News Bulletin #7, July 31, 2017
This the seventh 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.
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Private Tours of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Wednesday, September 13, 3–5 p.m.
Special arrangements have been made for private tours of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. To join the tour, you must register in advance by emailing Sondra Byrnes at [email protected] by August 25, 2017. The admission fee of $13 per person will be collected at the Museum. Depending upon the number of those interested, we will schedule up to three separate tours and provide transportation from the hotel to the museum. Once the schedule is established, we will inform you of the specific time of the tour—within the 3–5 p.m. window.
Explore a remarkable American story through O’Keeffe’s art, personal possessions, and art materials along with photographs and documents from her life. Museum docents will provide a 60-minute tour of the galleries to share their knowledge and insights, and provide interesting information about the current exhibition.
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Post-Conference Tour of Bandelier National Monument
Happily, the minimum number of participants in the optional post-conference tour to Bandelier has been reached, so the trip is a definite go! If you have not registered yet, you may feel comfortable doing so via the website of Destination Services of Santa Fe, Inc., [email protected].
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What’s this “earthtones” stuff anyway?
This year will be the first time Haiku North America has been held in the U.S. Southwest. To mark that honor, your HNA Organizing Committee chose as its theme earthtones, which was meant to suggest not only the subtle colors of our mountains and high desert, but also the natural hues and sounds of the country and the various cultures who live here. We’re gratified that a number of presenters at HNA 2017 will be exploring earthtones and the wonders of the Southwest, New Mexico, and Santa Fe and even adjacent Mexico.
Skin Tones are Earth Tones (Keynote Address)
—Ruth Yarrow
Ruth Yarrow will link the HNA 2017 conference theme of “earthtones” to the skin colors of our species. While affirming that the concept of race is a biological illusion, she will share haiku by many poets that reveal some ways bias and power in our society, based on skin color, affect all of our lives.
Haiku and Senryu in the Santa Fe Internment Camp (The William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture)
— Teruko Kumei
About 70 years ago, looking down over the city of Santa Fe, Japanese immigrants in the Santa Fe Internment Camp gathered and wrote haiku and senryu. They left a record of their senryu reading circle, Kogen (Highland), and published a haiku anthology, Ginto (Silver Dome). I propose to introduce their poems in Japanese, then explain the meaning in English. As haiku and senryu are “the records of life, poems of sentiments,” listening to the voices of the internees deepens our understanding of the lives and sentiments of the people in the Santa Fe internment Camp.
Haiku: The State of Wonder
—Scott Mason
If New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment and Santa Fe is the City Different, haiku poetry might just be the State of Wonder. Scott Mason will explore several of the distinctive ways that haiku begins with and inspires wonder.
President Obama’s Earthtone Haiku
—David McMurray
Beginning with U.S. President Barack Obama’s green haiku, David discusses haiku in English that are intertwined with a line of various other languages spoken in North America. He also shares a few earthtone-colored haiku from the Asahi Haikuist Network.
New Mexico Haiku
—Miriam Sagan
New Mexico has long served as muse to writers seeking vision and expanse. It’s haiku history includes the counterculture, Haiku Society of America, scholars, poets, and renegades. This will be a look at almost fifty years of haiku springing from the Land of Enchantment.
Dance Your Way Through earthtones
—Kala Ramesh & Preethi Ramprasad
A recital of dance and haiku reading that highlights the synergy between an Indian classical dancer and a haiku poet. A selection of haiku from Naad Anunaad: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku, written by authors from all over the world, will be read aloud by Kala, then interpreted through Preethi’s abhinaya (body and facial expression), a beautiful idiom of the Indian classical dance style called bharatanatyam.
In addition, you won’t want to miss these theme-related events of local interest:
• Donna Beaver & Veronica Golos conversing about Native American Haiku
• Cristina Rascón-Castro presenting Mexican Haiku: Tradition, Translation, and Transgression
• Elizabeth Morley talking about The Haiku Writing of Mexican and Canadian Children
• Lidia Rozmus & Charles Trumbull discussing Georgia O’Keeffe & the Haiku Aesthetic
• A short video, Moments in Time: Remembering the Santa Fe Japanese Internment Camp
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Charles Trumbull ([email protected])
for the HNA 2017 Organizing Committee
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