ai li

ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita, which is a monthly journal http://www.thecherita.com/submissions.html, now available as a print book and e-book [all back editions will be migrated to print and e-book versions for our readers], the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line. There are now 8 books on Cherita by ai li and she is also the author of 20 books on Haiku and Tanka. All ai li’s books are available on Amazon in paperback and on kindle. One of her six word haiku has been included in 'Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years' which features work by Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, E E Cummings and many others, and is published in hardback by WW Norton & Co, New York 2013. She gave a lecture 'once upon a cherita . . .' at The Peranakan Museum, Singapore in January 2019, and reprised the lecture at the U3A in Hampstead, London in March 2019. She is also a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain [FRPS], and an evidential spiritualist medium who trained at The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain [Est. 1872] and The College of Psychic Studies, London [Est. 1883]. ai li's poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, Canada, Japan and India. You will also find ai li's poems in the following books :- ● One Cherita in Hedgerow #126, Wildflower Press, UK, Winter 2019. ● One Cherita in Hedgerow #125, Wildflower Press, UK, Autumn 2019. ● One Tanka in Moonbathing Issue 19, Published in USA. ● One Tanka in bottle rockets #39, published in August 2019, in the USA. ● One Haiku in bottle rockets #40, published in February 2019, in the USA. ● 3 Haiku in Spring 2019 in Akitsu Quarterly, published in USA. ● 40 Cherita translated into Hindi and Punjabi by Arvinder Kaur in under raintrees, in India 2019. ● 3 Haiku in Spring 2018, Summer 2018, one Haiku in Fall 2018 in Akitsu Quarterly, published in USA. ● 4 Tanka Sequence in Stacking Stones : An Anthology of Short Tanka Sequences Paperback, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA Summer 2018 ● Several Cherita, Tanka and Haiku in frameless sky issues 5,6,7 and 8, 2017 -2018, Publisher frameless sky, usa ● 31 Tanka and 9 Cherita in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 31, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, 10th Aniversary Issue January 2018. ● Multiple Cherita in the 13 editions of the cherita, Publisher 1-2-3 press, london, england, June 2017 through February 2018. ● 33 Tanka and 7 Cherita in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 30, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, Fall 2017. ● One Cherita in Hedgerow Print Issue, Wildflower Press, UK, Autumn 2017. ● Two Tanka in Skylark : A Tanka Journal, UK, Volume 9, Summer2017. ● 40 Tanka in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 29, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, Fall 2017. ● One Haiku and One Cherita in Scryptic 1:2, Published in the USA, September 2017. ● 3 Haiku in Akitsu Quarterly Fall 2017, Published in USA. ● One Tanka in Moonbathing Issue 16, Published in USA. ● 51 Cherita and a Cherita article in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 27, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, Spring 2017. ● One Cherita in Hedgerow Print Issue, Wildflower Press, UK, Spring 2017. ● 37 Tanka and 3 Cherita in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 26,Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, October 2016. ● 17 Tanka in Neon Graffiti, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, November 2016. ● 1 six word Haiku has been included in 'Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years' [Hardback] which features work by Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, E E Cummings and many others, Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York, September 2013. ● One Haiku and One Tanka in 'Now This : Contemporary Poems of Beginnings, Renewal and Firsts', Robert Epstein, Editor; Publisher-Wasteland Press, Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA, July 2013. ● One Tanka in Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka by M Kei, Editor-in-Chief, Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010. ● 28 Tanka in Streetlights, Urban Poetry of Place, Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009. ● 11 Tanka in Landfall, Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2007. ● One Haiku in The Works Key Stage 2, Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, London, 2006] where she is in the company of Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Ted Hughes, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Charles Simic, Wilfrid Owen, William Carlos Williams, Carol Ann Duffy, to name just a small selection of the poets featured. ● Three Haiku in Erotic Haiku, Compiled and Edited with Translations into Japanese by Hiroaki Sato, Printed in Japan 2004. ● 11 Tanka in The Tanka Anthology : 800 of the best Tanka in English by 68 of its finest practitioners, Hardback, By Michael McClintock [Author, Editor] and Pamela Miller Ness [Editor], Publisher: Weatherhill Inc., 2003. ● One Haiku in Haiku Tanka Senryu, Internationalization of Japanese Poems 2002, Edited by Kazuo Hayakawa, Hatsue Kawamura and Ikuyo Yoshimura. ● One Haiku in The Loose Thread : The Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku, Edited by The Red Moon Editorial Staff 2002, Publisher: Red Moon Press. ● 14 Haiku in Global Haiku, Twenty-five Poets World-wide, Edited by George Swede and Randy Brooks, Publisher: Mosaic Press, Canada 2000. ● One Haiku and Two Tanka in The Art of Haiku 2000, Edited by Gerald England, Publisher: New Hope International, Hyde, UK. ● One Haiku in Prairie Sunset, an international haiku anthology, the winning poems of The Herb Barrett Award, 2000, edited by Denver Stull, Publisher: hamilton haiku press, hamilton, ontario, canada. She has also created several original linked forms akin to Renku aka Renga, one of which, the Cherita, in particular has been widely embraced and has grown in popularity since ai li created this short form in 1997. The Cherita brings out the storyteller which lives in all of us. She lives quietly and mindfully in London and writes in a Rousseau inspired dream yard watched over by three old stone buddhas.