George Swede

Editor of Frogpond, 1Jan2008—15Feb2012; Co-founder, Haiku Canada, 1977; Honorary Curator, American Haiku Archives, 2008-2009.

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now
whenever i walk
my real estate
listing

Modern Haiku, 2025, 56.3

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town dump
the heaps of discarded
meaning

Frogpond, 2024, 47:1

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from the playground a child pink with history

Passport, 2025, 2.2

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after agreeing
we have nothing
in common
mutual orgasm

NOON: journal of the short poem, 2024, #26

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former hanging tree
the leaf that won't fall

Presence, 2025, Issue 81

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last night's dreams
the lingering wisps
of morning mist

Blithe Spirit, 2021, 31:3

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today's notebook page a neonatal ward

In Modern Haiku, 2022, 53.2

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fire-ravaged forest
after leaving its shadows
mine never the same

NOON; Journal of the short poem, 2021, #20

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fresh snow
his shadow parodies
an old man walking

Presence, 2021, #69

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in the lost and found mostly time

In an untitled chapbook co-authored with Victor Ortiz and Orrin Prejean, Eugene, OR: ant 5, Dec. 2022

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tourists taking
selfies for social media
the glisten
of the beach pebbles
after each wave

Presence, 2021, #69

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wilderness sunrise
night turns life and death
over to the day

Presence, 2022, #74

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Poetry Pea Reading: George Swede goes beyond with his poetry https://t.co/GBqZ3riwpk via @YouTube

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S7E2 Poetry Pea Readings: George Swede pt 1- The Way a Poem Emerges https://t.co/oMbE5hEWFJ via @YouTube

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80th so far this life A-

(is/let, 2020)

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awards night
depending on where you stand
a different
parking lot puddle
holds all of the moon

Gusts, 2020, No. 32

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long past its
best before date
the jar of ambition

In an untitled chapbook that also includes poems by Victor Ortiz & Orrin Prejean and was published by Chris Gordon's ant 5, Dec, 2022

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a new neighbor next door climate change

(Frogpond, 2020)