Don Wentworth

Don Wentworth is a Pittsburgh-based poet and editor whose work reflects his interest in the revelatory nature of brief, haiku-like moments in everyday life. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, bear creek haiku, bottle rockets, frogpond, and Rolling Stone, as well as a number of anthologies. His poem “hiding” was selected as one of “100 Notable Haiku” of 2013 by Modern Haiku Press. He is the author of four full-length collections: 'Past All Traps' (2011), 'Yield to the Willow' (2014), 'With a Deepening Presence' (2016), published by Six Gallery Press, and 'Touching the Now' (Skylark Publications, 2018), a tan-renga sequence co-authored with the British poet, Joy McCall. For the last 29 years, he has edited the small press magazine, Lilliput Review, the focus of which is the brief poem, 10 lines or less.