Publicity for Haiku North America 1999

Dear haiku friends,

In just a few months' time the most important haiku gathering in North
America will get underway! More than a hundred of the top haiku poets and scholars from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe, and Oceania will be there -- I hope you'll be among them.

HAIKU NORTH AMERICA--CHICAGO 1999 will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., a beautiful location on Lake Michigan just north of Chicago, from Thursday evening, July 8, through Sunday noon, July 11, 1999.

***** PROGRAM & EVENTS *****
The theme of the HAIKU NORTH AMERICA conference is "Haiku: Looking East, Looking West."

The keynote address, "Haiku Culturalism," will be presented by Gerald Robert Vizenor, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, author of many books and articles on Native American culture, and noted haiku poet.

Featured talks on the conference theme will be presented by:

Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia
University, New York City, and author of the groundbreaking new study
entitled, *Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho* (Stanford University Press, 1998); and:

George Swede, Acting Chair, Department of Psychology and School of Justice Studies, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Toronto, Ont., and prolific haiku writer and scholar.

***** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM, HAIKU NORTH AMERICA *****
===== Thursday, July 8 =====
Check-in and registration
Dessert reception
Rengay workshop (Garry Gay)

===== Friday, July 9 =====
Breakfast buffet
Morning meditation (Christopher Herold) and/or walk on the Northwestern
University campus
Opening thoughts (Christopher Herold)
Introductions and opening remarks (Planning Committee)
"Haiku: Looking East" (George Swede)
"The Midwest: Cradle of American Haiku" (Lee Gurga)
Art Show "Open House" (Margaret Chula, Kristine Kondo, & Lidia Rozmus)
Box lunch
"Art & Haiku" workshop (Margaret Chula)
"Haiku or Senryu?--Exploring the Middle Ground" (Dee Evetts)
"Spirituality in Haiku," a conversation (Clark Strand & Gary Warner)
Ginko (haiku walk)
Barbecue
Open reading (Anita Krumins, emcee)

===== Saturday, July 10 =====
Breakfast buffet
Morning meditation (Christopher Herold) and/or walk in Evanston
"Haiku: Looking West" (Haruo Shirane)
"Traditional Systems in Japan" (conversation) (Kristen Deming & Lucien
Stryk)
"Exploring the Female Haiku Tradition," a conversation (Patricia Donegan & Yoshie Ishibashi)
Box lunch; kukai with haiku from ginko
"Haiku Craft" workshop (A.C. Missias)
"Haiku of the '50s vs. Haiku of Today" (Randy Brooks)
"Concrete Poetry" workshop (Nick Avis)
Keynote dinner event (t.b.a.)
Keynote address: "Haiku Culturalism" (Gerald Robert Vizenor)
Reading by poets included in Cor van den Heuvel's *The Haiku Anthology* (3rd edition, 1999)

===== Sunday, July 11 =====
Breakfast buffet, check-out of dorm rooms
"The Dramatic, Narrative, and Lyric in Haiku" (Jerry Ball)
Panel on publishing (Randy Brooks, Jim Kacian, Robert Spiess, & Michael
Welch)
Closing remarks
Special activities planned for HNA 1999 include:
+++ conversations (dialogues between two specialists, with plenty of time for group participation)
+++ readings, both formal and informal
+++ an art show with multiple sumi-e and haiga artists, lectures, and
demonstrations
+++ haiku film(s)
+++ journal and book sales
+++ ginko and kukai, with prizes
+++ outings to local restaurants
+++ free time to go off by yourself to the lakeshore and beach, Evanston's 30-odd bookstores, or the lures of the great Windy City
+++ a conference anthology featuring one haiku from each registrant, edited by Lee Gurga and Michael Dylan Welch and published by Press Here.
+++ much, much more !!

***** REGISTRATION AND FEES *****
Registration fee includes admission to all HNA sessions and activities,
INCLUDING the special evening dinner events: dessert reception (Thursday
evening), barbecue on the lawn (Friday evening), and conference banquet and
keynote address (Saturday evening).
Early registration (by April 30)
Full registration (all 4 days) -- $100.00
Half-registration (Thursday/Friday or Saturday/Sunday)-- $60.00
Late registration (May 1-June 10)
Full registration (all 4 days) -- $120.00
Half-registration (Thursday/Friday or Saturday/Sunday) -- $70.00

***** FACILITIES *****
Haiku North America will take place in the Norris University Center at
Northwestern University, a full-fledged conference facility with meeting
rooms, lounge areas, eating facilities and vending machines, etc.
Parking is available on campus for a daily fee.

***** WHERE TO STAY *****
We are suggesting that participants plan to stay in the dormitory housing, and we are making arrangements for participants to eat most meals together in dining facilities at Northwestern. Dorm rooms--singles with shared bathrooms--will, of course, cost half to a third what you would pay in the town or the city.
For those who prefer to stay in a hotel, some rooms at the Omni Orrington Hotel and the Holiday Inn are being bloc-booked for the HNA conference.

***** DONATIONS *****
The HNA committee is now soliciting donations for support of the conference. Only about half the conference expenses will be covered by the gate; the remainder will have to be made up of hoped-for grants from government agencies and foundations, support in cash or kind from corporations, and private donations. Please consider helping out!
Because HNA--Chicago 1999 is a tax-exempt corporation, your donations are tax deductible (in the U.S.).

***** WHAT YOU NEED TO DO *****
The conference registration forms are now ready. To get yours, please send a note or E-mail to:
Joseph Kirschner

Check our Website often to see the program and arrangements as more information becomes available. The Website has biographical sketches of the main speakers and links to their Websites, links to Northwestern University and Evanston, and more information on links to area hotels. You'll find us at [old URL deleted].

We'll hope to see you at HAIKU NORTH AMERICA--CHICAGO 1999!

Charlie Trumbull for the HNA Organizing Committe

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