CREEK CROSSINGby Valorie Woerdehoff High/Coo Chapbook Award 2025 ISBN 978-1-929820-36-8 • perfectbound ~ ~ ~ For Tom and my family, ~ Valorie ~ ~ ~ About the Author Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff was raised in Northern California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Writing and a Master of Arts degree in Theology from Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, and served for over 35 years as a higher education professional. She is married to Tom Woerdehoff and has for over 40 years called Dubuque home. The mother of five children, Johanna, Matthew, Christopher, Elise, and John, and grandmother to twelve, she has been publishing longer poetry and essays since 1979, and haiku and other short forms since 1982. She studied creative writing with Ted Schaefer, at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Ill., literature with Donna Bauerly, Ph.D., and haiku with Bill Pauly at the undergraduate and graduate level, at Loras College where she also took First Place in the inaugural Raymond Roseliep Haiku Contest (judged by Fr. Raymond Roseliep). Tsugigami, a collection of linked verse she co- authored with Connie R Meester (Red Moon Press: 2018), was shortlisted for the 2019 Haiku Foundation Touchstone Book Award and received a First in the inaugural Marianne Blugar Book Awards from Haiku Canada in 2020. She is a long-standing member of the Haiku Society of America and is listed in the Haiku Foundation’s Registry and Haikupedia. Her work has been translated into Gaelic and Japanese, and her fine art letterpress haiku note cards are available at River Lights Bookstore (Dubuque). |
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Introduction A resourceful 4th grade teacher turned a rheumatic fever diagnosis I’d been given into the beginning of my writing career. I couldn’t partake in PE or recesses due to my illness, which forced me to stay in the classroom when the rest of the students were romping around in the gym or outside. Likely to keep me from annoying her too much, this creative teacher suggested I read and write poetry to keep busy. I’ve never stopped; thank you, Mrs. Klessig. Writing and experiencing the writing of others have always been key ways for me to process meaning. In my poetry, I look to the everyday for truths, as I perceive them, and as markers on the journey. ~ Valorie Woerdehoff |
Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors/ judges/curators of the following books, journals, anthologies, websites, contests, and collections in which some of these poems previously appeared or were honored: A Vast Sky, Acorn, Alpha, Autumn Moon, Daily Haiku, Frogpond, Gallery, Haiku Girl Summer, Haiku Moment, Haiku Society of America Members' Anthologies, Hedgerow, International Women’s Haiku Festival, Irish Writers Center, Mayfly, Midwest Haiku Traveling Rock Garden, Modern Haiku, National League of American Pen Women Palomar Branch International Poetry Contest, Raymond Roseliep: Man of Art Who Loves the Rose, Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, The Haiku Calendar, The Helping Hand Haiku Anthology, and The Heron’s Nest. ~ ~ ~
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