George Swede





After studying creative writing at Toronto's Three Schools of Art, I published my first poem in 1968. The following links give different perspectives on my publications in poetry, fiction and non-fiction: Millikin University Haiku Writer Profiles, The Writers' Union of Canada, League of Canadian Poets, Terebess Asia Online, Wikipedia, The Haiku Foundation. For more details, go to these search engines: Clusty (it clusters the results), Google, Bing or Yahoo. For hard copy data, see Canadian Who's Who, Poets & Writers, Contemporary Authors or Dictionary of Int'l Biography.

                                 Writing/Publishing   Reviews/Translations    The Haiku    Beyond the Haiku    Experimental Poetry    Longer Poems   
                                                              Rhyme &Reason
    Children's Wrtiting     Published Books
   Influences   Editing/Judging/Admin
                                                   


  
                                             Writing/Publishing
  Reviews/Translations   The Haiku   Beyond the Haiku     Experimental Poetry    Longer Poetry   
                                             Rhyme & Reason     Children's Writing       Published Books   Influences  Editing/Judging/Admin

Published Poems: 2, 016 in about 7, 250 places, including collections (such as Almost Unseen,
First Light, First Shadows) and anthologies (such as The Haiku Anthology and The Tanka Anthology), literary periodicals (such as Canadian Literature and Simply Haiku), academic journals (such as Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Wilson Quarterly), newspapers (including Globe and Mail, London Times, New York Times, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Washington Post), radio (including BBC, CBC, NHK, PBS, RTE) and TV (including CBC, CTV, NHK).

Haiku Books:
Collections, 20; as editor, 3 (the latest being Global Haiku); as critic, 1; as consulting editor, 8

Other Books of Poetry: Collections: 13 (such as one for children, Time Is Flies); as editor, 4; as consulting editor, 1
 
Non-Poetry Books:  Children's fiction, 7, psychology, 2

Periodical Publications: Poetry in 742; articles on poetry in 92 (for instance, as a former columnist for Simply Haiku); articles on psychology in 17

Anthology Inclusions:  Poetry, 155;  Fiction,  2;  Psychology, 1 (Poetic Innovation)

Gallery Shows Visual Poetry: 5 (e.g.,Visualog 3);  Other: 1 (3LIGHTS)

Haiga: 15:
for instance, 3 via collaborations with Jonathan Aitken in Simply Haiku

Computer  Game: 12 poems in Haiku Journey  

Writing Awards: 88, the latest being The Scorpion Prize #19, Roadrunner, Issue X:1 and judged by Marjorie Perloff

Number of languages into which work has been translated: 20 (click on Reviews/Translations)
   
Most Recent Collections
:  Joy In Me Still (haiku) and White Thoughts, Blue Mind (tanka). Both were published by Inkling Press, May 2010. For more information, go to GeorgeSwede.com

Current Writerly Position: Editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America