week-old snow –
in the adult books window
a dusty Santa
–Barry George,
Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku (2010)
Accents Publishing
Previous haiku by Barry George:
snowmelt –
a bicycle scavenged
for parts
Barry George is a regular contributor to leading international haiku journals. His poems have been published in Japanese, French, German, and Romanian translations; and have appeared in the anthologies A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku and The New Haiku, as well as seven of the annual Best Haiku collections published by Red Moon Press. A recipient of the 2009 AWP Intro Poets Awards, he has also won numerous Japanese short-form competitions, including the Gerald R. Brady Contest and The Mainichi Daily News Contest. He has twice been a featured poet at the Robert Frost Poetry Festival in Key West. A graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program, he lives and teaches in Philadelphia.