HNA News Bulletin #1, July 9, 2017
This the first 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 participants via group e-mail and post them on the HNA blog and Facebook and Twitter pages. The information is always available on the HNA 2017 website as well: http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/2017-conference.html.
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.
Did I mention that your feedback is welcome?
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Registration
This past week the number of registrations topped 100. It’s hard to guess, but we think this is about half or two-thirds of what the final number will be.
Comparing the lists of HNA presenters, the hotel guest record, and the list of conference registrants, we note that several of you have not yet completed the registration process. We urge you to do that as soon as possible — and certainly before August 1, when the prices go up by 20%!
Registration information and instructions are online right here and the downloadable registration form here. Questions or problems can be taken up with our Registrar, Cynthia Henderson at HaikuNorthAmerica2017@gmail.com.
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Conference Anthology
Another deadline is nigh!
If you have not already done so, please submit five unpublished haiku or senryu by e-mail to Scott Wiggerman at swiggerman@comcast.net with the subject heading “HNA Submission: [Name]” by the in-hand deadline of August 1, 2017 — less than a month 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Each twenty submissions, we will make decisions and get back to you so that we’re not holding onto your unpublished haiku for months.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.
Scott Wiggerman, swiggerman@comcast.net
Program
• The Program is complete!
Apart from last-minute tweakings (we hope), the HNA 2017 program has now been assembled. We count about 75 persons who will be lecturing, holding workshops, making video presentations, reading from new books, greeting attendees, or entertaining in some other fashion. We’re moving now to assigning events to specific time slots and rooms. Look for more information about that in a few days.
• William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture
“Haiku and Senryu in the Santa Fe Internment Camp” by Prof. Teruko Kumei has been named the William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture for HNA 2017.
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.
Teruko Kumei is Professor at Shirayuri University in Tokyo, teaching American history and culture. Since 2000 she has collected documents of Japanese traditional short poetry, haiku, senryu, and tanka in the United States. She has published about 20 articles on this subject.
The William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture was established in 2011 in honor of the late haiku scholar, critic, translator, and poet William J. Higginson to recognize an outstanding scholarly lecture given at Haiku North America. Honorees are selected by the HNA Board of Directors. Past honorees were Richard Gilbert (2011), Charles Trumbull (2013), and Randy Brooks (2015).
Charles Trumbull (trumbullc@comcast.net)
for the HNA 2017 Organizing Committee
We’ll send these messages out to all participants via group e-mail and post them on the HNA blog and Facebook and Twitter pages. The information is always available on the HNA 2017 website as well: http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/2017-conference.html.
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.
Did I mention that your feedback is welcome?
* * * * *
Registration
This past week the number of registrations topped 100. It’s hard to guess, but we think this is about half or two-thirds of what the final number will be.
Comparing the lists of HNA presenters, the hotel guest record, and the list of conference registrants, we note that several of you have not yet completed the registration process. We urge you to do that as soon as possible — and certainly before August 1, when the prices go up by 20%!
Registration information and instructions are online right here and the downloadable registration form here. Questions or problems can be taken up with our Registrar, Cynthia Henderson at HaikuNorthAmerica2017@gmail.com.
* * * * *
Conference Anthology
Another deadline is nigh!
If you have not already done so, please submit five unpublished haiku or senryu by e-mail to Scott Wiggerman at swiggerman@comcast.net with the subject heading “HNA Submission: [Name]” by the in-hand deadline of August 1, 2017 — less than a month 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.
Scott Wiggerman, swiggerman@comcast.net
Program
• The Program is complete!
Apart from last-minute tweakings (we hope), the HNA 2017 program has now been assembled. We count about 75 persons who will be lecturing, holding workshops, making video presentations, reading from new books, greeting attendees, or entertaining in some other fashion. We’re moving now to assigning events to specific time slots and rooms. Look for more information about that in a few days.
• William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture
“Haiku and Senryu in the Santa Fe Internment Camp” by Prof. Teruko Kumei has been named the William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture for HNA 2017.
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.
Teruko Kumei is Professor at Shirayuri University in Tokyo, teaching American history and culture. Since 2000 she has collected documents of Japanese traditional short poetry, haiku, senryu, and tanka in the United States. She has published about 20 articles on this subject.
The William J. Higginson Memorial Lecture was established in 2011 in honor of the late haiku scholar, critic, translator, and poet William J. Higginson to recognize an outstanding scholarly lecture given at Haiku North America. Honorees are selected by the HNA Board of Directors. Past honorees were Richard Gilbert (2011), Charles Trumbull (2013), and Randy Brooks (2015).
Charles Trumbull (trumbullc@comcast.net)
for the HNA 2017 Organizing Committee
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