Poet Profile

Dave Russo

Dave Russo organizes events for the North Carolina Haiku Society and is the web administrator for that organization and for The Haiku Foundation, where he also serves as a member of the board of directors. His haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, and many other journals and anthologies.

Awards and Other Honors: Dave's work is included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013) and in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007).

wind shift
a clanking bulldozer
and one spring peeper

sun in the bones
of a darting minnow
my cell phone rings

sawdust and piss
a Siberian tiger
stares at the baby

roasting a rattlesnake we talk about girls

dirt road moon
frogs we gigged
heavy in the bag

early morning snow
the janitor shaves
at a barbershop sink

Credits: "wind shift" - Editor's Choice, The Heron's Nest 4:6 (2002); "sawdust and piss" - Raw NerVZ 9:3 (2004); "dirt road moon" - Simply Haiku 4:4 (2006); big sky: The Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku 2006 (Red Moon Press, 2007); Modern Haiku 39:1 (2008); A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007); "sun in the bones" - Frogpond 25:2 (2002), 10; Haiku Journey (Hot Lava, 2006)]; A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013) "roasting" - A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007); "early morning snow" - The Heron's Nest 6:1 (2004).