| Oregon Haiku & Tanka Society |
| J o h n n y B a r a n s k i |
| Jailed numerous times for his war resistance and nuclear weapons protests, Johnny Baranski published his first haiku in Dragonfly: A Quarterly of Haiku in 1975. His first chapbook, Pencil Flowers: Jail Haiku, was published by Holmgangers Press in 1983. Over the years his haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest, The Red Pagoda, Brussels Sprout, Dragonfly, Wind Chimes, Bamboo Ridge, Parnassus, and several anthologies. His Convicts Shoot the Breeze, written while serving time in Snohomish County Jail in Washington State, is a 2001-2002 Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook grand prize winner. Johnny says, "What mainly attracts me to writing haiku and its related linked forms is that it requires more than the poet's technical mastery to be successful�it requires the poet to assume the haiku way of life." He currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he makes his living as a reader in a press clippings bureau. Johnny has published a new book of poems called just a stone's throw. For details, click here. |
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| Chapbooks by Johnny Baranski Convicts Shoot the Breeze, Saki Chapbook #11, may be purchased from Saki Press, 1021 Gregory, Normal, IL 61761. Click here for a review of Convicts Shoot the Breeze. Recently, New Hope International Review, a British website, published two reviews about Johnny's latest books. Click here to read what NHI Review Online has to say about Convicts Shoot the Breeze and just a stone's throw. * * * The following chapbooks are available from the author at 3308 N. Terry Street, Portland, OR 97217 (please add 39 cents for postage): just a stone's throw, Pinch Book Series, tribe press, edited by vince tripi, $5.00 Poems From Prison, Sunburst Press, $4.00. silent silos: a counterBOMB haiku sequence, sunburst matchbooks, $1.00. Fish Pond Moon, sunburst matchbooks, $1.00. Hitch Haiku, sunburst matchbooks, $1.00. First Snow, a tri-fold, Teahouse Publications, 50 cents. * * * Pencil Flowers: Jail Haiku, Holmganger Press, currently is out of print. |
| Click here to view samples of Johnny's haiku. |