Chad Lee Robinson was born on July 8, 1980, in Pierre, South Dakota, and grew up there on the banks of the Missouri River. As a kid he played along with his older brother and some cousins in little league. He usually played right field, but he says “I always preferred a game of catch.” He throws and bats right-handed.
He first learned about haiku in a creative writing class while at South Dakota State University, from which he graduated in 2003 with a BA in English. The class was taught by South Dakota State Poet Laureate, David Allan Evans. “I’ve been captivated by haiku/senryu ever since,” writes Robinson. “I read everything I could find, which wasn’t much, mainly The Haiku Anthology and Haiku Moment. I found some good info online that led me to the Haiku Society of America and the magazines Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and The Heron’s Nest, and I went on from there. My first published haiku was in Mayfly 36, Winter 2003.” He is one of the poets featured in Red Moon Press’s A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku 4 (2005) and is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Skipping Stones Haiku Group.
He still lives in Pierre.
long summer day—
spoke by spoke the baseball card
loses its rattle
dusk—
a ball field’s lights
shining through the trees