Golden Pictures: haiku poems about friendship

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Swist was born April 26, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was active in the Yale University community from 1973-1980[citation needed]. He currently makes his home in South Amherst, Massachusetts.

Swist has published over one hundred feature articles and reviews, yet his focus has been writing poetry. His poems have appeared in literary magazines, anthologies, and popular magazines such as Rolling Stone. Readings of his work are online at National Public Radio and Sahara: A Journal of New England Poetry published a special issue devoted to his work in the winter of 2003.

He was twice awarded the Museum of Haiku Literature (Tokyo) Award (Frogpond, XIII: 2, 1990 and Frogpond, XVIII: 3, 1995). His selected haiku, The Silence Between Us, was published by Brooks Books in their Goodrich Haiku Masters series in 2005.

A short documentary film regarding his work as a poet and a writer, In Praise of the Earth: The Poetry of Wally Swist, was released in 2008 by award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Wilda (Hadley, MA: WildArts).