2021 Memorial Reading

At each Haiku North America conference, we remember haiku poets, scholars, and translators who have passed away since our previous conference. We do this with a respectful PowerPoint presentation showing each person’s name, photo, birth and death dates, and a sample poem. Names of those we will be memorializing in 2021 are listed here. If a name is missing, or if data is incomplete or incorrect, please contact the 2021 HNA memorial reading coordinators, Michael Dylan Welch or Agnes Eva Savich to help us make the memorial reading as complete and accurate as possible. Thank you.

Remembering Our Haiku Poets, Scholars, ​and Translators

The following poets, scholars, and translators in the haiku community have died since our last HNA conference in August of 2019. We need help with details marked in red italic, or let us know if you see any errors or omissions. Naomi Y. Brown was accidentally omitted from our previous memorial reading. We will update this list as needed.

Akito Arima                          September 13, 1930 – December 6, 2020                Tokyo, Japan
Winona Baker                       March 18, 1924 – October 23, 2020                        Nanaimo, BC
Jerry Ball                              December 16, 1932 – August 18, 2019                    Walnut Creek, CA
Jan Benson                           Month & day?, 1952 – October 31, 2019                 Ft. Worth, TX
Ernest J. Berry                      August 21, 1929 – May 31, 2021                             Blenheim, New Zealand
Naomi Y. Brown                   April 12, 1920 – May 6, 2019                                  Phoenix, AZ
David Cobb                          March 12, 1926 – November 6, 2020                       Essex, England
Ellen Compton                     April 3, 1926 – July 24, 2021                                   Washington, D.C.
Kristen Deming                    April 29, 1939 – October 21, 2019                           Bethesda, MD
Diane di Prima                     August 6, 1934 – October 25, 2020                          San Francisco, CA
Hélène Duc                          May 15, 1982 – October 8, 2020                              Chauny, France
Smajil (Bego) Durmišević   February 6, 1956 – June 4, 2020                              Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Garry Eaton                          November 23, 1941 – November 26, 2020              Port Moody, BC
Barbara M. Farrington         December 22, 1928 – August 29, 2020                     Agawam, MA
Liz Fenn                               June 24, 1942 – August 14, 2020                             Wellsville, NY
Lawrence Ferlinghetti           March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021                      San Francisco, CA
Muriel Ford                           December 22, 1926 – June 10, 2021                       Toronto, ON
Tōru Haga                             May 9, 1931 – February 20, 2020                           Tokyo, Japan
Peggy Heinrich                     Month & day?, 1929 – September 8, 2021              Santa Cruz, CA
Miyazaki Hisashi                  December 21, 1939 – September 3, 2020               Osaka, Japan
Evgeny Ivanov                      Month, day, & year? – October day?, 2019            Benin City, Nigeria
Evelyn Lang                          November 26, 1939 – February 20, 2021                Deerfield, NH
Bertók Lászlo                        December 6, 1935 – September 14, 2020                Pécs, Hungary
Mark Levy                             June 24, 1947 – May 12, 2021                                Oakland, CA
Paul MacNeil                         January 7, 1948 – October 30, 2019                       Ocala, FL
Martha Magenta                    March 13?, 1949 – January 14, 2020                      Bristol, England
Johannes Manjrekar              June 5, 1957 – February 9, 2020                             Vadodara, India
Michael McClure                  October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020                             Oakland, CA
Dorothy McLaughlin            May 11, 1936 – October 14, 2019                           Somerset, NJ
Roberta Monokroussos         June 4, year? – July day?, 2021                              City, state?
Alice Nelson                         October 19, 1922 – February 11, 2021                    Seattle, WA
Bill Pauly                              April 20, 1942 – February 15, 2021                        Asbury, IA
Carol Purington                    November 16, 1949 – December 8, 2020                Colrain, MA
Stuart Quine                         November 3, 1962 – March 24, 2020                      Sheffield, England
Katherine Samuelowicz       Month & day? – August ?, 2021                              City?, Australia
Gary Schroeder                     April 20, 1954 – November 5?, 2020                      Franktown, CO
Vida Pust Škrgulja                Month & day?, 1952 – January 31?, 2021              Ivanić-Grad, Croatia
Donald W. Skrivseth             April 19, 1949 – January 28, 2021                          St. Paul, MN
Toni Steele                            November 30, 1920 – January day?, 2021              Lomita, CA
Joan E. Stern                         September 15, 1943 – January 25, 2021                 Malibu, CA
André Surridge                     January 18, 1951 – December 23, 2019                  Hamilton, New Zealand
vincent tripi                          June 9, 1941 – August 17, 2020                               Greenfield, MA
Makoto Ueda                        May 20, 1931 – August 19, 2020                             Los Altos, CA
Anita Virgil                           November 23, 1931 – January 20, 2021                  Forest, VA
David Walker                        August 2, 1939 – September day?, 2019                 Hereford?, England
Joan H. Ward                        July 17, 1933 – September 30, 2019                        Burlington, MA
Ruth Weiss                           June 24, 1928 – July 31, 2020                                  Albion, CA