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Maya Lyubenova

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maya Lyubenova

Born: September 12 1956 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Resides: Kotel, Bulgaria
E-mail: mayalyubenova (at) gmail (dot) com
Maya teaches English in Philip Kutev National School of Folk Arts – Kotel
and writes poetry in English and Bulgarian – haiku, haiga, visual poems and free verse.

Awards and Other Honors:

In the April issue 2009 of the World Haiga Contest,
the Jury named Maya Lyubenova World Haiku Association Master Haiga Artist;
In May 2009 her haiku won the second Bulgarian Haiku Contest.

Books Published: Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо
[a bilingual (English/Bulgarian) haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010).


                        Selected Haiku

a lemon slice
in my whiskey glass
this hazy moon

broken wall...
the barn and a cherry-tree
lean on each other

a tern's shadow
darts across the beach
herring clouds

spring thunder
the newspaper shakes
in my hands
hot summer noon
a grasshopper jumps
off his shadow
barking
at the fisherman’s dog
… a herring gull

Credits: "a lemon slice" - Sketchbook – A Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms
(February 2008); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual--English/Bulgarian--haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010);
"broken wall" - Notes from the Gean, Issue 1 (2009);
"a tern's shadow" - Frogpond 31:2 (2008);
"spring thunder" - First Prize, Second Bulgarian Haiku Contest (2009); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual--English/Bulgarian--haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010);
"hot summer noon" - World Haiku Review 6:4 [Neo Classical Haiku] (2008); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual (English/Bulgarian) haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010);
"barking" - 3LIGHTS Gallery, Seaside haiku (2008); Flecks of Blue / Парченца синьо [a bilingual--English/Bulgarian--haiku collection] (Ars, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 2010).