Cor van den Heuvel

Cor Van den Heuvel (born March 6, 1931) was an American haiku poet, editor and archivist.

He lived out his final decade on Long Island near his niece and writing haiku.

[1] He first discovered haiku in 1958 in San Francisco where he heard Gary Snyder mention it at a poetry reading.

Van den Heuvel has published several books of his own haiku, including one on baseball.

He was the honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library at Sacramento for 1999-2000.