Tanka Sunday will be free to everyone and will feature Amy V. Heinrich as the keynote speaker.
More information is on the Tanka Society of America website.
The Tanka Society of America is pleased to announce that they will again sponsor Tanka Sunday, which will start immediately after Haiku North America on Sunday, October 18, 2015.
Tanka Sunday will be free to everyone and will feature Amy V. Heinrich as the keynote speaker. More information is on the Tanka Society of America website.
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The Route 9 Haiku Group is the “home team” for Haiku North America 2015, which takes place at Union College in Schenectady, New York, October 14-18, 2015. The four members of the group are: Yu Chang, Tom Clausen, John Stevenson, and Hilary Tann.
Hilary is Professor of Music in Union College’s Department of Performance Arts. Yu taught computer and electrical engineering at Union College for 40 years, until his very recent retirement. Now that John has retired from a position in human resources with New York State, he has more time for his seemingly nonstop artistic adventures. Tom, who lives across the State in Ithaca, New York, is also recently retired, from his librarian duties at Cornell. In future postings, we’ll feature each Rt.9er individually, with a brief bio and sample haiku. Several factors make the Route 9 Haiku Group special: The process they have developed for their meetings, the quality of their poetry, the resultant longevity of their journal, Upstate Dim Sum, and the friendships they have forged writing, working, playing and dining together. The Union College community celebrated the School’s 220th anniversary, today (February 26, 2015), with a Founders Day ceremony in Memorial Chapel. In 1795, Union College was the first institution for higher education chartered by the New York Board of Regents, also making it the first non-denominational college in the country. The School was originally located in Schenectady’s Stockade neighborhood (see the collage above), but moved a half-mile down Union Street to its current location in 1814. Its campus was the first fully-planned campus in America, predating Thomas Jefferson’s design of the University of Virginia by several years. For more information regarding the school's Stockade roots, see David Giacalone's blog, "suns along the Mohawk" http://tinyurl.com/UC-StockadeRoots Here is a photo of the Nott Memorial Building and other Union College Campus buildings as they appeared a few days ago. In October, the snow will be gone and the trees in full fall foliage. However, it gives a sense of the locations of the buildings that will be used for the 2015 HNA conference.
The Nott Memorial Building will house the book fair and silent auction. It will also be the location of Ion Codrescu's haiga exhibition. The Old Chapel will be the location of the main meeting room and eating areas. Some programming will also occur in the Memorial Chapel and Hale House. The HNA 2015 committee is actively seeking proposals, panel discussions, workshops, presentations, and performances for the October 14-18, 2015 conference at Union College in Schenectady, New York. More information can be found on the Haiku North America website: http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/request-for-proposals.html
Please note that proposals are due May 1, 2015. The HNA 2015 committee is looking forward to reading your proposals and seeing you in October at Union! Jessica Tremblay of Old Pond Comics was our Cartoonist-in-Residence at Haiku North America 2013 and chronicled our adventures on the Queen Mary through the adventures of her characters, Kawazu and Kaeru. Jessica has been the Cartoonist-in-Residence at two other haiku gatherings since HNA. On the left, is a photo of Jessica taken at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway in Seabeck, Washington, where Kaeru enjoyed playing in the autumn leaves and exploring haiku in the Pacific Northwest. After Seabeck, Kawazu and Kaeru (and Jessica) attended Haiku Hot Springs in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Those adventures are also on the Old Pond Website as well as making the Memphis Daily News. (photo (c)2013 - Deborah P Kolodji) LA Weekly reporter Gendy Alimurung attended Haiku North America 2013 on Saturday and was particularly inspired by the "Science and Haiku" presentation by Sophia Frenz and Sandra Simpson. Her article regarding Sophia and Sandra, science and haiku, and HNA, "A Haiku Meetup, Where Poets Try to Explain the World in Three Lines," was just published by LA Weekly.
LA Weekly has a print circulation of about 140,000. Mia Nakaji Monnier and Cari Yasuno saw the press release we sent the Rafu Shimpo, the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News and asked their boss if they could attend the conference. They came on the Saturday of HNA and wrote an article about their experience, interviewing Stan Forrester, Michael Dylan Welch, and others as well as attending sessions like the Einbond renku reading. Their article can be read here: http://www.rafu.com/2013/09/a-tiny-collection-of-words/ (left: Mia Nakaji Monnier) Mia and Cari had so much fun at HNA that they came to last Saturday's Southern California Haiku Study Group Workshop at the Pacific Asia Museum and plan to become regulars. Mia Nakaji Monnier is a graduate student in creative nonfiction at the University of Southern California. She writes for the Rafu Shimpo and Hyphen Magazine, and is an editorial assistant at Kaya Press. In two and a half decades she's lived in twelve cities and towns, including Middlebury, Vermont and Kyoto, Japan. She hopes to keep exploring. Cari Yasuno is a graphic designer and the social media manager for The Rafu Shimpo. She is a haiku enthusiast and created mainichihaiku.tumblr.com with her writing partner. She enjoys British comedy and digging through antiques for old cameras and vintage kitchen tools. Don Baird presents awards to the 1st and 2nd Place HNA Haiku Contest Winners at SCHSG meeting9/21/2013 Don Baird, who coordinated the 2013 HNA Haiku Contest, presented the awards for 1st and 2nd Place at the September 21st Southern California Haiku Study Group Meeting at the Pacific Asia Museum. The 3rd Place and Honorable Mention certificates will be sent by mail. (right to left): N.E. Taylor, Diana Jeong, Don Baird 25 people attended the meeting, which featured Stewart C. Baker, who repeated his HNA presentation, "Do All Roads Lead to Basho?" |
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