“I was here before…”
a haiku by Barry George

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Barry-George-02I was here before…
beneath the sycamores
of winter

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

Photo by looseends.

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Barry GeorgeBarry 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.

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