I am also a poet, writer, and editor. I primarily write haiku and tanka in English. I am the author of A Lost Prophet: Haiku & Tanka (Brooks Books, 2024), Metal & Rain: Selected Tanka (lulu, 2023), Unplugged- Haiku & Tanka (Lulu, 2022), and Mare Liberum: Haiku & Tanka (Lulu, 2020). I was a past managing editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America (2023-2024). I'm the editor of Masayume: A Dream Comes True by Carolyn Winkler (co-edited with Diana Saltoon). I'm also the editor of Myths of the Archetypes: A Tarot Guide (Lulu, 2022) by Carolyn Winkler and My Sister Meda: A Memoir of Old Singapore (Lulu, 2023) by Diana Saltoon.

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My poetry website is: https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/mareliberumhaiku