Maki Starfield was born in Ehime, 1972. She earned her Master of Arts from Sophia University, and then got the diploma of International business management (post graduate)with Honors from Niagara College and the certificate of TESOL from St.George International College in Canada. She began to make haiku in 2008, where she became recipient of a prize at the 12th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest. On February of 2012, she published a new collection, Kiss the Dragon.
She has recently been performing as a painter as well as a poet. She participated in Design Festa Vol.40 in Tokyo Big Site in 2014 and recently contemporary art exhibitions. She won a prize at the contemporary art (kindaibijutsu) association's public recruitment exhibition in 2017, and was awarded twice (spring and autumn competition) in 2018, and she also got the honorable prize, Dojinsho at the 44th and 45th Taiyo Bijutsu Exhibition in 2018 and 2019, and got a prize at the Ueno Royal museum and has been awarded at the 2020 Salon of Artistes Français. She is a member of Japan Universal Poets Association. She is also a regular member of Sokyu, Sawa and Evergreen in Japanese haiku associates.
Japanese-English Bilingual Books: Duet of Dots co-authored with Naran Matos in 2015, Duet of Lines with Luca Benassi, Trio of Crystals with Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald in 2017. Trio of Gardens with Lidia Chiarelli and Huguette Bertrand. Duet of Fireflies with Bill Wolak, Duet of Doors with Yesim Agaoglu, Duet of Mists with Dileep Jhaveri, Trio of Jade with Xiao Xiao, Dumu Luofei, Duet of Wings with Willem M. Roggeman, Duet of Islands with Sarah Thilykou, Duet of Faces with Yiorgos Veis, Trio of Windows with Ikuyo Yoshimura, Adjei Agyei-Baah in 2018. Duet of Enlightenment with Konstantinos Bouras, Duet of Pleiades with Paddy Bushe, Quartet of Rose Madder with Yao Yuan, Yu Xiu, Chaung, Yu-Huiand, Duet of Circles with Statis Gourgouris, Duet of Butterflies with John W. Sexton, in 2019. Duet of Forms with K.Satchidanandan, Duet of Lakes with Eileen Sheehan in 2020. Oneness (poetry collection) in 2019 and Bouquet of Roses (Haiku Collection) in 2020.
Her poems have appeared in literary magazines in Italy (Immagine & poesia vol 5 anthology),Greek (poeticanet), China (Guandongluming-Voice Overseas, Monthly Poetry), Republic of Azerbaijan (parafraz.az), Romania (REVISTA), England (Ephemerae), India (Taj Mahal Review), and Korea (Expatriate Literature), Belgium (De Auteur) and been translated into more than 15 languages.
Award: Guido Gozzano Prize (Honorable Mention) 2018,2019
JUNPA Prize for a new poet 2020
PushCart prize nomination 2020
PREMIO BESIO 1860 Prize 2021
Participation:
Poetry Reading in Kyoto (2016, 2018,2019,2020)
JUNPA 5th Anniversary Commemorative International Poetry Festival (2017)
Poetry Festival in Hong Kong (2018)
https://immaginepoesia.jimdofree.com/
https://makistarfield.wordpress.com/
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Haiku collection
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a poetic dialogue on "butterflies"
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Greek poet Stathis Gourgouris and Japanese poetess Maki Starfield had a poetic dailogue on "circles".
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Turkish poetess Yesim Agaogle and Japanese poetess Maki Starfield present a beautiful poetic dialogue in "Duet of Doors".
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The Duet of Dots" is the first collection by Narlan Matos, who is the most important emerging poet of today's Latin America and the Japanese poetess Maki Starfield.
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Greek poet and Japanese poetess had a dialogue on "Enlightenment."
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Greek poet Yiorgos Veis and Japanese poetess Maki Starfield had a dialogue on "Faces".
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Looking for a nice french translator
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K. Satchidanandan is great poet of India. Young poet Maki Starfield offers to coauthoring him and gave permission with generous encouragement. JUNPA is proud of success of this "Duet of Forms". The contrast "Form" and "Formless", in other words "visual" a
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Austria poet Michael Augustin and Japanese poetess Maki Starfield had a dialogue on "Hope" sharing their poems.
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Greek poetess and Japanese poetess had a poetic dialogue on "Islands."
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dialogue on "Lake" sharing their poems
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The themes are love and peace
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Looking for a french/spanish translator
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Irish poet Paddy Bushe and Japanese poetess Maki Starfield had a dialogue on "Pleiades" sharing their poems.
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American poet Jack Foley and Japanese poetess Maki Starfield had a dialogue on "Polygon".
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a new collection
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Looking for a translator in European languages!
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My recent poetry collection
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looking for a Chinese/Russian translator
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Asian Poets in Sympathy
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Japan Universal Poets Association presents "Western-Eastern Poets in Sympathy.
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Western-Eastern Poets in Sympathy
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Chinese poetess Xiao Xiao, Dumu Luofei and Japanese poetess Maki Stafield had a trilogue on "Jade".
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a new way of understanding haiku and a new haiku understanding of the way.
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