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Saturday, December 21, 2024

Indian Summer Haiku

this muscle memory

of my son flying high

Indian summer

Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 11:12 AM

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Labels: autumn, haiku, memory, relationship, selected, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Friday, December 20, 2024

Slow Dance Haiku

a slow dance

in the light of dawn

first snowflakes

Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:53 AM

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Labels: haiku, selected, snow, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Childhood River and Summer Stars Haiku

childhood river

from her cupped hands I taste

summer stars

Selected Haiku, 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:19 AM

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Labels: haiku, relationship, star, summer, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Sunday, October 30, 2022

What-Ifs Haiku

leaf fall ...

these spiralling

what-ifs

Selected Haiku, 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:18 PM

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Labels: haiku, man-nature, selected, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Selected Haiku: Graveyard Visit Haiku

graveyard visit ...
our shadows widened
by silence

Selected Haiku, 2016 Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:53 PM

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Labels: haiku, SH, shadow, silence, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Graveyard Visit Haiku

graveyard visit ...
our shadows widened
by silence

Selected Haiku, 2016 Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:24 AM

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Labels: haiku, selected, shadow, silence, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Rainbow's Edge Haiku

old man and his dog
at the rainbow's end
a burning farm

Selected Haiku, 2016 Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:51 AM

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Labels: disaster, haiku, rainbow, selected, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Footprints Haiku

I used to be ...
footprints
in new snow

Selected Haiku, 7th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum Haiku Collection

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:02 AM

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Labels: haiku, identity, selected, snow, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Almost Spring Haiku

my ear
against her womb ...
almost spring

Selected Haiku, 7th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum Haiku Collection

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:32 AM

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Labels: haiku, selected, spring, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Friday, August 8, 2014

Spider's Web Haiku

tangled thoughts ...
a spider's web
laced with dew

6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
Selected Haiku Submissions Collection, July 2014

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 4:05 PM

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Labels: anthology, haiku, man-nature, selected, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Winter Twilight Haiku

winter twilight...
the scarecrow's shadow
blends with mine

6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
Selected Haiku Submissions Collection, July 2014

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:58 AM

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Labels: anthology, haiku, selected, shadow, winter, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Woodpecker Haiku

a slim woodpecker
scurries about in the bush ...
no haiku for days

Selected Haiku, 5th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Collection, 2013

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:31 AM

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Labels: haiku, selected, writing, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Sakura Haiku

white sakura ...
she squeezes my hand
and sighs

Selected Haiku, 3rdYamadera Basho Memorial Museum, July, 2011

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:48 AM

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Labels: cherry, haiku, relationship, selected, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Shadow Haiku

my shadow and I
beneath the harvest moon
a party for three

Selected Haiku, 3rd Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum, July, 2011

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:02 AM

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Labels: haiku, loneliness, moon, selected, shadow, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

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2 Award-Winning Books
169 Award-Winning Poems
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Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐: Born in Taipei,Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor,and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award.In 2002,he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax,a suburb of Toronto. Featured in New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, and listed as one of the top ten haiku poets for 2011(Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011),Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Contest). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 169 awards,including First Prize Co-Winner, 7th and 8th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012; Tanka First and Third Places, 2011 San Francisco International Competition; Grand Prix, 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest and First Prize Co-Winner, 2010 Haiku International Association Haiku Contest.

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Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems

My book is now available through Lulu.This collection of short poems is filled with themes of immigration, learning English, racialized identity, and a poet’s life struggles.

Following the Moon to the Maple Land

My book (First Prize Winner of the Spring 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) is now available through http://www.haikupix.com/ You are one of the most lyric haikuists in our worldwide haiku family. You have the gift of tugging at our hearts. I can see why so many of your haiku have won awards. -- Neal Whitman, renowned American poet

Ripples from a Splash

My book is now available through www.lulu.com [Liu's] haiku resonates the Asian spirit, and makes use of aesthetics in a continuum of time that is permanent and impermanent; the process more important than the subjective specificity of object bias found in most Anglo-Western haiku like poems. His poetry demand to be interpreted by the informed reader. They do not tell all, are not based on an “aha” moment, and have no definitive ending. More importantly they give meaning and voice to the unsaid, the magic inherent in Japanese poetry. -- Poetry Review by Robert D. Wilson, Editor-in-chief of Simply Haiku.

A New Resonance 7

A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts. I'm featured in this anthology and have 15 haiku included in it. This is the seventh volume in a series that has won the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award in each of its first six appearances.

Poetry in the Moment

Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Indian Summer Haiku

Friday, December 20, 2024

Slow Dance Haiku

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Childhood River and Summer Stars Haiku

Sunday, October 30, 2022

What-Ifs Haiku

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Selected Haiku: Graveyard Visit Haiku

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Graveyard Visit Haiku

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Rainbow's Edge Haiku

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Footprints Haiku

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Almost Spring Haiku

Friday, August 8, 2014

Spider's Web Haiku

Winter Twilight Haiku

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Woodpecker Haiku

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Sakura Haiku

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Shadow Haiku

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Selected Works of Chen-ou Liu

About the Poet

Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems

Following the Moon to the Maple Land

Ripples from a Splash

A New Resonance 7

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