Photo by Ken Pincince
Denise Fontaine-Pincince (born Denise Charlene Fontaine, October 4, 1953, Palmer, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), retired private school founder/administrator, now artist, and haiku, haibun, haiga, and verse poet. She holds an MFA in poetry and is a member of the Sugar Maple Haiku Group and the Cold Spring Poetry Critique Group. Her work has appeared in periodicals including Bottle Rockets, Modern Haiku, Kingfisher, Frogpond, and Wales Haiku Journal, and anthologized in A New Resonance 13 and Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies. Her haiga collection, Haiku Thank You, was published in 2011, and she edited Tea All the Time it Takes: A Haiku Anthology, published in 2025. Her YouTube video: Haiku Gifts: Art with Poetry by Denise Fontaine-Pincince was presented at the Haiku North America 2021 conference. Fontaine-Pincince currently resides in Belchertown, Massachusetts, where she volunteers in local schools teaching art with poetry.
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