Stanford M. Forrester
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Stanford M. Forrester is a past president
of the Haiku Society of America and founder
and editor of "bottle rockets: a collection
of short verse". Most recently, his
poems have appeared in the anthology "Haiku",
published by Knopf in the Everyman's Library
Pocket Poets Series edited by Peter Washington
and "American Zen:A Gathering of Poets",
published by Bottom Dog Press. In 2003, one
of his haiku took first seat in the 57th
Annual Basho Anthology Contest in Ueno, Japan,
and another was a prize winner in the Haiku
International Association's 6th Annual Haiku
Contest in 2004. He has served as a judge
for the Japan Society in New York City, the
Haiku Society of America, and the Haiku Poets
of Northern California. Sometimes he goes
by his haigo, "Sekiro" which means
"stone dew" or "dew on a stone".
Stanford has been a practicing Buddhist for
more than twenty years. He lives in Wethersfield,
Connnecticut, USA with his wife, Mary, and
their daughters, Abigail and Molly.
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