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Randy M. Brooks, Ph.D.

brooksbooks@q-com.com
rbrooks@mail.millikin.edu

 

Dr. Randy Brooks directs the writing major at Millikin University, a private university in Decatur, Illinois, USA. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, have been co-editors and publishers of Brooks Books, (formerly High/Coo Press) and currently edit Mayfly magazine. Dr. Brooks and his wife have been dedicated to publishing books, magazines and hypertext collections of haiku in English since 1976 when they founded High/Coo Press.

In April 2000 he and Dr. Lee Gurga organized a gathering of haiku poets, editors and scholars at the Global Haiku Festival hosted by Millikin University, the Sister Cities Program and the Haiku Society of America.

Dr. Brooks has won many awards for his haiku and haiku publishing including 1st Place in the prestigious Harold G. Henderson Award in 1998 from the Haiku Society of America. A collection of his selected haiku, School's Out, was published in 1999 by Press Here (Foster City, California). School's Out, received 3rd Place in the national Merit Book Awards for the Best Haiku Books published in 1999, an award sponsored by the Haiku Society of America.

  For more information about Dr. Brooks see:

http://faculty.millikin.edu/~rbrooks

For more information about Brooks Books see the web site at:

http://www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks/

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Recent Haiku Awards

3rd Place in the national Merit Book Awards for the Best Haiku Books published in 1999, the Haiku Society of America for School’s Out: Selected Haiku of Randy Brooks, Press Here, (Foster City, CA), 1999.

Honorable Mention in Haiku Category. 2000 International Poetry Contest, National League of American pen Women (Palomar, CA) April, 2000.

Third Place, 1999 Penumbra Poetry & Haiku Competition, Tallahassee Writer’s Association (Tallahassee, FL) August, 1999.

First Place, The Homestead Cedars, The Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Chapbook Competition, Saki Press, (Normal, IL) January, 1999.

Herb Barrett Haiku Award Finalist, sponsored by the Hamilton Haiku Press at the Acorn-Livesay People's Festival, (Hamilton, Ontario) 1999.

First Place, 1998 Harold G. Henderson Award, The Haiku Society of America (New York, NY) October, 1998.

Honorable Mention, PEN Women 1998 International Poetry Contest, (Palomar, CA) April 1998.

Best of Issue Award, Modern Haiku, 29.2, Winter/Spring 1998

Third Place, Kumamoto Intl. Kusamakura Haiku Competition, (Japan), 1998

Matsuyama Tourism Haiku Award sponsored by the Shiki Haiku Museum and the city of Matsuyama, (Japan), July 1997. Published in the Matsuyama Tourism Haiku Post Anthology, 1998.

Haiku Society of America 1992 National Merit Book Award for the Midwest Haiku Anthology, Second Place, July 1993.

Japan Air Lines Haiku Contest, 1987-198

Mainichi Haiku Competition Award, Mainichi Daily News, Tokyo, 1997.

Haiku Collections Published

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 edition at: www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks/InHerBlueEyes/index.htm

Online Book. Black Ant's Journey to Japan: A Modern Tanka Journal (Gualala, CA: AHA Online Books), 1998. http://www.faximum.com/aha.d/blackant.htm

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

Haiku in Recent Anthologies

A Glimpse of Red: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2000, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 2001.

Haiku Troubadours 2000: A Contemporary World Haiku Anthology from Japan, edited by Ban’ya Natsuishi, Ginyu Press (Fujimi, Japan), August 2000.

Palomar Showcase: Anthology of the National League of American Pen Women International Poetry Contest, Volume 11. National League of American Pen Women, (Palomar, CA) May, 2000.

The Thin Curve: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1999, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 2000.

Past Time: Baseball Haiku, an anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Jim Kacian, Red Moon Press (Winchester, VA), 1999.

The 33rd A-Bomb Day Memorial Haiku Meeting Anthology, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, (Kyoto, Japan), 1999.

Penumbra 1999: Poetry and Haiku from the 12th Annual Penumbra Competition. Tallahassee Writers Association, (Tallahassee, FL), 1999.

Through the Spirea: The Herb Barrett Haiku Award 1998 Anthology, Hamilton Haiku Press, (Hamilton, Ontario) 1999.

The New Haiku, Snapshot Press, (Liverpool, England) 1999.

Too Busy for Spring: An Anthology Commemorating the 1999 Haiku North America Conference. Foster City, CA: Press Here, 1999.

My Neighbor's Life: 30th Haiku Society of America Anniversary Anthology, Laughing Cypress Press, (Bellevue, Washinton) 1999.

Snow on the Water: The Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku 1998, Red Moon Press, (Winchester, VA), 1999.

Baseball Haiku, published by Fan Magazine, (Atlanta, GA), 1998.

PEN Women 1998 International Poetry Contest Anthology, (Palomar, CA), 1998.

Fallen Snow: Haiku for Winter published by the Haiku Society of America and Eight Pound Tiger Press, (Cedar Falls, Iowa), © 1996, distributed 1998.

Kumamoto Intl. Kusamakura Haiku Competition Anthology, Japan, 1998.

Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, William J. Higginson, editor, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1997.

Mainichi Haiku Contest Anthology, Mainichi Daily Newspaper, Tokyo, 1997.

The Haiku Seasons, William J. Higginson, editor, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1996.

Haiku Editing & Publishing

Publisher, High/Coo Press.  60 literary titles published, 1976-present.

Co-Editor with George Swede, Global Haiku: 25 Poets World-wide, Iron Press, England, April 2000.

Editor and Webmaster, English-Language Haiku Web Site, Brooks Books (Decatur, IL). Begun March 15, 1998, this web site is online publication dedicated to English language haiku at: http://www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks/

Foreword. “The Flow of Haiku.” Cur*rent: Linked Haiku by Marlene Mountain and Francine Porad (Mercer Island, WA: Vandina Press), 1998.

Co-editor with Lee Gurga, A Solitary Leaf: Haiku Society of America Member Anthology 1996, the Haiku Society of America, August 1997

Co-Editor with Lee Gurga, Midwest Haiku Anthology, High/Coo Press, Decatur, IL, 1992.  Haiku Society of America 1993 Merit Book Award, 2nd place.

Co-Editor with Shirley Brooks, Mayfly, A biannual magazine of haiku poetry, 1985-present

Editor, Haiku Review, A bibliography of haiku publications and criticism
(indexed by Modern Language Association), 1980-88

Editor, High/Coo, An eclectic quarterly of short poetry, 1976-82

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Dr. Brooks & Millikin University

Profile: Dr. Brooks

Read Dr. Brooks: "Teaching Haiku in Higher Education:
An Immersion into the Living Tradition"

Brooks Books Website

 

 

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