Charles Trumbull first encountered haiku in the early 1960s. He didn't do
anything serious with that discovery, however, until about five years ago,
when he and a group of friends began writing poetry, literally, on a bet.
Finding that he could not sustain a poetic thought much beyond one
breath-length, he settled on haiku as his medium. Charlie is active in
Chi-ku, the Chicago-area haiku group, and the Haiku Society of America. He
works in the editorial department of Encyclopaedia Britannica and lives in
Evanston, Illinois.