John Brandi
John Brandi: is poet and painter and the author of many books, including Pa–Siempre: Cuba Poems (2016), Into the Dream Maze (2015), At It Again (2015), The World, the World (2013), Seeding the Cosmos: New and Selected Haiku (2010), and Facing High Water (2008). As a poet he owes much to the West Coast beat tradition. He earned a B.A. in Art and Anthropology from California State University, Northridge, and is the co–editor of The Unswept Path: Contemporary American Haiku (2005). He lives in New Mexico.