Gary Hittmeyer
Born: Brooklyn, NY USA
Living in Shokan, NY USA
Born 1956
Gary was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, and currently lives quietly in the Hudson River Valley of New York State.
He enjoys NY Mets baseball, BBC crime dramas, classic rock, sumo wrestling, and 75 degree sunny days.
Awards & Anthologies:
Winner Frogpond Museum of Haiku Literature Award Issue #42.3 Autumn 2019; Honourable Mention, IHS International Haiku Competition 2019; Commended (shortlist), United Haiku & Tanka Society 2020 AHA Haiku/Senryu Contest; Haiku 2021 Anthology 100 notable ku from 2020 Lee Gurga and Scott Metz; where the roots are:The Best of Paper Lanterns vol. 2 2021; Touchstone Award short list individual haiku 2022; Haiku 2025 Anthology 100 notable ku from 2024 Lee Gurga and Scott Metz; Haiku 21.2 Anthology of English-language haiku '11 to '20 Lee Gurga and Scott Metz
missing them all
a day moon sails
in the blue wind
Prune Juice Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun, and Haiga Issue #32 Nov 2020
counting blessings
the small solace
of a routine day
Frogpond Issue #43.2 Spring/Summer 2020
the water's edge
a western scrub jay
sips blue sky
cattails: The Official Journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society April 2020 Issue
political signs
surround the highway cross
cold rain
Modern Haiku An Independent Journal of Haiku and Haiku Studies - 51.2, Summer 2020
the campfire
sparks back to life
autumn stars wander
Haiku Canada Review 14.1 Feb 2020
splashing water stones hold a moonlit night
hedgerow: a journal of small poems Issue #129 Autumn 2019
days end the sound of sunlight glinting off a distant jet
tinywords: a journal of micropoetry 19.2 13 December 2019
mud caked boots
the heaviness
of regret
Frogpond Issue #42.3 Autumn 2019
Winner Frogpond Museum of Haiku Literature award #42.3
honeysuckle scent
a black snake shifts
into moonlight
early fall
my privacy vanishes
leaf by leaf
Mayfly Issue 66 Winter 2019