News Bulletin #4, July 19, 2017
This the fourth of a series of bulletins about arrangements and the program for the Haiku North America conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 13–17 September 2017.
We’ll send these messages out to all via group e-mail and post them on the HNA blog and Facebook and Twitter pages.
Things are moving so fast these days that we’ll probably want to send these News Bulletins out every several days. If you would rather not receive these e-mails, let us know and we’ll take your name off the mailing list.
Your feedback is welcome.
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HNA 2017 Conference Anthology
Not all you registrants have sent in your haiku for the HNA 2017 Conference Anthology. You know who you are — shame, shame!
Please submit five unpublished haiku or senryu by email to Scott Wiggerman at swiggerman@comcast.net with the subject heading “HNA Submission: [Name]” by the in-hand deadline of August 1, 2017, which is only two weeks away!
Michael Dylan Welch and I will be editing the conference anthology, and we would prefer to see poems associated with the conference theme of “earthtones,” however you want to interpret that. Submissions must be pasted into the body of your e-mail message (no attachments, please). With your five poems, please include your name as you want it to appear in the anthology, and the city/state, city/province, or city/country where you live (we include this information with each name).
Each twenty submissions, we will make decisions and get back to you so that we’re not holding onto your unpublished haiku for months. As with previous anthologies, our 2017 collection will seek to represent as many conference participants and presenters as possible. Each registered attendee will receive one free copy of this anthology and can participate in the anthology reading at the conference.
The Program Schedule
Not unexpectedly, the Program Schedule we sent out in News Bulletin #3 was promptly out of date. Presenters have been flocking to point out errors and plead for changes. We’ll have s revised version in a few days, as soon as the storm dies down.
Tanka Sunday
This notification is being circulated by the Tanka Society of America:
The Tanka Society of America is pleased to announce its Tanka Sunday conference, set for September 17, 2017, at the Hotel Santa Fe Hacienda & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event happens immediately after the Haiku North America conference at the same location, and is directed by Michael Dylan Welch and Kathabela Wilson. Once again, registration is free as a benefit to TSA members, and to nonmembers to encourage their participation.
Our program includes a panel discussion on “Tanka and Haiku—What’s the Difference,” featuring Maxianne Berger, Margaret Chula, Michael Dylan Welch (chair), and Kozue Uzawa. Ribbons editor David Rice will give a presentation on “Reading and Writing Individual and Responsive Tanka Sequences,” TSA president Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton will talk on “Tanka Groups: Support, Feedback, and Encouragement,” and TSA founder Michael Dylan Welch will give a presentation titled “Tanka Is _________.”
We’ll also have an anonymous tanka workshop, celebrate the 2017 Sanford Goldstein Tanka Contest winners, and enjoy readings by Margaret Chula, Mariko Kitakubo, Genie Nakano, Kala Ramesh, David Rice, Kozue Uzawa, and others, plus a “Poets on Site” group reading organized by Kathabela Wilson with flute music by Rick Wilson. We’ll also have “instant featured readers” (put your name in the hat to be chosen at random), a tanka book fair and silent auction (please bring items to sell or to donate), rounds of open tanka reading, a group photograph, a free raffle, and more. Please join us to share your tanka, meet TSA officers and fellow tanka poets, and to learn more about tanka.
Registration is free, but please do so by September 8, 2017 to help us plan for handouts and other needs. For details, please visit http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/tanka-sunday-2017, or email Kathabela Wilson at poetsonsite@gmail.com or Michael Dylan Welch at welchm@aol.com. After September 8 you can still show up in person and register on site. Tanka Sunday 2017 follows previous Tanka Society of America conferences in 2003, 2013, and 2015. You can see photos of our 2015 event at https://goo.gl/photos/XWWwUM9KDrFwZCwK7.
See you in Santa Fe
Sincerely,
Michael Dylan Welch
Webmaster and founder of the Tanka Society of America
Ken Slaughter, Vice President, Tanka Society of America
Tanka Society of America
439 S. Catalina Avenue #306
Pasadena, California 91106
News Bulletin #4, July 19, 2017
This the fourth of a series of bulletins about arrangements and the program for the Haiku North America conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 13–17 September 2017.
We’ll send these messages out to all via group e-mail and post them on the HNA blog and Facebook and Twitter pages.
Things are moving so fast these days that we’ll probably want to send these News Bulletins out every several days. If you would rather not receive these e-mails, let us know and we’ll take your name off the mailing list.
Your feedback is welcome.
* * * * *
HNA 2017 Conference Anthology
Not all you registrants have sent in your haiku for the HNA 2017 Conference Anthology. You know who you are — shame, shame!
Please submit five unpublished haiku or senryu by email to Scott Wiggerman at swiggerman@comcast.net with the subject heading “HNA Submission: [Name]” by the in-hand deadline of August 1, 2017, which is only two weeks away!
Michael Dylan Welch and I will be editing the conference anthology, and we would prefer to see poems associated with the conference theme of “earthtones,” however you want to interpret that. Submissions must be pasted into the body of your e-mail message (no attachments, please). With your five poems, please include your name as you want it to appear in the anthology, and the city/state, city/province, or city/country where you live (we include this information with each name).
Each twenty submissions, we will make decisions and get back to you so that we’re not holding onto your unpublished haiku for months. As with previous anthologies, our 2017 collection will seek to represent as many conference participants and presenters as possible. Each registered attendee will receive one free copy of this anthology and can participate in the anthology reading at the conference.
The Program Schedule
Not unexpectedly, the Program Schedule we sent out in News Bulletin #3 was promptly out of date. Presenters have been flocking to point out errors and plead for changes. We’ll have s revised version in a few days, as soon as the storm dies down.
Tanka Sunday
This notification is being circulated by the Tanka Society of America:
The Tanka Society of America is pleased to announce its Tanka Sunday conference, set for September 17, 2017, at the Hotel Santa Fe Hacienda & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event happens immediately after the Haiku North America conference at the same location, and is directed by Michael Dylan Welch and Kathabela Wilson. Once again, registration is free as a benefit to TSA members, and to nonmembers to encourage their participation.
Our program includes a panel discussion on “Tanka and Haiku—What’s the Difference,” featuring Maxianne Berger, Margaret Chula, Michael Dylan Welch (chair), and Kozue Uzawa. Ribbons editor David Rice will give a presentation on “Reading and Writing Individual and Responsive Tanka Sequences,” TSA president Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton will talk on “Tanka Groups: Support, Feedback, and Encouragement,” and TSA founder Michael Dylan Welch will give a presentation titled “Tanka Is _________.”
We’ll also have an anonymous tanka workshop, celebrate the 2017 Sanford Goldstein Tanka Contest winners, and enjoy readings by Margaret Chula, Mariko Kitakubo, Genie Nakano, Kala Ramesh, David Rice, Kozue Uzawa, and others, plus a “Poets on Site” group reading organized by Kathabela Wilson with flute music by Rick Wilson. We’ll also have “instant featured readers” (put your name in the hat to be chosen at random), a tanka book fair and silent auction (please bring items to sell or to donate), rounds of open tanka reading, a group photograph, a free raffle, and more. Please join us to share your tanka, meet TSA officers and fellow tanka poets, and to learn more about tanka.
Registration is free, but please do so by September 8, 2017 to help us plan for handouts and other needs. For details, please visit http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/tanka-sunday-2017, or email Kathabela Wilson at poetsonsite@gmail.com or Michael Dylan Welch at welchm@aol.com. After September 8 you can still show up in person and register on site. Tanka Sunday 2017 follows previous Tanka Society of America conferences in 2003, 2013, and 2015. You can see photos of our 2015 event at https://goo.gl/photos/XWWwUM9KDrFwZCwK7.
See you in Santa Fe
Sincerely,
Michael Dylan Welch
Webmaster and founder of the Tanka Society of America
Ken Slaughter, Vice President, Tanka Society of America
Tanka Society of America
439 S. Catalina Avenue #306
Pasadena, California 91106
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