Dr. Randy Brooks directs the writing major at Millikin University, a private university in Decatur, Illinois, USA and has served as the Midwest Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, have been co-editors and publishers of Brooks Books, (formerly High/Coo Press) and currently edit Mayfly magazine. They have been dedicated to publishing books, magazines and hypertext collections of haiku in English since the founding of High/Coo Press in 1976. In April 2000 he and Dr. Lee Gurga organized a gathering of haiku poets, editors and scholars at the Global Haiku Festival hosted by Millikin University, the Sister Cities Program and the Haiku Society of America. Randy has won many awards for his haiku and haiku publishing including 1st Place in the prestigious Harold G. Henderson Award in 1998 from the Haiku Society of America. A collection of his selected haiku, School's Out, was published in 1999 by Press Here (Foster City, California). School's Out, received 3rd Place in the national Merit Book Awards for the Best Haiku Books published in 1999, an award sponsored by the Haiku Society of America. Randy has had haiku published often in his 25-year history. School's Out is his most recent personal collection. The Homestead Cedars was published through The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Chapbook Competition, (Normal, Illinois: Saki Press), 1999. In 2000 and 2001 he had haiku selected for the following anthologies: A Glimpse of Red: Red Moon Anthology 2000, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 2001; Haiku Troubadours 2000: A Contemporary World Haiku Anthology from Japan, edited by Ban’ya Natsuishi, Ginyu Press (Fujimi, Japan), August 2000; Palomar Showcase: Anthology of the National League of American Pen Women International Poetry Contest, Volume 11. National League of American Pen Women, (Palomar, CA) May, 2000; the thin curve: The Red Moon Anthology, 1999, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 2000. In 2000, he was Co-Editor with George Swede of Global Haiku:Twenty-five Poets World-wide, Iron Press, England, April 2000. He also appears in William J. Higginson's The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World (Kodansha International, 1996) and Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac (KI, 1996). Randy has been published in virtually every major journal during his career. haiku: "last words" article: "Consonance as the Genesis of Humor in Haiku" - previously unpublished
biography
contests & awards
chapbooks, books, collections, & anthologies
newspaper, magazine, & journal appearances
haiku: "jets, flames, towers"
haiku: "nobody's dog" - The Homestead Cedars (1999)
haiku: "home for Easter" - previously unpublished
haiku: "spring afternoon" - Tundra Vol I, No 1
haiku: "a change of wind" - Unaka Range (December, 1976)
haiku: "head back to" - Heron Quarterly 2.4
haiku: "at the mailbox" - The Windless Orchard (June, 1978)
haiku (in haiga): "last day of school" - Baseball Haiku
haiku: "mellow thunder" - Cicada (1979)
haiku: "school's out" - Brussels Sprout (1988)
haiku: "pinetree trimmings" - Hummingbird (1991)
haiku: "behind her" - RAW NerVZ (1999)
haiku: "holding hands" - Frogpond (1988)
haiku: "summer stars" - Jack Stamm Award Anthology (2000)
haiku (in haiga): "dawn after the birth" - Plainspeak (June, 1980)
haiku: "hot tub beneath the stars" - Snapshots 4
sound files: Randy reading his haiku - previously unpublished, recorded by Randy on June 14, 2001
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