Poet Profile

Margherita Petriccione

Margherita Petriccione is a retired math teacher born in Scauri, a seaside village from which she has drawn inspiration for many of her poems, as from her tiny garden where she finds serenity and communion with nature. She felled in love with haiku at first sight and found in it the poetic form closest to her sensibility.
She publishes her haiku in on-line and in print magazines - The Mainichi, The Asahi Shimbun, hedgerow, Under the Basho, The Haiku Foundation workshops and events, Incense Dreams,The Mamba, Cattails, Stardust Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, Otata, Failed Haiku, Haikuniverse and others.

Awards and Other Honors: 1st place MHP Academy “quickie writing challenge” dedicated to D-Day, June, 2018; Honorable mention Premio Letterario Internazionale Matsuo Bashō 2016; The Mainichi Haiku in English Best of 2017; Haiku of Merit (Neo-classical Haiku) World Haiku Review, 10th Anniversary Issue, March 2018.

Books Published: Ephemerae - Vol. 1.A, April 2018 ed. Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy; Skylark tanka Journal - Vol. 6, Issue 1, Summer 2018; Haiku Anthology Vol.1 and Vol.2 (2017), Vol.3 (2018) – Haiku University, ed. Saku publishing Co. Ltd.; Giro di Parole – Anthology of the national poetry prize “Il Bicicletterario” 4th ed. 2018.

old man in the sun―
the green tomatoes
facing south

old love movie―
the light of summer woods
in my mother’s eyes

school holiday―
the larks
are singing in flight

unsaid words―
the strength of the spade
in the ground

a scarp
and a poppy field―
choreography of the wind

morning moon―
the worn texture
of a sock

Credits: “old man in the sun” – The Asahi Shimbun May 19, 2017; “old love movie” – Cattails October 2017; “school holiday” – The Mainichi June 30, 2018; “unsaid words” – The Mainichi Nov. 22, 2017; “a scarp” – The Mainichi July 25, 2017; “morning moon” – The Asahi Shimbun June 29, 2018.