Bio

John J. Han (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, where he serves as editor of Cantos: A Literary and Arts Journal. An award-winning poet, he has authored three haiku volumes: Little Guy Haiku, Chopsticks and Fork, and Thunder Thighs. His poems have also appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies worldwide, including the Asahi Haikuist Network, Cave Region Review, Confluence, Dreams Wander On, Elder Mountain, Flood Stage, Four and Twenty, Frogpond, Geppo, Harvests of New Millennium, A Hundred Gourds, Intégrité, kernels, The Laurel Review, the Mainichi Daily News, Mariposa, Online Nepali Literary Web Magazine, The Pathfinder, Prune Juice, Simply Haiku, South by Southeast, Steinbeck Studies, Taj Mahal Review, The Temple Bell Stops, and Wilderness.

On
my
cool couch
I take a
siesta, slipping
in and out of cicada sounds.