Adria Neapolitan Adria Neapolitan studied the haiku and senryu of Michael McClintock, including a series of email interviews. Here is the resulting essay: Nature, Sex, and Bluntness: A Look at the Haiku of Michael McClintock Adria also conducted an email interview with McClintock, available on his web profile: Michael McClintock: A Web Profile Also, Adria completed a study of the use of spacing in haiku publication. Here is her essay: To Space or Not to Space: An In-depth Comparison of Spacing and Form in Haiku

Author's Preface Through this semester, I've found that the best way for me to write haiku is to write down an image as soon as it pops into my head. The images don't come to me when they are forced. I've tried to put together a variety of topics for this collection, to demonstrate the range I hvae as a haiku poet. This collection is separated into eight themed sections from women and nature to stress and the fantastic. I'd like to give special thanks to those who made my writing and collection possible: Erin, the girls of #810, and my boys—Eddie, Andrew, and Paul "with one eye and one leg missing." Thanks, Adria Reader's Introduction Adria has a unique haiku collection. She writes a wide variety of haiku ranging from funny to very serious. In her collection, "Banana Strip Show," she uses some sarcasm to show how messed up some situations can become. Adria allows her readers to imagine the scene that she is thinking of while writing. She is very talented at using words that allow the readers to feel, hear, and even smell what is taking place. I realy enjoyed her haiku and I think that her readers will too. —Paul Baker