Publicity Announcement

Photography and Haiku Online

Michael Welch now has a collection of his photography available online, called “Open Window.” Each photograph is paired with a haiku poem. Michael is a past vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and cofounder of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento. He is also editor of Tundra, a journal for short poetry, and is a senior editor at IDG Books Worldwide (publisher of the “For Dummies” books), where he has edited the Digital Photography Bible, Photoshop and Illustrator Synergy Studio Secrets, and other photography- and Photoshop-related titles. His poetry has been published in dozens of magazines and books in several languages and countries. His haiku have been anthologized in Contemporary Haiku (Acorn Press, 2000), Global Haiku: Twenty-five Poets Worldwide (Iron Press, 2000), The Haiku Anthology (Norton, 1999), Haïku sans frontières: Une anthologie mondiale Les Éditions David, 1998), Haiku World (Kodansha, 1996), Haiku Moment (Tuttle, 1993), and numerous other books. You can visit “Open Window” online at http://www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks/ [now changed to https://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/welch/]. Click the Online Haiku Collections button to get to the start of the collection. The photographs, mostly taken on the west coast of the United States and Canada, open a window—along with the accompanying haiku—to the amazing world around us.