Honorary Curator Leroy Kanterman
Leroy Kanterman
Honorary Curator, 2002–2003
Appointment Announcement
The American Haiku Archives advisory board is pleased to announce the appointment of Leroy Kanterman as the 2002-2003 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento. This honor is in recognition of Kanterman’s many decades of haiku writing and his cofounding with Harold G. Henderson, in 1968, of the Haiku Society of America. Kanterman’s term as honorary curator of the archives runs for a year starting from July 12, 2002, the sixth anniversary of the founding of the American Haiku Archives.
Books & Magazines by Leroy Kanterman
Magazine Editor. Haiku west. Forest Hill, N.Y. : L. Kanterman, 1967-75.
The ram's horn: a collection of haiku-senryu. Kanterman, 1967.
Editor. The Scare Crow: A Collection of Haiku & Senryu. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 1999.
Selected Haiku by Leroy Kanterman
staring
at the wild geese
scarecrow
on the scarecrow
the autumn wind has settled
a coat of dust
winter evening
only my thoughts
give me warmth
Touching his tombstone,
she kneels . . .
to pluck the weeds
The pot-bellied stove—
gathering around, recalling
last year's blizzard.
Sunset . . .
The scarecrow stretches
Across the field
moored to the piling
the rusting ferryboat
rides the morning tide
Adorning her wall,
relics of a beloved son—
photo and medal.
