The Puma, poetry

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Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019.Previously published as feline narratives (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2007).*An excerptthe cat darts through the open door—hamsterin its mouth*The authorDan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer—and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu. Lukiv’s formal apprenticeship as a creative writer includes intensive personal direction from Canada’s Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA’s Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England’s D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry), and includes studies at The University of British Columbia (The Creative Writing Department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer’s Digest School (novel writing program). He and his wife have four daughters (married), one granddaughter, two grandsons, one step granddaughter, and one step grandson. Over many years he taught a variety of subjects (English, English Literature, communications, guitar, drama, social studies, mathematics, science, consumer education, career planning, Response Ability Pathways®, physical education, composition, and creative writing) at award-winning McNaughton Centre (Quesnel, BC), a school for troubled teenagers. Since 1978, he has edited CHALLENGER international, a literary journal that, over many years, focussed attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and, since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education,