Michael Nickels-Wisdom

Michael Nickels-Wisdom (born Michael Roy Wisdom), March 22, 1957, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.), American library technician (retired) and minimalist poet. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Haiku Chapter of the Illinois State Poetry Society. His work has been published in New Resonance 12 and four of Modern Haiku Press’s annual Haiku anthologies as well as periodicals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, American Tanka, Roadrunner, Bones, Under the Bashō, Whiptail, Scifaikuest, Kingfisher, and Password. He has won three Tanka Splendor awards and one each from the Haiku International Association, Tokutomi Memorial Haiku, and International Kusamakura haiku contests, among others. Nickels-Wisdom lives in Delavan, Wisconsin.

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