11/28/2011

Udo Wenzel: Writer and Editor


sea-gulls
carry the moonlight
across backwater

New haiku contest 2010 Merit Award



Hiroshima day -
the sound of the bell
over the town

Bashô's Anniversary Web Haiku Contest Award



child soldier
peering at the sky
in his barrel

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).

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11/13/2011

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










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10/31/2011


          

        









Claudia Brefeld: Author and Photographer
















holidays end--
only the motion of the sea
in the driving mirror







old stream-- 
the moon floats into 
the blue hour



The Heron’s Nest – XVIII (1) 2011






dust-blind glass –

her hands searching 
forgotten closeness









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.














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10/18/2011


          

        









Rudi Pfaller: "I Always Discover New Things"


















silent night

a nut drops

from the moon



Mainichi Daily News 04-12-2006







brimstone butterfly

the sun

gets wings



Mainichi Daily News Best of 2010



















 Autumn gale

every leaf

hunts leaves





Rudi Pfaller was born in 1949, and with his wife and his dog he lives in the valley of Rems nearby Stuttgart. He has been writing haiku since 2006. He says: “Since that time I try to reveal the secret about this short poetry and I always discover new things.”
















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9/26/2011


          

        









Heike Gewi: Writing Became a Life Style














still not tired
to give -
apricot tree



Heron's Nest, Dec. 2010






wisdom of growing old
the koi moves
to a deeper level



Notes from the Gean, March 2011






fog
on cathedral glass
a man I can name



The Mainichi Daily News, May  10th 2011






Heike Gewi: born in Dessau/Saxony-Anhalt in 1964, living and working in Aden (Republic of Yemen), writing Haiku since 2007 and painting again after a 25-years-break since autumn 2010. She says: “Writing became a life style and doing so there is no imagination without highlightening some moments of our lives or giving answers in designed crime fictions to the question What if? ...“



www.heikegewi.keepfree.de


                                                                                                        










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