Poet Profile

Collin Barber

Born: November 13 1974 in Memphis Tennessee, United States of America

Resides: Marion, Arkansas, United States of America

E-mail: collinbarber (at) gmail (dot) com

Collin is an artist who discovered a love for haiku in 2004. He is married with 3 children and works at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Awards and Other Honors: Featured in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007); Gerald Brady Senryu Awards (2007); Modern Haiku Haiku Award (2008); Modern Haiku Senryu Award (2008); Winner, The Shiki Monthly Kukai (May 2008); Winner, The Shiki Monthly Kukai (August 2009).

Books Published: The Devil is a Child (Yet To Be Named Free Press, 2014).

Selected Work
	rural sky— what other worlds have a Beethoven?	the ant returns after being flicked . . . autumn loneliness

	false spring the homeless man’s gold teeth	morning chill— I move to her side of the argument

	Death Valley: a man who’s never been there tells me all about it	Thanksgiving— holding a bite through the prayer

Credits: "rural sky" - Frogpond 35.3 (Autumn 2012);"false spring" - The Devil is a Child (Yet To Be Named Free Press, 2014); "Death Valley" - The Heron’s Nest 12.1 (March 2010); "the ant returns" - The Heron’s Nest 9.2 (June 2007); "morning chill" - Modern Haiku 38.3 (Autumn 2007); "Thanksgiving" - The Heron’s Nest 11.1 (March 2009).

Collin Barber

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