Poet Profile

Mike Andrelczyk

Mike Andrelczyk is currently living in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife Stacey. He has also lived in Los Angeles, California, and Lewes, Delaware. His haiku and haibun have appeared in several collections, anthologies, journals, and other publications. He likes writing haiku about the ocean, potatoes, moons, plants - mostly little things except the ocean which is huge, and the moon which looks little but isn't. He can be found on Twitter @MikeAndrelczyk

Awards and Other Honors: A featured poet in A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2013); work selected for Contemporary Haibun Volume 14 (Red Moon Press, 2013); Haiku 2014 (Modern Haiku Press, 2014); and Haiku 2015 (Modern Haiku Press, 2015).

Twilight
the old fisherman
fixes his line

Lightning - 
at this moment 
I have no age

echolocation the purple sounds crossing the bridge

the mint leaves
have dried, the ghost
who wrote this

little fishes swim
between the printing presses
under the river

In the fridge
a lone bottle of white milk
the potato and light

Credits: "Twilight" - Acorn 22 (2009); "echolocation" - Roadrunner 9:2 (2009); A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2013); "little fishes swim" - A Hundred Gourds 2.2 (2013); A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2013); "Lightning" - Simply Haiku 7:3 (2009); A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2013); "the mint leaves" - Roadrunner 12.2 (2012); "In the fridge" - Modern Haiku 46:1 (2015).