Marlene Mountain

Marlene Mountain (née Morelock; December 11, 1939 – March 15, 2018), also known as Marlene Morelock Wills, was an American poet, artist, and activist.[1] She wrote many English-language haiku and concrete poems.

Marlene Mountain
Born(1939-12-11)December 11, 1939
Ada, Oklahoma
DiedMarch 15, 2018(2018-03-15) (aged 78)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Oklahoma
University of North Dakota
GenrePoetry

She was the 2014-2015 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento.[2]

Femku Magazine has a haiku contest named after Mountain.[3]

Biography

Mountain was born in Ada, Oklahoma. She earned a BFA from the University of Oklahoma in painting and an MA in painting from the University of North Dakota.[4] She began writing haiku in 1968.[5]

After she married her husband, John Wills, she moved with him to east Tennessee.

Writing

She wrote several one-line haiku and was also known for writing visual haiku (short poems that had visual effects like that of concrete poetry), which she referred to as "dadaku" or "unaloud haiku" and are sometimes also called "eye-ku".

Personal life

She was married to John Wills, another haiku poet. They later divorced.

Bibliography
  • the old tin roof, 1976, self-published[6]
  • Pissed off poems ; and Cross words, 1986
  • cur*rent (with Francine Porad), Vandina Press, 1998
  • probably: 'real' renga sorta (with Francine Porad), Vandina Press, 2002
  • one-line twos (with Kala Ramesh), Bones, 2015[7]

See also

References
  1. "The Living Haiku Anthology - Mountain, Marlene". livinghaikuanthology.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. "American Haiku Archives Honorary Curator Marlene Mountain". www.americanhaikuarchives.org. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  3. "Contest". #FemkuMag: Home. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. Mountain, Marlene. "mm info/background". www.marlenemountain.org. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  5. "The Living Haiku Anthology - Evolving Consciousness (by Marlene Mountain)". livinghaikuanthology.com. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  6. Mountain, Marlene (1976). "The Old Tin Roof". Marlene Mountain. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  7. Mountain, Marlene; Ramesh, Kala (2015). "One-line Twos". Bones--journal for contemporary haiku. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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