Beautiful and ambitious....Rooted in the rich haiku tradition and giving us an international sense of place.--Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate

Six global partners in distant regions create poetry that is immediate, intimate, and modern, in an ancient poetic form. While exploring the richness of seasons, the book metaphorically visits incidents such as the Arab Spring, climate change, and urban violence. With Catherine Aubelle (France), Flor Aguilera Garcia (Mexico), Gabriele Glang (Germany), and Kae Morii (Japan).

What have we humans
done? Tremors shake, roil coastlands.
Irene roars ashore.

Joyce Brinkman, Indiana Poet Laureate 2002-08, is a proponent of poetry as public art.

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Virginia Poet Laureate 2006-08, is the author of six books of poetry.

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda: Carolyn was Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2006-2008. She is the author of six books of poetry and coeditor of two anthologies. She has received five grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and numerous awards, including an Edgar Allan Poe first-place award. An accomplished visual artist, she teaches art-inspired poetry workshops for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Kae Morii: Kae is active in the international poetry world; she has published many books of poetry, and her poems appear in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies around the world. She has attended many international poetry festivals and won numerous awards. She is a member of JPC, WAAC, WPS, IWA, GHA and Ambassador of Poetas del mundo.

Gabriele Glang: Gabriele Glang, poet and painter, is associate professor of creative writing, University of Esslingen, Germany. She received her degrees in writing in the US and worked in the publishing industry for many years. She has exhibited her paintings in the US, Germany, France and Poland. She has published three books of poetry and her work appears in many anthologies.

Flor Aguilera García: Flor Aguilera García is the author of four books of poetry, several novels including Diary of an Oyster and The Past Is a Strange Country, and a book of short stories for children. She has participated in several International Poetry Festivals: Trois Rivières, Cartagena, Bucharest and as International guest in the Poet Laureates of America gathering in Indianapolis in 2007.

Catherine Aubelle: Catherine Aubelle, artist and writer, has worked as an animated film producer in London and Paris and a freelance illustrator and writer in France. She spends long periods of time in Africa. Her writing has been classified as short poetic stories. She teaches creative writing in public schools, libraries, and other places, and shows her artwork throughout Europe.