Haiku
Northwest celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2008. Founded in 1988
by Francine Porad, we are a regional group of the Haiku Society of
America (www.hsa-haiku.org)
and our members include both beginning and widely published haiku
poets, translators, and theorists. In 2000, Haiku Northwest won the
first place Merit Book Award for our anthology, To Find the Words.
We meet monthly, usually in Bellevue, to share and discuss English-language
haiku, senryu, and related poetry (including haibun, haiga, tanka,
and sometimes renku). Our members pay close attention to the primary
strategies of haiku, such as including a season word (kigo)
and an equivalent to a cutting word (kireji) in poems that
use primarily objective sensory imagery.
Our activities this year have included featured readers at our meetings,
a haiku performance with music at Folklife, facilitating a very popular
haiku contest for the Washington Poets Association, hosting a national
quarterly meeting of the Haiku Society of America at Seattle's Hugo
House and a Haiku Day at Seattle's Japanese Garden, a haiku performance
on KSER radio, special meetings and workshops, and other events. On
the weekend of October 10 to 12, 2008, we will also be holding a haiku
retreat in Seabeck, Washington. Everyone is welcome to our meetings
and other events (nearly always free).
For more information, please see our Web site at http://hometown.aol.com/WelchM/Haiku-Northwest.html
(which includes an online anthology of haiku by our members), or contact
Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com
or 206-240-0871
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