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The 2011 Haiku Year-in-Review
Writing by Peter Kline, Steve Brightman & Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn
Art by Kara Searcy, Caleb Brown, Jennifer Moses, Kevin Morrow
Broadsided January 1, 2012

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Collaborators' Q&A:

Bsided: How do you think the four art/haiku combinations create a conversation about 2011?
Artist Caleb Brown: The four pieces together showed me an international flavor of human drama, disaster and power. I liked that there was no center—or the whole planet was in the center, in the crosshairs—and I appreciated the way the focus migrated up from individual freedoms to indifferent, crushing, burning, deadly natural forces.
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Meet The Collaborators:

WINTER
Writer Peter Kline's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.

Artist Kara Searcy is a multi-media artist from Iowa. Examples of her work can be found at http://fallstraightback.deviantart.com/. She loves constellations, Jesus, and the word "ricochet."

SPRING
Writer Steve Brightman lives in Kent, Ohio. His poems have been featured in Pudding House, Origami Condom, A Trunk of Delirium and he was included in the Ohio Bicentennial Anthology titled I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems about Ohio.

Artist Caleb Brown is an artist who works on software interfaces. He lives in Groton, MA with his wife, puppy and two tween twins, See more at www.caleb-brown.com.

SUMMER
Writer Peter Kline's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.

Artist Jennifer Moses is a painter living in Boston. She is also a professor of art at the University of New Hampshire. She has exhibited her work throughout New England. More at her website.

FALL
Writer Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn is a recent graduate of the MFA at the University of Arkansas. Her poems have appeared most recently in Unsplendid, Hayden's Ferry Review, and the Sugar House Review.

Artist Kevin Morrow is a native of Wisconsin who received his MFA degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand where he studied in the Contemporary Maori Department (Te Toi Hou). Morrow now lives and works in New York. Images of other work at kpmorrow.viewbook.com/

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12/1/11:
Tile Drainage

story by Christopher Lee Miles
art by Kara Searcy

11/1/11:
Red House, Indiana

story by Renee K Nelson
art by Cheryl Gross

10/1/11:
Searching for Poems on Grief

poem by Lisa Ortiz
art by Kevin Morrow

9/1/11:
Dear Johnny

poem by Angela Veronica Wong
art by Meghan Keane

8/1/11:
Certain, Impossible, Likely

poem by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
art by Se Thut Quon

7/1/11:
Harvest City

poem by Andy Stallings
art by Elizabeth Terhune