Author Description

autumn deepens is the ninth edition of the cherita: a storybook journal. The cherita genre was created by ai li on the 22 June 1997. It consists of three stanzas of 1 - 2 - 3 lines and it tells a story. This volume showcases 77 fine cherita from poets who hail from UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, India, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Lithuania, Sri Lanka, Poland and Croatia. Four cherita terbalik or inverted cherita are featured along with two collaborative cherita. Featured Poets as they appear in this edition:- Matsukaze PreJean/ Kala Ramesh/ Christine L. Villa/ Peter Jastermsky/ Paweł Markiewicz/ Alexis Rotella/ pamela a babusci/ Keitha Keyes/ Lesley Anne Swanson/ Ed Higgins/ Patricia Prime/ Elizabeth Alford/ Autumn Noelle Hall/ Patricia Kennelly/ Maryalicia Post/ Alan Summers/ Kath Abela Wilson/ Dave Read/ Erika Wilk/ Mary Hanrahan/ Arturas Silanskas/ Elizabeth Moura/ Michael H Lester/ Keitha Keyes/ Madhuri Pillai/ Grace Galton/ Martina Robles Gallegos/ Caroline Skanne/ Larry Kimmel/ Patricia Prime/ Tiffany Shaw-Diaz/ Giddy Nielsen-Sweep/ ai li/ Johnny Baranski/ Joyce Futa/ Malintha Perera/ Hansha Teki/ Paweł Markiewicz/ Samar Ghose/ Goran Gatalica/ Tamara K. Walker/ Joanna Ashwell/ Debbie Strange/ The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems. The entire book also has one poem to a page to allow the author's words to breathe. Here is an example from the book:- the trick is forgiveness not permission our thoughts wander other landscapes with the taste of new nectar Peter Jastermsky The cherita invokes the storyteller that lives in all of us. ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita: your storybook journal. She is an internationally published Haiku, Tanka and Cherita poet and the founding editor and publisher of