About Winston

The artist

Winston Everlast is an American haiga artist and poet whose practice stands in a traceable lineage of American haiku, rooted in Dubuque, Iowa, and shaped by five years of training in Japan.

Lineage

American haiku has teachers, and teachers have students. Winston’s line runs through Dubuque:

1. Raymond Roseliep (1917–1983)Priest and poet, among the most honored American haiku writers of his generation.
2. Bill PaulyRoseliep’s student; award-winning haiku poet and longtime teacher in Dubuque.
3. Winston EverlastPauly’s student; carries the lineage into haiga and into human–AI partnership.

Training in Japan

Winston spent five years training in Japan, a period that included formal study of nihonga — Japanese-style painting in mineral pigments on paper and silk. The muted gold used throughout this site is drawn from his nihonga painting of a daffodil.

Practice

Winston’s current body of work numbers more than 700 haiga, each pairing an original poem with an image developed in documented partnership with AI image models. The provenance of every work — including the model version used — is recorded and displayed.