Born Cornelis van den Heuvel, March 5, 1931, Biddeford, Maine; died September 12, 2024, Long Island, New York, American haiku poet and editor. He learned of haiku from Beat poet Gary Snyder in San Francisco in 1958 and began writing in the genre the following year. In 1961, with his own Chant Press in New York City, he published the first of twelve collections of his own haikai. His pioneering The Haiku Anthology: English Language Haiku by Contemporary American and Canadian Poets appeared in 1974 with revised editions in 1991 and 1999. [For more information click on the title]