Bio

John J. Han (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis. An award-winning poet, he has authored three poetry volumes: Little Guy Haiku, Chopsticks and Fork, and Thunder Thighs. His poems have also appeared in the Mainichi Daily News, Simply Haiku, Mariposa, Geppo, Shot Glass Journal, The Laurel Review, Cave Region Review, Prune Juice, Elder Mountain, Lucidity, Taj Mahal Review, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. Simply Haiku designated him as the world's sixth-best English-language haiku poet for the year 2011.

Wide
eyes
facing
each other...
the deer and I stand
still under the crispy sunlight.

Something knocks the top of my head
but I'm all alone.
It lands on
my feet—
a
nut.