2025 WINNING POEMS (INSIGHTS) AND BIOS
BY BINNA CHOI
Binna Choi is a Newton resident.
BY MARY ANN MAYER
Mary Ann Mayer says she is honored to join Haiku Newton in celebrating this playful, potent, spacious form. Her latest work appears in Brilliant Corners: An Anthology of Jazz and Literature. Her recent poetry collection, Kissing the Shuttle – A Lyric History, explores the rise of textile mills, the tuberculosis epidemic, and New England’s pioneering role in public health. Mary Ann lives in Sharon.
BY RICK REIBSTEIN
Richard Reibstein teaches environmental law and policy - for work - and is a poet in his private life. His mom was a poet who published in little magazines. Richard says that sometimes he shares his poems with friends, and sometimes his poems escape his little world and appear in public, as with Haiku Newton.