From Montage

The following poems all appeared in Montage: The Book, edited by Allan Burns (Winchester, Virginia: The Haiku Foundation, 2010), after previously appearing together on the Haiku Foundation’s Montage webpage on 13 December 2009. My poems appeared with poems by Randy Brooks and David Cobb in a set referred to as “Halcyon Days” (view PDF file). Editor Allan Burns introduced this collection by saying that “Our featured poets approach this broad, loose theme in a variety of ways, engaging all the senses and evoking idyllic instances of lost time,” and says “Michael Dylan Welch, a prolific haikuist named after Dylan Thomas, founded Press Here and the journal Tundra and coined the immortal term ‘déjà-ku.’” The first three poems previously appeared in The Haiku Anthology, edited by Cor van den Heuvel (Norton, 1999, third edition), and in other publications. The remaining poems first appeared in The Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku.