Elizabeth Searle Lamb ( born Elizabeth Searle Lamb ; January 22, 1917 - February 17, 2005 ) is an American poet, "the first lady of an American haiku ."
She graduated from Kansas University as a harpist and musicologist. She started haiku poetry since 1961. In 1971 she was president of the American Haiku Society, from 1984 - 1990 . Editor-in-chief of the Frog Pond magazine, one of the major haiku publications in the United States . The winner and laureate of many haiku contests, including the most prestigious - first of all, the Harold Henderson Prize ( 1978 ). Lam also owns the review History of Western Haiku ( A History of Western Haiku , 1979 ).
Proceedings
- In this blaze of sun (From Here Press, 1975 )
- Picasso's “Bust of Sylvette”: Haiku and photographs (Garlinghouse Printers, 1977 )
- 39 blossoms (High / Coo Press, 1982 )
- Casting into a cloud: Southwest haiku (From Here Press, 1985 )
- Lines for my mother, dying (Wind Chimes Press, 1988 )
- Ripples spreading out: Poems for Bruce and others (Tiny Press Poems, 1997 )
- Across the windharp: Collected & new haiku (La Alameda Press, 1999 )