Hooked Beak Canvas Print

This is an image of an original cut and paste collage created from images of Japanese art. It was scanned into the computer and overlaid with an original Haiku I wrote, along with my chop mark, which says, “John Vincent.” Twenty of the fifty images are collected in a book called “Japan Haiku Collage,” which can be found on Amazon.com.

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...