an'ya

An acclaimed and internationally published tanka & haiku poet, whose haigo (haiku nom de plume) loosely translates to 'a peaceful light in the moonless night', lives in Oregon, USA.

an'ya shares her feelings about poetry: "my thoughts are rather old-fashioned and traditional, insofar as I believe that all poetry should have "beauty of thought," however that statement means something specific and is achieved differently for each poetic form. In the sonnet, the subject of "love" gives it "beauty of thought" for long epic poetry, it's usually the sadness and/or the story being told, in a "pattern poem", it's the way he words make that pattern, and so forth. Albeit for me, the "realness" of nature in haiku, is the "beauty of thought " in tanka, it's the emotion. Before coming to write haiku and then tanka, I wrote almost every kind of poetry there was, but none of them provided for me, what the Japanese forms do. Some people do not take to the discipline of writing within a set format, but being a Virgo, this restriction is a challenge and a joy to me. I write these type poems as a way of purification, though not for perfection since the inanity of the word is that "perfection" can not exist, since it can not be absolute and is always debatable, following the bent of differing tastes or the application of doctrines. Haiku is not a way of creating poetry as the feeling that gives impulse toward beauty of thought, rather just simply awakening this beauty as it dwells naturally within all sentient souls."- an'ya ~

She has been bestowed numerous top world-class awards and honours for her haiku poetry, as well as other verse forms, not only throughout the United States, but in Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, India, the UK, Brazil, France, Greece, Belguim, the Netherlands, and the Balkans. an'ya's latest books out are entitled "moon moths Volume I haiku and "moon moths" Volume I tanka.

She is past editor of haigaonline, past-director of the World Haiku Club Beginners, and currently Editor for the Tanka Society of America and its journal,
/Ribbons/, plus her own haiku and tanka journal, /moonset/. An'ya is
also founder of the Oregon haiku and Tanka Society.

Go have a look at this publication: "Moonset."

See more of her artwork ~