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Lev Hart (born February 27, 1953, Toronto, Ontario), retired addictions counselor and active haikai poet since 2022. He is a member of Haiku Canada and the British Haiku Society, a former mentor at Triveni Haikai India, and currently coeditor at Poetry Pea. Hart’s verses have been included in the Red Moon anthologies (2022, 2024). A senryu of his won second place in the 2023 Haiku Society of America’s Gerald Brady Senryu Awards and another took an honorable mention in the H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest the same year. Hart won second place in the Betty Drevniok Awards for 2025. In 2025, 90 of his haiku, senryu, tanka, and sequences were published in 24 journals and blogs. Yavanika Press published a digital micro-chapbook of Hart’s concrete haiku, Black Mountain Haiku (2024). In early 2026 he will serve as one of three judges for the Magic of Maples Haiku Contest sponsored by the BHS and Forestry England. Hart resides in Calgary, Alberta.
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