David Watts

David Watts (born Harvey David Watts, March 22, 1940, Chicago Illinois, U.S.A.), American writer, poet, aphorist, symphonic and jazz musician, retired radio and television personality, and physician. He started writing haiku in 2020 and has been published widely, including two books, Dream Tree (2021) and Seed Kites (2023). The Eyelids of the Wind, a book of translations of early Hispanic haiku poets prepared with Cristina Rascón, is scheduled for publication in 2025. Watts’s own haikai  have been included in Skipping Stones: The Red Moon Anthology (2022), The San Francisco Haiku Anthology: The Next Thirty Years (2024), and A New Resonance 14 (2025). In 2020 his haiku were recognized in the Croatian Little Iris Haiku Contest and the Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition. His aphorisms have been translated into German, Spanish, and Farsi. Watts lives in Mill Valley, California.

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