Welcome to Haiku North America!
Haiku North America (HNA) is a biennial conference in celebration of haiku poetry. Every two years we offer five stimulating days of papers, panels, workshops, readings, performances, book sales, cultural outings, and much socialization with fellow poets, translators, scholars, editors, and publishers. Everyone is welcome to attend HNA, the largest and oldest gathering of haiku poets in the United States and Canada. Read HNA updates on the HNA blog and explore this site for more information.
Haiku in the World: Dissolving Walls, Building Community
Welcome to Haiku North America 2019!
Sponsored by the Haiku Society of North Carolina, the conference will be held in Winston Salem, NC. This is the second time the event will be held in Winston, and we hope to build upon the success of our previous event. Our community is once again excited and involved in preparing for HNA 2019.
Community is the operative word, a word which has many synonyms but no single one that encompasses as much as it does. We will explore the small but powerful form of haiku and how it may address our theme—how we may collaborate, engage, dialogue, together with more energy, tools, passion and cooperation to benefit the many forms of community in which we find ourselves.
We begin with Winston Salem. Already, we have built a monthly haiku group through Winston Salem Writers, Meetup and Slam Winston that has generated 57 members. Over the next few months, we will sponsor readings, exhibits and workshops across our community. We will introduce a program which pairs students and local poets with poets coming to HNA. We hope to capitalize on the benefits of HNA for our local community.
Of course, we look forward to advancing the community known as HNA, building on the great strides made in Santa Fe. Evaluations of that event spoke highly of the inclusion of diverse peoples, subjects, and neophyte poets. we will build on that progress by soliciting programs that encourage dialogue, enlist participation, promote collaboration, and impel engagement.
Our headquarter hotel where most events take place lends itself to conversation both during, between, and after events. Our schedule will allow for socializing and discussion, and our 24-hour hospitality suite (with a convenient kitchen and complimentary beverages) will be a place to do that. A coffee shop, bakery, and three restaurants are within 300 yards of the hotel, and a free breakfast is available in the hotel every morning.
Each morning a ginko will take place in Old Salem, the historical village a short walk or ride by van. Van transportation will be provided throughout the day. A pre-conference tour of Reynolda House, one of the leading American Art museums in the setting of the historical home of R.J.Reynolds, is also planned.
The Tanka Society of America is also pleased to announce Tanka Monday, to follow immediately after HNA, in the same meeting location. Tanka events will begin Sunday evening, and continue 9-6 on Monday and are all FREE. Please book your hotel and airfare with this addition in mind if you can attend. Watch for more details at www.tankasocietyofamerica.org.
Ideally, our conversation at HNA 2019 will carry with us and strengthen the HNA community. Hopefully, we can find strategies to reach out to the larger haiku community, where we may include those hundreds if not thousands of poets who have not yet joined in. Last but not least, perhaps we will discover new means by which we increase and support Haiku in the World.
Haiku in the World: Dissolving Walls, Building Community
Welcome to Haiku North America 2019!
Sponsored by the Haiku Society of North Carolina, the conference will be held in Winston Salem, NC. This is the second time the event will be held in Winston, and we hope to build upon the success of our previous event. Our community is once again excited and involved in preparing for HNA 2019.
Community is the operative word, a word which has many synonyms but no single one that encompasses as much as it does. We will explore the small but powerful form of haiku and how it may address our theme—how we may collaborate, engage, dialogue, together with more energy, tools, passion and cooperation to benefit the many forms of community in which we find ourselves.
We begin with Winston Salem. Already, we have built a monthly haiku group through Winston Salem Writers, Meetup and Slam Winston that has generated 57 members. Over the next few months, we will sponsor readings, exhibits and workshops across our community. We will introduce a program which pairs students and local poets with poets coming to HNA. We hope to capitalize on the benefits of HNA for our local community.
Of course, we look forward to advancing the community known as HNA, building on the great strides made in Santa Fe. Evaluations of that event spoke highly of the inclusion of diverse peoples, subjects, and neophyte poets. we will build on that progress by soliciting programs that encourage dialogue, enlist participation, promote collaboration, and impel engagement.
Our headquarter hotel where most events take place lends itself to conversation both during, between, and after events. Our schedule will allow for socializing and discussion, and our 24-hour hospitality suite (with a convenient kitchen and complimentary beverages) will be a place to do that. A coffee shop, bakery, and three restaurants are within 300 yards of the hotel, and a free breakfast is available in the hotel every morning.
Each morning a ginko will take place in Old Salem, the historical village a short walk or ride by van. Van transportation will be provided throughout the day. A pre-conference tour of Reynolda House, one of the leading American Art museums in the setting of the historical home of R.J.Reynolds, is also planned.
The Tanka Society of America is also pleased to announce Tanka Monday, to follow immediately after HNA, in the same meeting location. Tanka events will begin Sunday evening, and continue 9-6 on Monday and are all FREE. Please book your hotel and airfare with this addition in mind if you can attend. Watch for more details at www.tankasocietyofamerica.org.
Ideally, our conversation at HNA 2019 will carry with us and strengthen the HNA community. Hopefully, we can find strategies to reach out to the larger haiku community, where we may include those hundreds if not thousands of poets who have not yet joined in. Last but not least, perhaps we will discover new means by which we increase and support Haiku in the World.
You will find photos from previous conferences by visiting the HNA Blog,
where you will also find the HNA Twitter Feed. And, check out our Facebook Page.
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Haiku North America is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation based in California. It is independent of all other haiku organizations.
