Bruce Ross

Bruce Ross is a Canadian poet, author, humanities educator and past president of the Haiku Society of America.[1] He was born in Hamilton, 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, Sweden, and Romania. His anthologies and instructional books are in numerous libraries.[2] Ross is well known for his claim that Matsuo Bashō was the inventor of haiku.[3]

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

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

Bibliography

Poetry

Non-fiction

Anthologies edited

References

  1. ↑ Writer profiles: Paul Scherschel on Bruce Ross Archived February 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., Millikin University, Spring 2003
  2. ↑ WorldCat
  3. ↑ Ross, Bruce. How to Haiku: A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms, Tuttle, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8048-3232-8, p.2

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