Poet Profile

Agus Maulana Sunjaya

Agus Maulana Sunjaya resides in Tangerang, Indonesia. He is an experienced math and physics teacher and has been writing English-language haiku for four years.
Agus' work has appeared in Wales Haiku Journal, Akitsu Quarterly, Prune Juice, Frogpond, Chrysanthemum, Under the Basho, The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Haikuist Network), The Mainichi, Failed Haiku, The Bamboo Hut, Presence, Frameless Sky, Stardust Haiku and in other notable journals.

Awards and Other Honors:

Commendation: The 8th Polish International Haiku Competition 2018 (PIHC); Honorable Mention: Little IRIS haiku contest 2018; Third Prize: The Ninth Edition of the Haiku Contest Sharpening The Green Pencil; Honorable Mention: The 24th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2020.

Books Published:

Anthologies: Barking Mad - editor: Corine Timmer; Bicadeideias, Portugal (2018); Wind Flowers: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2019 - editor: Jim Kacian; Red Moon Press, USA (2019); All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku - editor: Robert Epstein; Middle Island Press, USA (2019); Rattled - editor: Corine Timmer, Bicadeideias, Portugal (2020).

fading light . . .
alone with the cry
of a cicada

sound of adhan
over the city limit
a yellow butterfly

hunger moon
the long shadow
of this world

bitter wind
a refugee kid
feeds the crows

billowing clouds 
under a blooming water lily
a koi

mother’s tombstone
emerges from the fallen leaves
a cicada

Credits:

“fading light“ - Honorable Mention: the 8th Polish International Haiku Competition (PIHC) 2018; “sound of adhan” - Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2020; “hunger moon” - Third Prize: The Ninth Edition of the Haiku Contest Sharpening The Green Pencil 2020; “bitter wind” - The Mainichi, Jan. 14, 2019; “billowing clouds“ - Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2018; “mother’s tombstone” - Honorable Mention: The 24th Mainichi Haiku Contest, 2020.