About Charlotte Digregorio
I publish books. I have marketed and/or published 55 titles. These books are sold in 46 countries to bookstores, libraries, universities, professional organizations, government agencies, and book clubs. In 2018, I was honored by the Governor of Illinois for my thirty-eight years of accomplishments in the literary arts, and my work to promote and advance the field by educating adults and students alike. I am the author of seven books including: Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All; Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Homes; You Can Be A Columnist; Beginners' Guide to Writing & Selling Quality Features; Your Original Personal Ad; and my latest, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing.
The first four books have been adopted as supplemental texts at universities throughout the U.S., Canada, India, Pakistan, and Catalonia. They are sold in 43 countries, and are displayed in major metropolitan cultural centers. These books have been reviewed, recommended, and praised by hundreds of critics, librarians, and professors worldwide.
I am also the author of a poetry collection: "Shadows of Seasons: Selected Haiku and Senryu by Charlotte Digregorio." Two of my books have been Featured Selections of Writer's Digest Book Club. I am regularly interviewed by major print, radio, and television organizations throughout the U.S. I regularly sign books at libraries, chain bookstores, and university bookstores, and do poetry readings at art centers, cafes, tea houses, and galleries.
I was recently nominated for two Pushcart Prizes in poetry. I have won fifty-nine poetry awards, writing fourteen poetic forms. My poetry has been translated into eight languages. I do illustrated solo poetry exhibits 365 days a year in libraries, galleries, corporate buildings, hospitals, convention centers, and other venues. My individual poems have been displayed at supermarkets, apparel and wine shops, banks, botanic gardens, restaurants, and on public transit.
I have been nominated and listed in "The International Authors and Writers Who's Who" in Cambridge, England and in the "Who's Who In Writers, Editors & Poets U.S./Canada." I hosted my own radio program, "Poetry Beat," on public broadcasting. My poetry has been featured on several library web sites including those of Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana and Cornell University's Mann Library.
My background includes positions as a feature editor and columnist at daily newspapers and as a magazine editor. I have been a public relations director for a non-profit organization. I am self-employed as a public relations/marketing consultant, having served a total of 118 clients in 23 states for the past several decades .
In other professional areas, I have been on university faculties, teaching French, Italian, and Writing.
I regularly give lectures and workshops on publishing, journalism, publicity, poetry, and creativity to business and professional groups, and at writer's conferences, universities, literary festivals, non-profit organizations, and libraries. I have been a writer-in-residence at universities.
There have been about 400 articles written about me in the media. I have served on the Boards of writers and publishers organizations. My positions have included Board Secretary of the Northwest Association of Book Publishers. I served for five years as Midwest Regional Coordinator of The Haiku Society of America, and for two years as its Second Vice President.
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Delighted to be featured for a whole week of haiku in this important blog!
Thanks Alan!
Quite a touching haiku that shows a father’s love for his son. I know I’m not the only one that can directly relate to this haiku. I have memories of being on my father’s shoulders and sharing stories around the fire while camping. The last line brings the haiku to new heights, as the imagination of a child travels beyond us, yet remains grounded in father’s shoulders. Excellent!
Thank you, Jacob, for commenting.
Thanks Jacob!
Most of my haiku are from experiences, so this was in a pub one winter, where they had a wood-fire. A father was telling a story to his son, who was on his dad’s shoulders, and they went round and round the smallish pub. But of course, fathers have been telling stories for centuries to their sons against starlit skies, roaring wood fires, and a full moon. 🙂
Alan
Hi Charlotte, just catching up now as I was at a crime writing event over the weekend. Great to see you’re featuring Alan Summers again. Alan is a true master of haiku, his work always amazing, inspiring and very welcome.
His haiku above takes me back 40-odd years to when I was a young dad too, with strong shoulders and always quick to spin a yarn.
My very best,
Paul
Thanks Paul! 🙂
Gosh, which one where, re crime writing event? Reminds me to catch up with Nick Quantrill.
I am delighted that this haiku resonated with you!
warm regards,
Alan
Hi Alan, it was ‘Alibis in the Attic’ at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, Flintshire (just a few miles down the road from my home on the Dee Estuary), a most fabulous event organised by the crime writer Martin Edwards (Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and President of the Detection Club) to celebrate the opening of the British Crime Writing Archives at the library.
Martin and his fellow speakers (including Ann Cleeves and Stella Duffy) were all brilliant and I seemed to spend the entire weekend back in the inter-war ‘Golden Age’ with the shades of Sayers, Christie and Berkeley et al ever-present; also Sherlock from the Victorian/Edwardian period.
If you’re into crime fiction, as many poets are (Philip Larkin was a case in point), you’d have loved it as I did.
Warm regards,
Paul
Ah, what a pity Philip Larkin and Nick Quantrill could never had met. I mostly read crime fiction for recreational reasons, as I read and study haiku several hours a day to keep up to date for my students. 🙂
Karen is the one who deals with actual crime and helped created Discovery Channel’s Dallas DNA (her title too). I did get to meet someone, in a Dallas hotel room, who was knowingly falsely imprisoned for nearly 30 years, which was incredible, and incredibly moving.
Alan
Thanks for sharing, Paul.