Elizabeth Searle Lamb
Elizabeth S. Lamb | |
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Born | Topeka, Kansas | January 22, 1917
Died | February 16, 2005 Santa Fe, New Mexico | (aged 88)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Kansas |
Elizabeth Searle Lamb (January 22, 1917 – February 16, 2005) was an American poet. She is known for writing English-language haiku. Raymond Roseliep called her the "First Lady of American haiku".[1] Her work has been translated into other languages.
Biography
[edit]She was born in Topeka, Kansas.[2] She attended the University of Kansas and studied music and, in particular, she played the harp. She married F. Bruce Lamb in Trinidad in 1941.[3] They lived in several places in South America due to her husband's job as a forester. They moved to New York in 1961.[4]
She served as president of the Haiku Society of America in 1971.[5]
She died in 2015 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Honors and awards
[edit]She was the honorary curator for the American Haiku Archives in the California State Library in Sacramento from 1996 to 1998.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]- The pelican tree, and other Panama adventures, 1953
- Today and every day, 1970
- 39 Blossoms, 1982
- Across the windharp: collected and new haiku, 1999
References
[edit]- ^ "The Living Haiku Anthology - Lamb, Elizabeth Searle". livinghaikuanthology.com.
- ^ a b "American Haiku Archives Honorary Curator Elizabeth Searle Lamb". americanhaikuarchives.org. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ Trumbull, Charles. "Elizabeth Searle Lamb—New Mexico Haiku Poet" (PDF). Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ Kussart, Natalie. "Elizabeth Searle Lamb's Haiku". www.brooksbookshaiku.com. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Lamb, Elizabeth Searle - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 5 August 2020.