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Haiku poets waiting at pier 69 in Seattle, Washington. They're waiting for a chartered boat that will take them to the Centrum conference center at Fort Worden, by Port Townsend. In the foreground, Jerome Cushman talks to Emiko Miyashita. That's George Swede at lower left.
Jerome is a professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He recently led a delegation of students to Japan, where they performed haiku in American Sign Language. Emiko lives in Kawasaki, Japan. She is a translator and poet who writes haiku in English and in Japanese. Emiko is an ambassador for Japanese haiku in the West and for English-language haiku in the East. George, a co-founder of Haiku Canada, is a professor of psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. He is a highly-respected poet, scholar, and editor. He has published 29 collections of his own poetry and has edited a number of important haiku anthologies. Anita Krumins is his wife. |
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