March 2006, Casa del Pueblo, art museum, Punta del Este,

Uruguay, South America

Hi, I'm Joanne Morcom and I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, near The Rocky Mountains, the rolling prairie and the rugged badlands.  I'm a social worker, certified laughter yoga leader and I also write haiku, tanka and haibun poetry.  My poetry has appeared in print and online publications like Asahi Haikuist Network,  Cenotaph Pocket Editions, DailyHaiku, Eleventh Transmission, The Electronic Poetry Network, Flashshot, Full Moon,  Frogpond,  Gusts, The Haiku Anthology, The Haiku Hundred, The Haiku Canada Review, Lair of the Mythos, Legacy, Mindprints, raw nervz haiku,  Ribbons, Scifaikuest, Simply Haiku, Suite 101.com, Tanka Splendor, Tidepool, tinywords, Weird Tales and Woodnotes.  I'm a member of Haiku Canada, Tanka Canada, The Writers Guild of Alberta and The Magpie Haiku Poets, who published A Piece of Egg Shell: An Anthology of Haiku and Related Work in 2004.  In November 2006, Sam's Dot Publishing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa published my scifaiku chapbook, A Nameless Place.  In  2007,  pooka press of Vancouver B.C. published my poetry postcards and a photobooth broadside.  In April 2009, Inkling Press released my tanka, haiku and senryu book About the the Blue Moon.  Contact me to lead a poetry workshop or a laughter yoga session in the Calgary area.




Life is a very special occasion.  Ashleigh Brillian