HNA 2015 Theme:  Autumn Term

With the Conference taking place in mid-October, on a beautiful college campus near the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, Autumn Term seems a natural as our HNA 2015 theme. How we teach and learn haiku, on all levels, is one element of our theme. The many moods of autumn, in our cities, neighborhoods and countryside, on mountains and along rivers, and in our lives, also merge into an Autumn Term. As do the many seasonal "terms" (whether kigo or not) so often found in haiku written during or about the Fall. You are invited to come to Schenectady this Fall to add your own colors and inspirations to our Autumn Term. 

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lingering heat 
the third-grade classroom
one desk short

October twilight
the scarecrow in the garden
drops its other glove

bitter wind . . .
the hand that cups the flame
aglow


Peggy Willis Lyles
"lingering" *The Heron's Nest, Vol. 3, No. 8
"October" & "bitter" - To Hear the Rain (2002)