Dr. Randy Brooks is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University where he teaches courses on haiku, tanka, and Japanese poetics. In 2022 he retired at the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of Mayfly haiku magazine. Randy is on the Executive Committee of the HSA as the Electronic Media Officer. He maintains the HSA website and edits the web sampler issues of Frogpond. He serves as the webmaster for Modern Haiku Press and as web editor of Modern Haiku magazine. He is on the board for the American Haiku Archives. He also serves on the editorial board for the Red Moon Press Haiku Anthologies and was an editorial board member for Juxtaposition: The Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship. His most recent books include Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka and The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach.
Bibliography
Haiku & Tanka Books by Randy Brooks:
The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach. Brooks Books, (Taylorville, IL), 2019.
Walking the Fence: The Selected Tanka of Randy Brooks. Brooks Books, (Taylorville, IL), 2019.
Broadside. Haiku With Legs. Brooks Books, (Taylorville, IL), 2015.
Common Time: Photo-Haiga. Limited edition of photography by Priscilla Meddaugh and haiku by Randy Brooks, Blue Connections Studio. (Decatur, IL), 2008.
Unmasking Us: Photo-Haiga. Limited collector’s chapbook gift edition with photography by Priscilla Meddaugh and haiku by Randy Brooks, Blue Connections Studio. (Decatur, IL), 2007.
School’s Out: Selected Haiku of Randy Brooks, Press Here, (Foster City, CA), 1999.
Broadside. Crows Talking Crow, Press Here, (Foster City, CA), 1999.
The Homestead Cedars, The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Chapbook Competition, (Normal, Illinois: Saki Press), 1999.
In Her Blue Eyes: Jessica Poems (Decatur, Illinois: Brooks Books), 1998.
Online Book. Black Ant’s Journey to Japan: A Modern Tanka Journal (Gualala, CA: AHA Online Books), 1998.
The Collected Haiku of Randy Brooks, Boston Macintosh Users Group CD, Volume 2, Discovery Systems, (Dublin, Ohio), 1990.
Me Too! High/Coo Press, (Battle Ground, Indiana), 1985
The Last Quarter Mile, Grey Whale Press, (Florence, Oregon), 1981
Barbwire Holds Its Ground, High/Coo Press, (Battle Ground, Indiana), 1981
The Rosebud Bursts, High/Coo Press, (Battle Ground, Indiana), 1979
Where Will Mockingbird Nest? Juniper Press, (LaCrosse, Wisconsin), 1977