Sitting in the Sun Contributors

The following 94 poets have poems included in Sitting in the Sun, the 2019 Haiku North America conference anthology (Sammamish, Washington, Press Here, 2019), edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Crystal Simone Smith. This conference took place in August of 2019 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. See the Press Here page for this book. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems, and order the book from Amazon.

Elaine Parker Adams

Kelly Sauvage Angel

Susan Antolin

Fay Aoyagi

Donna Beaver

Brad Bennett

Henry Brann

Randy Brooks

Shirley Brooks

Susan Burch

Claire Vogel Camargo

Erin Castaldi

L. Teresa Church

Marcyn Del Clements

Bill Cooper

Pamela Cooper

Jerome Cushman

Bill Deegan

Susan Farner

Valerie Fern

Robert Forsythe

Terri L. French

Jay Friedenberg

Shinko Fushimi

Joshua Gage

Garry Gay

Richard Gilbert

Scott Glander

Brent Goodman

Lee Gurga

Johnnie Johnson Hafernik

Jennifer Hambrick


Penny Harter

Tia Haynes

Cynthia Henderson

Jeff Hoagland

Frank Hooven

Gary Hotham

Jim Kacian

Marti Keller

Julie Bloss Kelsey

Mary Kendall

Bill Kenney

Craig Kittner

Deborah P Kolodji

Jill Lange

David G. Lanoue

Cyndi Lloyd

Janis Albright Lukstein

Patricia J. Machmiller

Kate MacQueen

Scott Mason

Tanya McDonald

Joe McKeon

Sheila Smith McKoy

Sarah E. Metzler

Lori A. Minor

Lenard D. Moore

Robert Moyer

Jen Murdock

Makoto Nakanishi

Suzanne Niedzielska

Patti Niehoff

David Oates

Kathe L. Palka

Robin Palley

Alan Pizzarelli

Sandi Pray

Kala Ramesh

Mike Rehling

Bryan Rickert

Alexis Rotella

Dave Russo

Bona M. Santos

Agnes Eva Savich

Dan Schwerin

Kelly Shaw

Charlie Smith

Crystal Simone Smith

M. H. Spicknall

John Stevenson

Johnye Strickland

Cherri Sutphin

Kay Tashner

Mary Teslow

Charles Trumbull

Julie Warther

Lew Watts

Michael Dylan Welch

Christine Wenk-Harrison

Jamie Wimberly

Ruth Yarrow

Sharon Lynne Yee

Gideon Young