Marco Fraticelli is a poet, musician, editor, publisher, and educator. He has contributed as an executive member of Haiku Canada (1988-2014), and as an editor and publisher of the literary magazine The Alchemist (1974-1987) and the Hexagram Series (1991-2012). His poetry has won awards in Canada, the United States, and Japan. Fraticelli has been invited to provide keynote addresses, read at community events and poetry conferences, facilitate workshops, and judge haiku contests. His most recent collections include haibun – a form that combines story with haiku. He has just completed his first children’s novel, and is currently working on a memoir (of sorts) inspired by Beatles lyrics.
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Awards
First Prize – in the inaugural Marianne Bluger Book Award (Haiku Canada, 2020) for A Thousand Years (catkin press, 2018). Judges’ comments may be found here.
Honorable Mention – Touchstone Distinguished Books (The Haiku Foundation, 2018) for A Thousand Years (catkin press, 2018). Commentary from the panel may be found here.
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational Contest. Details about the contest are available here.
Winner (Canada category): 2015 & 2013
Honourable Mention (Canada category): 2011
Honourable Mention (Adult category): 2008
Prizewinner, Fifth Annual International Haiku Contest, Ehime, Japan, 1990.
Selected Anthologies
Haiku in Canada: History Poetry, Memoir – Terry Ann Carter. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2020. Information is available here.
Wordless: Haiku Canada: 40 years of haiku - Claudia Coutu Radmore & Marco Fraticelli (Editors), Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2017. Information is available here.
Erotic Haiku: Of Skin on Skin - George Swede & Terry Ann Carter (Editors), Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 2017. Information is available here.
The Touch of a Moth: The 35th Annual Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology - Claudia Coutu Radmore & Marco Fraticelli (Editors), Sudbury, ON: Scrivener Press, 2012
Lighting the Global Lantern: A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms - Terry Ann Carter, Township of South Frontenac, ON: Wintergreen Studios Press, 2011. Information is available here.
Montreal: A Haiku Anthology / Une anthologie de haikus - Pamela Cooper & Monika Thoma-Petit (Editors), Montreal: Haiku Collective, 2010
Carpe diem: Anthologie canadienne du haïku / Canadian anthology of haiku - Terry Ann Carter & Marco Fraticelli (English-language Editors) and Francine Chicoine (French-language Editor), Éditions David & Borealis Press, 2008. Information is available here.
The New Pond: An English-language Haiku Anthology - Emiko Miyashita (Editor), Tokyo: Hokumei-sha Press, 2001