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John Brandi’s haiku practice spans four decades, a steadfast companion to his life as a poet, visual artist, and long-standing author of books and broadsides of poetry, travel essays, and haibun. His haiga (haiku paintings) have been exhibited at the New Mexico History Museum, the Roswell Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Public Library. In 2009 he gave the keynote addresses for the Haiku North America Conference in Ottawa, Canada, followed by the Punjabi Haiku Conference in India. In 2017 he received the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for A House By Itself, translations of Masaoka Shiki’s haiku. In 2024 the New Mexico Literary Arts honored Brandi with a Lifetime Achievement Award. His recent books include: The Diamond Other: Mountain Poems (Empty Bowl Press) and A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press).
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