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         Alexis Rotella (Ouch, Senryu that Bite, 2008)

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

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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:






Here are some more haiga for your viewing/reading pleasure. Let me know what you think.




Collaborative Works:



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

www.threelightsgallery.com

ink-sweat-and-tears.blogharbor.com

www.modernhaiga.com

www.haigaonline.com (click on experimental haiga;” also Gallery and moonbridges)

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).

My latest books published in 2007/2008 by Modern English Tanka Press are all available directly from Modern English Tanka Press or from Amazon.com.

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

Ouch (Senryu that Bite)

Eavesdropping (my earliest haiku written 30 years ago)

Ash Moon Anthology (an anthology on aging co-edited with Denis M. Garrison)

Mirror Mirror (a large collection of haiga in color featuring photographs, soul drawings and collages including collaborative haiga sequences with other poets).

Other Books by Alexis Rotella available directly from the author or from this Amazon.com link.

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)


Non-poetry books by Alexis Rotella

How Words and Thoughts Affect Your Body

The Essence of Flowers


If you cannot find the above titles through Amazon, E-mail me at a.rotella@att.net or write me at:

Alexis Rotella
P.O. Box 3
Arnold, MD  21012

Links:

www.modernenglishtanka.com


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I will be posting new items on this blog from time to time. Please check back every so often.


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