Louis Cuneo - Poet, Photographer, Coordinator of Mother's Hen, the Berkeley Poetry Festival, Muchos Somos, and Touch of a Poet Series.html

Louis Cuneo


Louis Cuneo was born in New York City and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in his early twenties. His literary career spans over 30 years. He started in Greenwich Village as a poet and moved to the Bay Area where he continued working as a poet, photographer, editor/publisher, coordinator, teacher, playwright, producer, Haiku expert and grants recipient. He is a man of many talents. Louis Cuneo founded Mother's Hen in 1971 and is founder and coordinator of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, Muchos Somos Series and the Touch of a Poet Series. As a well known haiku poet who helped establish a unique form of American Haiku, Mr. Cuneo has recently turned his attention to haiga, the visual aspect of haiku. He now spends most of his free time capturing the intimate moments of Berkeley in his photographs. Cuneo has published ten books which include: HAIKU REVISITED (Celestial Arts, 1975); GODZILLA ATTACKS A TRUCK (Lean Frog, 1981); PASSING MOMENTS (Mother's Hen, 1991): and SPLASH (Malthus Press, 1999).His poetry, Haiku and articles appeared in Gypsy Table, Peace & Pieces Anthology, American Pen, Love Lights, Word Hustlers, Bachy, California Poets, New World Haiku, Lean Frog, Poetry Flash, Berkeley Monthly, Artery, 100% Pure Rag, Aldebaran Review, Dragonfly, Free Poems for the People, Suttertown News and more. You can view Cuneo's collection of personal and literary writings,events, & publications along with his magazines & anthology credits at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Please contact Ms. Bonnie L. Bearden at (510) 642-8171, (510) 540-5579 (FAX) or bberden@library.berkeley.edu.There are also samples of the following at the Bancroft Library: books by Louis Cuneo; videos of the weekly poetry series, Touch of A Poet; books published by Mother's Hen; special events; instructional books and drama from the library's collection. Louis Cuneo has now turned his creative attention towards the visual arts and you can see his photography at various sites in the Bay Area or order his cards or photographs through this site.