Hortensia Anderson

June 24, 19??  -  May 21, 2012

Hortensia Anderson is the author of numerous chapbooks as well as a volume of poetry, Trust (fly-by night press, 1995).  She maintained an interest in renga and other forms of collaborative poetry with other poets around the world and explored paintings by Frido Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe via ekphrastic poems.

In her words:
"My creative interest lies in the opportunities for collaborative poetry projects on the internet.  I have been able to work with poets from Europe, Australia, Asia, and from coast to coast in the US.  I currently reside in nyc and on the world wide web."
and
"[Frida Kahlo's] art speaks to me both as a poet and as one living with the most faithful of companions - Pain.  As Kahlo demonstrates so vividly, Pain keeps us on the razor's edge between desperation and inspiration."

Some of her writings may be read on her following blogs:- 
http://hortensiaanderson.blogspot.com
http://hortensiaanderson-ekphrasis-1.blogspot.com
http://hortensiaanderson-ekphrasis-2.blogspot.com

Her work has been published in Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Ribbons, Simply Haiku, The Mainichi Daily News, Asahi Haikuist Network, tinywords, Lynx, Haijinx, Hermitage, Woodnotes, South by Southeast, Modern English Tanka Quarterly, Contemporary Haibun, Haibun Today,Prune Juice, Ambrosia, Concise Delight, Modern Tanka and Haibun Prose, and moonset.

Awards and Other Honors: Include Best of 2002: Haiku in English, The Mainichi Daily News; 5th Annual Suruga Baika Winner; Honorable Mention, Mainichi Contest (2003); Tanka Splendor Awards (2003, 2004); and Third Prize, Kusamakura (2004). Her work has been selected to appear in various anthologies, including edge of light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2003 (Red Moon Press, 2004), dust of summers: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2007 (Red Moon Press, 2008); Rose Haiku for Flower Lovers and Gardeners (Price-Patterson, Ltd., 2005); The Five-Hole Flute (MET Press, 2006); The Tanka Prose Anthology (MET Press, 2008); Ash Moon Anthology: Poems on Aging (Lulu Press, 2008); and Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka (MET Press, 2009).

Books Published: Trust ( fly-by-night press, 1994) [ISBN 0-9639585-1-8]; Georgia on My Mind (Imp Press, 1992); Awareness of Rose (Imp Press, 1993); Beg, Borrow or Steal (Betty Elyse Press, 1994); Living in Frida's Body (Imp Press, 1995); The Plenitude of Emptiness: Collected Haibun (Darlington Richards, 2010).

Read a selection of her haiku.