summer rooftop
at sunrise all of us
go silent
Dr. Randy Brooks is Dean of Arts & Sciences at Millikin University where he teaches courses on publishing and the global haiku tradition. He is co-editor of Mayfly and publisher of Brooks Books Haiku. He was introduced to modern Japanese and English-language tanka in 1976 by Dr. Sanford Goldstein and has been writing haiku and tanka ever since. He is the web editor for Modern Haiku and the Haiku Society of America.