Marta Chocilowska

Born: 1950 in Warsaw, Poland
Living in: Warsaw, Poland
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Website: http://www.majorkowo.blogspot.com/

Marta Chocilowska is a retired economist, fan of cats, music, poetry and cycling. In 2013 she joined the Warsaw Haiku School - KUZU. Marta is also a founding member and a Treasurer of the Polish Haiku Association, established in February, 2016.

Robert Kania

Born 1964 in Opole Lubelskie, Poland
Living in Warsaw, Poland
http://bliskomilczenia.blogspot.com
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Marek Kozubek

Born; 1970 in Zywiec, Poland
Resides in Żywiec, Poland, and Bangkok, Thailand.

His haiku poems have been published in The Mainichi, Asahi Haikuist Network, Haikuniverse, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Sol Magazine, The World Haiku Review, Whirligig, Failed Haiku, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, and Leaf – The laureate of international haiku contests

Anna Mazurkiewicz

Born 1978 in Chelm, Poland
Living in Chelm, Poland
http://www.haikuje.blogspot.com/

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Agnes Eva Savich

Born 1976 in Krakow, Poland
Living in Austin, Texas, USA
Agnes Eva Savich has been writing haiku since 2003. A featured Southwestern Haijin in Roadrunner Haiku Journal (2006), she continues to be published in haiku journals, and has an early collection of poetry, The Watcher: Poems (Cedar Leaf Press, 2009).
https://agnesevasavich.wordpress.com
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Gabriel Sawicki

Born 1983 in Wroclaw, Poland
Living in Wroclaw, Poland

Lech Szeglowski

Born 1959 in Gdansk, Poland
Studied Polish Philology and Postgraduate Studies of Speech Therapy at the University of Gdansk. He has been reading Japanese genre poetry since the late 1980s and writing haiku since the early 2000s. Rarely published, but his haiku in English have received several awards and appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
http://haikuwordlech.blogspot.com/
http://lechaiku.blogspot.com/

​Irena Iris Szewczyk

Born in Warsaw, Poland​
Living in Warsaw, Poland​

Philologist and photographer has been creating haiku and haiga since 2011. Her works were awarded in contests and published in magazines, reviews and anthologies around the world. A title-holder of the World Haiga Association Master Haiga Artist. The author of the bilingual haiku book entitled „drugi brzeg/the other shore” containing her poems, photographs and haiga. One of founding members and a former board member of the Polish Haiku Association.
Blog (http://iris-haiku.blogspot.com/)

Ewa Tomaszewska (1957 - 2013)

Ewa Tomaszewska was a poet, translator and essayist with quite a score of titles to her name. One of her greatest passions was haiku and her strongest inspiration was Polish romantic poetry and Catholic faith.

At the beginning of 21^st century she edited the first national anthology of Polish haiku “Antologia polskiego haiku” (Anthology of Polish Haiku, 2001) including a very important preface about Japanese Culture and its influence on Polish literature and art. The anthology proved to be a crucial source of information on the history of haiku in Poland and showcased more than six hundred haiku and haiku-like poems by nearly eighty Polish authors spanning over ninety-six years (1905 to 2001).

In 1993 Ewa Tomaszewska also compiled and translated Antologia kanadyjskiego haiku (An

Anthology of Canadian Haiku) and later on, one of European haiku. She also published some of her own work (the first one in 1981) in English in international journals; a beautiful essay on Chinese ink painting included in Studnia zakryta kamieniem (The Well Covered With Stone), Miniatura, Kraków 2000; a bilingual haiku anthology "Raising the moonlight" (2003) as well as a bilingual volume (Polish and English) of her own work: Jeszcze dzień błyszczy (the day still shining. HAIKU), Miniatura, Kraków 2005.

When Ewa died on 12 December 2013 the world of haiku lost an unforgettable poet and a very passionate writer who did a great deal to promote haiku both nationally and internationally.

Ewa’s Publications:

• Pocałunek księcia nocy (The Kiss of Night Prince), MAW, Warszawa 1988;
• Haiku Seminar, Chojnów, Ewa’s lecture: Japanese Inspiration in European Culture and Arts, 24 of October 1998;
• Podzielona róża (Divided Rose), W drodze, Poznań 1999;
• Studnia zakryta kamieniem (The Well Covered With Stone), Miniatura, Kraków 2000;
• Antologia polskiego haiku (The Polish Haiku Anthology), Nozomi, Warszawa 2001;
• Jeszcze dzień błyszczy (the day still shining. HAIKU), Miniatura, Kraków 2005;
• Gwiazda za gwiazdą. Antologia haiku europejskiego (Star By Star. European Haiku Anthology), editors and translators: Piotr W. Lorkowski, Ewa Tomaszewska with preface by Max Verhart, with cooperation of Leszek Engelking and Others, Miniatura, Kraków 2005;
• Czas i obecność. Wiersze wybrane (Time and Presence. Selected Poems), Miniatura, Kraków 2007;
• 100 Classical Haiku by Yuzuru Miura in Ewa’s translation, Miniatura, Kraków 2010;
• Zwoje podróżne. Haibun (The Journey Scrolls. Haibun), Miniatura, Kraków 2012;
• Ewa’s 9 Haiku in Whirligig, Multilingual Haiku Journal with the note by Max Verhart (Vol. V-2 November 2014), Netherlands.

Selected haiku:

Garden seed
missed by the birds
just now germinates

A swallow flies out
from the entrance to a crypt –
ruins of Knossos

Chilly courtyard
bluebottles banister and a scarf
take leave of me

nights rains pour
upon my windowsill –
the play of the wind

the poet's wages:
a night of solitude and
a glint of moon

baby bottle nipple
lost on the street –
the milky river

distant monastery:
above the frozen river
the white wings

(All of Ewa's haiku above are from "the day still shining. haiku", by Ewa Tomaszewska, published by Miniatura, 2005, ISBN 83-7081-733-5.)

Most information for this profile has been kindly provided by Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda and Marta Chociłowska and we are very grateful for their time and dedication!

Sources:

• http://www.doziemiobiecanej.pl/notka/632/do-domu-ojca-odeszla-sp-ewa-tomaszewska/
• http://www.poezija.com.pl/index.php/aktualnoci/854-trzy-polskie-antologie-haiku-z-ostatnich-lat
• https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/2d1f2e211eebc8663224b0edc07f4886.pdf
• http://haiku.nl/vuursteen-2014/
• Whirligig, Vol. V-2, Nov., 2014 – Max Verhart’s note, p.28
• Blithe Spirit 28.1, Journal of the British Haiku Society, 2018 – “Focus on Haiku in Poland” by Rafał Zabratyński, Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda and Marta Chociłowska

Maria Tomczak

Living in Opole, Poland
http://www.poesi-haiku.blogspot.com
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Ernest Wit

Born: 1961, Poland
Resides: Poland
Blog: http://withaiku.blogspot.com

Ernest Wit is an award-winning Polish author whose work appears regularly in the best English-language haiku magazines and anthologies around the world.

Books Published:
Bitter Wind (Kontekst Publishing House, Poznan, 2015);
Black and White (Red Moon Press, Winchester VA, 2016).