Lenard Moore

[1] He is a writer of more than 20 forms of poetry, drama, essays, and literary criticism, and has been writing and publishing haiku for more than 20 years.

In 2008, Moore became the first Southerner and the first African American to be elected as president of the Haiku Society of America.

He is executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society, founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective, and cofounder of Washington Street Writers' Group.

[2] Moore states that his love for writing was a long process that started when he was in elementary school.

Lenard has eight poetry collections, a very large list of major prices including three Museum of Haiku Literature (Tokyo) Awards, and he was the first African American elected president of the Haiku Society of America.

[citation needed] Moore used to be assistant professor of English at Mount Olive College.

He is the author of: Moore has taught workshops, served on literary panels, and given hundreds of readings at schools, festivals, colleges, and universities, including National Black Arts Festival, Zora Neale Hurston Festival, People's Poetry Gathering, Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center (Camden, New Jersey), and The Library of Congress.