Peggy Willis Lyles lives with her husband in Tucker, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, and often visits in Charleston, South Carolina. She has taught composition and literature at Sophie Newcomb College, High Point (N.C.) College, and the University of Georgia. For five years she was poetry editor for Georgia Journal, a regional magazine. Peggy's many awards include recognition from the Museum of Haiku Literature, Modern Haiku, the Haiku Society of America, the Mainichi Daily News, Woodnotes, The People's Poetry Newsletter, the Suruga Baika Literary Festival, The World Haiku Festival 2000, Mayfly, and The Heron's Nest. Peggy's most recent chapbook, Thirty-Six Tones (Saki Press, 2000) was a Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest winner for 1999-2000. Peggy's work is included in The Haiku Handbook, by William J. Higginson with Penny Harter; The Haiku Anthology, 2nd and 3rd editions, edited by Cor van den Heuvel; The Rise and Fall of Sparrows, edited by Alexis Rotella; Haiku Moment, edited by Bruce Ross; Haiku World, by William J.Higginson; Global Haiku—Twenty-five Poets World-Wide, edited by George Swede and Randy Brooks; and the Red Moon Anthology editions for 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001, edited by Jim Kacian and others. Thirty-Six Tones (Saki Press, 2000). Peggy is currently preparing a book of Selected Haiku to be published by Brooks Books, Decatur, Illinois. Since the late seventies, Peggy's haiku have been published in leading journals in the United States and abroad. article: "What's So Funny?" - previously unpublished haiku: "the fine ash" haiku: "midnight moon" - Modern Haiku, Vol. XIX, No.3 (Autumn 1988) haiku: "three odd socks" - previously unpublished
biography
contests & awards
chapbooks, books, collections, & anthologies
newspaper, magazine, & journal appearances
haijinx II:1 (spring 2002)
haiku: "wild persimmons" - Frogpond XVI:2 (1991)
haiku: "dress by dress" - Wind Chimes #18 (1986)
haiku: "waiting room" - Woodnotes #8 (Winter 1991)
haiku: "cumulus clouds" - Frogpond XXIV:2 (2001)
haiku: "crunch of frost" - Modern Haiku Vol. XVII, No. 3 (1986)
haiku: "summer afternoon" - Acorn No.6 (Spring 2001)
haiku: "dragonfly" - The Heron's Nest Vol. II, No. 11 (November 2000)
haiku (in haiga): "lights out" - HSA Henderson Award, Honorable Mention (1980)
haiku: "sultry night" - Brussels Sprout IX:1 (January 1992)
haiku: "sonic boom" - Tundra #1 (1999)
haiku: "winter solstice" - Modern Haiku Vol. XXXI, No. 2 (2000)
haiku: "wind through winter pines" - Acorn #3 (Fall 1999)
haiku: "snowed in" - Modern Haiku Vol XI, No. 3 (1980) (slightly revised.)
haiku: "into the night" - Mayfly #28 (1999)
haiku: "winter night" - Frogpond XVIII:4 (1996)
(was: full moon/square crabs rising/from round holes)
haiku: "heat lightning" - previously unpublished
haiku: "one crow" - previously unpublished
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