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Eugeniusz Zacharski (born January 5, 1959, Radom, Poland; Facebook username Gevon Zelm), retired biomedical engineer with a master’s degree from the Warsaw University of Technology. He began composing Japanese short-form poetry in 2015. Two haiku were shortlisted for the 1st Ewa Tomaszewska Poetry Award (2018), and another in the 3rd edition. His haiku and senryu have earned him multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and another for the THF Touchstone Individual Poem Awards. Zacharski’s haikai have appeared in print periodicals including First Frost, Presence, Acorn, and Kingfisher, and online in Mainichi Haiku in English, World Haiku Review, Cattails, Chrysanthemum, The Heron’s Nest, and Wales Haiku Journal; and his work is anthologized in the 2020 and 2023 Red Moon anthologies and Haiku 2022. His haiga, usually featuring artwork by Jacek Pokrak or Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, have been published in DailyHaiga and elsewhere. Zacharski has been listed on Krzysztof Kokot’s European Top 100 Haiku Authors in 2019–2024. He resides in Radom, Poland.
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