Hear from Melinda & Deborah about Tangled Thicket
poet & writer
Deborah Bowman, Ph.D., is a retired psychologist and served as a professor of Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Counseling and Wilderness Therapy at Naropa University. She is the author of The Female Buddha: Discovering the Heart of Liberation and Love and other books. She is co-author with Melinda Canino of tangled thicket: seasons of haiku.
The practice of haiku weaves together her passion for all things wild, from the flight of a finch to the vulnerable and supple human heart.
lettering & visual artist
Melinda Canino has studied and practiced lettering and the visual arts for over fifty years. She has taught calligraphy, hand-lettering, bookmaking and drawing in Denver and the surrounding areas. Her bird photography and illustration express her deep appreciation of the natural world.
Includes haiku first published in bottle rockets, first frost, Frogpond, hedgerow, The Heron's Nest, Kingfisher, Modern Haiku, Presence & tsuri-doro.
about Tangled Thicket....
We often read haiku twice to better experience their deeper meaning. In this delightful book, Canino's calligraphy repeats each haiku and makes it dance on the page and in the reader's mind.
The seasonally organized haiku are sophisticated and shine with originality through Bowman's intimate knowledge of flora and fauna vocabulary.
~ Agnes Eva Savich, so many dandelions
The Female Buddha
Deborah's photography is paired with the wise words of women writers from the time of the Buddha to the present day.
The Female Buddha is beautiful and inspiring. The photos and the quotations remind us of our own inner capacity for love and freedom. Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness
Deborah captures the essence of the divine feminine, gentle yet strong, inwardly contemplative and outwardly courageous."
Linda Leonard, The Wounded Woman
2024 & 2025 Golden Triangle Posters
80 haiku chosen out of over 4000 poems to line the streets of DC!