Born in Lima, Ohio, USA, 1937.
Studied Art and Journalism at: Bluffton College, Ohio, Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA., San Francisco State
University, SF
Mother of three children: Heidi Vetter, Bambi Honer, Hans Steiner and
six grandchildren.
Taught art classes for children 1962-1966.
Owned a pottery workshop studio in Dinuba, CA 1967-1971.
Moved to Hamburg, West Germany in 1971.
Made sculpture from ropes exhibited throughout Europe.
Became the first American woman artist accepted into Deutsche
Kunstlerbund [German Artists' Organization].
Moved from Germany to the USA full-time in 1987.
Leader of the Haiku Writers of Gualala Arts and publisher of their
monthly, Haiku Sharing 1987 - 1995.
Founder of AHA
Books, Publishing Company, in 1987 which has published over 40
individual authors in paper and online.
Publisher of Mirrors - International Haiku Forum, a magazine
distributed worldwide 1988 - 1995.
Started the Tanka
Splendor Awards (previously named Mirrors International Tanka
Awards) in 1989 which continues yearly.
Editor of Geppo, the bi-monthly periodical for the Yuki Teikei Haiku
Society of United States and Canada, 1991 - 1994.
Co-Editor of Lynx,
a journal for linking poets with renga and tanka since 1993.
Editor of the "Poet Tree" of the Coast Magazine, Gualala,
California. 1991 - 1997.
Put AHApoetry on
the web on December 7th, 1995.
Has been a member of the Haiku
Society of America, Haiku
Poets of Northern California, Haiku
Canada, The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of USA & Canada, Haiku
International, Tokyo, Japan; the German
Haiku Society, and Poetry Society of Japan.
Has been a member of the Shiki
Haiku Salon, The Shiki Haiku List, and The Shiki Tanka List since
its beginning.
Twice winner of the Museum of Haiku Literature Award [Tokyo]. Three-time
winner of an Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award: Tigers In A Tea
Cup, Silence, and A Dictionary of Haiku. Winner of numerous haiku
awards, including second place in the 1987 Japan Air Lines contest and
the Itoen Tea Company Award in 1992.
Honored by the Emperor and Empress of Japan by invitation to attend the
Imperial New Year's Poetry Party as a guest at the Palace in Tokyo in
1998.
My papers are being archived at the American
Haiku Archives in the State Library of California, in Sacramento,
California.
Wrote free-lance magazine articles and poetry since 1963 that have been
published in USA, Japan, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Switzerland,
Romania, Croatia.
Books include:
Shadows on an Open Window, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany, 1979.
Textilwerke, (in German), Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany,
1980.
Installation: Collage in Space, Humidity Productions, Hamburg,
Germany, 1982.
From the Dipper...Drops, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany,
1983.
Duet for One Mirror, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany, 1984.
Thumbtack on a Calendar, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany,
1985.
Relissnaegal Auf Einem Kalendar, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany,
1985, (Translation of Thumbtacks in German).
Cherries/Apples Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany, 1986.
Graffiti, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany, 1986.
As Stones Cry Out, Humidity Productions, Hamburg, Germany, 1987.
Tigers in a Tea Cup, AHA Books, 1988. *Haiku Society Merit Book Award
The Land of Seven Realms, Edited, AHA Books, 1988.
A Literary Curiosity: The Pyramid Renga "Open" with Bambi
Walker, AHA Books, 1989.
Narrow Road to Renga, AHA Books, 1989.
A Gift of Tanka, AHA Books, 1990.
Round Renga Round, Edited, AHA Books, 1990.
Silence, AHA Books, 1991. *Haiku Society Merit Book Award
A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 1992. *Haiku Society Merit Book Award
Trashopper Haique, AHA Books, 1992
Classical Mega-Brain Potential, AHA Books, 1992
Inksmith with Werner Reichhold. AHA Books, 1992
Wave of Mouth Stories, AHA Books, 1993.
A Dictionary of Haiku as Four Seasons, bilingual English -Chinese
published in Shanghai, China
Oracle with Werner Reichhold. AHA Books, 1993.
Wind Five Folded Edited with Werner Reichhold, AHA Books.
Bowls I Buy, Online book with AHA Books, 1996.
In the Presence with Werner Reichhold, AHA Books, 1998.
White Letter Poems, by Saito Fumi translated with Hatsue Kawamura. AHA
Books, 1998.
Heavenly Maiden Tanka, by Akiko Baba translated with Hatsue Kawamura. AHA
Books, 1999.
Geography Lens, AHA Books, 1999.
Journal Journeys, AHA Online Book, 2001.
Also included in the following anthologies:
The
Haiku Seasons: Poetry of
the Natural World, by William J. Higginson, Kodansha: 1996; Haiku
World:
An International Poetry Almanac, by William J. Higginson, Kodansha: 1996;
Haiku Moment, by Bruce Ross, Tuttle: 1993; Four
Seasons: Haiku Anthology
Classified by Season Words in English and Japanese, Kokoo Katoo,
Koo Poetry Association: 1991; Symbiotic Poetry, by Werner Reichhold, AHA
Online Books:1999; Duizend Kolibries (Dutch) by Bart Mesotten, Uitgeverij
Sintjoris: 1993; Ocolind Iazul / Around the Pond (Romanian) by Ion
Codrescu, Muntenia: 1994; A Haiku Path, by the Haiku Society of
America:1994; The San Francisco Haiku Anthology by Jerry Ball, Garry
Gay, Tom Tico, Smythe-Waithe Press:1992; In Due Season, by A.C. Missias,
redfox press:2000; Midwest Haiku Anthology by Randy Brooks and Lee Gurga,
High/Coo Press: 1992; The Haiku Anthology, by Cor van den Heuvel, W.W.
Norton & Co.:1999.
The
Humanity Shield
About
Jane Reichhold's Textile Sculptures
Mother of
All Myth: 9 ft. tall, 9 ft. wide and 6 ft. deep, the sculpture was
designed to hang in a corner, which might explain the dimensions. The
Mother is hand crocheted in bailer twine and lined with gauze. (Here,
"hand crocheted" means I use my hand as a large crochet hook.)
The white misty part is a sheet that was buried in the earth for 9
weeks. A section of the whole work was in displayed at the
Textilmuseum Max Berk, Heidelberg, Germany, June 18 - September 17,
2000.
The
Humanity Shield: these were dolls I had designed and made that were
tied to a willow frame. Some have thought the character at the bottom
with the frog in her arms is me; others see the "Mother" as my
self portrait because I often wear my hair in pigtails. But just now I
see the little girl also has pigtails! Ah, the things we learn when we
start to explain ourselves. - Jane
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Dialogue With a Poet, Jane Reichhold
