Francine Porad was a Seattle area painter and widely-published haiku poet. She served as President of the Haiku Society of America from 1993-1995. Porad was a prolific writer whose haiku were in publications worldwide. She was an award winner, a lecturer and a juror of many national and international haiku /senryu/ tanka competitions.

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