Seasons of Sharing: A Kasen Renku Collaboration - Tapa blanda

Joyce Brinkman: Joyce was Indiana’s Poet Laureate from 2002-2008. She is a proponent of poetry as public art, and collaborates with other literary artists as well as visual artists in a variety of media, including glass artist Martin Dolin on a 25-foot stained-glass window at the Indianapolis International Airport, and two collaborative works with San Francisco Bay Press in 2008 and 2011.

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda: Carolyn was Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2006-2008. She is the author of six books of poetry and coeditor of two anthologies. She has received five grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and numerous awards, including an Edgar Allan Poe first-place award. An accomplished visual artist, she teaches art-inspired poetry workshops for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Kae Morii: Kae is active in the international poetry world; she has published many books of poetry, and her poems appear in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies around the world. She has attended many international poetry festivals and won numerous awards. She is a member of JPC, WAAC, WPS, IWA, GHA and Ambassador of Poetas del mundo.

Gabriele Glang: Gabriele Glang, poet and painter, is associate professor of creative writing, University of Esslingen, Germany. She received her degrees in writing in the US and worked in the publishing industry for many years. She has exhibited her paintings in the US, Germany, France and Poland. She has published three books of poetry and her work appears in many anthologies.

Flor Aguilera García: Flor Aguilera García is the author of four books of poetry, several novels including Diary of an Oyster and The Past Is a Strange Country, and a book of short stories for children. She has participated in several International Poetry Festivals: Trois Rivières, Cartagena, Bucharest and as International guest in the Poet Laureates of America gathering in Indianapolis in 2007.

Catherine Aubelle: Catherine Aubelle, artist and writer, has worked as an animated film producer in London and Paris and a freelance illustrator and writer in France. She spends long periods of time in Africa. Her writing has been classified as short poetic stories. She teaches creative writing in public schools, libraries, and other places, and shows her artwork throughout Europe.