M. Kei
- Age: 47
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Taurus
- Zodiac Year: Ox
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Occupation: Poet
- Location: Chesapeake Bay : Maryland : United States
- Wishlist
About Me
Kei is a poet of the Chesapeake Bay. He is a volunteer crewman aboard the skipjack Martha Lewis and his other obsession is the history of sailing, especially the 18th and early 19th centuries. He is currently single. Kei's Japanese short form poetry has appeared in Eucalypt (AUS), Kokako (NZ), Gusts (CAN), American Tanka, Mayfly, Modern English Tanka, Stylus, Wisteria, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, Haiku Harvest, Red Lights, Bottle Rockets, Clouds Peak, To Find the Moon, Sixty Sunflowers, Fire Pearls, Fish in Love, Templibres (Belgium), Haiku Miscellany (Croatia), and various other places. He was a Winner in the Tanka Splendor 2006 contest; grand prize winner in the 2nd World Poetry contest, and now edits the Atlas Poetica . He is the Moderator of Kyoka Mad Poems email list and the Editor for the Chesapeake Bay Saijiki (haiku almanac) at the World Kigo Database. He is the Editor of Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, published in 2006 and author of Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, 2007. Email him at kujaku at verizon dot net.
Well, maybe they don't need them, but don't you think that some fish might like a bicycle?
If I were a fish, I would definitely want a bicycle. That's just the kind of person I am.
Interests
- Japaniform poetry
- tanka
- waka
- kyoka
- poetry
- sailing
- skipjacks
- history
- naval history
- Chesapeake Bay
- Japan
- xebecs
- corsairs
- North Africa
- gay
- bisexual
- leather
- equal rights
- Native American
- tradish
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
- Johnny Cash
- Holst: The Planets
- Bob Segar
- La Makina
- Eric Whitacre: Ghost Train
- Daddy Yankee: Dame mas gasolina
- Bob Segar and other 60s and 70s rock
- Latin music
- classical music
- gagaku
- country and Western music (both kinds!)
- and almost anything where the singers enunciate well enough to be understood.
Favorite Books
M. Kei's Blogs
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