![]() H. F. Noyes1918 - 2010
Born and raised in Oregon, H.F. "Tom" Noyes was a poet, editor,
commentator, and psychotherapist. He served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II as an ordnanceman and torpedoman, and then as an ensign
in the Scouts and Raiders (U.S. Marines). In an autobiographical
note, he wrote, "While in Service I read widely in psychology and
psychoanalysis and also discovered an affinity for poetry. About a
dozen of my poems were published." He attended Yale and Columbia,
obtaining a doctorate in counseling, as well as training in Gestalt
therapy and Jungian psychoanalysis. He practiced psychotherapy in
New York City for 25 years, retiring in 1970 to live the simple life
in Politia, outside Athens, Greece. He spent his summers
"vagabonding on the islands of the Aegean Sea." Awards and Other Honors: Some of his awards and other honors include: Appointment as 2007–2008 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento; Honorable Mention, The Haiku Society of America's Harold G. Henderson Award (1987); Presented with the Sora Award by the Haiku Society of America (2004). Books Published: Star carvings: poems of nature, love and human-heartedness and verse in the haiku style (London: Parkway Creative Communications, LTD., 1983); My rain, my moon: poetry of nature, love, and wartime and verse in the haiku style (London: Parkway Creative Communications, LTD., 1984); The blossoming rudder : haiku, senryu, koans, pithy sayings [1984-87] (London: Parkway Creative Communication Ltd., 1987); Just floating here: haiku & related forms (privately printed, 1992); Oar under water : the poetic sayings of H.F. Noyes [Compiled and edited by Vincent Tripi] (San Francisco, CA: Cart Horse Press, 1992); The Moment’s Gift: Haiku translated into Chinese (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 1993); Between two waves/Între doua valuri [Foreword by Elizabeth St. Jacques; introduction by Ebba Story; translated by Mihaela & Ion Codrescu. Cover and drawings Ion Codrescu] (Constanta: Editura Leda Publishing House, 1996); Favorite Haiku, Volume 1 (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 1998); Favorite Haiku, Volume 2 (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 1999); Favorite Haiku, Volume 3 (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2000); Poetic Reflections: Facets on the Diamond Path (Englewood, CO: Alameda Press, 2000); The Scrolls of Attikis and Ithaca [edited by Ken Roberts. Englewood, CO] (Alameda Press, 2000. CD edition); Favorite Haiku, Volume 4 (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2001); Favorite Haiku, Volume 5 (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2002); Still here: collected haiku and senryu (Northfield, MA: Swamp Press, 2002); raking aside leaves: a posthumous collection of the haiku of H. F. Noyes [postscript series volume 18] (Red Moon Press, 2011).
Credits: "face turned up" - Woodnotes 17 (1993); Mariposa 16 (2007); "mountain cedar" - South by Southeast 12:2 (2005); "how little is sure" - Haiku Moment Contest 1998 II-1 Prize (International); "spiral nebulae" - Frogpond 24:3 (2001); raking aside leaves: a posthumous collection of the haiku of H. F. Noyes [postscript series volume 18] (Red Moon Press, 2011); "clouds clear off" - Haiku International Anthology in a slightly different version [edited by Zoe Savina] (Athens: 2002); Mariposa 17 (2007); "raking aside leaves" - Woodnotes 8 (1991); Noyes, Between the Waves (1996); The Red Moon Anthology 1996 (Red Moon Press, 1997); Haïku sans frontières (Web); Knots: The Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry [Editors, Jim Kacian and Dimitar Anakiev] (Prijatelj Haiku Press, 2001); World Haiku Association Web site (October 2002); Mainichi Daily News Haiku in English 653 (November 1, 2003); raking aside leaves: a posthumous collection of the haiku of H. F. Noyes [postscript series volume 18] (Red Moon Press, 2011); "full moon" - Honorable Mention, The Haiku Society of America's Harold G. Henderson Award (1987); Frogpond 10:4 (1987); A Haiku Path: The Haiku Society of America, 1968-1988 (Haiku Society of America, 1994); "homeless beggar" - Modern Haiku 27:1 (1996); The Red Moon Anthology 1996 (Red Moon Press, 1997); "deepening autumn" - Woodnotes 22 (1994); Woodnotes 30 (1996); The Red Moon Anthology 1996 (Red Moon Press, 1997); Noyes, Between Two Waves/Între doua valuri [Foreword by Elizabeth St. Jacques; introduction by Ebba Story; translated by Mihaela & Ion Codrescu; Cover and drawings Ion Codrescu] (Constanta: Editura Leda Publishing House, 1996); South by Southeast 4:2 [review] (1997); "the geese fly off" - Parnassus Literary Journal (Fall 1988); Oar under water : the poetic sayings of H.F. Noyes [Compiled and edited by Vincent Tripi] (San Francisco, CA: Cart Horse Press, 1992) [variation]; New Cicada 10:1 [review] (1993); World Haiku Association Web site (October 2002); Still here: collected haiku and senryu (Northfield, MA: Swamp Press, 2002). Sources Biography: The Haiku Foundation is grateful to the following sources providing information regarding H.F. Noyes and his work: The American Haiku Archives; raking aside leaves: a posthumous collection of the haiku of H. F. Noyes [postscript series volume 18] (Red Moon Press, 2011); Charles Trumbull, for assistance in gathering representative haiku and publication credits. |