Douglas J. Lanzo

I am award-winning and featured American poet and published novelist with over 270 poems published in 47 journals and 5 anthologies spanning 5 continents since 2019. I also have a debut novel that has been endorsed by a New York Times bestselling author and is being nominated for the John Newbery Medal. My diverse poems have spanned many genre, from haiku, senryu and tanka to sonnets, free verse and hybrid poems and include many eco-conscious and socially conscious poems.

My poems have exploded since 2020, having been published in 46 literary journals and 5 anthologies during that period spanning the U.S., Austria, England, Wales, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, Mauritius and The Caribbean. These poems have been published in Academy of the Heart and Mind, Akitsu Quarterly, Ancient Paths Online, Ariel Chart, Asahi Haikuist Network’s haiku column published in The Asahi Shimbun, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, The Bamboo Hut, Bear Creek Haiku, Better Than Starbucks, Cafe Haiku’s sharing my solitude anthology, The Caribbean Writer, cattails, Chrysanthemum, Cold Moon Journal, Current Accounts, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Drabble, Failed Haiku, 50 Haikus, Frogpond, Front Porch Review, Grand Little Things (including as featured poet), Haiku Journal, The Haiku Way to Healing Poetry Anthology, Haikuniverse, Last Leaves, Literary Yard, Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, The Pangolin Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Penwood Review, Plum Tree Tavern, Poetry Pea, Presence Haiku Journal, Red Eft Review, Riverbed Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Society of Classical Poets Journal (including as runner-up in its Best of 2020 Haiku Competition), The Starlight SciFaiku Review, Studio, Take 5ive Journal, Three Line Poetry, Time of Singing, tsuri-dōrō, Vita Brevis’ 2021 Poetry Anthology Brought to Sight & Swept Away, Vita Brevis’ Nothing Divine Dies: The Poetry of Nature Poetry Anthology, Vita Brevis’ 2022 Volume IV Poetry Anthology What is all this Sweet Work, Vita Brevis Press Poetry Magazine, Wales Haiku Journal, WestWard Quarterly (including as featured poet), Wild Violet (including as featured poet) and The Zen Space (including in its 2020 Summer Showcase).

Although I have never relinquished the lawyer’s quill and serve as the General Counsel of a small business in McLean, Virginia, my passion is composing engaging, eco and socially conscious poetry that connects with readers worldwide.