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Positions in the Writing World
(as administrator, columnist, editor, founder, impressario, judge)
2008 - Editor, Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America
2008 - 2009: Honorary Curator, American Haiku Archives, California State Library, Sacramento
2007: Judge (with Carmen Sterba), Harold G. Henderson Haiku Awards, Haiku Society of America
2005 - 2008: Columnist, Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry
2004: Judge (for haiku), The 2004 San Francisco International
Haiku, Senryu
and Tanka Contest, HPNC
2002: Judge, The Betty Drevniok Awards, Haiku Canada
2002;
Judge (with two others), Seasons Nature Poetry Contest,
Federation of Ontario Naturalists
2002: Judge (with eight others), R.H. Blyth Award, World
Haiku Club
2002: Judge
(with five others) of the First World Haiku Tournament,
World Haiku Club
2000 - 2008: Member of the Editorial Staff, Red Moon Press
1997 - 2000: Editor (with Randy Brooks), Global Haiku: Twenty-five Poets World-wide (Mosaic Press/Iron
Press, 2000)
1998: Judge (with one other) International People's Haiku Contest, People's Poetry Letter
1996 - 1997: Board Member, Access Copyright (formerly Cancopy)
1996: Judge, Museum of Haiku Literature Award, British Haiku
Society
1993 - 1996: Chair, Membership Committee, The Writers' Union of Canada
1996 - 1997; Judge, Tanka Splendor 1997 (AHA Books, 1997)
1995: Guest Editor, Iron, Issue 76 (U.K.)
1992 - 1993: Editor, There Will Always Be A Sky (Houghton Mifflin/Nelson Canada, 1993)
1992 - 1993: Treasurer, The Writers' Union of Canada
1991 - 1992: Judge, Markham Public Libraries Fall Poetry Contest (for Ontario adolescents, 14 to 18)
1991 - 1992: Judge, Mirrors International Tanka Awards (Tanka Splendor, AHA Books, 1992)
1990 - 1991: Member, Membership Committee, The Writers' Union of Canada
1990: Judge (with 14 others), Japan Air Lines
World Children's Haiku Contest (held in Japan with the
finals at the Osaka
World's Fair)
1989 - 1990: Editor, The Universe Is One Poem (Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1990)
1989: Judge (with three others), Henderson Haiku Awards, Haiku Society
of America
1988: Guest Editor, Brussels Sprout, 5:2 (U.S.)
1987: Judge
(with one other), Japan Air Lines Haiku Contest for B.C. Schoolchildren
1986 - 1990: Poetry Editor, Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly
1985 - 1986: Poetry Reviews Editor, Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly
1983 - 1984: Second Vice-President, Canadian Society of Childrens' Authors, Illustrators and Performers
1983 - 1984: Member, External Affairs Committee, The Writers' Union of Canada
1982 - 1985: Children's Book Review Editor, Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly
1982 - 1983: Editor, Cicada Voices: Selected Haiku of Eric Amann (High/Coo Press, 1983)
1981 - 1983: Treasurer, Canadian Society of Childrens' Authors, Illustrators and Performers
1980 - 1981: Poetry Editor, Poetry Toronto
1978 - 1979: Editor, Canadian Haiku Anthology (Three Trees Press, 1979)
1977: Co-Founder, Haiku Canada (with Eric Amann & Betty
Drevniok)
1970: Impresario, "Scream-in to Celebrate the First Day of
Spring," Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, March 21
1970:
Impresario (with several others), "Yestoday," Town Hall, St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, Toronto, March 4
1969 - 1970: Member, Poetry Advisory Committee, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto
1969 - 1970: Director, Poetry and Things, (each Saturday
night two poets and a musician performed in Aiko Suzuki's
artist's studio at
Yonge and Bloor, the
quintessential heart of downtown Toronto (see "Rhyme & Reason" on
this site)
1969
- 1970:
Impressario, "Scream-in to Celebrate the First Day of Spring." Nathan
Phillips Square, Toronto, March 21 (see
"Experimental Poetry" on this site)
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