Poet Profile

Diane Alleva Cáceres

Diane Alleva Cáceres lives in Smyrna, Georgia. She writes haiku, haibun, and tanka and is inspired by the works of Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Jane Reichhold, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, and Emily Dickinson. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America. She teaches and researches topics related to innovation in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Awards and Other Honors:

Haiku Society of America Southeast Chapter monthly Kukai Contest Winner, December 2021.

Books Published:

North Star quivering, self-published, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2021.

winter evening
a child discovers carrots
in hardened earth

summer moon 
waves sift sand
from shells

July storm
blue gray clouds
clutch a seagull

what remains
of the worn pine tree
smoldering moon

fresh rain
the pea green pinecones
brighten

wood dust
the carpenter bee shapes
a flawless circle

Credits:

"winter evening" – The Blo͞o Outlier Journal Winter Issue, 2020; “summer moon”; “July storm”; “what remains”; “fresh rain” and “wood dust” – North Star quivering, self-published, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2021.