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Reminders on What to Pack Along

Hello! The past few weeks have whizzed past, and HNA is almost upon us! I look forward to meeting all of you at the conference, but in the meantime, here's a list of items you may wish to consider bringing:

  • Comfortable shoes (We will have several optional walks in the city during the conference.)
  • A camera (to capture the memories you don't manage to capture in haiku!)
  • Travel mug and/or water bottle (Seattle is full of coffeeshops, most of which offer tea as well, so why not be environmentally conscious and bring your own mug?)
  • Layered clothing (While it has been hot in other parts of the US this summer, that hasn't been the case in Seattle...)
  • Haiku keepsakes to share (This is optional, of course, but be creative! In the past, people have brought trifolds, folded books, bookmarks, postcards, etc. of their haiku to share with others.)
  • Books to sell at the bookfair 
  • Items for the silent auction (These can be books or any other items that would be of interest to haiku poets. All the money from the silent auction and raffle goes to the HNA.)
  • Checkbook or cash to pay for silent auction and raffle items (The silent auction and raffle will conclude at our luncheon banquet at the Space Needle, and accounts will be settled there with cash or check only. The bookfair is the only place set up to accept credit cards.)
  • Haiku for the anonymous workshops (These can either be haiku you have written during the conference, or haiku you've written earlier.)
  • Haibun for the haibun reading on Thursday evening (We won't have time to get to everyone, but please bring a haibun if you've got one.)
  • Haiku and senryu for various readings (We will have several opportunties to read our haiku aloud, so please do bring some to share.)
  • Other poetry for the "anything but haiku" reading on Friday afternoon (Many of you are talented writers of longer poems, too, so this is a chance to share these poems with others. No haiku, senryu, haibun, or linked verse at this reading.)

Here is a link to the Weather Underground site to give you an idea of what the weather will be like around the Seattle Center during the conference.  We have had a cool, damp summer in the Seattle area this year, and although we have requested plenty of sunshine for our conference weekend, the weather can be fickle. It gets down into the 50s at night here (12-13 C), and the wind off the water can be chilly, so please bring appropriate clothing.
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