Cor van den Heuvel

• Name — Cor van den Heuvel • Born — 6 March 1931 • Birthplace — Biddeford, Maine, U.S. • Died — 12 September 2024 • Place of death — Long Island, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Poet, editor • Genre — Haiku • Spouse — Leonia "Leigh" Larrecq van den Heuvel • Children — Dirk jan van den Heuvel

Van den Heuvel was born in Biddeford, Maine, and grew up in Maine and New Hampshire. He spent most of his life in New York City living in the East Village in Manhattan. He lived out his final decade on Long Island near his niece and writing haiku. He first discovered haiku in 1958 in San Francisco where he heard Gary Snyder mention it at a poetry reading. He returned to the East Coast the following year and continued composing haiku. He became the house poet of a Boston coffee house, reading haiku and other poetry to jazz musical accompaniment. In 1971 he joined the Haiku Society of America and became its president in 1978. Heuvel died on September 12, 2024, at the age of 93.

Van den Heuvel has published several books of his own haiku, including one on baseball. He is the editor of the three editions of The Haiku Anthology; the original Haiku Anthology published in 1974 by Doubleday, the second edition published in 1986 by Simon & Schuster, and the third edition published in 1999 by Norton.