Paul O. Williams

Board Member
Hayward, California

Paul O. Williams is a retired English professor with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been writing haiku since 1964. In 1999, he served as president of the Haiku Society of America and in 1989 helped found the Haiku Poets of Northern California. He is widely published in haiku magazines and elsewhere. His recent book of tanka is These Audacious Maples. He has also published nine science fiction novels.

gone from the woods
the bird I knew
by song alone

            (for Nicolas Virgilio)

                                                                   for a moment
                                                                   the dead apple tree bears—
                                                                   goldfinches

so hard a rain
now even the mountain
flows down the mountain

 

Publications by Paul O. Williams

Tracks on the River. Elsah, IL: Coneflower Press, 1982.

Outside Robins Sing. Decatur, IL: Brooks Books, 1999.

The Nick of Time: Essays on Haiku Aesthetics. Foster City, CA: Press Here, 2001.

Twenty-three Haibun for Christmas 2007. Hayward, CA: Blue Oak Press, 2007.