Michael McClintock was born in 1950 in Los Angeles, California. He resides in South
Pasadena and Los Angeles, California. Until his retirement in 2001, he
was Principal Librarian and Administrator for the County of Los Angeles
Public Library.
He was educated
at Occidental College and the University of Southern California, specializing
in English and American Literature, Asian Studies, and Information Sciences.
He served
as Assistant Editor of Haiku Highlights in late '60s; Associate
Editor of Modern Haiku in early '70s; edited Seer Ox: American
Senryu Magazine, and the American Haiku Poets Series, 1972-1976. He
currently writes the "Tanka Cafe" column for the Tanka
Society of America Newsletter, and edits The New American
Imagist series for Hermitage West.
Collections
of haiku, senryu, tanka, and related poetry include "Light Run" (Shiloh,
1971), "Man With No Face" (Shelters Press, 1974), "Maya:
Selected Poems" (Seer Ox, 1976). His work has been broadly anthologized,
including in each of the three editions of The Haiku Anthology,
edited by Cor van den Heuvel (1974, 1986, 1999). "The Tanka Anthology," edited
by Michael McClintock, Pamela Miller Ness, and Jim Kacian, was released
in December 2003 from Red Moon Press (232 pp., hardback, $24.95, from Red
Moon Press).
Additional Information about Michael can be found at these two links:
~ Contemporary
English-language Haiku and the Long View: an interview with Michael
McClintock
by Janice Bostok, Stylus Poetry Journal, 2002
(http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=373)
~ Dialogue
with a poet, World Haiku Review, vol. 2, no. 2
(http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-2/dialogue_mmclintock.shtml)
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