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Michael Dylan Welch
“Michael Dylan Welch is the Billy Collins of haiku.” —David Navarro, Arizona State Poetry Society Michael Dylan Welch is passionate about poetry, especially haiku, which he has been writing since 1976 and teaching since about 1990, including being an adjunct poetry professor for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA program in writing. He has won first place in numerous poetry contests, and has had his haiku, senryu, tanka, and longer poetry published in at least twenty-three languages in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including three Norton anthologies and publications such as Acorn, Alsop Review, Amelia, Atlantic Monthly, Bacopa Literary Review, Cascade, City Arts, Clover: A Literary Rag, Fan, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, HQ, Hummingbird, Kyoto Journal, Line Zero, Mainichi Daily News, Matrix, Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Mosaic, One Art, Persimmon, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Nippon, Poet’s Market, Pointed Circle, Portlandia Review of Books, Rattle, Raven Chronicles, Right Hand Pointing, Rivet, Sand Hill Review, Seattle Weekly, StringTown, The View from Here, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Writer’s Digest. His poetry, translations, and interviews have also been broadcast on Blog Talk Radio, CBC, CFRO, NHK World Radio, Radio Japan, KGO, KJZZ, KKUP, KPRG, KPTZ, KPXA, KRBC, KSER, KTAH, KUSP, WBEZ Chicago, WC-TV (Tennessee), WFDD, WUGA, and other radio stations, many of which are NPR affiliates. Michael edited the quarterly haiku journal Woodnotes from 1989 to 1997, and later edited Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem. He currently coedits First Frost, and serves as haiku editor for Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Michael is a contributing editor to Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, and is a founding associate of The Haiku Foundation. In 2003 and 2004, he was a volunteer editor for the Poets Against the War site, and in 2004 he founded and directed the Poets in the Park conference, which he directed again in 2005, and from 2014 to 2019.Browse all performers
