My Latest Work!   A Sprinkle of Glitter one-liners by Alexis Rotella Alexis Rotella has been called a superstar in the field of Japanese forms written in English. Endlessly innovative, she experiments in A Sprinkle of Glitter with how rich a single line of poetry can get. Rotella's sensual awareness and arched-eyebrow humor cut through fragments of dreamscape drawings that unroll through the book in stream-of-consciousness fashion. "I wrote these one-liners one morning while sitting in the sun on my patio with my cat Rufus in Los Gatos, California...." Winner of many poetry awards, Rotella won the prestigious 2007 Kusamakura Haiku Award in Kumamoto, Japan. A Sprinkle of Glitter     6 x 9 in. hand bound, 66 pp— $16.95      Echizen Washi cover and flyleaves — in the style of Japanese handmade paper. Archival.   * * * * * * * COMING SOON from Rosenberry Books: Ask Again! rotellagrams by Alexis Rotella Order Online with PayPal at: RosenberryBooks.com/bookinhandcatalog or call 800.723.0336

Welcome to my blog.  Please excuse its appearance.  I am just getting started. LATEST NEWS:  I was the 2007 Grand Prize Winner for the Kusamakura Haiku Competition. The award was a trip to Kumamoto, Japan.  The winning poem: Near dusk: sound of the last fishing boat. Here is my haiga illustrating that poem. I was deeply honored that the Bay Weekly, published in Annapolis, Maryland, recently interviewed me and featured my experience as the cover story “Listening to Her Muse” in the February 28, 2008 issue. Here's the cover, designed by the Bay Weekly's Clara de Gonzalez Hall using the photo I took on the streets of Kyoto. You can read the full story online at: http://www.bayweekly.com/year08/issuexvi9/leadxvi9_1.html. While in Kumamoto, I was informed I had also won third place for the Prof. Richard Gilbert Award for the haiku poem illustrated by the following haiga which I created after I returned from my trip: Here are some haiga commemorating my unforgettable trip:

You can view even more of my latest haiga at the following sites:

Round Faces and Nesting Dolls, an epic tanka renga written with an’ya, won a 2008 Tanka Splendor award. It appears in Atlas Poetica (March 2008, Modern English Tanka Press).

Lip Prints (a tanka collection with an introduction by scholar/poet Michael McClintock)

Musical Chairs: A haiku journey through childhood

Beards and Wings (longer metaphysical poems)

Yes  A dozen linked poems with Florence Miller

Moonflowers (dream poems)

The Lace Curtain

Antiphony of Bells (a haiku journey through Italy)

Eleven Renga (linked poems with Florence Miller)

A String of Monarchs (linked poems with Florence Miller)

After an Affair (psychological haiku/senryu)

On a White Bud (psychological haiku/senryu)

Voice of the Morning Dove (haiku collection)

Looking for a Prince (senryu collection)

Middle City (longer poems and haiku about growing up in S.W. Pennsylvania)

Camembert Comes from the Sea (Rotella's first book of longer poems)

Drizzle of Stars (illustrated renga with Bob Boldman)

The Essence of Flowers

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