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Yesterday at dinner, a group of us wrote up a short 12 line Renku. Check it out!
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Wow! What a first day! I hope to find some time this afternoon to give you all some updates about what a great time we had.
Until then, a great way to stay tuned is on our Twitter Feed- that's the fastest way for me to update, and it is easy with Tweet Deck to update Twitter and Facebook at the same time. Gene Meyers posted a short video of Michael Dylan Welch doing a reading last night during our Open Mic time. Go to Facebook to view! It's a quiet start to Haiku North America so far. People are working on getting our displays up in the Fidalgo, Lopez and Orcas meeting rooms. Our Silent Auction and Raffle Items are ready to go (I am resisting setting bids before registration actually opens). Angie Terry has been handing out our thick registration packets. These packets are filled with some awesome goodies! First, you will be greeted with the HNA Seattle Organizing Committee's haiku booklet for you. We also have packed it with a visitor's guide to Seattle, tour map, 2 packs of coupons and a guide to both Queen Anne and South Lake Union. The Anthology is also included in your registration packet! We also have a map of Seattle Center and a hand-drawn map by Tanya MacDonald of some of our local eateries. The Schedule is in there, and a more detailed listing of the speakers and panels at Haiku North America this year. You will also find ads and promotions in the packet. And pick up your HNA name tag and t-shirt! Hooray! We begin HNA 2011 Tomorrow!
Stay tuned to this site daily, as I will be updating as much as I can. I'll try to get some photos, blogs and anything else up. Videos will have to be viewed on Facebook, but I will try to point you in that direction if it happens. I might be biting off more than I can chew! You can follow our Twitter Hashtag throughout the conference #HNASeattle. -Katharine 6:30 pm, Saturday, August 6, $10 per person
Lopez Room, at the corner of Republican Street and 1st Avenue North, in the Northwest Rooms at Seattle Center, in Seattle Join Terry Ann Carter and Charles Trumbull, two of North America's most prominent haiku poets and historians as they explore Canadian and American haiku, featuring its leading organizations, publications, poets, their poems, and more, with multimedia presentations. Music performances (and late evening contra dance) by La Famille Léger. This event concludes the Haiku North America conference. Come for the entire conference or selected days if you can (see information at www.haikunorthamerica.com) or come just on Saturday night. Payments/registration accepted at the door. For more information, contact Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com or phone 206-240-0871. Our little website here is pretty neat, but we are not able to support video.
If you are interested in watching any videos I post, you'll have to "LIKE" us on Facebook. I know not everyone is excited about Facebook, but really, it's the best means for me to get the videos posted in a forum of folks that will be able to conveniently access. The more I think about You Tube, the more I think about random public being able to access them. Anyway, try linking to my test video on Facebook! Click Here -Katharine Atia Musazay wrote a great piece about Haiku North America this year.
We don't have permission to reprint, but can link to it! Click Here Photo courtesy Michael Dylan Welch I am pleased to introduce Penny Harter to you for our most recent Blog Interview! Penny Harter is co-author, of The Haiku Handbook---published in a 25th anniversary edition in 2010. She is also a past-president of the HSA (1986). Her free-verse poems, haiku, tanka, and haibun appear in numerous journals and anthologies, both in print and on-line, and among her twenty-one books and chapbooks of poems, six feature haiku. Her most recent chapbook is Recycling Starlight (2010), a cycle of free-verse and formal poems, haiku, haibun, and tanka, charting her passage through grief after the death of her husband, Bill Higginson. Some of journals and anthologies featuring her work include Haiku Moment (1993); Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun (1998); Global Haiku (2000); The Unswept Path (2005); Modern Haibun and Tanka Prose (2009); and Contemporary Haibun: Volume 12 (2011). Her exercise for poets, "Circling the Pine: Haibun and the Spiral Web" appears in Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry (2011). Other recent books include The Night Marsh (2008), Along River Road (2005), and Buried in the Sky (2002), and her children’s alphabestiary, The Beastie Book , (2009). A Dodge Foundation poet, Harter read at the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival. She has received three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Mary Carolyn Davies Award from the Poetry Society of America, the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award, and a fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for a residency during January, 2011. She lives in the southern New Jersey shore area and works as a poet in the schools. How long have you been involved in haiku poetry (or your special focus of haiku) and what got you started? Well, I thought I really wasn't that aware of haiku until I met Bill in 1974 and began attending meetings of the Haiku Society of America in NYC. But in preparing for the panel I'll be on: "Who Wrote That? How My Haiku Has Changed Over Three Decades," with Jerry Ball, Garry Gay, and chaired by Margaret Chula, I went back to old notebooks and found I'd written a haiku---counting 5-7-5 of course---in 1971. I had been writing free-verse poetry since the mid-1960s, but only began to write more haiku from about 1975 on. For me, writing poetry is one continuum---all related. I do know that fairly early on, writing haiku, especially becoming more and more aware of juxtaposition---the delight of that "leap" or turn---somewhat influenced the economy of language and occasional turns or leaps at the ends of my free verse poems. Then, with Bill, I became fascinated with the renku process and participated in, as well as helped lead renku sessions. And recently I've been writing quite a few more haibun---loving the genre and enjoying the interplay between poetic prose and verse--- and again, delighting in that renku-like haiku leap when one varies the texture by adding the haiku. Have you ever been to HNA before? I have been to every HNA except the very first. That first one was the year Bill and I moved to Santa Fe (1991) and I had to attend orientation for my then new teaching job at Santa Fe Preparatory School. We lived in Santa Fe between 1991 and 2002. The last HNA Bill and I attended together was in 2007 in Winston-Salem. HNA in Ottawa in 2009 was the first conference I went to by myself, and a real turning point for me---finding closure with so many in the community who loved and respected Bill, and finding myself---dancing and laughing on the riverboat tour on the Ottawa River. Have you ever been to Seattle? Only briefly. I flew into SeaTac in 2009 when I attended the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, and stayed overnight in Seattle with Tanya McDonald. And thanks to Michael Dylan Welch, I saw some great bookstores and read at SoulFood books in Redmond that night. Early the next morning we went on up to Seabeck. Seabeck is so fun, I went for the first time last year. What are you most looking forward to at this year's HNA? Many things. Most of all, reconnecting with so many dear haiku friends that I've met over the years. And, of course, being on Maggie's panel, leading a haibun workshop, and participating in the Conference Anthology, Haibun and "The Poetry Continuum: Anything but Haiku" readings. There are also a number of exciting presentations I'm already planning to attend. I always come away from HNA having had a wonderful time and inspired to do new writing. Can't wait to see everyone! It is going to be great meeting you! Thank you so much, I feel like I know you so well, I can't wait to meet you. Hello from one of your volunteers! We have procured more items for the raffle and silent auction. A personal thank you to Cor van der Heuval for the book that got me started with haiku: the first edition of The Haiku Anthology. This one, though, is signed. So is Cor’s other gift, a signed hardcopy of the Anthology’s latest edition. I do believe we have the honor of debuting this fully-illustrated haiku collection for children by our friend, Kala Ramesh, who is doing so much to nurture haiku in her native India. And -- count them -- two award-winning collections of beautiful work from Acorn editor, Carolyn Hall: How to Paint the Finch's Song from Red Moon Press- read a review of it here. The other book is Water Lines. Read its review here. Putting on her other hat, Carolyn has made it possible for you to bid on a set of four Acorn Supplements as well as a set of the past five issues. The proceeds from the HNA silent auction help make this conference possible. It keeps the registration fees down and stretches six ways ‘till Sunday.
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