanthemum, Sketchbook, Mainichi Daily News, Tinywords, Asahi Haikuist Network). His awards are posted on Oglindiri.  

http://catanasiu.blogspot.com

Gabriele Hartmann: Lives, Paints, Writes

full moon
a guest
I didn't invite

children's voices
shadows of magnolias and blackbirds
the same black

twilight
he arranges figures
and waits

"Chrysanthemum, 6 October 2009, feature"

Gabriele Hartmann: born in 1956, lives, paints und writes in a small village between Köln and Frankfurt. Courious?

www.gabriele-reinhard.de

Udo Wenzel: Writer and Editor

sea-gulls

carry the moonlight

across backwater

21st ITO EN 'Oi Ocha'

New haiku contest 2010 Merit Award

Hiroshima day -

the sound of the bell

over the town

Bashô's Anniversary Web Haiku Contest Award

Mie Times 2004

child soldier

peering at the sky

in his barrel

40th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku-Meeting

2006, Commended by Steve Wolfe

Udo Wenzel, born in 1957 in Southern Germany. Training as a bookseller, studies of sociology, diverse odd jobs. Works in the Information Technology since 1991. Lives in Hamburg since 1983. Occasionally he had been writing poems and short stories for about 30 years, got involved with haiku-poetry in 2002. Publications of haiku, essays about haiku-theory and -history, interviews, and translations in anthologies and haiku-magazines (national and international). Member of the German Haiku Society. Editor of TAUBENSCHLAG (dovecote), the litblog for short lyrics and short prose. Editor of the website HAIKU-STEG (haiku-jetty). Published his book "Taubenschlag" with short poems and short poetry in 2010 (Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt).

Klaus-Dieter Wirth: Linguist and Promoter

St. Valentine's Day
at the end of the line
an audible smile

Awarded as "favorite haiku" in "Modern Haiku" Vol 35.3, 2004




dreary afternoon
a carp in the park pond snaps
at a speck of sun

Special prize in the "Genkissu! Spirit up! World Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest 2006"



curtain of beads
the rustle
of filtered light

"Blithe Spirit" Vol 20, No 2, June 2010

Klaus-Dieter Wirth, living alternately in Viersen near Düsseldorf and at Burg, a village of wine-growers on the Moselle. Retired linguist in the teaching profession (English, French, Spanish). First contact with the haiku in 1967. Working for the promotion of haiku on an international level. Membership in several haiku societies (D, GB, NL/B, F, USA, CDN) and active collaboration on different journals, esp. "Sommergras", "Blithe Spirit", "Gong", "Chrysanthemum", and "Whirligig". Numerous publications in magazines and anthologies; awarded in several different competitions. Just out his quadrilingual haiku book "Zugvögel/Migratory Birds/Oiseaux migrateurs/Aves migratorias".  

Klaus-Dieter Wirth's DHG-member-page

Claudia Brefeld: Author and Photographer

holidays end--

only the motion of the sea

in the driving mirror

The Mainichi Daily News – Best of 2009

old stream--

the moon floats into

the blue hour

The Heron’s Nest – XVIII (1) 2011

dust-blind glass –
her hands searching

forgotten closeness

Chrysanthemum 8/2010

Claudia Brefeld – born 1956 in Gronau (NRW), lives in Bochum. She has written lyrics (and short stories) for many years and haiku and aphorism since 2003. Moreover she writes tan-renga, renku and rengay. Nature photography is also on the list of her hobby priorities. Her haiku and haiga have been published in anthologies and in such magazines as: Albatross, Chrysanthemum, Mainichi Daily News, Notes from the Gean, Simply Haiku, The Heron's Nest, WHC-German, WHA-Haiga-Contest. SOMMERGRAS, and other… She is the second chairwoman of the German Haiku Society, and founding member and secretary to the board of the German Aphorism Archive.

www.artgerecht-und-ungebunden.de/
homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Claudia.Brefeld/