gejegor wallpapers: haiku poems for kids 2010

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Born in Columbus, Ohio, on September 20, 1954, Michael J. Rosen is the eldest of Marvin and Nona Rosen's three children. Rosen spent his childhood exploring the wilderness around the former pasture in which his parents had built their house and taking drives through the country with his family. His childhood, and part of his adulthood, were also filled with summer camp, an institution which he attended as a camper from age four to thirteen and as a counselor from fourteen to twenty-six. Rosen was never the type to play well in team activities; he states that the more solitary activities at camp "spared me the uneasiness I felt when playing team sports like Little League or spending phys ed class time waiting to be chosen, wishing to be elsewhere. That dread of being singled out lingered through middle school. I never realized that almost everyone there harbored some reason to feel uncomfortable." Perhaps a contributing factor was the bullies who harassed him through his school years. His favorite place at school was the art room, where he spent all his free time during school hours; after school Rosen would continue with his artistic inclinations through drawing, collecting comics, and spending parts of his weekend at the advertising agency operated by his best friend's father. His parents, a loving couple, were very supportive in all his pursuits, as were several of his teachers and neighbors.

After he graduated from high school, Rosen chose to go to Kent State University for a year before transferring into the pre-med program at Ohio State University. He finished up as an animal behavior major in 1976 and attended St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada for a short time before going on to work as an instructor for Ohio State University through 1985. During that time, he also attended Columbia University, earning his Masters in poetry in 1981.

Rosen has also acted as an illustrator for several works, among them The Blessing of the Animals, Food Fight: Poets Join the Fight Against Hunger with Poems to Favorite Foods, and a variety for Gourmet (magazine) and The New Yorker.

Rosen was interviewed several times due to the success of The Cuckoo's Haiku. When asked by Bill Eichenberger of The Columbus Dispatch about the similarities between birds and haiku, Rosen wrote that "Both are fleeting impressions. Rather than whole stories and studied observations, these two arts usually offer snatched glimpses and surprising hints... For me, looking at one specific thing, one species, helps to focus and clarify ideas or principles that apply more broadly." In another interview, on the website The Miss Rumphius Effect, Rosen explained that he would "always cherish one of W. H. Auden's definitions of poetry: clear thinking about mixed feelings," and also, in an interview by Julie Danielson on Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast, that "Writing about wildlife is really writing about my own life".