From: Haiku Society of America [email protected]
Subject: HSA NEWS September 05, 2019
Date: September 5, 2019 at 1:30 AM
Volume 34, Number 09 | September 05, 2019
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Fay Aoyagi
HSA President
Dear Members,
How do you do? I am Princess Tatsuta, Goddess of Autumn. A literal translation of my
name into English would be ‘Dragon Rice Field;’ the name of a mountain located west of
Nara, the ancient capital of Japan. I govern the beauty of the autumn mountains and
fields. Some of you might have expected another tiny creature as this month’s DW
(Designated Writer). I have to apologize if I have disappointed you. Fay asked me to write
about autumn insects. I think it will be better if, rather than talk about them, I let those
creatures speak for themselves.
mushi naku ya ware to yu o nomu kagebôshi
insects sing—
my shadow sipping
hot water with me
Fura Maeda
from
Haiku Dai-Saijiki
('Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki'), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, Japan
As you may know, ‘mushi,’ an autumn kigo, only applies to a singing insect, such as a
cricket or a grasshopper. Ancient Japanese aristocrats enjoyed
‘mushi awase’
(insect
match) bringing their own to compete to determine whose insect would sing most
beautifully. Other insect-related kigo exist, like
‘mushi shigure’
(insect shower) or
‘mushi-
gari’
(insect hunt) and
‘mushi erabi’
(insect selection). If you listen to the insect chorus
with a glass of wine in your hand, the Haiku Muse may join you.
mimizu naku atari e kogomi aruki suru
towards the area
where an earthworm sings
I walk stooping
Kusatao Nakamura
from
Haiku Dai-Saijiki
(“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
I know you will say ‘an earthworm doesn’t sing!’ You are right. Ancient people confused
the earthworm with a mole cricket. Let me tell you an interesting folktale. Once upon a
time, the snake was a beautiful singer, but it didn’t have eyes. An earthworm went to the
snake and asked to exchange its eyes for the snake’s singing voice. Personally, I will never
give up my eyes and the ability to see gorgeous leaves in the autumn mountains. I will
gladly let someone else do the singing and I am happy just listening to it.
minomushi no inochi fukuramu kaze no naka
bagworm
its life balloons
in the wind
Kiyoko Uda
from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
A
‘minomushi’
(bagworm) also doesn’t have an organ for singing. According to
Makura no
Soshi
(The pillow Book), the bagworm is a demon’s child. Father demon didn’t like it and
placed a dirty bag over its head. The demon said he would be back in the autumn. When
the autumn wind started, the bagworm cried
‘Chihi yo, chichi yo’ (Oh father, oh father)'
like an abandoned child. As Goddess, I tell the bagworm there are a lot of friendly souls
other than its cruel father. Falling leaves will gently touch it. Soft moonlight will tuck it in
at night.
I have heard about ancient Egyptian mythology. Bees were believed to grow from tears of
the Sun God, Ra, when they landed on the desert sand. Insect stories are not always
heartwarming. On Old Babylonian seals, flies were used as symbols of Nergal, the god of
death. In Swedish folklore, the devil uses dragonflies to weigh people’s souls. Someone
like me, who has lived near the ancient capital of Nara for centuries, will find it difficult to
choose the right creature with the right story for you haiku poets. You will say, ‘I’d rather
go to nature to find my haiku materials than searching for a story on the Internet.’ That’s
fine with me. When you go out into the autumn fields and listen to the grasshoppers’
song, you may come up with your own story. Let me hear it, if you do.
crickets’ song
the footsteps halt
at the gate
Beverly Momoi
HSA Second Vice-President
Dear Members,
The results of HSA's 2019 contests for haiku, senryu and haibun are in! The winners are
announced below. The next issue of
Frogpond
will include the winning poems and the
judges' commentary.
Congratulations to the winning poets, thanks to all who participated in this
year's contests, and special thanks to our judges for their work.
HENDERSON HAIKU CONTEST RESULTS
First Place:
"ultrasound"
by Raquel D. Bailey, Jamaica
Second Place:
"high summer"
by Michael Morell, Havertown, PA
Second Place:
"high summer"
by Michael Morell, Havertown, PA
Third Place:
"fireflies"
by Michele L. Harvey, Hamilton, NY
Honorable Mentions (unranked):
"downpour"
by Paul Kulwatno, Falls Church, VA
"dawn chorus"
by Jacquie Pearce, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"frosty night..."
by Martha Magenta, Bristol, United Kingdom
"barn owl's cry:"
by Temple Cone, Hyattsville, MD
"it ends"
by Matthew Markworth, Mason, OH
"crack house"
by Roland Packer, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
"to lead a life"
by Annette Makino, Arcata, CA
The judges for the 2019 Henderson Haiku Contest were Carole MacRury and Christopher
Herold.
BRADY SENRYU CONTEST RESULTS
First Place:
"refugee—"
by PMF Johnson, Minneapolis, MN
Second Place:
"newborn"
by Roberta Beary, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland
Third Place:
"holiday letter"
by Annette Makino, Arcata, CA
Honorable Mentions (unranked):
"town undertaker—"
by Barry George, Philadelphia, PA
"age spots"
by Tom Painting, Atlanta, GA
"park map"
by Jayne Miller, Hazel Green, WI
"migrant children"
by Mel Goldberg, Ajijic, Mexico
"identifying"
by Brad Bennett, Arlington, MA
The judges for the 2019 Brady Senryu Contest were Susan Burch and Steve Hodge.
ANNUAL HAIBUN CONTEST RESULTS
First Place:
"Migration"
by Rich Youmans, North Falmouth, MA
Second Place:
"The collector"
by Jacquie Pearce, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Third Place:
"Sorrento Sirena Sisters"
by Marita Gargiulo, Hamden, CT
Honorable Mentions (unranked):
"Cloistered"
by Dru Philippou, Taos, NM
"Unforgiven"
by Tia Haynes, Lakewood, OH
The judges for the 2019 HSA Haibun Contest were Michele Root-Bernstein and Lee Gurga.
Dianne Garcia
HSA Secretary
HSA Secretary
A Continuing Message from the secretary:
We gratefully wish to acknowledge a gift of over $100.00 from Sponsor
Roberta Beary. Somehow her generous donation got lost in the system and
was omitted from last month's list of sponsors. We apologize sincerely for the
oversight.
Dianne and Ignatius
Yes, election time is
just around the corner.
Are you interested in
becoming involved in the
administration of the
HSA? You may run for any
position on the Executive
Committee that interests
you and for which you
feel you have the
necessary skills.
Do you know another
member whom you feel
could do a good job in one
of these positions? If so,
contact her/him and find out if he/she would be willing to run in the election.
If the person agrees, nominate her/him.
You'd like to get involved, but not at the Executive level? How about running
for Regional Coordinator of your Region?
Nominations, with a short biography, must be in our hans by September 20,
2019.Send them to the President, Jim Sullivan.
Come On! Step up and make a difference!
Jerry Ball,
!a Renaissance Man
!a Renaissance Man
Dec 16, 1932 – Aug 18, 2019
Jerry Ball was born in Lincoln,
Nebraska, during the depression. In
1940 his family moved to San
Francisco where he grew up. He
thought of himself as a Californian
though he was not a native. He
went to Lowell High School and
then San Jose State, where he
majored in philosophy and
mathematics. During the Korean
War and after college he entered
the army, spending his time in
Colorado Springs. Following his
army tour he studied philosophy at
the University of Minnesota.
Eventually he received his master’s
degree in mathematics from
California State University Hayward,
whereupon he took a position at
Chabot College in Hayward where he taught humanities and mathematics courses for 36
years. During his tenure at Chabot College, and eventually Las Positas College, he wrote
poetry and developed an admiration for haiku. It was in 1977 that he joined the Yukuharu
Haiku Society with Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi. This group, later known as the Yuki
Teikei Haiku Society, emphasized kigo and three-line form. He was the editor of the
GEPPO for four years and also president of that organization in 1981/2. He planned and
developed the Haiku Retreat held at Asilomar, Pacific Grove CA for Yuki Teikei, which
began in 1984 and has gone on every year for the last 35 years. He was also the co-
founder of Haiku North America, which he and Garry Gay developed jointly. He was
president of the Haiku Society of America. He wrote numerous haiku chapbooks, poetry
books, and academic books related to the subjects he was teaching.
Jerry was honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives located at the California State
Library in Sacramento where he currently has several of his books archived; his personal
papers will be archived there as well.
under the grayest clouds
the sound of pouring rain
on a silk umbrella
Wherever he went, Jerry loved to gather people who enjoyed poetry together. When he
and his wife moved to Seal Beach CA in 1996, he discovered there was no haiku group so
he began the Southern California Haiku Study Group. While he was serving as President of
the Haiku Society of America (2001–02), he conceived and developed the Haiku Pacific
Rim conferences, which took place on five different occasions: in 2002 at Long Beach, CA;
2005 at Ogaki, Japan; 2007 at Matsuyama, Japan; 2009 at Terrigal, Australia; and 2012 at
Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA. The conferences included poets from all countries in the
Pacific Rim, including New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, Japan, Canada, and the United
States. When he moved back to Northern California in 2006, he began a haiku study
group in Walnut Creek, as well as another poetry group that studied longer poems.
His wife, Sandy, was often his inspiration for haiku, tanka, and long poems. They met
while they were both at Las Positas College (formerly Chabot College Valley Campus).
Jerry started there in fall 1974 as a member of the original faculty. Sandy and Jerry
married in 1984 and were together for 37 years.
In addition to being a recognized haiku poet, he wrote other forms of poetry, was an
extremely gifted educator, enjoyed traveling and collecting ancient artifacts, was an
enthusiastic supporter of all the arts, especially opera, was an amateur photographer,
acted in the theater when he had the chance, played, coached and refereed soccer, and
followed baseball, rooting especially for the Oakland Athletics. There wasn't a subject he
couldn't talk about in some depth. He was a modern-day renaissance man.
selling umbrellas
I don't understand a word
but he is friendly
the first working day
businessmen take time out
to visit their teacher
Jerry’s facility with language was unparalleled, and he was well-known for his sense of
humor. Anyone who was around him for a half an hour would get the benefit of his quick
wit.
Jerry passed away at home on August 14, 2019 at the age of 86, after a long battle with
Parkinson’s disease. He is survived by his wife, five children, six grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
spring twilight
the new widow wonders
where to put her hands
submitted by Sandra Ball, with excerpts from the American Haiku Archives,
http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org/curators/JerryBall.html
______________________________________
Mary Frances Meer
1922–2019
A memorial service for Mary Frances Meer was
held August 25, 2019 at Pilgrim Lutheran
Church, Bellevue, WA, where she was a
member for over 50 years. Friends and family
in attendance included many of her 10 great-
grandchildren. She died after a long illness on
July 6, 2019, one day before her 97
th
birthday.
Before many of us met her through haiku in the
1990’s, Mary Fran attended Northwestern
University, became a wife and mother, divorced
and raised two children as a single parent, and
worked as a copywriter with Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago. When she moved to the
Pacific Northwest, she worked for SPEEA, met her second husband, and fulfilled her
dream to own and operate a gift shop, Heirloom Haus, in old town Bellevue.
When Haiku Northwest became affiliated with the Haiku Society of America in 1993, Mary
Fran became the first Northwest Region coordinator, serving from 1993 to 1995. She
edited the region’s first anthology, Echoes Across the Cascades, (1994) and its 1997
anthology, Cherry Blossom Rain. She was the only coordinator to compile a notebook of
the region’s activities. This notebook and other HNW materials will be archived at the
University of Washington Special Collections library. Many will remember her as a
generous host of haiku meetings, and a weekend host to out-of-town friends who stayed
with her in her beautiful Bellevue home when they came for haiku conferences. Her
chapbook, Wooing the Meadowlark, may be viewed at the Haiku Foundation site. At her
request, she was laid to rest in Princeton, Illinois, a reflection of the childhood she
cherished.
the barn kitten
fills a patch of sunlight
on the hayloft floor
submitted by Connie Hutchison
______________________________________
Ann Bendixen
(May 8, 1942—July 3, 2019)
Ann Bendixen was a long-time member of
YTHS. She died July 3, 2019, at the age of 77,
surrounded by the love of family and friends,
grateful for a life well-lived. She left with a “glad
heart.”
Ann grew up on a farm in Iowa. She graduated
from the University of Iowa as a medical
technologist. She then raised four children
while living in New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan,
and Ohio. She was very active as a leader in
both community volunteer and arts
organizations. And she was a small plane pilot.
She began studying Chinese brush painting
with Master Pei-Jen Hau after moving to California in 2000. She also studied Chinese
calligraphy with (Shu-Jen) Marie Hu and was introduced to writing haiku poetry by
Patricia Machmiller. The practice of all three art forms allowed her to connect her
profound appreciation for the natural world with her deep observational skills and to
practice art within amazing communities of fellow artists. She felt honored by the support
and teaching she received from members of both the American Society for the
Advancement of Chinese Arts (ASACA) and the Yuki Teiki Haiku Society (YTHS). Ann
served as president of ASACA and traveled twice to China for exhibitions there. She was
also recording secretary for YTHS and travelled to haiku conferences in Japan and New
Zealand.
A collection of Ann’s Chinese landscapes and haiku was published in 2010 as Reflections
of an Old Pine Tree. Her artwork was also featured on the covers and inside both Wild
Violets, the YTHS 2011 Members’ Anthology, and Butterflight, the 2017 Two Autumns
anthology published by the Haiku Poets of Northern California.
Ann was an adventurer; she always experienced joy in learning new things and
Ann was an adventurer; she always experienced joy in learning new things and
encouraging others to do the same. She will be buried near her parents near Spirit Lake in
Iowa.
!contentment
all winter the sleeping cat dreams
of slow mice
she died before winter
in the painter’s eyes, the trail
of a thousand years
sheep encircle
the high desert hogan
dusting of snow
paper kimonos
cut to Kiyoko’s pattern
star festival
______________________________________
Passing of a
Haiku San Diego Cofounder,
Megan Webster
On June 8, 2019, we lost one of our original
co-founders of Haiku San Diego, Megan
Webster. Megan participated in our initial
meetings to explore, and in support of, the
idea of a Haiku San Diego and to create a
mission statement.
Megan Webster was a teacher, poet, writer,
translator, and editor. She
spoke fluent Spanish and held a master’s
degree in Intercultural Ed. (TESOL). She
taught ESL and literature in Mexico,
Northeastern University in Boston, and San
Diego Community College District, and coauthored several texts in English as a Second
Language.
!Megan facilitated poetry workshops and classes, translated p-rose ad poetry from Spanish
to English, and did freelance editing. She published three poetry chapbooks,
including Bipolar Express, which was awarded the 2004 San Diego Book Award for Best
Unpublished Poetry Chapbook. To quote Bill Harding, publisher of the San Diego Poetry
Annual, Megan Webster was "a thoughtful writer full of insights, a powerful force in our
regional poetry scene and one of the founding editors of the bilingual volume of the San
Diego Poetry Annual."
midnight
the relentless courtship
of the mockingbird
submitted by Naia
Deborah P Kolodji
Haiku Poets of Northern California
HPNC Summer Meeting
The Haiku Poets of Northern California met for our summer meeting on July 21 at the
home of Stephanie Baker and David Fought in San Francisco. Garry Gay, president of
HPNC, opened the meeting by thanking Stephanie and David for so graciously opening
their home to HPNC for the summer meeting when our usual meeting space at Fort Mason
was unavailable. The following people were present: Roger Abe, Mimi Ahern, Susan
Antolin, Fay Aoyagi, Stephanie Baker, Sherry Barto, Chuck Brickley, Bernie Choden, J.
Hahn Doleman, Bruce Feingold, David Fought, Garry Gay, David Grayson, Alan Leavitt,
Mark Levy, Renée Owen, Linda Papanicolaou, Sarah Paris, Joseph Robello, Judith
Schallberger, Lois Scott, Michael Sheffield, John Thompson, Michèle Turchi, Mark Werlin,
Alison Woolpert, and Karina M. Young.
Garry introduced our featured reader, Alison
Woolpert, a long-time resident of Santa Cruz. Alison
was born in the Coachella Valley and became
interested in haiku at an early age when in 1959, her
mother’s literary group selected for study the Peter
Pauper Press book The Four Seasons. As an adult,
she renewed this interest when a poetry teacher
mentioned that she might want to check out the Yuki
Teikei Haiku Society and gave her a copy of a GEPPO
work-study journal. A few years later, she also joined
both HPNC and HSA. Happily, she has been circling
with haiku through the seasons ever since. Alison
shared some back story on the publication of her
new book Greetings From, which contains color
reproductions of postcards from her vast postcard
collection. She shared that she is a deltiologist,
which many of us learned for the first time means a
collector of postcards. From her book Greetings From:
the dogs
shake it loose
summer sea
alone on the porch . . .
just the sound
just the sound
of this peach
We spent the remainder of the afternoon participating in a workshop entitled “Haiku A to
Z” led by Fay Aoyagi and based on a workshop presented by Tom Painting at a meeting in
Florida in May. Many thanks to Tom for lending his list of haiku and tips on how to run
the exercise! The aim of the workshop was to loosen our writing mind so that we would be
better able to write our way towards quality haiku. Fay began by having us each make a list
of twenty-six nouns in alphabetical order. Then, we were told to choose any one of the
nouns from our list and write prose about or inspired by that noun. We wrote freely,
whatever came to mind, for about ten minutes. Several people then shared what they had
written. Fay asked us next to repeat the free writing exercise except this time to do it from
an alternate perspective. After the results of several of these were shared around the circle,
we read the haiku on a handout Fay provided, selected any haiku from the list, and wrote
prose in response to it. From all that was shared aloud, it was clear that the exercise
brought out a lot of creativity, loosened memories, and sparked ideas for further writing.
Safe to say, we all left with ideas to explore in our haiku writing practice.
The 30
th
Annual Two Autumns Reading
On August 25 HPNC hosted the 30
th
annual Two Autumns reading in San Francisco. The
Two Autumns reading is always our biggest event of the year, and this year was a
landmark as we celebrated thirty years of the reading series. The featured readers were
Terry Ann Carter (from Victoria, B.C., Canada), Garry Gay, Jessica Malone Latham, and
Paul Miller (visiting from Rhode Island). The commemorative chapbook Ferry Crossing,
edited by Patricia J. Machmiller, with artwork by Carolyn Fitz, and produced for the event
by Linda Papanicolaou was available for sale at the event (to purchase a copy now, contact
Susan Antolin at [email protected]). Brian Foster performed on the shakuhachi to
open and close the reading, Patricia J. Machmiller served as our emcee, Renee Owen
provided a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and Cheryl Pfeil von der Heyde provided a
delicious spread of refreshments.
l. to r.: Patricia J. Machmiller, paul m, Jessica Malone Latham, Garry Gay, Terry Ann Carter
On a more somber note, this year’s Two Autumns reading was dedicated to poet and long
time HPNC member Jerry Ball. His presence in the haiku community will be sorely
missed. We will commemorate his life and poetry at our October meeting.
Audio recordings of each reader are posted on the HPNC website . The recording of Terry
Ann Carter’s reading also includes Patricia Machmiller’s introductory remarks and her
tribute to Jerry Ball. Many thanks to David Grayson for making these recordings! We now
have audio recordings of both the 2018 and 2019 Two Autumns readings on our website.
From the Two Autumns reading (and included in the chapbook Ferry Crossing):
ferry crossing
she plays cello
for the gulls
Terry Ann Carter
Summer willow
the river passes
through your hair
Garry Gay
dandelion fluff
the silly things
I still wish for
Jessica Malone Latham
day moon
the slow stream pillows
against a boulder
paul m.
Upcoming Reading by HPNC members
On October 25 Chuck Brickley, Bruce Feingold and Renee Owen (accompanied by Brian
Foster on shakuhachi flute) are reading at the Fourth Friday Formal Reading series in
Albany, presented by Calliope: East Bay Music and Arts. The reading will be held at the St.
Alban’s Episcopal Church, 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA, begins at 7 p.m. and
includes an open reading period and interview with the poets. More information available
at the following link:
Contest Announcement
The deadline for the 2019 San Francisco International Competition for Rengay,
sponsored by: Haiku Poets of Northern California is January 31, 2020. Submission
guidelines are as follows:
Rengay Submission Guidelines
All rengay must be titled. For two people (Poet A and Poet B) follow this linked format: 3
lines/Poet A, 2 lines/Poet B, 3/A, 3/B, 2/A, 3/B. For three poets (A, B, and C) the format
is: 3 lines/A, 2 lines/B, 3 lines/C, 2/A, 3/B, 2/C. Type or print each rengay on three letter-
size sheets. Include full authorship information, stanza by stanza, as well as all poets'
names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses on one copy only. On the
other two copies, mark stanzas with letters only (poet A, poet B, poet C) to indicate the
other two copies, mark stanzas with letters only (poet A, poet B, poet C) to indicate the
sequence of authorship. This year’s judge is Seren Fargo.
Send rengay submissions to HPNC, c/o Fay Aoyagi, 930 Pine St. #105, San Francisco CA
94108. If all the poets live outside the United States, submission can be sent via e-mail.
Entry Fees
The entry fee is $5.00 per rengay. Make checks or money orders payable in U.S. dollars to
"Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC)." Cash (in U.S. currency) is OK. Enclose a
business-size SASE (U.S. first class postage or an IRC) for notification of contest winners.
No entries will be returned, with the exception of late submissions, or those received
without payment. These will be returned using your SASE; without an SASE these entries
will be discarded.
submitted by Susan Antolin
Haiku San Diego
HSD Participation in the 10th Annual Japan Festival in Encinitas, CA
On August 3, 2019, Seretta Martin and Naia represented Haiku San Diego by participating
in the 10th Annual Japan Festival in Encinitas, CA, celebrating the Sister City relationship
between Encinitas and Amakusa, Japan. It was held at the Encinitas Library and featured
performances, children's activities, displays, Japanese food, and much more. Seretta and
Naia were on stage sharing some information about haiku followed by their coordinated
reading, which was very well received by the audience. Afterwards we manned a table
where we shared haiku and information with festival attendees.
l. to r. Seretta Martin and Naia at the Encinitas Japanese Festival
Haiku San Diego Monthly Meeting: August 11, 2019
Attendees: Momoyo Capanna, Scott Galasso, Olga Gutierrez, Carol Judkins, Seretta
Martin, Robert Mehyar, Naia, Claudia Poquoc
Martin, Robert Mehyar, Naia, Claudia Poquoc
After announcements, Naia led in a discussion about Santoka (1882-1940), known as the
"Free-Verse Haiku Poet". Naia began with information developed by Deborah P Kolodji
from her trip to Japan in March/April 2019 (which Debbie presented to the Southern
California Haiku Study Group), which included a timeline of Santoka's life. Then we
reviewed some highlights from Stanford Forrester's in depth essay titled A bowl of rice:
An Introduction to the Haiku of Taneda Santoka, which appeared in the Autumn 2005,
vol 3 #3 issue of Simply Haiku, which members discussed. Naia handed out a number of
Santoka's haiku for members to read. Each member chose one and spoke about the haiku
from her/his perspective, after which everyone joined in a broader discussion.
During the second part of our meeting we conducted an anonymous haiku workshop. Each
month we focus on our own haiku that as yet are unpublished, have not been submitted to
journals, and have not been submitted to or placed in contests. Workshopping at this stage
helps us move from observing/writing to self-critiquing by putting on our own editors'
caps.
Haiku San Diego meets regularly on the second Sunday of each month.
submitted by Naia
Moderator, Haiku San Diego
Haiku San Diego Monthly Meeting: July 14, 2019 (meeting was cancelled/no
report)
Haiku San Diego Monthly Meeting: June 9, 2019
Attendees: Momoyo Capanna, Scott Galasso, Olga Gutierrez, Carol Judkins, Naia, Lorraine
Padden, Claudia Poquoc
After announcements and a read-around, Naia acquainted members with Gabriel
Rosenstock's 3-part videos Haiku as Gaeilge: An Introduction to the Art of Haiku in Irish.
The videos were funded by Foras na Gaeilge, presented by the Irish Writers Center, and
featured Gabriel Rosenstock speaking his lessons in Irish, with English subtitles, and
videographer George Hooker. We studied the 3 videos, and our many take-aways included
the following:
"[as a reader] You must feel the haiku an fill it out within yourself, because there is
always something left unsaid. We are given hints, sketches, sensations, rather than a
complete narrative from beginning to end."
regarding full stops at the end of haiku, "We don't want to confine or close off the
haiku. It's free--a breath roaming the universe."
"Basho tells us to write haiku as a samurai warrior draws his sword from the
scabbard, in a flash--so fast there's no time to think. There is no time to think in
haiku. Instinct, not the brain, writes haiku."
During the second part of our meeting we conducted an anonymous haiku workshop. Each
month we focus on our own haiku that as yet are unpublished, have not been submitted to
journals, and have not been submitted to or placed in contests. Workshopping at this stage
helps us move from observing/writing to self-critiquing by putting on our own editors'
caps.
Haiku San Diego meets regularly on the second Sunday of each month.
submitted by Naia
Moderator, Haiku San Diego
Southern California Haiku Study Group
Summer 2019 SCHSG Workshops
On June 15, 2019, fourteen members of the Southern California Haiku Study group met
in the Hill Ave Branch Library in Pasadena; Deborah P Kolodji, Kimberly Esser, Kathabela
Wilson, Scott Galasso, Toni Steele, Sean Kolodji, James Won, Penelope Moffett, Sharon
Yee, Bonnie Santos, D’Ellen, Janis Lukstein, Lynn Allgood, Charles Harmon.
The following books/journals were brought to share:
1. Poetry as Consciousness by Richard Gilbert
2. Steel Cut Moon by Peter Jastermsky
3. Acorn – Spring 2019
4. Akitsu Quarterly – Summer 2019
5. frogpond 42.2
6. Modern Haiku 50.2
7. Miju Poetry & Poetics (Korean Poetry Society Journal which published a selection of
haiku)
After a read-around of haiku where poets either read their own haiku or from one of the
books/magazines provided, moderator Deborah P Kolodji led the group on a “Heron’s
Nest kukai” Kolodji had prepared a selection of haiku from the June 2019 issue of the
Heron’s Nest and the group took turns reading the haiku (without names). Then, members
voted on their favorite haiku and discussed them and the authors were revealed at that
time.
l to r,
back: Kimberly Esser, Mary Torregrossa, Sharon Yee, Patricia Wakimoto, Toni Steele, Wakako
Rollinger, Kathabela Wilson, Richard Gilbert, Susan Rogers, Marcyn Del Clements, James Won
front: Scott Galasso, Naia, Eve Luckring, Deborah P Kolodji
On July 20, 2019, members of the SCHSG met at the Hill Ave Branch Library and
celebrated the anniversary of the moon landing by having their monthly workshop. The
workshop was attended by Deborah P Kolodji, Kimberly Esser, Gregory Longenecker,
Charles Harmon, Bonnie Santos, James Won, Yvette Kolodji, Kathabela Wilson, and Lynn
Allgood.
The following books/journals were brought to share:
1. Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems edited by Philip Rowland
2. If Someone Asks: Shiki’s Life in Haiku published by the Shiki Museum
3. Kukai in Tokyo by Lynn Kansen
4. In One Breath – a Haiku Moment by Elaine Andre & Sandip Chanham
5. All That Remains by Catherine J. S. Lee
6. Where the River Goes edited by Allan Burns
After a read-around of haiku from the poet’s own collection or from the selection of books
provided, moderator Deborah P Kolodji handed out a handout of haiku written about the
space program/outer space in honor of the Apollo 11 Anniversary. These included:
flag on the moon—
a summer’s footsteps
erased by time
- Deborah P Kolodji, Modern Haiku, July 2003
spaceship window—
my face
tattooed with stars
- Lorraine Schein, Star*Line 41.4
red planet
the distance a dream
has to travel
- Sam Bateman, tinywords 2017
After reading and discussing the selection, we generated a list of seasonal words and wrote
to them: thermador, hot, solstice, earthquake, moon landing, shade, muggy, melting,
moon bridge, bastille day, watermelon, last strawberry, heat wave, sprinkler, summer
vacation, the beach
We rounded out the meeting with an anonymous haiku workshop
On August 17, 2019, SCHSG poets were back at the Hill Ave Branch Library for their
August Workshop. The following poets were present: Deborah P Kolodji, Sean Carlton,
Wakako Rollinger, Kimberly Esser, Kathabela Wilson, Jackie Chou, Aya, Marcyn Del
Clements, Bonnie Santos, James Won, Matt Hoisch, Lynn Allgood.
The following books/journals were brought to share:
1. Mariposa #40, Spring/Summer 2019
2. Wishbones by Ben Moeller-Gaa
3. Contractions by kjmunro
4. A Hole in the Light – Red Moon Anthology 2018
5. Equiverse Space: A Sound Home in Words edited by Kala Ramesh, Smeetha Bhoumik,
Abha Iyengar, Taseer Gujral, and Mohammed Farhan
After a read-around of haiku where poets either read their own haiku or one from the
books/journals provided, Moderator Deborah P Kolodji handed out a tribute sheet of Jerry
Ball’s haiku from our group anthologies. Jerry Ball had founded our haiku group in the
1990’s and unfortunately passed away on August 14
th
. We took turns reading Jerry’s haiku
and then discussed our favorites.
bottom of the ninth
starlings begin scavenging
for crackerjacks
…these bird songs…
as the sun rises
over Diablo Mountain
- Jerry Ball
Next, we talked about how a typical Jerry Ball-style meeting would be for the SCHSG. He
would conduct an auditory kukai. First we’d make a list of season words, spend time
writing to them, write them on index cards where a designated reader would read each
twice, then starting over again would read each once and people would vote.
We didn’t do a kukai, but in honor of Jerry, we made a list of August season words for
people to write to and then had an anonymous haiku workshop: vacation, watermelon,
extreme heat/dog days, strawberry stand, August birthday, sunflowers, perseids, mosquito
extreme heat/dog days, strawberry stand, August birthday, sunflowers, perseids, mosquito
bites, ants, concerts in the park, snow cones, sharpened pencils.
Our next workshop will be on the 3
rd
Saturday of September, September 21
st
, starting at
2:00 pm at the Hill Ave Branch Library in Pasadena.
l to r:
Matt Hoisch, Bonnie Santos, Sean Carlton, Jackie Chou, Aya, Kathabela Wilson, James Won
Sitting: Kimberly Esser, Deborah P Kolodji, Wakako Rollinger
not shown: Marcyn Del Clements, Lynn Allgood photo by: Lynn Allgood
!August 24 – SCHSG Welcomes Richard Gilbert
On the warm Saturday afternoon of August 24, a special meeting of the Southern
California Haiku Study Group in Pasadena welcomed Richard L. Gilbert to the Hill Street
Library, as guest speaker presenting his lecture, Haiku Poem, Haiku Mind: Exploring
Diversity and Life Philosophy in Contemporary Haiku. Gilbert mentioned his plans to
retire from his university position in Japan and then proceeded to list a number of projects
he’ll be developing through a grant from the administration! I held back from asking if golf
might be on his agenda.
On a brilliantly more serious note, Gilbert opened his talk with quotes from Future
Histories by Lizzie O’Shea and citing the reason for poetry is to “memorialize
history”. Gilbert enlightened the audience to the response of Japanese Avant Guard poets
in 1947 after the dropping of the atomic bomb with the question, “Should we write haiku
anymore because look what happened, the war, we couldn’t stop anything…” As a result of
this debate, the poet Kaneko Tohta helped revolutionize the genre. And perhaps, in
response to a convergence of technology onto nature and human nature, Gilbert asks
today, how do haiku poets make the genre a “living ideology”?
His deeply nuanced yet perfectly observable answer is philopoetics. This concept involves
“moments of breakthroughs – a freedom of the spirit” as put forth by Cornell West in his
discussions of dealing with the history of dominance. Philopoetics involves iki mono, in
English, living things, that is, “the rawness of and immediacy of living things through
poetry”. It involves taido, in English, a stance. Philopoetics is a stance to determine there
is value. Gilbert reminds us, it is the reader who takes the stance upon the reading of the
poem. Philopoetics is autonomy when the world talks back to us. It is incarnation as the
poet invites in the muse. It is to take the risk of identity. Gilbert recognizes that poetry,
and haiku, sets “a distance from other and closeness to self”. Gilbert offers us a view of the
horizon and path to follow it beyond.
Present were the following poets: Eve Luckring, Naia, Kathabela Wilson, Wakako
Rollinger, Kimberly Esser, James Won, Scott Galasso, Marcyn Del Clements, Mary
Torregrossa, Patricia Wakimoto, Sharon Yee, Toni Steele, Lynn Allgood, Susan Rogers,
Torregrossa, Patricia Wakimoto, Sharon Yee, Toni Steele, Lynn Allgood, Susan Rogers,
Deborah P Kolodji, Richard Gilbert.
submitted by Mary Torregrossa
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
YTHS June 2019 Meeting: Sharing of Wakamatsu Festival
It happened on a Saturday, midday, June 15, 2019. Twelve intrepid lovers of haiku
gathered at the home of Alison Woolpert in Santa Cruz, CA. Alison, Roger Abe and Carolyn
Fitz reported on the 150
th
Anniversary celebration of the first Japanese colony established
in the US. In 1869, the Wakamatsu Colony started a tea and silk farm in California’s Gold
Country. At the festival, Alison, Roger, and David Sherertz invited visitors to write haiku
about the experience while Carolyn demonstrated and encouraged visitors to have a brush
with sumi-e style painting. After the report, we broke for a potluck lunch that ended with
Roger’s amazing cherry cheesecake dessert.
haiku luncheon
salads, salads, more salads
cherry coda
Following lunch and conversations, a list of summer kigo was made available. We had a
45-minute opportunity to sit quietly in the front or rear garden, or to stroll a couple of
short blocks to the bluff above the blue Pacific, to write haiku either from the list, or not.
We then regrouped and, going around the circle, read our inspired masterpieces: what we
witnessed, what we experienced, what we felt, or what stood out for each of us.
proverbial
the good time that was had
by all
Attendees: Alison Woolpert, Roger Abe, Carolyn Fitz, Linda Papanicolaou, Mimi Ahern,
Joan Zimmerman, Dyana Basist, Jean Mahoney, Karina Young, Eleanor Carolan, Carol
Steele, and yours truly, Dana Grover.
submitted by Dana Grover (haiku by Dana Grover)
Zigzag of the Dragonfly Workshop – June 22
Patricia Machmiller is offering four haiku workshops titled “Zigzag of the Dragonfly.” The
first one, The Writing Process — getting words on paper, was held June 22, at the
Monterey Dunes Colony Clubhouse. There were a number of fun and challenging exercises
to stir our minds to create a large pile of words (the writer’s tool, she says). Our writing
time was interspersed with opportunities to take the path through the sand dunes to the
sea for inspiration. Everyone left feeling energized with new ways to tap into their creative
writing process.
Participants: Mimi Ahern, Betty Arnold, Sherry Barto, Dyana Basist, Kathy Goldbach,
Jean Mahoney, Thomasjohn Wells Miller, Lois Scott, Carol Steele, Karina Young, Joan
Zimmerman, and myself.
submitted by: Alison Woolpert
July 2019 Tanabata
In July, YTHS celebrated Tanabata in the Livermore hills at the lovely home of Anne and
Don Homan.
With the help of Roger Abe’s Planisphere (an analog star chart) and his iPhone Night Sky
With the help of Roger Abe’s Planisphere (an analog star chart) and his iPhone Night Sky
app, he pointed out the correct positioning for the rise of the two most important stars of
the night, Altair and Vega. Legend has it that two lovers, Altair (cow herder) and Vega
(weaver princess), shirked their duties, and for that reason they are allowed to meet only
once a year.
Haiku, written on colored paper called tanzaku, were hung from bamboo branches.
in the stillness
the sound of wind through the trees
magpie wings flutter
Carol Steele
Beside our host, Anne Homan, her daughter Becky Davies, and her brother Jim Marshall,
the guests included: Kathy and Ewald Goldbach, Judith and Lou Schallberger, Patricia
Machmiller, Mimi Ahern, Roger Abe, Karina Young, Carol Steele, Alan Leavitt, and Alison
Woolpert.
submitted by: Alison Woolpert
Shelley Baker-Gard
August Meeting Notes
In lieu of our regular monthly meeting, we hosted a lecture night for the internationally
recognized haiku poet and scholar Dr. Richard Gilbert on August 16th. Dr. Richard Gilbert
is visiting the USA on a sabbatical from the Graduate School of Social and Cultural
Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan.
Dr. Gilbert presented a power point discussion on the diversity of haiku in the past,
present, and suggestions on the future of haiku. The lecture was attended, by at least
twenty people all interested in haiku and or Japanese culture. After the presentation we
had a circle gathering where he answered several questions about his viewpoints on haiku
which are best explained by reading his book,
The Disjunctive Dragonfly – A New
Approach to the English-Language Haiku.
To learn more about Dr. Richard Gilbert and his contributions to understanding Japanese
poetry forms, go to the Living Haiku Anthology website.
On Saturday, Carolyn Winkler provided a wonderful traditional tea ceremony as a thank-
you to Dr. Gilbert for enriching our knowledge of the art of haiku in modern times
Monoku Haiku Contest Winners Annnounced!
There was a tie for first place for the monoku contest – both winning monoku will
be printed on pencils that will be given out to those attending the September 28th
meeting in Newport, OR, The winners also received 25 pencils each.
The contestants had to meet the criteria of a one line haiku that was no longer than 30
letters or characters long including spaces. While there were many fine monoku entered
letters or characters long including spaces. While there were many fine monoku entered
and it was tough to choose, we finally narrowed it down to these two winners –
CONGRATULATIONS to both!:
Ellen Compton, from Washington DC wrote:
water music an otter slips in
and
Julie Warther from Dover, Ohio wrote:
one and the same river rain
Annual HSA and PHG meeting set for 9/28
It is official - we will have our annual meeting on 9/28 at the Newport Visual Arts Center
at 777 NW Beach from 9:30 to 3 pm. Fay Aoyagi the current president of Haiku Society of
America will be coming to the meeting and will be speaking on her Blog Project "Daily
Haiku Translation' " with some audience participation.
Jim Rodriguez will be leading the Renku session - this will definitely be a fun and
interesting day. There will be a pizza /salad lunch at the meeting room in the Arts Center (
cost of lunch $5-$8 each). No fee for the meeting. We will also have an informal get
together as usual at the Sylvia Beach Hotel on 9/27 Friday evening at 4pm. Contact
Shelley Baker-Gard for more information [email protected].
The next Portland joint meeting will be September 13th, (We meet 2nd Fridays of the
month from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm at The Friendly House at: 1737 NW 26th Ave (and
Thurman), Portland, OR 97210.)
The host will be will be Shelley Baker-Gard, please bring haiku to share ( most of the
meeting will be a rehearsal for the concert in October ( see announcement below)
Don’t forget that if you are in the Eugene area and want to attend that groups meetings
contact Barbara Snow ; and if you are in the Bend area contact Nancy Bright for
meeting information.
Other announcements
Concert
Sunday, OCT 13th from 3:30 to 5:30 pm : A Music and Haiku Concert will be held at a
private residence: 3026 SE Berkeley Place, Portland OR. The event will be a performance
of the music composed by Vincent Persichetti using the haiku of several Japanese haiku
poets including Buson, Basho, Issa, Shiki, Chiyo and others. These haiku appeared in the
Harold Steward anthology
A Net of Fireflies
published in 1960. The pianist is Joshua Pearl
and is well-known in the northwest for his own compositions and talent. He will also play
other works on the Koto.
The second half of the performance will be the readings from the New Bridges Anthology,
which will be accompanied by the flute and drum music of James Rodriguez and Jacob
which will be accompanied by the flute and drum music of James Rodriguez and Jacob
Salzer. A $10 donation is requested. Please RSVP to Shelley before 10/8/19. This will be
a remarkable and special event.
and an extra from Jacob Salzer
Alan Summers is accepting haiku (published or unpublished) that align with Japanese art
(woodblock prints) displayed at the Bristol Museum.
"There is also an opportunity to submit haiku, senryu or tanka poetry online, based on (or
matched to) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's prints, from wherever in the world you are
logging on. We are looking for poems to use as examples during the event, and some
may also be selected for possible publication on the museum's website."
Here is the link to learn more about the event.
Here are 3 links to view the Japanese woodblock prints:
Masters of Japanese prints: Hokusai and Hiroshige landscapes
Masters of Japanese prints: Life in the city
Masters of Japanese prints: Nature and seasons
And here is the link to submit haiku! (Alan notes to include the Japanese Print title and/or
ID number for each woodblock print you write haiku about. The Print ID numbers are at
the bottom of each piece and look like this: Mb7788)
Jacob Salzer also recently published his first book of tanka,
Distant Sirens,
edited by Diana
Saltoon, Clayton Beach, and Nicholas Klacsanzky. It consists of 40 tanka.
Distant Sirens
is
now available to buy online at: lulu.com, amazon, and barnes & noble for $9.
example:
deep
in the dark woods
sleeping starlings...
these old trees do not know
our names
Steve Tabb
Dear All,
We are planning another front range gathering.
Sunday 22 September
9 am
9 am
Panera Bread in The Shops at Briargate, Colorado Springs
I-25 exit 151. Go east, follow the signs
Last month's gathering in Denver was nice. Thanks, Ellen for arranging that. Of course,
we realize that not all of you are close enough to travel to Denver or Colorado Springs at
just any moment. Many of us, however, live here along the front range and we find it
rewarding to gather with other haiku poets from time to time.
We try to meet at different locations in order to be convenient for as many people as
possible. This next time it will north Colorado Springs. If that is a convenient location for
you, we hope you will join us.
Bring some of your own haiku to share…or not. As you wish. We are very casual and
informal. Just come and enjoy coffee, tea and good conversation.
No need to RSVP. Just show up. Ellen and I will be there at 9am.
If anyone would like to carpool with Ellen from south Denver (Lone Tree), please contact
her.
If you would like more information, contact me; Pat Nolan, Or csll: 719-332-5534
submitted by Pat Nolan
Barbara Hay
Austin Haiku Group
The Austin Haiku Group held its inaugural meeting on Saturday, August 24. In attendance
were HSA members Agnes Eva Savich, Claire Vogel Camargo and Christine Wenk-Harrison.
They discussed the Haiku North American conference, which all three had recently
attended in Winston-Salem, NC, sharing some favorite haiku written there.
The meeting included a review of their recent poetry accomplishments. Most notably,
Claire had read her award-winning haibun to open the Austin City Council meeting earlier
that week. The three also shared tips on how to organize one's haiku and where to submit
for publication, and discussed some best practices in haiku composition.
The next meeting will occur Saturday, October 12 at 11am at Illuminate Coffee Bar
located at 12129 RR 620, suite 102, Austin, TX 78750. The group will aim to meet every
other month, locations may change. Interested members should contact Agnes.
Margaret Lane Dornaus
23
rd
annual conference of the Arkansas Haiku Society
Stanford Forrester and Lee Gurga will be featured poets at this year’s Hot Springs Haiku
conference, hosted by the Arkansas Haiku Society in Hot Springs, Ark., Nov. 1-2. The
23
rd
annual conference will meet both days from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the historic Arlington
Hotel. For more information, email Howard Lee Kilby or call 501-767-6096.
South Wind: A Haiku Anthology
South Wind: A Haiku Anthology
featuring South Region members’ haiku, haibun and haiga
—published in 2018 to commemorate HSA’s 50
th
anniversary—will be available at a special
discounted price of $10 (plus shipping) through the end of the year at www.lulu.com.
Proceeds from the book’s sale will be used to endow future South Region projects.
!88 pages, perfect bound paperback
Julie Warther
!Hello HSA Midwest!
In 2014, Charlotte DiGregorio asked a rookie poet to step into this role as HSA Midwest
Regional Coordinador. I was honored and scared in equal measures, not being in the least
bit sure what I was doing. That was five years, two national meetings and two haiku paths
ago. It has been such a joy to grow into this position and have an opportunity to get to
know so many of you. Now, it’s time to pass the baton, so HSA Midwest can continue to
grow in new ways. It is with great confidence that I endorse Bryan Rickert of Belleville,
Illinois as your next Midwest Regional Coordinator. You will see Bryan’s name and bio on
the election ballot to be delivered to your inbox later this year. I know you will welcome
him with the same warmness I have experienced these last five years!
All the best,
Julie
on the manuscript
the shadow of a butterfly
finishes the poem
Nicholas Virgilio
Announcements
AN EVENING OF HAIKU: Indy Haiku is pleased to present an evening of haiku with
featured poets Bryan Rickert and Chuck Brickley, and a reading by Aaron Packard.
Bryan Rickert, a widely published haiku poet from Belleville, Illinois, is the editor of The
Living Senryu Anthology. His haiku collection Fish Kite is available at Cyberwit.net.
Chuck Brickley was the associate editor of Modern Haiku 1980-85, under Bob Spiess. His
work has been published in many journals, collections and anthologies. His book
earthshine--winner of the THF Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books 2017, and the
HSA Merit Book Award 2017 Honorable Mention, is in its fourth printing.
Location and time as follows:
What: An Evening of Haiku
When: Saturday, 21 September 2019, at 7:00 pm
Where: 1140 W 56th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46228
All are welcome. For questions or to RSVP please email Aaron Packard .
SAVE THE DATE
August 7, 8, 9, 2020 at the Walker House in Mineral Point, Wisconsin for the next Cradle
of American Haiku. More details to follow in the coming months.
Midwest Members In The News
Joe McKeon will be a featured presenter at the Ohio Poetry Association’s 3rd annual
Sun and Moon Poetry Festival held in Yellow Springs, Ohio, September 13-15, 2019. To
read an interview with Joe about his presentation and the art of haiku, including haiku
examples, click here.
examples, click here.
Charlotte Digregorio will have a haiku/haiga exhibit at the Glenview Park District in
Glenview, IL from Oct. 2 through Dec. 31. She will also have a haiga exhibit from Saturday,
Sept. 7 through Monday, Sept. 30 at the Winnetka Community House in Winnetka, IL.
Midwest Study Groups
Evergreen Haiku Study Group (Michigan)
Where did the summer go? It’s almost time to think about coming together again! This is
just a heads-up that our fall meetings are scheduled for the following Saturday dates:
September 21
October 12
November 16
December 7
Our meetings will be held at Michigan State University in C310 Snyder Hall, 362 Bogue
Street, East Lansing, MI. 48825, starting at 1pm. Many thanks to the Center for Poetry,
RCAH, for hosting us. Parking free on campus on Saturdays. Contact Michele Root-
Bernstein
Haiku Waukesha (Wisconsin)
Haiku Waukesha did not meet in August, but we will gather again September 18th, 5-7pm
at First UMC Waukesha, 121 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha, WI 53186. New haiku poets are
welcome! Address questions to Dan Schwerin.
The Haiku Chapter of the Illinois State Poetry Society (Illinois)
In August the group met and had a lively conversation about haiku and life and things that
concerned us. It was exactly what a good regional haiku meeting should be: support,
critique, humor, and life spilling out among us.
The Haiku Chapter of the Illinois State Poetry Society is meeting next on October 20 , 2019
from 1pm-4pm at the Northbrook Library, 1201 Cedar Lane, Northbrook, Illinois in the
Civic Room. In addition to our critiquing we share resources and discuss published haiku
from the perspective of those that delight and those that mystify. In October, we will have
a special session on fragment-phrase haiku. Contact Jim Sullivan for more information.
Ohaio-ku Study Group (Ohio)
The Ohaio-ku Study Group did not meet in August, as many of our members were
attending the Haiku North America Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The
September meeting for the Ohaio-ku Study Group will be Saturday, September 14, from
10am to noon at The Cuyahoga Falls Public Library located at 2015 3rd Street,
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44221. Those who attended Haiku North America will share their
experiences. September’s kukai theme is “Travel”
A look ahead: Lee Gurga, author of Haiku: A Poet’s Guide, will be our guest speaker at the
October 12 meeting. All are welcome! We'd love to see you there. Contact: Julie
Warther.
Columbus Haiku Group (Ohio)
The Columbus Haiku Group meets the fourth Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to
The Columbus Haiku Group meets the fourth Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to
noon. Locations around the Columbus area vary. Please contact Jennifer Hambrick.
Peregrine Haiku Society (Ohio)
The next installment of the Peregrine Haiku Society will be held at noon on Thursday,
September 5, 2019 at The Mercantile Library located at 414 Walnut Street, 11th Story,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. The Workshop is free and open to both members and non-
members of the Mercantile Library. Please contact Amy Hunter at the Library (513-621-
0717) to make a reservation. Lunch will be provided.
HNA Sizzles
Read Michael Dylan Welch's report on Haiku North America here, complete with a group
photo by Garry Gay and details on conference highlights. And yes, there was skinny-
dipping in the hotel pool!
Haiku North America Heading to
Victoria, British Columbia in 2021
Haiku North America is delighted to announce that the next iteration of its biennial
conference, in celebration of its 30th anniversary, will take place in Victoria, British
Columbia. Terry Ann Carter and Lynne Jambor will serve as chief organizers, and they
anticipate scheduling the conference in late August or early September of 2021 (watch for
further announcements). Americans should make sure they get a passport, which will be
required for visiting Canada by 2021. See you there!
required for visiting Canada by 2021. See you there!
submittrd by Michael Dylan Welch
Photos of Attendees at HNA 2019
A small gallery of photos of attendees at HNA 2019 taken by Marcyn Clements may be
viewed here.
An additional gallery of those attending Tanka Sunday/Monday may be found here.
Thanks, Marcyn!
Announcing:
The Backbone Press Haiku Chapbook Contest
A chapbook is a small collection of poems, no more that 40 pages, resulting
in a collection that approaches but falls short of a full-length collection of poetry.
Haiku poets of all levels are encouraged to submit. Best of luck!
Submissions & Guidelines
Entries will be accepted September 1st- October 20th from authors within the
United States and International authors writing in the English language. Using
our submissions form, please submit chapbook-length manuscripts, (18-30)
pages. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are okay but, please inform us if your
manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Prize: $100 plus Publication
Final Judge: Michael Dylan Welch
Entry fee: $20.00
Submissions Deadline: Sept 1ST - Oct20TH
http://backbonepress.org/featured-contest/
HENDERSON HAIKU CONTEST RESULTS
First Place:
"ultrasound"
by Raquel D. Bailey, Jamaica
Second Place:
"high summer"
by Michael Morell, Havertown, PA
Second Place:
"high summer"
by Michael Morell, Havertown, PA
Third Place:
"fireflies"
by Michele L. Harvey, Hamilton, NY
Honorable Mentions (unranked):
"downpour"
by Paul Kulwatno, Falls Church, VA
"dawn chorus"
by Jacquie Pearce, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"frosty night..."
by Martha Magenta, Bristol, United Kingdom
"barn owl's cry:"
by Temple Cone, Hyattsville, MD
"it ends"
by Matthew Markworth, Mason, OH
"crack house"
by Roland Packer, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
"to lead a life"
by Annette Makino, Arcata, CA
The judges for the 2019 Henderson Haiku Contest were Carole MacRury and Christopher
Herold.
BRADY SENRYU CONTEST RESULTS
First Place:
"refugee—"
by PMF Johnson, Minneapolis, MN
Second Place:
"newborn"
by Roberta Beary, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland
Third Place:
"holiday letter"
by Annette Makino, Arcata, CA
Honorable Mentions (unranked):
"town undertaker—"
by Barry George, Philadelphia, PA
"age spots"
by Tom Painting, Atlanta, GA
"park map"
by Jayne Miller, Hazel Green, WI
"migrant children"
by Mel Goldberg, Ajijic, Mexico
"identifying"
by Brad Bennett, Arlington, MA
The judges for the 2019 Brady Senryu Contest were Susan Burch and Steve Hodge.
ANNUAL HAIBUN CONTEST RESULTS
First Place:
"Migration"
by Rich Youmans, North Falmouth, MA
Second Place:
"The collector"
by Jacquie Pearce, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Third Place:
"Sorrento Sirena Sisters"
by Marita Gargiulo, Hamden, CT
Honorable Mentions (unranked):
"Cloistered"
by Dru Philippou, Taos, NM
"Unforgiven"
by Tia Haynes, Lakewood, OH
The judges for the 2019 HSA Haibun Contest were Michele Root-Bernstein and Lee Gurga.
--
Beverly Acuff Momoi
HSA, 2nd Vice President
Sitting in the Sun:
2019 Haiku North America
Conference Anthology
Press Here is pleased to announce the
publication of Sitting in the Sun, the 2019 Haiku
North America conference anthology, edited by
Michael Dylan Welch and Crystal Simone Smith.
The book is 64 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, and
features haiku and senryu by 93 attendees of
the sixteenth biennial haiku conference, held in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina in August of
2019. Order for $12 plus shipping from
Amazon.
“Sitting in the Sun celebrates the fifteenth
biennial Haiku North America conference, held
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2019.
These conferences provide an array of
academic research and inspired readings and
presentations, but they’re also a kind of ‘sitting
on the porch a spell,’ a gathering of friends to
enjoy the day, to talk about a favorite poetic
subject, and to ponder—or avoid—the ups and downs that life has to offer. In the very first
Haiku North America anthology in 1991, the collection’s poems were arranged by each
poet’s first name, and we’ve been doing that ever since. It’s a sort of front-porch familiarity
that we continue to value—and seek to promote. So please sit a spell with these poems
and poets.” —adapted from the introduction
Announcing the
publication of
Rough Cut:
Thirty Years of
Senryu.
by William Scott Galasso
This book of 137 pages
contains over 380 poems
focused on human foibles and
explore our humorous,
complicated and sometimes
difficult relationships.
More than 30 years of writing
in this form are encompassed. Every poem has been previously published in haiku/senryu
in this form are encompassed. Every poem has been previously published in haiku/senryu
poetry journals, anthologies, and on-line in nearly twenty countries worldwide. Further,
over one hundred new pieces are included, works that
have not appeared in previous collections.
Published by Galwin Press, Rough Cut is available on Amazon for $12.95. Photos by the
author accompany these pieces, adding breathing space and topicality to the work. The
author hopes you enjoy this collection, which is the second of four in to be produced in a
“legacy” series.
An anthology of Signature Haiku
Call for submissions for an anthology of Signature Haiku (as well as senryu or tanka).
What is s Signature Haiku, you ask? Well, it's one of those poems that you regard as your
best, one that defines you as a poet or by which you wish to be remembered.
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2019.
The poems may be published or unpublished. ONE POEM ONLY PER
CONTRIBUTOR. Your submission may include up to one paragraph of commentary
about the poem, which is subject to editing. No remuneration for inclusion.
Send email to: [email protected]
or SASE to: Robert Epstein, 1343 Navellier St., El Cerrito, CA 94530.
2019 Porad Award
Haiku Northwest is pleased to announce the sixteenth annual Porad Haiku Award. The
contest is named for Francine Porad, founder of Haiku Northwest, former president of
the Haiku Society of America, and editor for eight years of
Brussels Sprout
, an
international journal of haiku and art. We welcome your haiku submissions!
Deadline: Submitted online or by email or postmarked by September 20, 2019 (late
entries may be accepted, but only at the discretion of the contest organizers).
Prizes: $100 for first prize, $50 for second prize, and $25 for third prize, plus honorable
mentions. Poems will also be published on the Haiku Northwest website (see past Porad
Award Winners). Winners will be announced at Haiku Northwest’s annual Seabeck Haiku
Getaway, to be held October 24–27, 2019.
Adjudication: Our 2019 judge is Tom Painting. Tom taught literature and creative
writing at the School of the Arts in Rochester, New York for many years. He now teaches
junior high humanities at the Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia. Tom has been an active
junior high humanities at the Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia. Tom has been an active
member of the Haiku Society of America for more than twenty years. In addition to haiku,
his interests include hiking and bird watching.
Entry Fees: $1.00 per haiku (unlimited entries), in U.S. funds only. Please pay via PayPal
(preferred) or by postal mail.
PayPal Payment (preferred): To pay by PayPal, please use the following PayPal
button. Enter the number of dollars that matches the number of poems you’re
submitting. Note that PayPal charges a fee for online payments, which Haiku
Northwest is absorbing. If you wish to help offset these fees, feel free to include an
extra dollar with your payment. To submit more than ten poems, please make a
separate PayPal payment for additional poems. If you receive a transaction or
confirmation number when you make your PayPal payment, please include that
number with your submission, whether using the online submission form or by
email (see below). Don’t worry about the confirmation number if you don’t receive
it when paying. Then submit your poems (see “Submissions” below).
Postal Payment: Please send checks/money orders made payable to “Haiku
Northwest” or cash in U.S. dollars (at your own risk). Mail to the contest
coordinator at the address listed below (see “Postal Submissions”).
Submissions: Poems submitted must be previously unpublished. Poems posted on public
Facebook pages, blogs, or other websites are not eligible for submission. By submitting,
you assert that your entries are previously unpublished and are solely your own original
creations. If you submit using the online submission form, please do NOT also email any
submissions—use one submission method only (it’s okay for payments to come separately,
though, if you can’t pay via PayPal).
Online Form Submissions (preferred): Before submitting, please add up the
number of poems you’re submitting, pay the entry fee of $1 per poem by PayPal
(above), and make a note of your confirmation number (if you receive one). Then
go to our online submission form and enter your name, address, email, phone
number, PayPal confirmation number (if paying by PayPal), and your poems.
Email Submissions: We strongly prefer that you submit using our online
submission form, but if it does not work for you, you may submit by email. When
submitting by email, please type or paste your previously unpublished haiku in the
body of the message (no attached files) and write “Porad Award Entries—[your
name]” in the subject line. Include your name, address, email address, phone
number, and method/date of payment above your haiku (include your PayPal
transaction or confirmation number if PayPal provides one when you made your
payment; please also indicate if you included any extra money to offset PayPal
charges). If you are concerned about any special formatting characteristics, you
may add a brief note after each applicable poem. Please do not number your
poems. Send by September 20, 2019 to the contest coordinator, Ron Swanson,
Postal Submissions: If neither the online form or email submissions are possible
for you, please submit your previously unpublished poems on 8.5x11-inch or A4
paper (multiple poems on one sheet is preferred, more than one sheet is
acceptable; do not use other sizes of paper or index cards). Please submit one copy
of each sheet with your name, address, email address, and phone number. There is
no need to send another copy without author identification for anonymous judging
because all poems submitted by postal mail will be incorporated into an electronic
file and then “shuffled” for anonymous judging. Submit your entries with payment
to “Haiku Northwest,” postmarked by September 20, 2019, to:
Porad Haiku Award
Porad Haiku Award
c/o Ron Swanson
PO Box 4661
Rollingbay, WA 98061 USA
Additional Information: See past Porad Award results. If you have questions, please
email [email protected].
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