Bruce Ross

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Bruce Ross is a Canadian poet, author, humanities educator and past president of the Haiku Society of America. He was born in Burlington, Ontario.

Ross has taught Japanese poetry (in translation) and painting forms for many years at a number of institutions, including Empire State College, Burlington College, the University of Vermont, the University of Alberta, and the University of Maine. He has lectured on haiku in the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and Romania.

Ross's original English language haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, and collaborative renga have appeared in international haiku journals, as have his reviews, articles, and translations.

Ross lives with his wife Astrid, a physician and English language haiku poet, in Hampden, Maine.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

  • thousands of wet stones (1988)
  • among floating duckweed (1994)
  • Silence: Collected Haiku (1997)
  • summer drizzles: haiku and haibun (2005)

[edit] Non-fiction

  • How to Haiku: A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms (2002).

[edit] Anthologies edited

  • Haiku Moment, An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku (1993)
  • Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun (1998)