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I Wait for the Moon
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Outreach to review media, haiku bloggers, poetry magazines and journals.

reviews in Japanese English magazines, which have a wide readership overseas via online

online interviews with author and translator direct to haiku organizations

giveaway of finished copies on Goodreads

attending and speaking at the biannual convention of Haiku North America (October 2015 in New York)

attending and speaking at the annual Haiku Canada conference (May 2014, in Ottawa).

working with The Haiku Foundation, to produce a video interview with translator

book launch in Montreal in the fall of 2014

working with Haiku Canada, to do outreach to poetry/Asian literature venues in Anglophone Canada as well as the Canadian haiku world.

speaker for the Montreal Zen Poetry Festival 2015

About the Author

Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938 in Tochigi Prefecture) is one of the most highly-respected haiku poets in Japan today. She has published five collections of haiku, and authored or co-authored another 22 prose works including essays, season- word compendiums, books on haiku for beginners, and a two-volume set of interviews with notable Showa-era poets. Her first haiku collection earned her the Modern Haiku Women award and the Haiku Association New Poet award. In 2011 she was awarded the Dakotsu prize, Japan's most prestigious haiku award. She is a haiku selector for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun's weekly Sunday haiku column, and a frequent haiku selector for NHK television. She is on the jury of several national and regional haiku contests, including the annual Mainichi Shimbun haiku award. In 1990, she founded her own haiku organization, AOI, with a nationwide membership of several thousand. All this she accomplished while working full-time at Hakuhodo, a Tokyo-based advertising firm, until her retirement at age 60. Abigail Friedman, a retired diplomat and accomplished, award-winning haiku poet, began composing haiku in a haiku group that met at the foot of Mt. Fuji, led by Japanese haiku master Momoko Kuroda. Her book, The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 2006), captures that experience and her insights into haiku. She is founder of HaikuQuebec, the first French/English bilingual haiku group in Quebec City. Her work has appeared in poetry publications in the U.S., Canada, France, and Japan, including: Frogpond; AOI; The Asahi Weekly; Association Francophone de Haiku (AFH); The Moss at Tokeiji (Deep North Press, 2010);; and Bilboquet. She has presented her haiku at the Montreal Zen Poetry Festival, the Festival international de la poesie de Trois-Rivieres, Haiku Canada, and Haiku North America. In 2012, she was commissioned to compose a haiku to mark the U.S. gift of dogwoods to Japan, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Japan's gift of cherry trees to the U.S. Awards and Other Honors: First Prize, Mainichi International Haiku Contest (2014); Second Prize, Mainichi International Haiku Contest (2012); Grand Prize, Yamanashi Mt. Fuji haiku contest (2011); Honorable Mention, Mainichi International Haiku Contest (2008); Finalist, Kiriyama Book Prize [for The Haiku Apprentice] (2007); Second Prize, Mainichi International Haiku Contest (2006).

Reviews

"Despite her popularity in Japan, the haiku poet Momoko Kuroda has had few of her works translated into English. This handsome volume remedies the situation and more." - Frogpond - Haiku Society of America "The book itself honors the poetic form; it is carefully crafted and beautiful in its details, inviting readers to savor the words--and wisdom within." - Story Circle Book Review "..Kuroda's poetry provides new insight about a culture through one of its most celebrated art forms." - The Absolute "The haiku are well written, evocative and offer lucid, lyrical statements - the images immediately appealing." - Kokako

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