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.

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                                                                 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: 2,101 in about 7,312 different 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 (6 for children, such as Time Is Flies); as editor, 4; as consulting editor, 1
 
Non-Poetry Books:  Children's fiction, 7, psychology, 2

Periodical Publications: Poetry in 777; articles on poetry in 98 (for instance, as a former columnist for Simply Haiku); articles on psychology in 17 (e.g., Poetic Innovation in
L.V. Shavinina (ed.) The International Handbook on Innovation. Oxford: Pergamon, 471-484.

 http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/666198/description#description


Anthology Inclusions:  Poetry, 167;  Fiction,  2;  Psychology, 1 (Poetic Innovation)

Gallery Shows Visual Poetry: 5 (e.g.,Visualog 3)

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

Computer  Game: 12 poems in Haiku Journey  

Writing Awards: 90, the latest being: The Scorpion Prize #19 (2010), Roadrunner, Issue X:1 (judged by
 Marjorie Perloff) & Winner of the Kusamakura Grand Prize, 2011

Number of languages into which work has been translated: 21 (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.

Writerly Positions: Editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, 1Jan08 to 15Feb12 (for a complete list, see Editing/Judging/Admin) 

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