Jeff Winke
Recent works
COQUETTE; Distant Thunder Press, Milwaukee WI; 2008, chapbook, $5.
A book of sensual haiku. Cover photo is "Passion" by Lev Dolgachov. Available by mail from Distant Thunder Press, 234 N. Broadway #513, Milwaukee WI 53202; or online from Metropolis, an international source for "jazz, improvised, innovative, adventurous and unheard music and dangerous poetry," based in France.
THAT SMIRKING FACE; Distant Thunder Press, Milwaukee WI; 2007, broadside, $5.
A collaborative broadside featuring Jeff's dark urban haiku and haibun with original art by Matt M. Cipov. "I found his business card on the floor of a coffee shop and was compelled to look up his website," Winke says. "His direct, edgy style reflects exactly the tone of the haiku and haibun I'm currently writing." To purchase this broadside, send $5 to Distant Thunder Press, 234 N. Broadway #513, Milwaukee WI 53202.
THE PR IDEA BOOK: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work: Outskirts Press, Denver CO; 2006, 196 pp., paper, $12.95.
A sourcebook of ideas, strategies and tactics forged through real-world use with businesses of all sizes – from start-up organizations with spectacular better-mousetrap ideas to Fortune® 100 mega-successes that use powerful PR strategies to stay one step ahead of aggressive competitors. The PR Idea Book: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work is filled with inspirational ideas to transform public relations efforts from ho-hum to can't-miss. Buy it now
WHAT'S NOT THERE: Selected Haiku of Jeffrey Winke; Deep North Press, 2634 Prairie Ave., Evanston, IL 60201; 2001, 88 pp., paper, $12.
"Reading through these poems is not unlike walking through a gallery of paintings by Edward Hopper and others of the Ashcan school," wrote Michael McClintock in his review of the book for Modern Haiku magazine. "I think particularly of Hopper’s Nighthawks, House by the Railroad, Model Reading, and Room in Brooklyn when I encounter these visions of inescapable loneliness of persons and things within the American environment." The book's 124 poems are culled from several hundred of Winke’s haiku written over the past quarter-century. The collection won a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America in 2002.
More reviews of What's Not There
The Haiku Society of America: "Winke's haiku and senryu is always fresh and creative, no matter what the topic may be. He displays these traits best in his erotic or humorous poems where the reader is enticed by one thing and then is cleverly and/or unexpectedly led elsewhere by the poet's device. Yet throughout all of his work, there is a profound feeling of insightfulness."
World Haiku Review: Winke's "haiku and senryu form a quarter-century of innovative work that has helped shape American haiku."
In addition to What's Not There, Jeff's haiku have been published in several publications including:
A haiku by Jeff was also named to the "best of the year" list by the Mainichi Daily News of Tokyo, Japan.
Read the full article
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COQUETTE; Distant Thunder Press, Milwaukee WI; 2008, chapbook, $5.
A book of sensual haiku. Cover photo is "Passion" by Lev Dolgachov. Available by mail from Distant Thunder Press, 234 N. Broadway #513, Milwaukee WI 53202; or online from Metropolis, an international source for "jazz, improvised, innovative, adventurous and unheard music and dangerous poetry," based in France.THAT SMIRKING FACE; Distant Thunder Press, Milwaukee WI; 2007, broadside, $5.
A collaborative broadside featuring Jeff's dark urban haiku and haibun with original art by Matt M. Cipov. "I found his business card on the floor of a coffee shop and was compelled to look up his website," Winke says. "His direct, edgy style reflects exactly the tone of the haiku and haibun I'm currently writing." To purchase this broadside, send $5 to Distant Thunder Press, 234 N. Broadway #513, Milwaukee WI 53202.THE PR IDEA BOOK: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work: Outskirts Press, Denver CO; 2006, 196 pp., paper, $12.95.
A sourcebook of ideas, strategies and tactics forged through real-world use with businesses of all sizes – from start-up organizations with spectacular better-mousetrap ideas to Fortune® 100 mega-successes that use powerful PR strategies to stay one step ahead of aggressive competitors. The PR Idea Book: 50 Proven Tools That Really Work is filled with inspirational ideas to transform public relations efforts from ho-hum to can't-miss. Buy it nowWHAT'S NOT THERE: Selected Haiku of Jeffrey Winke; Deep North Press, 2634 Prairie Ave., Evanston, IL 60201; 2001, 88 pp., paper, $12.
"Reading through these poems is not unlike walking through a gallery of paintings by Edward Hopper and others of the Ashcan school," wrote Michael McClintock in his review of the book for Modern Haiku magazine. "I think particularly of Hopper’s Nighthawks, House by the Railroad, Model Reading, and Room in Brooklyn when I encounter these visions of inescapable loneliness of persons and things within the American environment." The book's 124 poems are culled from several hundred of Winke’s haiku written over the past quarter-century. The collection won a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America in 2002.More reviews of What's Not There
The Haiku Society of America: "Winke's haiku and senryu is always fresh and creative, no matter what the topic may be. He displays these traits best in his erotic or humorous poems where the reader is enticed by one thing and then is cleverly and/or unexpectedly led elsewhere by the poet's device. Yet throughout all of his work, there is a profound feeling of insightfulness."
World Haiku Review: Winke's "haiku and senryu form a quarter-century of innovative work that has helped shape American haiku."
In addition to What's Not There, Jeff's haiku have been published in several publications including:
- Tiny Words magazine
- Gumball Poetry magazine
- Contemporary Haibun Online
- Russia's WOWWI Poetic Games Competition
- Shreveport Memorial Library Electronic Poetry Network
- Roadrunner Haiku Journal
- Electric Acorn (online journal of the Dublin Writer's Workshop)
- Letnu Casi (official publication of the Haiku Club of Slovenia)
A haiku by Jeff was also named to the "best of the year" list by the Mainichi Daily News of Tokyo, Japan.
Read the full article
It's a big dumb world...
¶ 11:35 AM
