Poet Profile

Bruce H. Feingold

Bruce H. Feingold Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife. He regularly publishes haiku in journals such as Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Mariposa. His haiku have also appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2005, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2020 and 2025. Bruce’s poems reflect his work as a psychotherapist and his passion for family, traveling, hiking, yoga, and Buddhism.
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Awards and Other Honors:

First Place, Hawai’i Education Association (HEA) - Hawai’i Word (2005); Second Place, HEA - Season Word (2003); Third place, HEA Humorous (2004); Honorable Mentions, HEA - Season Word, Hawai’i, and Humorous Categories (1993,1994,1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006); Honorable Mention, the Haiku Poets of Northern California Senryu Contest (2010); First Honorable Mention, Maxi Poem, Bay Area Poets Coalition Annual Contest (1992); Featured Poet in Haiku Headlines (April 2002); First Place, Reader’s Choice Award, Haiku Headlines (1993 and 1995); Third Place, Reader’s Choice Award, Haiku Headlines (1996); haiku appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku (2005, 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2020); Third Prize, 16th International "Kusamakura" Haiku Competition (2011); Shortlist, Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (The Haiku Foundation, 2011); Commended [Innovative], The Haiku Foundation HaikuNow! International Haiku Contest (2012); 4th Place, 8th International Kukai (November 2012); Second Place (tie), Shiki Monthly Kukai [Kigo] (May 2012); First Place, Haiku Poets of Northern California Senryu Contest (2012) haiku selected for fear of dancing: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2013 (Red Moon Press, 2014); haiku from Mariposa selected for the Haiku Poets of Northern California's President Chime Award for 2013; Featured Poet for October, Mann Library's Daily Haiku (2016); haiku republished in old song, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2017, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff; The Betty Drevniok Award First Prize, 2018; UHTS 2017 the Annual Hortensia Anderson Memorial Awards Second Place; Haiku Poet's Northern California Senryu Contest, 2018, Honorable Mention; The Haiku Foundation Monthly Kukai, December, 2020, Honorable Mention; The Haiku Foundation Monthly Kukai, June, 2020, Fourth Prize; The Ninth Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards, 2021 Honorable Mention; The Thirteen Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards 2025 Third Place; Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2021 Haiku Invitational, United States of America Honourable Mention; The Haiku Foundation, Kukai, March, 2022 Second Prize (tie); Second Place in the 2023 Golden Triangle Award; everything with an asterisk won an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America Merit Books Awards for 2023; commendation in the The Seventh Annual H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest, 2023; 2023 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems — Long List; 2023 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems — Short List; 18th Annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, 2023 Honorable Mention; telling the bees, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2024, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff, Red Moon Press, 2025; The Haiku Foundation July, 2026 Monthly Kukai Second Prize.

Books Published: A New Moon (Red Moon Press, 2004); Sunrise on the Lodge (Red Moon Press, 2010); Half the Moon, Half of Me, with Michael McClintock, Naia and Renee Owen, Editor, Susan Dirdidoni (Two Autumns Press, 2012); old enough (Red Moon Press, 2016); arrhythmia (Red Moon Press, 2020); everything with an asterisk (Red Moon Press, 2022); a boy who lived one day (Red Moon Press, 2026).

farewell hike—
windswept emptiness
of Haleakala

haiku dad—
I help my daughter trim
her college essay

snowfall’s silence
my grandson asks
when will I die

fenced garden
a deer nudges against 
the rusted latch

moonless night—
my reclusive neighbor
points out Jupiter

arrhythmia the unraveling of the republic

Credits:

"farewell hike" - First Place, Hawai’i Education Association Twenty-Eighth Annual International Haiku Contest – Hawai’i Word (2005); „snowfall’s silence” – telling the bees, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, eds. Jim Kacian & the Red Moon Editorial Staff, 2025; "moonless night" - Modern Haiku 41:3 (2010; evolution: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2010 (Red Moon Press, 2011); "haiku dad" - Third Place, HEA Twenty-Seventh Annual International Haiku Contest – Humorous (2004); “fenced garden” - Honorable Mention The Ninth Annual Peggy Willis Awards, 2021; “arrhythmia” - Mariposa 37, Autumn/Winter, 2017; re published in old song: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2017, Editors, Jim Kacian and staff, 2018.