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These contain haiku specifically written to describe the illustrations, which are photographs I took that were augmented in Photoshop to give them a particular style. These photographs were taken in Florida, Italy, and Rochester, New York. These images are collected in book form, available on Amazon, under the title: HAIKU ILLUSTRATED.

John Vincent Palozzi was born in Rochester, New York, in 1948. In 1972 he moved to Lake Worth, FL., where he still resides. He graduated from the University of Buffalo with a B.A. in Psychology and a certificate to teach High School English. He wrote his first poems at age thirteen upon entering high school and had several published in the literary magazine, of which he was on the staff. At UB John was a frequent poet at readings and coffee houses. He studied poetry at UB and has a minor in Literature. After coming to Florida, he continued writing, eventually becoming the President of “Poets of the Palm Beaches,” which office he maintained for seventeen years, from 1989 to 2006, and still remands on their Board of Directors. He also...