“making change…” a Haiku by Barry George

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Wrecking Ball

making change –
the conductor shifts
his toothpick

–Barry George,
Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku
Accents Publishing

Barry George has a new book of tanka haiku called The One That Flies Back. You can find it byclicking here, and you can read Katerina’s interview with Barry about it by clicking here.

Barry GeorgeBarry George’s poetry has been published in journals including The Louisville Review, Controlled Burn, Modern English Tanka, Modern Haiku,Frogpond, and Ko, and in the anthologies A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, The New Haiku,Streetlights: Poetry of Urban Life in Modern English Tanka, Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, Butterfly Dream, and One Man’s Maple Moon. His haiku have appeared in Japanese, Chinese, German, Russian, Romanian, Croatian, and French translations. His essay, “Shiki the Tanka Poet,” was published in The Writer’s Chronicle. An AWP Intro Poets Award recipient, he has won numerous international Japanese short-form competitions, including First Prize in the Haiku Society of America’s Gerald R. Brady Senryu Contest. He is the author of Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku (Accents Publishing), nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and the forthcoming The One That Flies Back My Way(Kattywompus Press). He lives and teaches in Philadelphia.

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