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Marlene Mountain (née Morelock; December 11, 1939 – March 15, 2018), also known as Marlene Morelock Wills, was an American poet, artist, and activist.[1] She wrote many English-language haiku and concrete poems.

Marlene Mountain
Born	(1939-12-11)December 11, 1939 Ada, Oklahoma
Died	March 15, 2018(2018-03-15) (aged 78)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Oklahoma University of North Dakota
Genre	Poetry

She was the 2014-2015 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento.[2]

Femku Magazine has a haiku contest named after Mountain.[3]

Biography

Mountain was born in Ada, Oklahoma. She earned a BFA from the University of Oklahoma in painting and an MA in painting from the University of North Dakota.[4] She began writing haiku in 1968.[5]

After she married her husband, John Wills, she moved with him to east Tennessee.

Writing

She wrote several one-line haiku and was also known for writing visual haiku (short poems that had visual effects like that of concrete poetry), which she referred to as "dadaku" or "unaloud haiku" and are sometimes also called "eye-ku".

Personal life

She was married to John Wills, another haiku poet. They later divorced.

Bibliography

• the old tin roof, 1976, self-published[6]
• Pissed off poems ; and Cross words, 1986
• cur*rent (with Francine Porad), Vandina Press, 1998
• probably: 'real' renga sorta (with Francine Porad), Vandina Press, 2002
• one-line twos (with Kala Ramesh), Bones, 2015[7]

See also

• Carlos Colón

References

External links

• Official website

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