Wind Chimes, Haiku And Senryu

Previously published as fried onions (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 2015). An excerpt // the screech / of speeding boxcar wheels- / tooth ache*The authorDan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer-and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu. Lukiv's formal apprenticeship as a creative writer includes intensive personal direction from Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry), and includes studies at The University of British Columbia (The Creative Writing Department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest School (novel writing program). He and his wife have four daughters (married), one granddaughter, two grandsons, one step granddaughter, and one step grandson. Over many years he taught a variety of subjects (English, English Literature, communications, guitar, drama, social studies, mathematics, science, consumer education, career planning, Response Ability Pathways(R), physical education, composition, and creative writing) at award-winning McNaughton Centre (Quesnel, BC), a school for troubled teenagers. Since 1978, he has edited CHALLENGER international, a literary journal that, over many years, focussed attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and, since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, a scholarly forum of research, practise, and theory. Through LukivPress, he has published many poetry collections, some by well-established poets such as George Swede (Canada), Paul Gotro (Canada), Elana Wolff (Canada), Bill Caughlan (Canada), Dimitar Anakiev (Slovenia), Neal Leadbeater (Scotland), Robert Lavett Smith (USA), Simon Perchik (USA), Michael J. Vaughn (USA), Esther Cameron (USA), Michael Zack (USA), Richard Luftig (USA), Luis Benitez (Argentina), and Coral Hull (Australia).He serves as an elder in a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Victoria, BC. For part of 2015, 2018, and 2019 his wife and he served together as pioneers (full-time ministers). Hobbies include longboarding, searching for haiku moments, singing and playing guitar, studying mathematics, and cycling.

• | Author: Dan Lukiv
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 29 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1087093139
• | ISBN-13: 9781087093130