Poet Profile

Alice Frampton

From saddle shoes to granny boots . . . what else can I say except, I'm still smiling!

Awards and Other Honors: Featured in A New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2001); Winner for March, Snapshot Calendar Contest (2004); Honorable Mention, Harold G. Henderson Award for Haiku (Haiku Society of America, 2006); Honorable Mention, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Invitational (2006 and 2008); First Place (with Michael Dylan Welch), Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest (2009); and several poems were selected for inclusion in various editions of Red Moon Anthology "best of year" series.

Books Published: a gate left open (Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, 2009)

spring memorial
the dampness
in a handfull of soil

rock throwing
our circles
about to meet

birdsong -
morning round
of medicine

moving day
warm rain
on cardboard

thunderclap -
on the billboard the word "big"
big

dusting of snow
all the lights on
in the daycare

Credits: "spring memorial" - Frogpond 26:3 (2003); "birdsong" - Frogpond 26:2 (2003); "thunderclap" - Frogpond 24:3 (2001); "rock throwing" - Frogpond 27:1 (2004); "moving day" - The Heron's Nest IV:7 (2002); "dusting of snow" - The Heron's Nest VII:1 (2005)