Marlene Mountain, also known as Marlene Morelock Wills, was an American poet, artist, and activist. She wrote many English-language haiku and concrete poems.
Biography
Mountain was born in Ada, Oklahoma. She earned a BFA from the University of Oklahoma in painting and an MA in painting from the University of North Dakota. She began writing haiku in 1968. After she married her husband, John Wills, she moved with him to east Tennessee. ==Writing==
Writing
She wrote several one-line haiku and was also known for writing visual haiku (short poems that had visual effects like that of concrete poetry), which she referred to as "dadaku" or "unaloud haiku" and are sometimes also called "eye-ku". ==Personal life==
Personal life
She was married to John Wills, another haiku poet. They later divorced. ==Bibliography==