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ISSN 2167-146X Haiku Society of America Newsletter Volume 27, Number 3 November 2012

From the President gions. Additionally, we could not have your presi- followed through on our projects or met dent. I have

our goals without the efforts of our com- learned so Dear Members: mittee chairs and members, anthology much from

editors, and the volunteers who assisted this experi- recently attended the HSA’s national at events. ence, and I quarterly meeting organized by Cliff I I would like to say a special thank you am excited and Brenda Roberts and members of the to the people stepping down from their to see how Fort Worth Haiku Society. I appreciated positions: Second Vice President John the HSA the excellent program and events, and I Stevenson; Ripples Editor Susan Antolin; develops in was even more appreciative of the regional coordinators an’ya, Ellen the future. chance to meet so many wonderful peo- Compton, and Katharine Hawkinson; More than HSA President Ce Rosenow ple. In the past three years during which at the Dodge Poetry Festival and History Committee Chair Charles anything, it I’ve had the privilege to serve as HSA in Newark, New Jersey on Trumbull. As you’ll see on the enclosed has been October 8, 2010 President, I have been fortunate to meet ballot, we are fortunate to have talented gratifying to Photo by Charlie Larsson poets from around the country. I’ve individuals willing to fill some of the see the in- learned first hand how the members in open positions: David Lanoue for presi- creasing number of people volunteering different regions are moving our organi- dent; Sari Grandstaff for second vice for the HSA. I hope this trend continues. zation and English-language haiku for- president; Adrienne Christian for Rip- This organization will only be effective ward, and I am grateful to the many ples editor; and Brett Brady, Cara in promoting haiku in English if the people who made these three years so Holman, Tanya McDonald as regional poets and educators who belong to it productive and enjoyable. The executive coordinators. Michael McClintock has continue to participate. Keep up the committee officers provided excellent been named the Chair of the History great work! council and donated countless hours Committee (see feature on page 3). The Best wishes and many thanks, working on behalf of the HSA member- Haiku Society of America is in good ship. The regional coordinators also hands. Ce Rosenow gave generous amounts of time and Finally, I would like to thank the HSA [email protected] energy serving the people in their re- membership for the opportunity to be In this issue...

 Third quarterly meeting—page 2  Contest results—page 20

 Update on HSA committees—page 3  Contest deadlines and rules—pages 20–24

 Interview with Terri French —page 4  Calls for submission—page 24

 Treasurer’s report—page 5  Publication announcements—pages 25–26

 A note from the membership secretary—page 5  Your HSA officers and coordinators—page 27

 In Memoriam—page 6  How to submit your news to Ripples—page 28

 New Honorary Curator of the AHA—page 7  HSA executive committee ballot and membership renewal form included as inserts with this issue  Regional news—pages 8–19 HSA News HSA’s Third Quarterly Meeting n't know and interview one another then write a poem from the interview. A lot Fort Worth, Texas of very good haiku and senryu were born from that workshop. September 14-16, 2012 Scott Wiggerman's birthday was cele- brated by those in attendance with the he day began at 10 a.m. with the test offered by 2011 Eakin Press, and presentation of a birthday cake and T members of the Fort Worth Haiku Mike read from his new book. cards. He left early to go back to Austin, Society and the members and volun- After a short break to shop at the book Texas to celebrate with his friends and teers of the Benbrook Library finishing table or add their books to the table for family. the set up of the room. They were as- sale, we resumed with Scott Wiggerman, Lunch was a catered affair from Panda sisted by some of the early attendees. co-owner of Dos Gatos Press who read Express. Some people opted to brown Helen Baldwin, wife of library director from his own newly-published book. bag it and some spent their time outside Mike Baldwin, provided snacks and Dos Gatos Press publishes an annual in the little walled garden or walking drinks for those who were there setting Texas Poetry Calendar and the evening around the grounds. up and would be missing lunch to start wound up with ten readers that are pub- After lunch, Dr. Susan Delaney of Dal- the event. lished in the 2013 edition. The first las presented “Liminality of the Haiku First up on the agenda was a wel- reader was Ann Howells from Dallas, Moment.” Following Dr. Delaney was come to Texas from Fort Worth Haiku Texas, followed by Travis Blair, Cath- James Applegate of New Mexico. Society president, Cliff “kawazu” Rob- erine L'Herisson, Katherine Oldmixon, Jim is the Southwest regional coordina- erts. He introduced Mike Baldwin who Linda Banks, J. Todd Hawkins (and his 5 tor for the H.S.A. His program was on was the winner of the manuscript con- -year-old son Henry), Mary Tindall, Bar- Sci-Fiku (haiku and senryu with science bara Gregg, C. Downs, Kelsey Erin Ship- fiction kigos). man, and Robert Wynne. Next was Dr. Bonnie Frederick of Fort Haiku Society of America We adjourned and went to dinner at Worth. In her program “Haiku in His- Rio Mambo. At 9 p.m. Cliff hosted a late panic America,” she presented the verse established 1968 by Harold G. Henderson and Leroy Kanterman night poetry reading in the lobby/meal both in Spanish and English and talked a P.O. Box 31, Nassau, NY 12123 area of the Best Western Winscott Suites bit about the various authors. that ended a little before midnight. Ce Rosenow gave a report on the hap- President Ce Rosenow After a short night, Saturday began penings in the H.S.A. and conducted a First Vice President Michael Dylan Welch with an early morning reading again in vote on the proposed slate of officers for Second Vice President John Stevenson Secretary Angela Terry the lobby of the hotel. At 9 a.m. every- 2013. The vote was unanimous to accept Treasurer Paul Miller one met at the library to begin a full day the offered slate. Electronic Media Randy Brooks of programs. First Cliff welcomed all the The last program for the day was Officer Haiku Society of America members and Brenda Roberts’ “Healing Therapy of

Questions about membership and dues should other guests and introduced Ce Poetry: Haiku.” There was a short dis- be addressed to: Rosenow, current president of the Haiku cussion after the program and then there Angela Terry Society of America. was a break for shopping at the book HSA Secretary The first program of the day was Cliff tables. 18036 49th Pl. NE “kawazu” Roberts presenting the “Art of Some of the visitors spent about five Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 [email protected] Haiga.” He had a slide show of his work minutes admiring the closed gardens at playing in the background as he read the Benbrook Library before realizing Questions about subscriptions, submissions, haiku and then passed around haiga for they'd locked themselves out. One of editorial correspondence, and other matters the audience to view up close. them tapped on the window of the con- regarding Frogpond should be addressed to: Next up was Ce Rosenow presenting ference room, and the group was res-

Francine Banwarth the poetry of Lenard Moore, past presi- cued so the programs could resume. Editor, Frogpond dent of the H.S.A. It was very well- During the break the contest was 985 So Grandview received. Mr. Moore was guest at the judged and the entries put together for Dubuque, IA 52003 H.S.A. meeting held in Fort Worth in presentation at the evening meal. Those [email protected] 2008. Several people remembered him who attended the evening meal were News and notices of events for publication in from that meeting. given the announcement of their win Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter can Johnye Strickland from Arkansas gave and certificates were presented to some. be submitted to: a program entitled “Looking Both Ways: Other certificates had to be mailed out as Susan Antolin Haiku and Senryu in our times.” She those winners had already left. [email protected] encouraged everyone as part of her Winners were: Scott Wiggerman, 1st workshop to pick a partner who we did- place; Susan Delaney, Dallas, TX, 2nd

Page 2 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter HSA News Place; Jim Applegate, New Mexico, 3rd HSA Conferences Committee Formed Place; Honorable Mentions: Gordon

Bradford, Ark, 1st HM ; David Crow, ver the summer, the HSA formed a new standing committee to coordinate Springtown, TX, 2nd ; Tricia Ferguson, the HSA presence at academic, creative writing, and literary conferences. Burleson, TX, 3rd. O This committee will ensure that we continue to bring information about English- Saturday ended with the Night Owl language haiku to poets, editors, educators, and scholars. The committee, which Reading in the Hotel Lobby. Sunday is currently comprised of Joshua Gage, Ce Rosenow, and Michael Dylan Welch, began as Saturday ended with a poetry is looking for additional members. If you would like to become a member of this reading at breakfast in the hotel lobby. new committee, please contact Ce Rosenow at [email protected]. After the reading, David Crow, Cliff

Roberts, Gordon Bradford and Johnye —Ce Rosenow Strickland went to the Japanese Gardens and ate at the buffet at The Garden's restaurant.

This is the main entrance to the Fort

Worth Botanic Gardens. After the group visited the gardens, Gordon went his HSA Welcomes New History Committee own way and Cliff, David, and Johnye continued their day with a tour of the Chair, Michael McClintock Cowgirl Museum. harlie Trumbull has stepped —Brenda Roberts C down after three years as Chair of the HSA History Committee, and we are very appreciative of all of Charlie’s work on behalf of the HSA. We are also pleased to welcome Mi- Nomination chael McClintock as the new commit- tee chair. Committee Concludes Michael has been a poet, editor and Work for 2012 critic in the short form genres of haiku, tanka, and senryu since the hanks to the members of the 2012 1960s. He holds degrees from Occi- T HSA Nominations Committee for dental College and the University their work this year. The committee Southern California in English and checked with all executive committee American Literature, Asian Studies, officers and regional coordinators to see and Information Science. who would be remaining in office. The His short poems have been widely committee members then discussed pos- anthologized, including all editions sible candidates to replace the people of The Haiku Anthology, ed. by Cor van stepping down, contacted these candi- den Heuval. A seminal study of his dates, and produced the slate for the early work in "new Imagism" may be election. Committee members for 2012: found in Barbara Ungar's Haiku in Michael McClintock Photo by K.J. McClintock Dianne Garcia, Jeannie Martin, Ce English (Stanford Honors Essay in Rosenow, and John Stevenson. See the Humanities, No. XXI, copyright 1978, ballot and biographical statements for Stanford University). Recent works include Meals at Midnight (Modern English each of the people nominated to fill HSA Tanka Press, 2008), Sketches from the San Joaquin (Turtle Light Press, 2009), and positions inserted in this issue of Ripples. the anthology Streetlights: Poetry of Urban Life in Modern English Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009). He served as president of the Tanka Society of Amer- —Ce Rosenow ica 2004-2010. Michael currently writes the uniquely interactive column "Tanka Café" for Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal and makes his home in Clovis, California.

—Ce Rosenow

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 3 HSA News Regional Coordinator Spotlight: some static concerning my spelling of "ginko." I was naming the fest after the Ce Rosenow interviews Terri French tree not the walk. But, next year I think I'll drop the second "g!" LOL). When and how did you begin working with What is it about haiku that appeals to you as Also, I have gotten to mentor a few haiku? a writer? people, and I will name names because I am so proud of them—Peggy Bilbro, "Working" is the key word here. Like What appeals to me about the form? Paula Moore and Carla Sims. They are all many haiku poets, I was introduced to Well, even though I was quite verbose now published haiku poets! haiku in my middle school years. We did with my previous answer, I would say, not become fast having a journalism What has been challenging for you as a re- friends. I flirted background, the gional coordinator? with the form but brevity and concise- found the 5-7-5 rule ness of the form ap- Again, hosting the conference, though it that I was taught to peals to me. I love was a good challenge. Our region is be too akin to words, but I gener- quite spread out so it's difficult to get mathematics and ally abhor superflu- people to commit and to travel to attend the left side of my ity. Also, though I conferences. That can be a little frustrat- brain is about the don't want to use the ing. size of a pea, so. . . word "zen," haiku is Anyway, around very meditative for What would you like to see happen in your 2006 haiku and I Terri French me. The interaction region and for the HSA in the future? were reacquainted. I Photo by Raymond French with and observation can't even tell you of nature, the con- For the future I would of course like to how exactly because I don't remember. templation, the putting of pen to paper, see us expand our membership. I'd like This time our relationship slowly pro- the reading of the words. The entire the members that we have to become gressed. process is very calming. more active in their own cities in hosting At the time I was freelancing for maga- events, teaching, etc. and to also attend zines, newspapers—really any publica- Are there specific books that have had a sig- regional meetings. tion that would give me a byline. I de- nificant impact on your work with haiku? Laurence Stacey, Tom Painting and cided to write about haiku and began my Robyn Hood Black are doing great things research. I ran across an article in Haiku Lee Gurga's book, Classic Haiku edited by in the Southeast with our students and World written by some guy named Mi- Tom Lowenstein, The Haiku Handbook by teachers so that we will have a whole chael Dylan Welch called "Becoming a Higginson and Harter. And simply read- new generation of haiku poets. I'd love Haiku Poet." I read that and then I read ing and studying my contemporaries’ for more of us to follow in their foot- some of his haiku. In May of 2008 I e- work in the various journals, books and steps. For haiku to stay alive, thrive and mailed Michael (I know the exact date anthologies. evolve we must not only write, we must because I kept all of the e-mails) to ask continue to learn and to teach. permission to use one of his haiku in my What made you decide to become a regional article. Then I got bold enough to share coordinator? Biographical Note some of my "haiku." He was very gentle with me! He introduced me to Shiki's Peter Meister, the previous RC, lives Terri L. French lives with her husband concept of "shasei"—sketching from life– very close to me. I found him when I was Ray, a NASA engineer, and her three and guided me away from my interpre- searching for haiku poets in my area. cats, in Hunstville, AL. They have a tive style of writing. He turned me on to After meeting Peter I joined the HSA and blended family of four children—three Lee Gurga's Haiku: A Poet's Guide, and to went to my first HSA meeting in Mineral currently in college. Besides hanging out Higginson, Cor van den Heuvel, and Point, Wisconsin. Peter asked if I would with haiku and its various cousins, Terri others. I guess you could say that MDW like to take the reigns, and I agreed. I'm is a Licensed Massage Therapist and guy became my mentor. very happy that he is still active in our freelance writer. Originally from Michi- And, yes, I did get two articles pub- regional activities. gan, she channels a little Southern boy lished in Canadian Organic Grower and named JT Blankenship. If you ever meet Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine! What has been your most satisfying experi- her, and ask nicely, JT may introduce ence as a regional coordinator? himself.

Hosting the first Southeast HSA Ginkgo Haikufest. (Even though I have received

Page 4 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter HSA News Secretary’s Report The HSA’s Facebook Page

can’t quite believe that by the time hether you are already on Facebook or thinking of joining, I you are reading this report in Ripples, W take a moment to check out the HSA Facebook page moni- it will be time for you to renew your tored by dedicated members Tim Singleton and Jim Aaron. You Haiku Society of America memberships will find up-to-date information on contests, events, photographs, occasional writ- for 2013 and to vote for our new slate of ing prompts, as well as links to sites of particular interest to the haiku community. officers. 2012 seems to have just flown If you have something you would like to share on the HSA Facebook page, send by, a year of strange weather patterns your news by Direct Message to the page monitors by simply clicking on the word and challenging world events. All of “message” in the upper right of the page next to the “like” button. Enjoy this ex- which have appeared in the various cellent online resource! haiku I’ve had the opportunity to read in the course of the year. —Susan Antolin A reminder for both new and renew- ing members that membership in the HSA runs on a calendar year basis, and Treasurer’s Report so, no matter when you joined or re- Jan 1 – Sept 30, 2012 newed your membership in 2012, you need to renew again as of January 1, 2013 in order to continue receiving HSA 2012 Financials membership benefits. A 2013 member- ship form is included in this issue as a FY 2012 reminder. However, as always, you can also renew your membership via PayPal Beginning Bank Balance 54,434 on the HSA website. Dues for 2013 will remain the same as during 2012: $35 for Dues / Contributions 24,801 regular members in the US, $37 for Members Anthology Sales 1,111 members in Canada and Mexico, and Contest Fees 1,251 $47 for International members. Student Frogpond Sales 459 and Senior memberships in North Miscellaneous 41 America are $30. A total of 727 members were on the Income 27,662 books as of the end of September. We encourage all of our members to take Frogpond Expenses (11,149) advantage of the benefits of your mem- Newsletter Expenses (5,106) bership, which in addition to receipt of Administrative Expenses (1,356) Frogpond, the new online version of Rip- Members Anthology Expenses (11) ples (see p. 26 for details), the member E- Contest Awards / Expenses (400) bulletin, and (beginning in 2013) a copy of the HSA membership anthology for Website Expenses (478) every member, also includes a reduced Meeting/Travel Expenses (1,576) rate entry fee for all HSA sponsored Miscellaneous (510) contests (half the amount charged to non-members), and inclusion in our Expense (20,586) member directory. Also included with this issue of Rip- Ending Cash Balance 61,510 ples is the ballot for our 2013 slate of officers and regional coordinators. Please return it to me no later than De- We still have a third Frogpond, a newsletter, the anthology, and some administra- cember 15, 2012 at: tive expenses to pay. The only thing of worry to me is the continued decline in Angela Terry, Secretary contest revenue which at this point will not offset the contest prizes. Haiku Society of America 18036 49th PL N E —Paul Miller Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

—Angela Terry, HSA Secretary

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 5 In Memoriam Phyllis Walsh Cindy Zackowitz 1928–2012 May 28, 1965 – September 23, 2012

he Haiku Society of America is he worldwide haiku community were evident and remarkable. A collec- T saddened to report the passing of T has been deeply saddened to learn tion of her haiku and photography ap- longtime editor and poet Phyllis Anne that Alaska poet and photographer pear on the Alaska Haiku Society’s Walsh. Her widely respected short- Cindy Zackowitz died September 23 at website. Here are a few of Cindy’s poetry journal, Hummingbird, was al- her home in Anchorage at the age of 47. haiku: ways professional, gracious, and Born in Fairbanks, she was a life-long classy, with earlier issues produced in Alaskan and graduated from the Uni- autumn chill— letterpress editions. The magazine be- versity of Alaska with a BA in Journal- a butterfly swept up gan in 1991 and was published quar- ism/Photography. with the leaves terly until 2007, and then appeared Her interest in haiku began in 1997 twice yearly starting in 2008. It cele- and her special gift for that genre be- a mosquito brated haiku, senryu, and tanka among came immediately evident. Cindy was caught in my hair— other genres of short poetry. Novelist a long-time member of the Haiku Soci- scent of pine and poet Norbert Blei once described ety of America, serving three terms as Hummingbird as “one of the world’s regional coordinator for the Alaska biting cold— finest publications dedicated to the Region and co-founding the Alaska moonlight on the nail heads small poem. It breathes clarity, lifts Haiku Society. She was one of the early of the old fence light on every humming page.” members of the Shiki Internet Haiku Phyllis’s own books included Center Salon. Her haiku have appeared in chickadee’s call— Stillness (Scythe Press, 1989), River: A leading haiku journals and have been the smell of wood smoke Haiku Sequence (Hummingbird Press, specially featured on the temps libre/free settles with the rain 1993), and To Find a Rainbow times website. Many of her haiku re- (Hummingbird Press, 1997). She also ceived special honors and were selected spawning salmon published a book about another fine for anthologies. even their bones Wisconsin poet devoted to short po- She was also a highly-skilled photog- point upstream etry: Lorine Niedecker: Solitary Plover rapher and spent most of her free time (Juniper Press, 1992). outdoors. Her photographs have been folding the tripod— Phyllis Walsh was born on Novem- highlighted on more than 50 national the cloud I photographed ber 4, 1928, in Fort Atkinson, Wiscon- and international websites, and she was drifts apart sin, and passed away on September 3, a frequent contributor to the Sierra 2012, at the age of 83, in Greendale, Club’s “Daily Ray of Hope” website. —Billie Wilson Wisconsin. She is survived by two chil- Most of Cindy’s fellow haiku poets dren and grandchildren. knew her only through her work, but almost all who talked with her through —Michael Dylan Welch e-mail felt as though she lived next door. Her kind and uplifting nature

Elizabeth Nichols cal flute before moving on to playing She and Hal Gimpelson brought Ion Native American and Shakuhachi Condrescu, editor of Hermitage from November 1922 - July 21, 2012 flutes. She was known widely as Romania, to Colorado Springs for a 'Grandmother Flute Player.' haiku event. In spite of very poor eye- lizabeth Nichols died peacefully Liz began writing haiku decades ago, sight, Liz continued to write haiku E on July 21, 2012 in Colorado composing much of her work while on nearly to the end of her exceptional life. Springs after a short illness. Liz enjoyed long road trips in the Southwest. Eliza- a vibrant and exciting life of travel, beth Searle Lamb and Liz were haiku a gust of wind music, and poetry. She studied the Orff partners for many years in Kansas and across the holes of my flute method of music education in Vienna, New Mexico. Liz served as the Haiku sings its own song Austria and then went on to teach clas- Society of America Plains and Moun- sical music at Ball State University tains Regional Coordinator during the —Patricia Nolan (Indiana) as well as leading many musi- 1990s. She led the High Country Haiku cal groups in her home state of Kansas group in Colorado Springs and Denver as well as Colorado. She played classi- which published their members' haiku.

Page 6 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter National News LeRoy Gorman Appointed as New Honorary bride, Cor van den Heuvel, Robert Spi- ess, Lorraine Ellis Harr, Leroy Kanter- Curator of the American Haiku Archives man, William J. Higginson, Makoto Ueda, Francine Porad, Hiroaki Sato, H. F. Noyes, George Swede, Stephen he American Haiku Archives advi- lished poetry leaflets and postcards un- Addiss, Garry Snyder, and Jerry Ball. T sory board is pleased to announce der his pawEpress imprint. In addition The archives continues with its mis- the appointment of LeRoy Gorman as to writing under his own name, he has sion, which is as follows: “Based on the the 2012–2013 honorary curator of the published under at least fifty pseudo- belief that haiku and related poetry can American Haiku Archives at the Califor- nyms. He is a member of the Writers' enrich lives, the American Haiku Ar- nia State Library in Sacramento Union of Canada, the Science Fiction chives is dedicated to the collection, (www.americanhaikuarchives.org). This Poetry Association, the Haiku Society of preservation, and promotion of this po- honor is in recognition of his devo- etry as a vital component of litera- tion to and enthusiasm for haiku ture in the English language. Estab- development and exploration in lished July 12, 1996 as an inclusive Canada, with exemplary influence educational and scholarly resource upon all English-language haiku at the California State Library in across North America and abroad Sacramento, the Archives seeks to through his publications and edit- make its material accessible to the ing, and his decades-long support general public, especially students, of the Haiku Canada organization. poets, writers, and scholars. The His poetry consistently shows ad- Archives’ material, primarily in Eng- mirable creativity, courage, and lish, includes books, magazines, range, embracing both traditional pamphlets, recordings, art work, and visual/minimalist approaches photographs, letters, papers, and to haiku and related genres of po- ephemera. It also encompasses other etry. We are pleased to bestow this historical and contemporary mate- honor from the American Haiku rial from individuals, groups, pub- Archives, which seeks to preserve lishers, and societies around the and promote haiku and related world, from whom the Archives poetry throughout the North actively invites future and regular American continent. contributions. The American Haiku LeRoy Gorman lives in Napanee, Archives exists with the hope and Ontario. He was born in Smiths confidence that present and future Falls, Ontario, in 1949 and raised generations will continue to enjoy on a farm near Merrickville. After and benefit from the reading, writ- graduating from Carleton and ing, and studying of haiku and all Queen’s universities, he embarked related poetry.” on a thirty-eight year teaching ca- LeRoy Gorman The AHA advisory board is de- reer, beginning with the Ontario lighted to pay tribute to LeRoy Gor- Ministry of Correctional Services man as the sixteenth honorary cura- and ending with the Algonquin and America, and is a life member of Haiku tor of the American Haiku Archives. To Lakeshore Catholic District School Canada. search the collections of the American Board. His poetry, much of it visual The American Haiku Archives, which Haiku Archives online, please visit (mostly minimalist and haiku, or haiku- includes the Haiku Society of America www.lib.state.ca.us/html/welcome.html. like), has appeared in print since 1976 in archives, is the largest public collection For information on donating material to various presentations worldwide, and of haiku materials outside Japan. Each the archives, or other information about has garnered numerous awards. His year since the archives were established its history and past honorary curators, visual poetry has also been displayed in on July 12, 1996, the AHA advisory please visit the new American Haiku exhibitions, internationally. In addition board, currently chaired together by Archives website at to writing, he edits Haiku Canada publi- Garry Gay and Randy Brooks, appoints www.americanhaikuarchives.org. cations, including Haiku Canada Newslet- a new honorary curator (an idea sug- ter from 1996 to 2006, followed by Haiku gested by the former California state —Michael Dylan Welch Canada Review, beginning in 2007, as librarian, Dr. Kevin Starr). Past curators, well as various annual anthologies and in order starting from the first year, have broadsides. Since 1998, he has also pub- been Elizabeth Searle Lamb, Jerry Kil-

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 7 Regional News

Northeast August peaches . . . Northeast Metro why do most people

New England want to cook them? oordinator Rita Gray had us all

read a current haiku, and they Ginger Graham offered a haiku we felt C were entered in our on-going poetry Bangor Haiku Group was full of deep pathos: journal. Twenty-four members of the

Northwest Metro Chapter of HSA gath- ur summer ginko event in late a sudden smile ered on Saturday September 22 in New O August was at the Abby Aldrich weeding lilacs York City. Members present beside Rita Rockefeller Garden with wonderful her ashes Gray were: Scott Mason, Ellen Peckham, blossoms, classic Chinese compound Ra Mae Merrill, Shel Silberstein, Maura structure and statues, and a small Bob Seretny offered one we found in Tolres, Mark Harris, Cor van den Heu- shaded square pool with lots of frogs sync with Ginger's but different: vel, Geoff Van Kirk, Jay Friedenberg, and water lilies. At our picnic lunch we Roibin Pallez, Jeff discussed the entrance of "gendai" or is friends forgotten Hoagland, Henry it "free verse" into haiku as we watched the simple delights Brann, John Stevenson, two great blue herons soaring down an of lucid moments Philip Foster, Elizabeth inlet from the Atlantic to a bay. Bodien, Miriam Chai- Bruce wrote a haiku which everyone Accordingly, Anne LB kin, Dorothy McLaugh- liked on the multi-colored butterflies, Davidson offered one lin, Carolyn Harris, painted ladies: with very deep emo- Popo Tsukino, Marilyn tion: Hazleton, Mary Ellen formal garden Rooney, Philip Foster the painted ladies choose cleaning the attic . . . and Peg McAulay yellow blossoms years of another life Byrd. packed in boxes Adjuncts sent in haiku to be read with Marilyn Hazleton Our first speaker Photo by Geoff Van Kirk Marilyn Hazleton, edi- those of the core BHG at the September Finally, Tom tor of Red Lights, gave her observations BHG meeting. Norma Sheard who did- Trowbridge offered a very good haiku of the recent Haiku Pacific Rim confer- n't attend the ginko linked Bruce's haiku with multiple levels (Greek "pneuma" ence at Asilomar in California spon- with a punning senryu read at our next means soul, breath): sored by the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society meeting to all our smiles: and the Haiku Poets of Northern Cali- pneuma fornia. Attendees had been asked to Three painted ladies taking wind submit poems for Caught in the Breeze, stroll in an autumn garden— enfolding wind the commemorative anthology for the blossoms gone to seed conference, edited by Susan Antolin. Bruce has published a new collection Several of the lecturers at HPR were Astrid Andreescu offered one we found of haiku, Spring Clouds Haiku through Patrick Gallagher, Patricia Machmiller, filled with humor and liveliness: his new press Tancho Press, his first Jerry Ball, Charles Trumbull, Susan An- haiku collection since Silence: Collected tolin and Neal Whitman to name barely as we approach Haiku. a handful of dissertations and lectures! the wood thrush hits Bruce and Astrid will be visiting with Marilyn then focused her remarks on a false note haiku poets in Vienna, Budapest, and the guest speaker at the HPR confer- Bucharest on a trip that includes moun- ence, Japanese Professor Dr. Akito Tyler Pruett wrote what we considered tain hiking in Romania at the end of Arima, distinguished nuclear physicist, good observation but deep, a kind of September through mid-October. scholar, and a revered haiku master Zen koan: On October 29 the BHG will meet on who published a stunning collection of Thomas Hill Stand Pipe, Bangor for a haiku in English Einstein’s Century the butterfly moon viewing event (the full harvest (Brooks Books $16). Dr Arima ‘s human- still has her moon) and haiku writing, with adjuncts ity has been the touchstone of his life caterpillar face e-mailing in their moon haiku. We will and especially reflected in his poetry. then meet at Ichiban Japanese restaurant He commented that when he had a Kirsty Karkow wrote a homespun haiku for tea, food, and sharing harvest moon problem in nuclear physics he would we thought was "just peachy!": haiku. turn to haiku and when he had a prob-

lem with a haiku he would turn to nu- —Bruce Ross

Page 8 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter Regional News clear physics. Two summer haiku form Boston Haiku Society Rochester Area his book Einstein’s Century:

Haiku Group he Boston Haiku Society started its pushing his cart 24th season last week, August 18 at and his life itself T uring the summer months, RAHG the Kaji Aso Studio in Boston. A few the mellon seller ceases its “program-focused” new members were present as well as a D meetings at Barnes & Noble and enjoys steady core of about ten members who I opened the window nature walks instead. In July, Pam Good meet on a monthly basis the third Satur- to let in the rainbow hosted us in her whimsical backyard day of each month. and the evening bells garden, which amazed and amused Jeannie Martin has started her third everyone. In August, we toured the year with haiku classes at the Cam- Marilyn then asked several teams of the arboretum at Durand Eastman Park and bridge Center for Adult Edu- NW chapter to read from Dr. Arima’s cation. She is also starting a book. quarterly meeting of haiku A fantastic podcast created at the poets to discuss and read HPR conference by Donna Beaver and their haiku. Guest poets will Alan Pizzarelli can be viewed on Haiku be invited to do presenta- Chronicles # 25, where Dr Arima dis- tions before each meeting. cuses the true meaning of Ginko. The I read last week at the podcasts are an unbelievable collection yearly meeting of “Dog Day of free educational poetry designed to Poetry Marathon” at the Out- provide a better understanding and post in Inman Square in Cam- appreciation of the art of haiku and it’s bridge. Readings started at related forms senryu, renku, tanka, 7:00 pm on Friday night Au- haibun and haiga (online at haiku- gust 17 and ran with a differ- chronicles.com) ent poet every fifteen min- Peg McAulay Byrd, who was also at utes through Sunday after- the HPR conference, read excerpts from noon the 19th. On Saturday (left to right) Carolyn Dancy, Pamela Babusci, “Black Haiku,” a paper given by and Sunday the readings Frank Judge and Steve Sisk at the Arboretum Charles Trumbull, editor of Modern Photo by Deanna Tiefenthal started at 1:00 p.m. and fin- Haiku, who presented this dissertation ished between 9:50 p.m. and on Sunday as a current work-in-progress, soon to bade farewell to Steve Sisk, who has at 3:49 p.m. This is the third year of the be published. since moved to St. Paul, MN. marathon. We then heard John Stevenson and On July 24, we shared a picnic supper

Henry Brann reading from Nick Virgilio: with Tom Painting (Atlanta), before he —Raffael de Gruttola A Life in Haiku (Turtle Light Press led a haibun workshop. On August 14,

$14.95): Michael Ketchek read several of his

haiku, tanka, haibun, and prose poems Over the city Cambridge as one of two featured poets for the the shadow of a falcon Haiku Society Genesee Reading Series sponsored by follows the pigeon Writers & Books, Rochester’s only liter-

ary society. new group started in Cambridge, Saving the best for last, we were en- This summer, a dramatic reading of MA called the Cambridge Haiku thralled as Mark Harris read from his A Pamela A. Babusci’s tanka (from her Society. We had our first meeting on recently published book Burl (Red anthology A Thousand Reasons) was pro- October 13 and will be meet on a quar- Moon Press $12), a series of haiku po- duced and released in a YouTube video terly basis to start. The coordinator for ems reflecting unusual growths, com- by Kristen Byrne of Ireland. the group is Jeannie Martin monly found on trees, but also can be a Also noteworthy, Michael Ketchek’s ([email protected]), who is also creative or biological stage of some indi- chapbook Over Our Heads received a a member of the Boston Haiku Society. viduals. special HSA award for the “best letter-

After a full afternoon we retired to press book.” (Swamp Press, 2010. Let- —Raffael de Gruttola Bar 6, a favorite local Moroccan restau- terpress production by Ed Rayher.) rant. —Carolyn Dancy —Peg McAulay Byrd

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Haiku Poets' As a final surprise of the afternoon, enjoy not only the wonderful hospitality Wanda presented each member of and comfortable meeting rooms, but Society of Western HPSWM with a red and gold journal, also BSSC’s beautiful gardens in full each with an individual inscription, as a spring regalia—the Haiku Poets of Cen- Massachusetts personal gift from her. In recognition for tral Maryland (HPCM) next met on Sat- her 13 years of service as coordinator of urday, July 21 in Eldersburg, MD, at the t's Party Time! The Haiku Poets' Soci- the group, Wanda received a matching home of Cathy Drinkwater Better I ety of Western Massachusetts offi- necklace and earring set. (Walker). Attending the July meeting— cially celebrated its twentieth anniver- The afternoon ended with everyone including those participating by e-mail sary this month starting with an anni- looking forward to the final celebratory and snail-mail—were: Elizabeth Fanto, versary card that was sent to some sixty event which will be the Anniversary Beth Edelstein, and Tony Nasuta, all of groups and individuals throughout the Reading at Forbes Library in Northamp- Timonium, MD; Ginny Leidig, of Joppa, US and Canada. The card was designed ton, MA on October 17 at 7 p.m. A MD; and Mark Brager and Tim Single- and edited by Patricia Harvey and “meet-the-poets” and refreshments will ton, both hailing from Columbia, MD. In Wanda Cook and addition, Tony treated us recognized our Sep- to several fine haiga by tember 2, 1992 be- his artistic and poetic ginning. By our cal- granddaughter, Mason. culations, we are the After a round of open- fifth oldest continu- ing poems read aloud, ously active haiku and mention of the up- group in the HSA. coming Haiku North The HPSWM cele- America conference as bration continued on sent to us by regional September 8 with a coordinator Ellen Comp- luncheon at Chan- ton, we moved on to our dler's Restaurant in usual discussion period. South Deerfield, This time around it cen- MA. In addition to tered on: the possibility tasty food and drink, The Haiku Poets’ Society of Western Massachusetts celebrate 20 years: of HPCM becoming a the festivities in- front row, left to right: Karen Reynolds, Gloria Ayvazian, Marilyn Gabel; 501(c)(3) organization in cluded a round back row: Wanda Cook, Patricia Harvey, John Darrow, Eric Arthen, order to obtain funds for Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Alyce Stiles; absent: Milly Butera robin reading, pres- a variety of high-minded entations of awards, follow the reading. haiku-related projects; photographs, gifts, and the viewing of The following group members were and discussion, reports, and brainstorm- the anniversary anthology. published in the newly-released anthol- ing for a haiku and ginko project aimed The anthology, a one-of-a-kind vol- ogy The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary especially for the special-needs commu- ume, is an altered book titled Seagull's Poems of Grief, Loss and Change edited by nities in our area, beginning with stu- Flight. The book was edited by Wanda Robert Epstein: Gloria Ayvazian, dents in the classroom. The meeting Cook and embellishments were created Wanda Cook, Patricia Harvey, and the ended, as always, with a rousing haiku by Patricia Harvey. Each of the twenty- late Alice Ward. workshop, more snacking, and hugs. eight poems have a two-page spread HPCM then met on September 29 at which was decorated in a manner which —Eric Arthen the home of Elizabeth Fanto. In atten- reflected the subject, tone or mood of dance, both in person and by way of e- the piece. After viewing and enjoying mails or snail-mails, were: Ginny Leidig the book, members signed a special (Joppa, MD); Cathy Drinkwater Better page designed for autographs. Mid-Atlantic Region (Walker); Tony Nasuta; Mark Brager; A special thank you was extended to and Beth Edelstein (Timonium, MD). Karen Reynolds, Denise Fontaine- Haiku Poets After an opening round of haiku, in- Pincince and Alyce Stiles for their assis- cluding a rengay written by Mark and tance in booking the anniversary events. of Central Maryland Cathy and published in the September Patricia Harvey received a certificate of 23, 2012, online chapbook Sea Bandits, recognition for her dedicated work on ollowing its Saturday, June 2 lunch- from Yay Words!, we moved on to the behalf of the society and Eric Arthen F eon meeting at the Bon Secours jaw-flapping portion of the meeting. received one for his service as corre- Spiritual Center, in Marriottsville, MD— Under discussion were: spondent for the group. the date and location were chosen to The 2012 HPCM Poem Sheet. Submis-

Page 10 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter Regional News sions for this year’s collection are due, in members hail not only from the state of display his/her work, accompanied by hand, no later than October 31, 2012. All Maryland, but also from other areas of some form of artwork. We will honor members with dues paid through 2012 the country and around the world. Our Towpath's founder, the late Alexius are eligible to submit up to three of their long-distance members keep up and Burgess, with a display of his haiku, and best haiku and/or senryu; and each participate by way of e-mail, snail-mail, will provide space for highlighting the member who submits work is guaran- phone, and Skype. So don’t let being group's activities, publications, and teed to have at least one poem in this outside the Maryland area discourage other accomplishments. We do not plan year’s poem sheet. We expect to have you from joining us! to post schedules and details regarding copies of the finished product available You can pay your dues at an upcom- upcoming meetings, but will provide a at our next meeting bi-monthly meeting. ing meeting; include them with your means for interested readers to learn Those unable to pick up their copies in submission to this year’s poem sheet, or more. person will receive them by mail. mail them to Elizabeth or Cathy at the In other news, the group learned that In addition to free copies for members addresses mentioned above. Ellen's manuscript, Gathering Dusk, has (some to keep, some to share), the poem The “November” 2012 meeting of the received a 2012 Snapshot Press award sheet is sent to: Friends of HPCM; some Haiku Poets of Central Maryland will for a haiku collection. Publication is local and regional haiku clubs around take place on Saturday, December 1 scheduled for the late autumn. the country; the editors of major haiku from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., at the home of Roberta shared some of the highlights journals and websites; and national Beth Edelstein, 302 Overlook Drive, Ti- of the Haiku Canada conference in To- haiku organizations including the HSA, monium, MD 21093. Please join us! For ronto. As Haiku Canada was celebrating Haiku Canada, the British Haiku Soci- more information, you can e-mail Cathy its 35th Anniversary and the conference ety, and the Irish Haiku Society. Over or Elizabeth at the addresses above; or coincided with Canada Day, the pro- the years, poems from our poem sheets call Elizabeth, at 410-252-8531, or Cathy ceedings opened with presentations on have been chosen for inclusion in an- at 410-795-0703. the history of haiku in Canada. nual “best of” haiku anthologies. On hiatus during the last contest cycle —Cathy Drinkwater Better (Walker) —Ellen Compton so that HPCM could concentrate its ef- forts on another large project, the Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards Towpath North Carolina are back and better than ever. The in- hand deadline for the 2013 competition Haiku Society owpath met in June on Bloomsday is April 15. Full submission guidelines at Roberta Beary's home. Kathleen appear on page 23 of this issue of Rip- T aiku Holiday is so much more O'Toole, Jim (the Peach) Aaron, Kristen ples; or, for more information, contact: than just an annual conference. Deming, Mary Wuest, Lee Giesecke, H Elizabeth Fanto at [email protected] or The event has become synonymous with Penny Showell, Fonda Bell Miller, Aud- 51 Gerard Avenue, Timonium, MD celebration. This is a time when poets rey Olberg, and Elizabeth Black were 21784 USA; or Cathy D.B. Walker at travel to North Carolina from far dis- there from the start, with Rick Black [email protected] or 613 Okemo Drive, tances. They come to feel the warmth of arriving late (bearing a watermelon), Eldersburg, MD, 21784. spring sun and partake of southern hos- after going by mistake to Roberta’s of- It’s that time again: dues for 2013 are pitality just before cool mornings give fice. payable now through whenever you can way to summer’s lingering heat and In August we gathered at Ellen get it to us. Dues will remain at $10 for humidity. Poets come bearing news of Compton's on a day of record heat (100+ yet another year; for that you receive six their own accomplishments as they cele- in the shade). Keeping cool indoors bi-monthly issues of the HPCM newslet- brate and applaud those of others. were Peach, Mary, Lee, Fonda, Audrey, ter, The Dragonfly; any Dragonfly EX- On Saturday, April 28, 2012, the North Elizabeth, and Roberta. TRA! bulletins that may go out in be- Carolina Haiku Society (NCHS) held its In addition to the usual haiku read- tween; inclusion in and copies of our 33rd annual Haiku Holiday Conference ings and workshops, the two meetings annual poem sheet (haiku broadside); in Chapel Hill, at Bolin Brook Farm, the focused on website planning and dis- regular bi-monthly meetings (although home of Jean Earnhardt and her late cussion. Peach and Elizabeth presented guests are welcome at meetings, too); husband John Earnhardt. This year’s preliminary mockups of their proposed and any other activities or trouble conference was extra special for the design. Elizabeth is gathering photos; in HPCM may get into over the course of twenty-two poets in attendance. They particular she hopes the home page can the upcoming year. Your annual dues celebrated the sacred space of “The show a view of the Chesapeake and will (soon, we hope) make it possible to Stone House,” as Jean Earnhardt’s mem- Ohio Towpath, for which the group is publish a real chapbook of members’ ory-and heirloom-filled home has come named. A members' showcase will con- work. So please give until it hurts. to be known. Her house is an elegant sist of a page for each Towpath poet to Something we never expected: our structure built from stones found on the

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 11 Regional News property where it stands. Franc Sidler, a on Free Verse (and Vice Versa).” Lenard Saturday, Tom Painting, haiku poet and student of Frank Lloyd Wright, de- D. Moore moderated the discussion and instructor at The Paideia School in At- signed the house. Jean says that, “From asked the panelists, L. Teresa Church, lanta, Georgia, presented a two-part the beginning, the house and the old Adrienne Christian, and Dave Russo, "How to Haiku" workshop. Tom's ener- farmstead felt like the ideal setting for the following questions: How did you getic and informative style got us all poets who delight in nature and the learn about haiku? What is the most pumped up for the afternoon ginko insights it brings.” striking thing about haiku? Who are walk around the beautiful grounds of Sources of artistic inspiration and your influences in haiku writing? Which the park. In the afternoon Laurence Sta- creativity abound at Bolin Brook Farm. poets would you recommend as exam- cey, coeditor of Haiku News and recent Observations of the stone house itself ples of haiku-influenced free verse writ- graduate of Kennesaw State University and the presence of large lichen-covered ers? Through these and other questions, in Kennesaw, Georgia, enthralled us all rocks dotting the grounds, wildflowers the panelists shared the consensus that with his presentation of the cross- and cultivated flora, sightings of white- the economy of language and the ability curricular use of haiku as a teaching tail deer, woodpeckers drilling holes on to say so much with few words makes tool. high limbs, croaking frogs, and other haiku appealing as a poetic form. After a traditional southern dinner of natural elements texture the haiku can- L. Teresa Church is an independent pulled pork, chicken, beans, slaw and vas. A proliferation of such writings scholar and archival consultant. Her pecan pie, we were all full and ready to generated there never went unnoticed writings have appeared in publications enjoy an evening with Robert Moyer of over the years and gave rise to the idea such as Simply Haiku, Frogpond, and The Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Bob for a new anthology. The 2012 confer- Heron’s Nest. Adrienne Christian holds had us all laughing (but also learning) ence marked the official release of that an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific as we played his game "Exquisite Sylla- work, The Stone House: An Anthology of University in Oregon and her poems bles," based on the Surrealist parlor Haiku from Bolin Brook Farm. More than a have been featured in Falling Star, Ali- game, "Exquisite Corpse." Bob says, year earlier, the initiative for the project mentum, The Ante Review, The Barrier "Think of it as Andre Breton meets Mad took root. A call for submissions was Islands Review, and many others. Dave Libs by way of Yves Tanguy." extended during the 2011 annual confer- Russo serves as web administrator for Ted van Zutphen won "The Issa ence. Lenard D. Moore and Dave Russo the North Carolina Haiku Society as Award for Best Haiku" inspired during edited the anthology published by well as The Haiku Foundation. His our ginko walk. The contest was judged Rosenberry Books, Etc. in Pittsboro, work has been featured in publications by the presenters and other attendees North Carolina. The Stone House in- such as Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, with prize money donated by SE HSA cludes works by sixteen poets. Among New Resonance, and other sources. member Paula Moore from Jackson, these are Rebecca Ball Rust, Jay Bryan, Florida, who unfortunately was unable Kate MacQueen, Curtis Dunlap, Glenn — L. Teresa Church to attend. G. Coats, Joan E. Coats, Richard Straw, After breakfast Sunday we drew Roberta Beary, Stan Siceloff, Paul names for door prizes. I think everyone MacNeil, Ellen Compton, Richard South East Region in attendance would agree the confer- Krawiec, L. Teresa Church, Bob Moyer, ence was a success and that just being Dave Russo, and Lenard D. Moore. The there was the greatest prize of all; I anthology also features artwork by the s I write this article, we have just know it was for me. Thanks to all who publisher Diane Katz, who was inspired A concluded the First Annual South- helped organize this event, the present- by various Frank Lloyd Wright architec- east HSA Ginkgo Haikufest. Though not ers, my cheerleaders, the staff at the tural paintings. For her drawings, Katz everyone was able to stay for the entire lodge, and my husband. Hope to see uses “colored pencils and an encaustic event, we had 24 attendees! The event more of you next year! technique that is a cross between print- was held at the beautiful Lake Gunters- ing, drawing and monument rubbing ville State Park Lodge in Guntersville, —Terri French [and] allow hidden textures to reveal Alabama. Some of our attendees drove themselves on the surface of the paper.” great distances to attend. Charles Hen- Copies of The Stone House are available derson and his wife, Carolyn, came all South Region in deluxe and standard editions through the way from South Carolina and Ted

RosenberryBooks.com. van Zutphen drove down in his RV he South Region held its annual During the afternoon session of the from Michigan. Dr. Doris Davenport, an conference in Shreveport, Louisi- conference, poets read and critiqued English professor from Stillman College T ana on July 7, 2012, in the Broadmoor haiku written on the self-guided ginko, in Tuscaloosa Alabama, brought along Branch of Shreve Memorial Library. which took place before lunch. This ses- two of her students. The Northwest Louisiana Haiku Society sion also featured a panel discussion Friday, September 28 was the “Meet sponsored the meeting, with entitled “What Impact Has Haiku Had and Greet” reception and open reading.

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Carlos Colón presiding. single annual meeting in Hot Springs, about haiku. There was also a haibun The program consisted of talks about usually the first weekend in November. presentation by Mike Montreuil, haibun haiku, interspersed with activities Anyone looking for a group to share the editor of One Hundred Gourds—Tell Me a incorporating the information presented experience of learning about haiku and Story. in the talks and an indoor ginko readings of haiku by fellow enthusiasts Saturday evening, there was much (due to the 110 degree heat during the is welcome to join these groups at any socializing with a Midwest style picnic summer drought) during lunch. of the scheduled events. at The Foundry Books, and later with an Highlights of the program included open reading by poets at a wine bar in "Literary Forensics and the Haiku Poet," —Johnye Strickland town. by Susan Delphine Delaney, in which Sunday morning, there was a brief she applied the techniques of literary Ginko walk led by Jerry Cushman on forensics which had been used to iden- Midwest Region the grounds behind Pendarvis Educa- tify the Unibomber to poems composed tion Center, an historic site built for by members of the South Region who Cornish coal miners of the 1800s. Fol- were in attendance. We later used Haiku Festival Draws a Crowd lowing, Melissa Allen led a thought- these techniques to try to identify the provoking discussion on “Gendai poems composed anonymously during hat a time we had in Mineral Haiku.” The closing event was lunch at the ginko, with interesting results. W Point, WI for The Cradle of Gray Dog Deli. Cliff Roberts presented a how-to American Haiku Festival #3! Dozens of It should be noted that Jim Kacian, power point show on the creation of poets from several states and Canada HSA Virginia member, attended the computer-generated artwork accompa- spent Friday through Sunday, July 20– event and interviewed prominent peo- nied by haiku similar to the traditional 22, learning and networking with new ple in haiku for the Haiku Foundation’s haiga. He has subsequently updated his and longtime haikuists. special project. Among those inter- presentation for the HSA quarterly Our host, Gayle Bull, at The Foundry viewed were Gayle Bull, Francine Ban- meeting in Fort Worth,Texas September Books, who organized the fun event warth, Bill Pauly, and Charlie Trumbull. 14-15, and he will present yet another with Francine Banwarth and Jerry Following is a summary of each pres- update at the Arkansas Haiku Society's Cushman, welcomed haikuists for yet entation that I was able to attend: annual conference in Hot Springs, Ar- another festival. This time, it was held kansas November 2-3. to celebrate the American Haiku journal. Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by The third talk, "Reading the New The journal was founded and edited by African-American Poets. Haiku: 4," was presented by David the late Jim Bull and Don Eulert, Uni- Lanoue. This, too, is a continuation of a versity of Wisconsin-Platteville English Charlie Trumbull spoke about how Af- work in progress, in which David in- professors. rican-Americans have been writing vites the audience to share initial re- We consider Southern Wisconsin to haiku from the first days of the English sponses to a poem before learning the be “The Cradle of American Haiku,” language haiku movement in the U.S. In background of its composition. It is a because the journal was founded there fact, their work has been a constant technique that honors not only the com- in 1963. It was the first publication de- presence throughout the history of position, but also the reception of the voted solely to haiku in the English lan- North American haiku. poem. And makes us want to write guage. Charlie thinks it’s probable that Lewis more, as well as read more haiku. The weekend included an opening G. Alexander introduced haiku to Afri- The Shreveport group presented reception and reading on Friday. On can-Americans. In the 1930s, 40s, and haiku-related gifts, many of them hand Saturday morning there were a presen- 50s, blacks knew about haiku, and they made by the group members, in what tation and a panel discussion, both of liked the conciseness of the form. may have been an all time record for which are detailed below. Alexander, who studied at Columbia creativity involved in a single haiku Saturday afternoon’s events included: University, was the first black person to meeting within the South Region. In a memorial reading by Marjorie Buett- write critical articles about haiku. He addition, we also enjoyed our tradi- ner, a workshop by Charlotte Di- enjoyed writing images, and published tional gift exchange, in which each par- gregorio, a talk entitled “Why Did My haiku and also haiku sequences. ticipant brings a haiku-related gift and Teachers Lie to Me?” by Aubrie Cox; In the late 50s and early 60s, there was goes home with a different one. Books and “One brush stroke: sumi-e, and black awareness and black protest haiku and frogs seem to be the most popular traditional haiga,” by Lidia Rozmus. by Robert Hayden, Richard Wright, and items, but butterflies and craft projects Late in the afternoon, Francine Ban- Etheridge Knight. The best-known Afri- are gaining on them. warth, Melissa Allen, Bill Pauly, Charlie can-American poet, Richard Wright, New Orleans and Shreveport have Trumbull, and Jerome Cushman held a who wrote about civil rights issues, was active groups which meet regularly haiku workshop with critique of partici- not well-known for his haiku. However, during the year. And Arkansas has a pants’ poems and an informal talk he wrote about 4,000 haiku in 18

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 13 Regional News months near the end of his life. many subscribers, including libraries. poets should strive to include images Rita Dove, who was U.S. Poet Laure- She said, however, that it was strictly a that express the relatively humble con- ate from 1993 to 1995, also wrote haiku. labor of love. They received no support dition of human beings. However, Charlie considers HSA mem- from the University for the journal. Charlotte offered several examples of ber Lenard D. Moore to be the most well Don, who still writes haiku, was more haiku where there is a focus on man’s -known black haikuist who writes interested in writing haiku than in edit- oneness with nature, and several others “stunning” haiku. After the death of his ing it back in the 60s. Jim wrote haiku, that were great examples of understate- daughter, Moore wrote: but never published it. Don left the pub- ment in haiku style. lication after the first year to focus on Questions were raised about humor in hot afternoon writing haiku. After he left, Jim pub- senryu. Charlotte said that senryu re- the squeak of my hands lished some of Don’s haiku. The second quires as much dedication to write as on my daughter’s coffin year, Clement Hoyt who was rigid haiku does. She suggested that poets about 5-7-5 haiku, edited the journal, should avoid some online sites that run Charlie believes that black haiku is espe- but Jim didn’t feel the same way about silly senryu about vampires and other cially vigorous today in the form of the 5-7-5 style. The third, fourth, and offbeat themes. “blues haiku” and “jazz haiku” that fifth years, Jim and Robert Spiess edited Charlotte offered an extensive bibliog- emerged from the Harlem Renaissance it. The sixth year, Jim and Gayle were co raphy of haiku books, websites, and in the 1920s. He said Sonia Sanchez, -editors. Gayle also did the “grunt” helpful resources for participants for self who wrote Morning Haiku, is one of the work such as mailing off the journal. -study. most important black haikuists. In addi- tion, Kalamu ya Salaam forges haiku Polish Your Haiku for Publication There is a Season—A Memorial and blues together. Reading Charlotte Digregorio led a haiku work- American Haiku Panel shop of about 15 participants, many of Marjorie Buettner gave a moving pres- whom had no experience writing haiku. entation with a short introduction on American Haiku was published for six HSA members Mike Rehling and Tom esteemed haiku poets who had died in years, beginning in 1963, twice-yearly. It Chockley, experienced haikuists in the the past few years. She included their published notable poets, such as James audience, helped critique and comment perceptions on the artistry of haiku. For W. Hackett, Nick Virgilio, Clement on particpants’ haiku and on the form in each, she offered samples of their haiku Hoyt, Robert Spiess, Virginia Brady general. with a PowerPoint presentation with Young, Harold Henderson, and Eliza- First, Charlotte gave a talk on haiku, music. In all, there were 22 poets fea- beth Searle Lamb. Articles were in- stressing the basic elements and pitfalls tured, including Sono Uchida, Evelyn cluded, along with book reviews. Jim that many poets face when writing. In- Hermann, H. F. Noyes, Geri Barton, Bull, Gayle’s late husband who died in cluded in her talk were several excellent Robert Aitken Roshi, Peggy Willis Lyles, 2005, was co-founder and co-editor with examples of haiku that illustrated its and Arthur Stein. Don Eulert. basic elements. She said that one of the On the panel, moderated by Jerome most difficult things to master about Tell Me A Story—Writing Haibun Cushman, Don said he was interested in haiku is the minimalist aspect, using an American Transcendentalism that re- economy of words. She also said begin- Mike Montreuil gave an excellent work- lated to Zen, and that “good haiku ners mistakenly use explanation and shop on haibun, introducing it as a Japa- arises from the Zen experience.” commentary. nese form that appears to have begun Jim became interested in haiku while Several questions were raised about with Bashō in the 1600s. Haibun began serving in the army. Don said that as a its form, including the use of the first as travel diaries with haiku interspersed professor, he became interested in haiku person pronoun and whether it should with prose. Issa, in the late 1700s and due to Jim’s influence. be avoided. Charlotte used a couple of early 1800s, continued the form during For the first issue of the journal, they examples of effective haiku that in- his travels in Japan. received thousands of submissions. cluded the first person pronoun. In the U.S. in the 50s, the Beat Poets, They advertised in the Saturday Review As far as content, Charlotte stressed Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, wrote for submissions, stating that they would the need to avoid a clutter of images haibun. In the 60s, haibun appeared be reviewed for a contest, and that they which she sees as being a pitfall of many infrequently in the U.S. In 1972, Robert might start publishing a journal. They beginning haikuists. In addition, she Spiess produced a book of haibun, Five also began contacting educators of writ- said that the role of observation is key in Caribbean Haibun. ing at universities. writing haiku, and that poets must ap- In the 1990s, there appeared to be a Gayle said American Haiku became self peal to the senses, emotions, and imagi- resurgence of interest in the form. In -sustaining with its printing and art- nations of the readers. She emphasized 1996, the anthology Journey to the Inte- work expense, as they were able to get the avoidance of abstract images. And, rior: American Versions of Haibun, edited

Page 14 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter Regional News by Bruce Ross, was one of the first Eng- Gendai is intuitive, and Melissa said HSA members throughout the country. lish language anthologies of haibun. she doesn’t think we have to under- Following this, there was a lengthy In modern English haibun, any style stand it. Melissa explained that surreal- critique of participants’ haiku, as many of prose is permitted, whether it is in ist haiku are a subset of gendai. She brought multiple samples of their work. the form of a diary, a section of some- suggested that when reading it, one As always, Charlotte stressed the need one’s travel journal, a reflection, or a needs to focus on what one’s emotional for beginners to read haiku constantly. dream remembered. Often, haibun ap- reaction is to it. Lidia Rozmus agreed. She mentioned many helpful haiku pears as just a short paragraph followed Lidia, an artist, said that gendai is like websites featuring excellent haiku. by a haiku. abstract art, and that you must experi- The group discussed how skillful Mike said that in haibun, haiku fin- ence it. haiku often have layers of meaning. ishes the story and adds value to the Jim Kacian, who writes gendai, said Some attendees shared very thoughtful prose. The title should not give away we must reorient our thinking to appre- ideas about their interpretations, and the story nor the haiku. ciate it. “Good gendai must move peo- guests contributed a lot to the discus- ple.” One of Jim’s gendai haiku is: sion as they were experienced poets of Become a Motorcycle: Understanding other forms. Charlotte said that mem- and Writing Gendai Haiku in a tent in the rain I become a climate bers and guests who attended were welcome to e-mail her with haiku they Gendai, pronounced with a hard “g,” is Jim said he doesn’t categorize a poem are having difficulty revising. a Japanese word that means “modern.” as “haiku” or “gendai haiku.” And, he Melissa Allen explained that this word doesn’t set out to write a gendai poem. —Charlotte Digregorio signifies that a poem has moved away It just happens. from traditional haiku poetics, whether Melissa concluded that we must stop Member News in subject matter, structure or language labeling poetry as haiku or gendai use. Gendai began in the 1920s. In the haiku, and that we should focus on he following are new members. late 30s and 40s in Japan, those who “looking at the poem and seeing if it T From Illinois: Michael Kozubek, wrote gendai were arrested. However, works.” She recommended Richard Mary Jo Cally, Luis Garcia, and Albert in Japan today, there is not just one ac- Gilbert’s book: Poems of Consciousness. Paset; From Indiana: Jeanette Oester- cepted opinion of what haiku is. myer, and Carol Lewis; From Minne- Melissa first asked participants how —Charlotte Digregorio sota: Frances O’Neill; From Missouri: they would describe gendai. Responses Charles Dombek; From Ohio: Anna included: fad, science fiction, obscure, Metro Chicago Meeting Cates and Phyllis Lee; and from Wis- pushing the edge, far freaking out, and consin: Charles Baker. Charlotte is seek- intriguing. aikuists in the Chicago Metro ing volunteers to help plan events in the Gendai explores subjective states of H area met Saturday, August 11 for Chicago area. Those who are interested emotion, in contrast to the haiku we are a critique session at the Winnetka Pub- may e-mail her at [email protected] used to. She said we shouldn’t try to lic Library in Winnetka. Many newcom- or call her at 847-881-2664. neatly compartmentalize gendai. An ers to haiku attended, some of whom In other news, Charlotte reports that example: had heard about the group through a she recently gave a haiku seminar to lengthy interview about haiku and the poets and artists at the Northwest Cul- After a heated argument HSA with Charlotte Digregorio. It ap- tural Council in Palatine, IL. And, she I go out to the street peared in The Winnetka Current, a recently published a paper, “Capturing and become a motorcycle widely-circulated newspaper, a few The Moment Through Evocative days before the meeting. Haiku” in Cantos, the literary anthology —Kaneko Tohta In attendance were members: Char- of Missouri Baptist University. lotte Digregorio, Alicia Hilton, Tom In reading gendai, we see that meta- Chockley, Joanne Crofton, and Mike —Charlotte Digregorio morphosis is common, that is, the “I Schoenburg. In particular, Alicia and become.” Tom helped critique newcomers’ and Melissa said that whether we like members’ work. Guests who partici- gendai or not, we must accept that it pated were: Ron Daiss, Susan Auld, exists. She said that the haiku of the late Pam Larson, Debby Rosen, and Anne- Nick Virgilio could be conceived of as marie Gramm. gendai, though he didn’t know the For the benefit of beginners, the basic term. Melissa further stated that Vir- elements of haiku content and style gilio used a lot of the gendai character- were reviewed. Charlotte brought in istics, that is, of the “external state.” samples of excellent haiku published by

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Mississippi Karen O'Leary edited Snippets, an an- Garden's moonviewing festival. It was a thology of short poems, released in Sep- lovely night both for a blue moon and Mud Daubers tember. She also placed third in the first for haiku. Nearly 150 haiku about the English-language haiku contest spon- moon were submitted for judging, from Haiku Group sored by the Romanian Kukai group. which Michael and Tanya chose three Her winning haiku appears in Sharpen- winners and numerous honorable men- he Mississippi Mud Daubers Haiku ing the Green Pencil. tions, which they read aloud to several T Group, which is comprised of haiku Autumn Hall, Patricia Kennelly, and hundred attendees. But the highlight of poets living in southwestern Illinois and Patricia Nolan's poems will appear in the evening was the final poem. Before the greater St. Louis area, met at Sacred Messages From the HIdden Lake, Vol. IV, reading it aloud, Michael asked the au- Grounds Coffee House in Edwardsville, forthcoming in November from the Ala- thor to step forward and had a few Illinois on July 7. Members present in- mosa (CO) Public LIbrary. words with him in private to verify that cluded: Gretchen Graft Batz, Ruth E. he wanted the poem read aloud. With Bell, Natalia Coleridge, John J. Dunphy, —Patricia Nolan his blessing, Michael then read the haiku John J. Han, Lois Mitchell and Lisa Por- and the line following it: "Franklin, will ter. We had previously agreed to write you marry me?" Franklin said yes, they haiku or senryu that deal with water for Rocky Mountain hugged, and there was much cheering sharing and critiquing at our meeting. and clapping by everyone present. The poems were as varied and unique as Haiku Group (Coincidentally, Franklin was also the the Mud Daubers who wrote them! first place winner of the haiku contest.) It Members congratulated John J. Han of ur Colorado Springs Haiku group was a truly magical end to the evening! Missouri Baptist University for being has been on hiatus during the In mid-September, members of Haiku selected by Simply Haiku as one of the O summer for various reasons, but will Northwest staffed a table at the fifteenth top ten English-language haiku poets of gather again in October when we will annual Aki Matsuri (Japanese Fall Festi- 2011. Ruth E. Bell received a round of explore one-line haiku. val) held at Bellevue College. Over the applause for the installation of a plaque We are sad to share the news of the course of the weekend, we chatted with at Southern Illinois University at Ed- death of one of our very active members, festival attendees, sharing our love and wardsville that celebrates her fifteen Elizabeth Nichols. A former HSA Plains knowledge of haiku. Thank you to those years of teaching. John J. Dunphy an- and Mountains Regional Coordinator, of you who volunteered to help at the nounced that one of his haiku will be Liz continued to write haiku and play table! included in an anthology titled Haiku in her flutes all of her days. See the memo- Presently, we are gearing up for our English: The First Hundred Years, which is rial note on page 6 of this issue of Rip- fifth annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway in scheduled to be published by W.W. Nor- ples. Seabeck, WA. Our featured guest this ton in 2013. Eight years in the making, year is Paul Miller. At the getaway, we the editors considered hundreds of thou- —Patricia Nolan will be announcing the winners of the sands of poems for possible inclusion. 2012 Francine Porad Haiku Contest, lis- John noted that this anthology will fea- tening to readings by the Port Townsend ture nearly 800 poems by 190 poets. haiku group (among others), participat- Washington Region ing in renkurama, making weather- —John J. Dunphy grams, and having ridiculous amounts Haiku Northwest of fun that will be detailed in the next issue of Ripples. If you can't wait until

then, then please check out our website Plains and Mountain aiku Northwest, the Seattle/ at https://sites.google.com/site/ Eastside haiku group, held our Region H haikunorthwest/Home, visit us on Face- July and September meetings at Third book, or follow us on Twitter (search for Place Commons in Lake Forest Park, s wildfire swept across the west Haiku Northwest). with thirteen and nine people in atten- this summer, many activities were A dance, respectively. Many fine haiku curtailed in some areas, including Ft. —Tanya McDonald were shared and critiqued. Our August Collins (The High Park fire) and Colo- meeting was hosted by William Scott rado Springs (The Waldo Canyon Fire). Galasso at his beautiful home overlook- Despite the destruction and loss, several ing the Puget Sound. Good view, good people were inspired to write about company, good food. these events. Ann K. Schwader's work On September 1, Michael Dylan Welch appears in Modern Haiku and Haiku in and Tanya McDonald acted as judges for English, ed. by Jim Kacian, Allan Burns, a haiku contest at the Seattle Japanese and Philip Rowland.

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Oregon Region In August, Ce Rosenow read at Tsu- the club. That next meeting will be on nami Books in Eugene, Oregon, as part Saturday, August 11 at 11:30, and will

of the celebration for the anthology, again be held at the Sake factory in Fol- indy Lommasson of Portland will What the River Brings: Oregon River Po- som. At that meeting we will be celebrat- be exhibiting sumi-e paintings at C ems. In September, she presented her ing the recent publication of two of our several venues this fall, including the paper, “Narrativity in Haiku: The Exam- tan renga, written at April’s meeting, in following: October 26 –November 21 at ple of Lenard D. Moore's Haiku Se- the most recent Frogpond (volume 35:2) the Marylhurst University alumni group quences,” at the Haiku Society of Amer- and getting ready for our annual reading show; November 3 ica National Quar- in October. –11 at the 30th Vis- terly Meeting in Fort The CVHC’s last meeting of the sum- ual Arts Showcase Worth, Texas. mer was held on August 11, as sched- at the Beaverton Maggie Chula uled, at the Gekkeikan Sake Factory. Main Library; De- gave a reading at Escaping the scorching heat, sheltered in cember 2– 28 at the the Lan Su Chinese the cool of the meeting room, members West Linn Library Garden this fall, Bill Owen, Yvonne Cabalona, Ricardo de in West Linn, OR; accompanied by Bernardi and Leslie Rose were delighted and a solo show shakuhachi player to welcome a new member to the group: and reception, Sun- Ken Arnold. Her Debora Larry Kearney who is a Placer- day, December 2. haiku were featured ville resident and teaches at one of our Now available on the online site local Junior colleges. from Modern DailyHaiku and pub- Under old business, Yvonne said she is Haiku Press, Ore- lished in a book still happily accepting haibun for this gonian Scott Metz format along with year’s Jerry Kilbride Memorial English has a new book haiku by five other Language Haibun contest. She’s hoping out: Lakes & Now invited poets. that since our last day for submissions is Wolves (see page 26 A haiku by not until December 1, that we will have a for details). Scott an’ya was displayed bumper crop of wonderful poems from Metz is the editor at a construction which our judges will need to choose. of the online maga- Maggie Chula reading at the Lan Su site on SW Naito Yvonne received a message from zine Roadrunner (as Chinese Garden Parkway in Port- Charlie Trumbull (editor of Modern well as R'r Blog) land. It's part of the Haiku) who will be in our area attending and also coeditor, Portland-Milwaukie the Haiku Pacific Rim Conference in with Lee Gurga, of Haiku 21 (Modern light rail project called Orange Lining, September. We are hoping that we will Haiku Press, 2011). Born in Allentown, installing poetry along the construction be able to visit with Charlie at that time. Pennsylvania in 1976, he now lives on zone. Construction workers decide Still hoping to successfully use web tech- the Oregon coast. where to place each of the ten or so se- nology for some of our meetings, Bill is Haiku Oregon now has two new chap- lected poems. exploring Google Plus which would al- ters, one in Eugene/Springfield low up to nine participants to “hang (Convenor, Barbara Snow) and the other —an’ya out.” Before our next meeting he asked in Bend (Chairperson, Lorna Cahall; us all to explore the possibilities. group name, Bend Haiku Circle.) Haiku Our next meeting will be after our an- Oregon president is an'ya; vice presi- nual haiku reading. The reading will be dent, whazammo aka peterB; secretary/ California Region on October 27 from 1-3, and, as usual, treasurer, Marianna Monaco; blogmis- will be at the Gekkeikan Sake Factory tress, Cara Holman (who is also the con- with members sharing their haiku and tact person for an eventual Portland Central Valley related genre. A special invitation will Chapter as well.) The blog is located at: be, as always, extended to those in our http://haikuoregon.wordpress.com/tag/ Haiku Club audience who have poetry to share as haiku-oregon-blog/. On Facebook, search well. for “Haiku Oregon.” an'ya's new e-mail s summer heat was beginning to Before beginning our tan renga work- address is [email protected]. She grip the Central Valley and sur- A shop, Yvonne shared that one of her will be teaching a haiku/haiga workshop rounding foothills, on June 16, the poems will be appearing in volume 14 of at the Emerald Art Center in Springfield CVHC held their second Skype meeting. Bottlerockets. We took turns reading some this October. She also has a new site: Members Bill, Yvonne, and Ricardo said of our most recent poems, then dove into http://sites.google.com/site/ they accomplished little beyond refining writing tan renga, constructed from po- suisekioregon. the Skype process, but they had a great ems we had each brought to use as start- visit and set the next meeting date for

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 17 Regional News ing points. In the process we produced a rary life in scenes featuring his family, even the anti-war haiku of poets—as number of poems that we hope you will his friends, and the urban world of his subversive. The challenge in post-war be seeing in various publications in the work. Japan was how to be socially “relevant.” near future. David punctuated his reading with Kaneko wanted to take up this challenge, haibun, brief stories which revealed more and in haiku this meant choosing the —Leslie Rose of the texture in his domestic world. Con- radical (gendai) route—which can be sidering the number of poems that touch equated with a surrealistic shift. By ad- upon moments of moral reflection, it dressing the social inequities that he wit- Haiku Poets of seems unsurprising that David eventu- nessed, Kaneko became a leftist inter- ally provided the Haiku Foundation with preter of history, giving a voice to the Northern California a forum on the wide applications of relig- oppressed (including the “hidden” Chris- ion. You may find his forum Religio an tians, and the persecuted A-Bomb survi- July Meeting engaging discussion! From David’s read- vors). Comparable international pioneers ing: advocating community equality in the he Haiku Poets of Northern Califor- 50’s and 60’s would have viewed Kaneko T nia gathered for our summer quar- Halloween party— as a kindred spirit. terly meeting on July 22 at Fort Mason in after a few drinks Richard urged us to utilize the book’s San Francisco. The following people were the masks come off essential “Notes to the Haiku” in order to present: Susan Antolin, Fay Aoyagi, John better appreciate the historic and linguis- B., Lynda Beigel, Claudia Chapline, A timely switch in our summer sched- tic contexts of the haiku. Extensively re- Susan Diridoni, Bruce Feingold, Gary ule brought us a thrilling presentation by searched, these “Notes” are divided into Gach, Patrick Gallagher, Garry Gay, Professor Richard Gilbert as he unveiled the four groups of time/locales of Ka- Richard Gilbert, Kate Godsey, David Kaneko Tohta Selected Haiku with Essays neko’s history from 1937 to 1960. So ad- Grayson, Maxine Grodjinsky, Johnnie and Commentary, Part 1: 1937-1960, the vantageous are the “Notes” that they Johnson Hafernik, June Hymas, Deborah newly published Volume 3 of an even- effectively offer a key to the meanings of P Kolodji, Eve Luckring, Patricia tual 4 major translations (all from Red the haiku. Richard then introduced us to Machmiller, Renée Owen, Linda Papani- Moon Press) of one of Japan’s most treas- selected haiku—with Fay’s kind agree- colaou, Joseph Robello, Carol Steele, and ured gendai poets, Kaneko Tohta. Ka- ment to recite the haiku in Japanese— Marian Yap. neko’s longevity has provided us an eye- including the corresponding note. Inter- The featured reader for the summer witness view of gendai haiku develop- estingly, Fay’s occasional comment that a meeting was David Grayson, past presi- ments during 20th Century Japan, as well haiku was “difficult” to read aloud gave dent of HPNC and current moderator for as Japan’s momentous convulsions both Richard the opportunity to remark on the the forum called Religio at the online on the world and its own domestic musical, or the dissonant, or the repeti- Haiku Foundation. David told us that it stages. A dynamic and accessible book! tive tones of these haiku—a measure of was mainstream poetry—particularly Before launching into his enthusiastic Kaneko’s poetics. This presentation of very short poetry—that drew him to guidance in how best to read this book, Kaneko’s haiku truly demonstrated how haiku. Mid-century American poet Wil- Richard began in homage to the early much we miss when we do not know the liam Carlos Williams, for example, dem- English-language proponents who poem’s original language! onstrated compelling short-form poetry. wished to defend haiku as literary; fore- David found himself writing nonfiction most among these was R. H. Blyth whose within a moth’s eye about a variety of topics, these disparate translations may have been flawed but penetrated by its glowing red— interests reminding him of a story by whose commentary was passionate— longing, the ocean Jorge Luis Borges, “A Dream of Child- indeed, that is what inspired so many. hood” from Labyrinths: “Through the Gary Snyder was noted for his short- Composed in the summer of 1940, this years, a man peoples a space with . . . form poetry; but it has been our English- haiku is explicated in one of the book’s stars, horses, and people. Shortly before language paradox that our origins lean- lengthiest notes (pps. 108-10), in order to his death, he discovers that the patient ing toward haiku were non-kigo, thus show the reader how broad a range of labyrinth of lines traces the image of his our need to make something different associations Kaneko sought for his haiku, own face.” One of David’s essays, “’The from that 400 year-old tradition in Japan! ranging from the Amitabha Sutra to the Ancient Enemy’: Death in Art and Then Richard emphasized the depth to celebrated tanka poet Saitō Mokichi’s Haiku” (examining Andy Warhol’s ultra- which Japanese haiku has traditionally unique subjective style. Richard exhorted brief “Screen Tests”) can be read online: required context: the historical continuity us to follow an ongoing self-education http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/ that must be conveyed (in contrast to the which is a literary responsibility. GraysonEssay-DeathHaiku.html. As Western sense of autonomy). Japan had We learned how Richard had sought David began writing haiku, he focused been harshly punitive against its dissi- out Kaneko at ninety-one years of age, on a palette of domestic and contempo- dent citizens, viewing their actions— knowing that despite Kaneko’s age, 20-

Page 18 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter Regional News year-old youths claim to be influenced success, with each of the three remain- art workshops, and renku. Dr. Arima, by him. A multi-cultural group of trans- ing readers giving an outstanding per- leader of the Ten’I Haiku Group and lators was assembled, choosing to name formance. Renée was accompanied by Haiku International Association of To- themselves the “Kon Nichi (Today’s) her musician husband, Brian Foster, on kyo, was presented with an award for Translation Group” in homage to Ka- shakuhachi flute, guitar, mandolin, and his contributions to the internationaliza- neko’s ground-breaking book of 1965, harmonica, which made for an espe- tion of haiku. Kon’nichi no Haiku. It was Kaneko’s first cially memorable reading. Ebba Story The founder of the Haiku Pacific Rim unveiling of his remarkable vision of was the emcee for the event, Michael Conference, Jerry Ball, was on hand to haiku aesthetics and far more. The trans- Sheffield provided flowers, drinks and greet the conferees, provide leadership lation group, attached to Kumamoto food, and Rich Krivcher helped set up in events, and initiate planning for fu- University, is also at gendaihaiku.com. and monitor the sound system. ture meetings in the series. The delight- Typically the group works with multiple The commemorative chapbook Half ful conference anthology, Caught in the versions of a translation, all the while the Moon Half of Me was edited and pro- Breeze, was edited and produced by probing the background. The word or- duced by Susan Diridoni, and extra cop- Susan Antolin. The anthology is dedi- der of the haiku, Richard explained, re- ies are still available for purchase from cated to Jerry Ball. flects his own aesthetics: his aim to seek our new bookseller, Joseph Robello The Conference concluded on Septem- the Japanese word order—the “image ([email protected]). ber 9 with a number of the conferees story.” But this is not always possible. taking a scenic stroll in Carmel and a Limitations exist; for example, well- —Susan Antolin coach trip back to San Francisco. The known haiku by American haiku pio- enthusiastic appreciation expressed by neer Nick Virgilio would not be success- many of the conferees during the last fully translated into Japanese. Irish poet Yuki Teikei day convinced the organizers that the Paul Muldoon has written that transla- conference had been a success. tion of poetry requires the deepest po- Haiku Society The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and the etic understanding. Haiku Poets of Northern California If this third volume of Kaneko Tohta’s n June the Yuki Teikei poets met for a planned and conducted the conference. poetry is one’s first exposure to Kaneko, I beautiful afternoon with picnic These organizations and the Haiku Soci- one may soon desire to supplement lunch at the San Jose Prusch ety of America, the Poetry Center of San one’s understanding of this truly origi- Park. Dennis Bolger of the Park staff led Jose, the Ten’I Haiku Group, the Consu- nal Japanese poet by obtaining copies of a tour of the gardens, livestock, and late of Japan San Francisco and many the first two volumes: Ikimonofûei— buildings of this farm-themed park. individuals, provided donations and Poetic Composition on Living Things, Ka- Haiku written during the day were special support. neko Tohta and The Future of Haiku—An shared in an oral kukai. A group picture, other photos, and Interview with Kaneko Tohta, both vol- In July the society celebrated Tanaba information about the conference are umes translated by the Kon Nichi Trans- at the home of Anne and Don Homan in provided at the conference website lation Group and available from Red the hills above Livermore. Early in the haikupacificrim.com Moon Press. Following Richard’s pres- evening the poets were delighted to en- entation, a sizable group from the joy the striking view towards the Sierra, —Patrick Gallagher HPNC meeting joined him at a local and to include the three donkeys who restaurant to continue what had become came to the fence edge in their poems. a fascinating dialogue. This year the society combined the

Haiku Pacific Rim Conference with its Do you have news? —Susan Diridoni annual retreat. After a year of prepara- tion, the Fifth Haiku Pacific Rim Confer- See page 28 for details on sending Two Autumns Reading ence 2012 convened on September 5 news to Ripples. The deadline for the with a picnic at Point Lobos Nature Re- next issue is February 1, 2013. The Haiku Poets of Northern California serve. The conference continued at Asi- Please note that submissions celebrate haiku each year with the Two lomar State Beach and Conference Cen- should now go to our new editor, Autumns Reading, the longest-running ter which provided conference facilities Adrienne Christian at haiku reading series outside of Japan. and lodging as well as the experience of [email protected]. This year the lineup of readers was the natural world of the Pacific coast. You will make her job easier by scheduled to include Bruce H. Feingold, Scheduled events included the key- sending your news on time—or, Michael McClintock, Naia, and Renée note address and inspirational contribu- better yet—early! Owen, but unfortunately Michael tions by Dr. Akito Arima, papers and

McClintock was unable to come. Never- presentations by many participants on —Susan Antolin, Editor theless, the reading was a spectacular haiku and allied forms, a ginko, a kukai,

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 19 Contest Results / Guidelines Haiku Society 2012 Porad Award The HSA Bernard of America Haibun Winners Lionel Einbond Contest 2012 Renku Contest Sponsored by Haiku Northwest and the

Washington Poets Association The Haiku Society of America sponsors this Roberta Beary, Judge annual award for renku. Deborah P Kolodji, Judge

The winning haibun and judge’s com- Nancy Dahlberg, Contest Coordinator Deadline: In hand February 28, 2013 ments will be published in Frogpond.

Here, in the meantime, is a list of the win- To read the judge’s comments, please visit Eligibility: The contest is open to the ning poets: http://sites.google.com/site/ public. HSA officers who are members of haikunorthwest/porad-haiku-contest/2012 the executive committee are not eligible, First Place: Tom Painting -porad-award-winners. but regional coordinators may enter. No Second Place: Michele Root-Bernstein First Place ($100) entries will be accepted that include work by any of the judges.

Third Place: Terri L. French sketching the sapling Regulations: For this contest a renku for- I will never see grown— mat will be prescribed each year. The 2013 Honorable Mention: Mark Smith the quiet woods contest will require that entries be in the —Dejah Léger nijûin style (20 stanzas). For information

on the nijûin form, please refer to the arti- Gerald Brady Second Place ($50) cle "Shorter Renku" published in Frogpond

XVII:4 (winter 1994), or the updated ver- Memorial Awards Perseids . . . sion of it at http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/ oh, the weight for Senryu renku/shorter_renku.html. of all those wishes Entries must be written by two or more —Carole MacRury Sponsored by the Haiku Society of America persons, each of whom contributes a sub-

stantial number of individually authored Third Place ($25) Susan Constable and Susan Antolin, stanzas. Any particular author may ap-

Judges equinox— pear in no more than three different renku

this one tiny worm entered. Entries must be in English. En- The winning poems and judge’s com- tries must not have been previously pub- coiling uncoiling ments will be published in an upcoming lished, nor contain any stanzas previously —Timothy Russell issue of Frogpond. published, submitted for publication, nor

entered in any other contest. Publication Honorable Mentions (in order of merit) First Place: Julie Warther is defined as an appearance in a printed

book, magazine, or journal (sold or given deep crack in the acorn morning thunder Second Place: Michele L. Harvey away), or in any online journal that pre- —Mark Smith sents edited periodic content. The appear-

Third Place: Terri L. French ance of poems in online discussion lists or frost-tipped blossoms personal websites is not considered publi- not how I thought Honorable Mentions (unranked): cation. Judges will be asked to disqualify it would happen Terri L. French any link that they have seen before. —Cara Holman Tom Painting

Jim Kacian Submissions: One copy, with full author- white lilacs ship information, stanza by stanza, must beyond our grasp Congratulations to all of the winners! the Milky Way give the full name and address of all au- thors, and indicate the coordinator (to —Barbara Snow Note: the full submission guidelines for whom any correspondence will be ad- the 2013 Henderson , Brady, and Haibun dressed). This "identified" manuscript snow clouds contests will appear in Ripples early next must be signed by all authors or other each of us seeing year and on the HSA website. We look definite confirmations such as hard copies someone else forward to reading your entries! of e-mail confirmations of permission —paul m. from each author should be included with

the entry. Two additional copies,

Page 20 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter HSA Contest Guidelines without authors' names but marked with tered in any other contest or submitted Mildred Kanterman numbers or letters to show the sequence elsewhere for publication. Please follow of authorship, must accompany the iden- the guidelines carefully. Publication is Memorial Merit Book tified manuscript. Failure to follow this defined as an appearance in a printed format makes it impossible to judge an book, magazine, or journal (sold or given Awards for Excel- entry and could result in disqualification away), or in any online journal that pre- lence in Published without notification. sents edited periodic content. The ap- pearance of poems in online discussion Haiku, Translation, Entry fee: The entry fee has been waived lists or personal websites is not consid- for the current year contest. Submit en- ered publication. Judges will be asked to and Criticism tries and fees to: disqualify any haiku that they have seen before. This award is made possible by Leroy Kanter- Einbond Renku Contest man, cofounder of the Haiku Society of Amer- Sari Grandstaff Submissions: Each haiku must be on ica, in memory of his wife Mildred Kanter- 1457 Glasco Tpke. three separate 3" x 5" cards. The haiku man. Saugerties, NY 12477-3220 must appear on the front of each card; your name, address, age, grade level, and Deadline: In hand March 31, 2013 Adjudication: The names of the judge(s) school (please include the school address) will be announced after the contest. must appear on the back of (only) one of Eligibility: The contest is open to the the cards for each haiku. Please do not public. Books must have been published Awards: Grand Prize: Up to $150 and send self-addressed stamped envelope in 2010 and clearly must contain printed publication in Frogpond and on the HSA with your entries. All winners will be a 2010 ©. An author or publisher may website. All rights revert to authors on notified. Winning haiku and commentar- submit more than one title. Books pub- publication. Amount of Grand Prize and ies will appear in Frogpond. Do not use lished by HSA officers are eligible for this additional prizes may vary, depending staples for any purpose. Failure to follow award. on the quality and number of entries. If this format will make it impossible to no renku is deemed by the judges to be judge an entry and may result in the dis- Submissions: The HSA encourages au- worthy of the Grand Prize, renku qualification of a submission without thors or publishers to proactively submit awarded lesser prizes may or may not be notification. eligible books, not only so the judge(s) published in Frogpond and on the HSA Entry fee: None. will consider them, but also so that the website. HSA can add these books to the perma- Submit entries to: nent HSA Archives in the American Haiku Archives at the California State Nicholas A. Virgilio Tony Virgilio Library. Please send two copies of each Nick Virgilio Haiku Association book, noting them to be Mildred Kanter- Memorial Haiku 1092 Niagara Rd man Memorial Merit Book Award en- Camden, NJ 08104-2859. tries. Authors or publishers should con- Contest tact the 1st vice president before the Adjudication: Judges named by the HSA. deadline to ascertain that books have Founded by the Sacred Heart Church in been received. In addition, authors and Camden, NJ, and sponsored by the Nick Vir- Awards: Six haiku will be selected and publishers are encouraged to communi- gilio Haiku Association in memory of Nicho- each awarded $50. The winning haiku cate with each other so that duplicate las A. Virgilio, a charter member of the Haiku and list of winners will be published in entries are not submitted. Society of America, who died in 1989. The Frogpond and on the HSA website. The Haiku Society of America cosponsors the high school of each student winner will Entry fee: None; however, donations to contest, provides judges, and publishes the receive a one-year subscription to Frog- offset costs are welcome. If including a results in Frogpond and on the HSA web- pond. donation, please make checks/money site. orders payable in U.S. funds to "Haiku Rights: All rights revert to the authors Society of America." Deadline: In hand March 25, 2013 after publication. Submit entries or nominations to:

Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 Correspondence: Please keep a copy of Michael Dylan Welch through 12 enrolled in school as of Sep- your haiku; entries cannot be returned. HSA 1st Vice President tember 2012 may enter. 22230 NE 28th Place Sammamish, WA 98074-6408 Regulations: Submit up to three haiku per student. All haiku must be previously unpublished, original work, and not en-

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Adjudication: The names of the judge(s) that entries without SASE, insufficient judges will not see your names while will be announced after the awards are postage, or that fail to adhere to contest selecting works for decoration. decided. rules will be disqualified. Submissions: Please send your entries Awards: $500 for first place, $100 for Judges: Will not be disclosed until the by airmail to: second place and $50 for third. The first contest winner has been decided. place award money is made possible by Ms. Motoko Yoshioka the generosity of Leroy Kanterman in Send entries to: Regalia 907, 7-32-44 Fujimi-cho memory of his wife Mildred. The list of Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-0013, Japan winners will be published in Frogpond Yvonne Cabalona and on the HSA website. 709 Auburn Street You are requested not to use express Modesto, CA 95350-6079 airmail or extra-large envelopes, which Rights: Books submitted will remain the can cause problems at delivery. As we property of the HSA, and one copy will cannot return your entries after screen- be deposited in the permanent HSA Ar- Genjuan Haibun ing, please don’t forget to retain chives in the American Haiku Archives your own copies. at the California State Library. Contest 2013 Entry Fee: None Genjuan is the name of the cottage near Lake The 9th Annual Jerry Biwa where, in 1690, Bashō lived for a while Questions: All questions should be sent and wrote one of his most famous haibun. It to the address above. Kilbride Memorial was probably the happiest period of his life. This is the second year of the contest Winners: The authors of the decorated English-Language crowned by the name of Bashō’s cottage, and works will subsequently be requested to Haibun Contest its purpose remains to provide a common send us their pieces by e-mail. This is arena for haibun writers of the world. Fortu- important, and we expect your coopera-

nately, we had a warm response in 2012, tion. Sponsored by the Central Valley Haiku receiving about 100 entries from 14 different Club countries. The award for Grand Prix will

remain the same – a good replica of a Hoku- Deadline: In hand December 1, 2012 San Francisco sai ukiyo-e print – and smaller gifts will be

sent to authors winning an An (‘Cottage’) International Rengay Submissions: All entries must be un- Prize. The writers of the decorated works will published, not under consideration each receive a certificate of merit. We sin- Competition elsewhere, and in English. No limit to cerely look forward to your participation. the number or length of any submis- Some sample haibun can be read at the fol- Sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern sions. Submit three copies of each lowing site: http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/ California haibun, two (2) copies without author information attached for anonymous Deadline: In hand January 31, 2013 Deadline: In hand January 31, 2013 judging, one (1) copy with author’s name, address, phone number and e- Guidelines: Send up to three unpub- Guidelines: See the complete guidelines mail address for notification purposes. lished haibun on separate sheets of pa- for submitting work (including how to A first prize of $100 and a second prize per. Each haibun should be between 20 follow the linked format with two or of $50 will be awarded. Honorable men- and 40 lines (1 line = 80 spaces) on a sin- three poets) on our website at tion certificates also will be given. Win- gle page. Subject matter and style are not www.hpnc.org/contest-information or in ning entries will be posted at the CVHC restricted, but discretion must be used to the July issue of Ripples, also available website: www.valleyhaiku.org/. The avoid slander and obscenity, and atten- online at www.hsa-haiku.org/ entry fee $5 (US) per haibun should be tion should be paid to honor the spirit of newsletter.htm. paid by check and made out to: Mark haikai. At least one haiku should be in- Hollingsworth (CVHC Treasurer). cluded, and a title should be given. Entry fee: $5 per rengay.

Eligibility: Open to the public; CVHC Format: Print on a sheet of A4-size pa- Award: First Prize, $100. officers are not eligible. per and write at the bottom your name (and your pen name, if you have one), Correspondence: No entries will be together with your address, telephone returned. Send business-sized SASE for number, and your e-mail address. Your a list of the winning entries. Please note privacy will be strictly protected, and the

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Robert Spiess mission; entries will not be returned. The 2013 Anita Please follow the instructions carefully: Memorial Haiku entries that are incomplete or that do not Sadler Weiss comply with the instructions will be dis- Award Competition carded. Memorial Haiku for 2013 Awards Entry fee: $1 per haiku, cash or check

(U.S. funds); make checks payable to Modern Haiku is pleased to announce the The 2013 Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Modern Haiku. Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Com- Haiku Awards, sponsored by the Haiku Poets petition for 2013. The purpose of this compe- of Central Maryland, will mark the eighth Send submissions to: Billie Wilson, 1170 tition is to honor the life and work of Bob annual competition dedicated to the memory Fritz Cove Road, Juneau, AK 99801-8501 Spiess, editor of Modern Haiku from 1978 to of Baltimore-based haiku poet and teacher USA. his death on March 13, 2002. Anita Sadler Weiss.

Adjudication: Two judges will be se- Theme: Haiku are to be written in the Deadline: In hand April 15, 2013 lected by Modern Haiku; their names will spirit of the following “Speculation” be announced at the time of the awards. (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations on Eligibility: Open to the public, aged 16 Judging will be double-blind, and the Haiku, Modern Haiku Press, 1995): and up. (Only the contest coordinators judges will not know the identity of the are prohibited from entering.) entrants. Judges’ decisions are final. “Another of the marvelous paradoxes of haiku is that the better they express the Awards: Total of $300.00 in prize money: Selection criteria: The judges will look suchness of entities the better they inti- First Place $150; Second Place $100 Third for entries that hew to Western norms for mate the essential mystery of these Place $50.00. Five ranked Honorable haiku as published in Modern Haiku and things.” Mentions will also be awarded. (Contest other leading English-language haiku coordinators reserve the right to lower journals and that best capture the spirit Deadline: In hand March 13, 2013 the prize money if sufficient entries are of the theme Speculation above. There not received to cover the stated awards.) are no rules as to syllable or line count. Rules: The competition is open to every- one but the staff of Modern Haiku, the Submissions: All entries must be the Awards: First Prize: $100 plus a previ- competition coordinator, and the judges. original work of the poet, unpublished, ously-loved copy of The Turtle’s Ears Entries must be in English. Each entry and not under consideration elsewhere. (1971, out of print, inscribed to M.L. Har- must be the original, unpublished work rison Mackie). Second Prize: $50 plus a of the author, and should not be under Entry fee: $1.00 per poem. Poets may copy of Bob’s The Shape of Water (1982); consideration in a contest or for pub• enter up to 15 haiku. Entry fee must ac- Third Prize: $25 plus a copy of Bob’s lication elsewhere. For purposes of this company submission. Some Sticks and Pebbles (2001). Up to five competition, appearance of a haiku in an poets will be awarded Honorable Men- Internet journal, a website, or a blog is Submission Guidelines: Print or type tions and each will receive a copy of considered publication, but posting each individual haiku in English on three Bob’s A Year’s Speculations on Haiku haiku on a private e-mail list is not. Of separate 3” x 5” index cards. On the up- (1995). course, entries should not be shared in an per left corner of one card only print or

Internet journal, website, blog, or haiku type your name, address, and e-mail Notification: Winners will be notified by list during the term of the competition. address (if one is available). Include a e-mail or phone before the general an- No. 10 (business-size) SASE (or SAE plus nouncement. Winning entries will be Submission guidelines: Poets may sub- US$1 for return postage for entries sent published in the summer 2013 issue of mit a maximum of five haiku written in from outside the U.S.) for notification. Modern Haiku and posted on the Modern the spirit of the above Speculation. En- Also enclose your entry fee in U.S. cur- Haiku website, http:// tries should be typed or printed legibly. rency or check or money order payable www.modernhaiku.org/, on or before Submit three copies of each haiku on in U.S. dollars. Make checks or money July 1, 2013. If you would like a list of the plain white 3˝ x 5˝ cards or paper. The orders payable to “HPCM/Elizabeth winners, please enclose a stamped, self- haiku (one haiku per card) should appear Fanto.” Entries not following these addressed envelope (SASE) with your on the face of each card. The poet’s name, guidelines will be returned or (if suffi- entries. Overseas entrants should pro- mailing address, telephone number, and cient postage and/or envelope are lack- vide one U.S. dollar in cash with a self- e-mail address (if any) should appear on ing) discarded. Entries without SASE or addressed envelope. These will be one of the three cards, in the upper left- SAE + return postage will not receive mailed when the summer issue of Modern hand corner above the haiku; the other winner notification. Haiku is released. two copies should contain only the haiku. Please keep a copy of your sub•

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Send entries to: Haiku Poets of Central read all poetry submissions without ning images: Scan non-digital photo- Maryland, c/o Elizabeth Fanto, 51 knowing who wrote the poems. Please graphs at 300 dpi or higher. For pen and Gerard Avenue, Timonium, MD 21093 use Times New Roman 12 pt. for the text ink, line art, or type as line art, scan in USA. Do not e-mail entries. of your submission. Single space your bitmap format at 600 dpi or higher. poems; double space between stanzas. Notification/publication: Winners’ list We welcome the expression of diverse Note: If one of your haiga is accepted, will be announced in May 2013. Notifica- voices, diverse cultures—including po- you will need to submit separate files to tion of winning poems will be sent to all ems partly or entirely in Spanish. Please us—one for the image itself (without the competition participants and made include an English translation of a poem text) and one for the text itself (haiku available to the public for an SASE while written in a language other than English. and byline/signature)—so that we can supplies last. The winning poems will No previously published work. We con- work with our printer to achieve the best also be published in The Dragonfly, the sider a poem published if it has ap- possible print quality. At this point in newsletter of the Haiku Poets of Central peared online or in print, including per- the process, you will include your by- Maryland. All rights remain with the sonal blogs/webpages and/or social me- line/signature on the haiga. Save files as: poets. dia sites. No simultaneous submissions. jpg (use high/best compression level) or tiff. Adjudication: The name(s) of the judge Haiku/Senryu: Submit up to two haiku/ (s) will be announced concurrently with senryu per season (e.g., if you submit Questions: Please address questions to the winning haiku. two for each season, you can submit up Scott Wiggerman & David Meischen, to eight poems). Use the labels Fall, Win- [email protected], 512-467-0678. ter, Spring, and Summer to identify your haiku/senryu. You may submit haiku or A New Anthology senryu or both. Errata of Haiku/Senryu What we look for in haiku/senryu: Haiku misattributed and Haiga Haiku do not traditionally have titles, dedications, or epigraphs noting location In response to the regional report from and date. We prefer that they not for this the Northeast Metro group in the July A new Dos Gatos Press anthology will anthology. The same goes for metaphors 2012 issue of Ripples, Gary Hotham feature original, previously unpublished and similes; let images themselves do writes, “I hope Bill Higginson would not haiku/senryu and haiga that focus on the the work. Think simplicity! We espe- have minded—that one of my haiku was Southwestern United States. Scott Wig- cially like haiku that juxtapose two im- german and Constance Campbell will attributed to him.” The haiku appears on ages in new and startling ways. Often serve as editors. Penny Harter will write page 225 of Haiku World, edited by Bill two of the lines, with a slight pause used Higginson: the preface. We anticipate a 2013 release as emphasis, will be juxtaposed with the date. You need not be a resident of the third line to create an aha moment. Southwest to submit. The arrangement every way Haiku may have up to seventeen sylla- of the anthology will be by seasons, the wind blows bles in one to three lines. We do not re- though the poems need not include chrysanthemums quire a traditional 5-7-5 syllable count. a kigo, or traditional “season” word.

You may submit haiku/senryu or haiga —Gary Hotham Haiga: Submit up to three haiga. Each or both. haiga will include an original image and Graham High’s book not yet an embedded haiku—both created by Submissions Window: September 1, released the individual submitting the haiga. Be- 2012–January 15, 2013 cause we use a blind reading proc- Also in the July issue of Ripples, the Tow- ess, you will not include a byline/ Guidelines: Dos Gatos Press accepts path report indicated that Graham signature on a haiga when you submit it. submissions through Submittable, our High’s new book published by Turtle online submissions manager: http:// Light Press was on exhibit at the haiku Image Guidelines: Black and white im- dosgatospress.submittable.com/submit. booth at the Cherry Blossom Festival in ages only—no color images. Printable We no longer accept submissions by Washington DC. The book is still under space on a page will be 4.4 X 7.25 inches. mail. We do not accept submissions by production and will be available in the A vertical haiga might take up an entire e-mail. spring or summer of 2013. For more in- page. A horizontal haiga will be limited formation, see the Turtle Light Press to the width of our page; we will not Do not put your name or any other iden- website at www.turtlelightpress.com. rotate a page 90˚ to accommodate a hori- tifying information on the document that zontal image. Digital Images: Minimum holds the poems you submit. We follow —Rick Black width for an image: 1320 pixels. Scan- a “blind” reading system: our editors

Page 24 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter Publications Print Publication Electronic Media Snapshot Press eChapbooks

Announcements Publications Snapshot Press is proud to announce the publication of eight new eChapbooks, Individual Collections New Editors and a New Issue the first electronic book publications at tinywords.com from the press. All eight titles are com- The Space Between, by George Dorsty pletely free to read and can be viewed at (Sound Beach, NY: Street Press, 2012). Peter Newton and Kathe L. Palka are http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ 48 pages. ISBN: 978-0935252-75-0. Price: the new editors of the daily haiku and ebooks.htm. Variously featuring haiku, $10.00 postpaid, send check to George micropoetry journal tinywords.com. In tanka, short poetry, and haibun, these Dorsty, 1314 Showalter Road, York- their new roles they have taken on final collections by Chad Lee Robinson, town, Virginia 23692. selections, correspondence and other Carole MacRury, Kathe L. Palka, Marian editorial details. Dylan Tweney, who Olson, Vanessa Proctor, Lorin Ford, Checkout Time is Noon: Death Awareness founded the journal in 2000 and has Penny Harter, and Beverly Acuff Momoi Haiku, by Robert Epstein (Wasteland been the longtime editor of tinywords, were the winners in the Snapshot Press Press, 2012). 92 pages. ISBN: 978- will remain involved hosting the site eChapbook Awards 2011. 1600477508. Price: $12 plus shipping and providing technical support. The from Amazon.com. newest issue of tinywords, 12.1, hit the —John Barlow internet on October 1. Associate editors Lakes & Now Wolves, by Scott Metz with for 12.1 are Martin Gottlieb Cohen, an introduction by Philip Rowland David Serjeant and John Emil Vincent. From the Editor (Lincoln, IL: Modern Haiku Press, 2012). Tinywords publishes one poem each Perfectbound, 64 pages. ISBN: 978-0- weekday at the website. The journal is his issue of Ripples marks the com- 9741894-9-9. Price: 15 plus shipping and also available free to subscribers by pletion of three full years for me as handling (details online at T e-mail, text or Twitter. Issue 12.1 will HSA newsletter editor. It has been a www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Metz- run through mid-December. Tinywords pleasure getting to know so many of Lakes&NowWolves.html). will begin accepting submissions for you through our frequent correspon-

issue 13.1 early in 2013. Directions on dence and in person at HSA meetings. I Red Moon Press reports that 2012 has how to submit will be posted at the Sub- will miss the flurry of e-mails just ahead been their busiest year to date, and that mit webpage when the next reading of the Ripples deadlines and the kind much of the fruit of this activity will be window opens. As always, the editors of personal messages that often accompa- showing up in the final quarter of the tinywords are looking for the best short- nied them. I look forward to staying in year. In the works are individual collec- form out there—poems that make the touch through e-mail and hope to see tions by Carolyn Hall, Rebecca Lilly, reader see the world with "fresh eyes." many of you at upcoming haiku events. Zoran Mimica, Christopher Patchel, I have also been fortunate to work Paul Pfleuger Jr. and Philip Rowland, Shamrock No. 23 now available with an incredibly talented, kind and plus a book of haibun by Steven Carter, generous group on the executive com- and the final volume in a series of four The new issue of Shamrock (No 23) is mittee. Ce Rosenow, in particular, de- dedicated to the haiku of Kaneko Tohta now available online at http:// serves many thanks for her good humor in translation by the Kon Nichi transla- shamrockhaiku.webs.com/ and strong leadership. tion group spearheaded by Richard Gil- currentissue.htm. It has a big selection Now it is time to hand off the respon- bert. We thank you for your continued of English-language and translated sibilities for the newsletter, and I hope support. haiku (all from Turkish), as well as two you will join me in welcoming our new

haibun and two reviews of the haiku editor, Adrienne Christian. She will un- —Jim Kacian books by James Norton and William E. doubtedly bring fresh new energy to the Cooper. Many thanks to the contribu- Anthologies job, and I am excited to see the way she tors. We hope our readers will enjoy it. puts her mark on Ripples. I especially

look forward to reading the news of all The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Po- —Anatoly Kudryavitsky the great things happening in haiku ems of Grief, Loss and Change, edited by across the country in the new online Robert Epstein (Modern English Tanka edition of Ripples which will deliver the Press, 2012). 256 pages, perfect-bound news while it is still fresh. paperback. ISBN: 978-1935398301. Price: With warm wishes and thanks, $19.99 plus shipping from www.lulu.com. —Susan Antolin

Volume 27, Number 3 — November 2012 www.hsa-haiku.org Page 25 Publications Newsletter and Membership Anthology Changes

The Haiku Society of America executive committee has unanimously decided to make two important membership benefit changes for the 2013 membership year, as follows:

1. Starting in 2013, the HSA’s newsletter, Ripples, will no longer be sent out in printed form by postal mail. It will henceforth be available only online in PDF form, except for institutions and libraries, and for those members who have no Internet access. Members with e-mail addresses will receive timely announcements of the availability of each newsletter, which will be viewable on the HSA website. You can also download copies to keep or print for yourself if you wish. This new delivery method will make the newsletter instantly available to everyone at the same time, keep the content more timely, and avoid the problem of highly variable postal delivery dates. It will also save money and serve as a means of increased publicity by being freely available. To see past newsletters, which we have been posting online since 2009, please see http://www.hsa-haiku.org/newsletter.htm. 2. With money saved from no longer distributing Ripples by postal mail (with the above exceptions), we will now in- clude the HSA membership anthology as part of your membership dues, at no extra charge. In addition, this change will greatly simplify the editor’s duties (no longer keeping track of orders and payments), since all members will automatically be mailed a copy. An increased number of copies will also enable us to print each copy at a cheaper unit price, increase member benefits, and help promote the HSA by making more copies available. We also hope this change will increase member submissions to the anthology, since all members are guaranteed inclusion.

We hope you’re as excited about these changes as we are! Please contact any officer if you have questions. Thank you for your ongoing support and enthusiasm for the Haiku Society of America.

—HSA Executive Committee

The Haiku Database Criteria for inclusion of a haiku are preparing periodical articles, and com- basically that it should have appeared in piling anthologies to have at hand large Tops 250,000! print (or in an online journal) in English. selection of examples, together with Verses included as part of haiga or original publication information. n mid-September, with the addition of haibun are included, but, except for the Clearly, any sort of commercial use or I the haiku from the autumn 2012 issue hokku, verses of renku are generally not, making the database freely available— of Modern Haiku, the Haiku Database has nor are rengay, tanka, cinquains, and the for example, on the Web—is out of the topped a quarter-million entries. like. We are especially keen to record question. However, we are happy to Now fourteen years in the making, the earlier English-language haiku and have make the search capability available on Haiku Database modestly aims at re- recently focused on journals and individ- an individual basis to others in the haiku cording, in a searchable electronic data- ual collections through the 1960s. Haiku community. If you are looking for a spe- base, all haiku that have been published published in most of the major journals cific haiku or want to know what use has in English. Data collected for each haiku are complete, or nearly so, as are works been made of, for example, “pampas include the text (including variants and in the major haiku anthologies. We have grass” or “Christmas” in haiku, we’ll be as much of the formatting as possible), nearly all the published haiku of some happy to run a search for you—within the author, publication history, date of haiku masters such as John Wills, Robert reason. Drop us a line at trum- composition (or, more commonly, date Spiess, Raymond Roseliep, and Elizabeth [email protected]. of first publication), and notes. For haiku Searle Lamb. translated from other languages, the The purpose of the Haiku Database is —Charlie Trumbull original text and the translator are also to make it easier for serious students to recorded. These data permit searches on locate and study haiku — i.e., it is a find- specific kigo and comparisons of various ing tool. So far the database has proved translations of a haiku by, say, Bashô. useful to poets wishing to verify the Other fields in the database assist in originality of their own work and in a searching and sorting by season, season few cases has helped identify cases of words, line count, attributes (e.g., plagiarism in haiku contests. It has been rhyme), etc. useful for authors writing about haiku,

Page 26 Ripples: Haiku Society of America Newsletter HSA Officers / Regional Coordinators Haiku Society of America Executive Committee

HSA President 2nd Vice President Treasurer Frogpond Editor Ce Rosenow John Stevenson Paul Miller Francine Banwarth P.O. Box 5389 P.O. Box 122 31 Seal Island Road 985 So Grandview Eugene, OR 97405 Nassau, NY 12123 Bristol, RI 02809-5186 Dubuque, IA 52003 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

1st Vice President Secretary Electronic Media Officer Ripples Editor Michael Dylan Welch Angela Terry Randy Brooks Susan Antolin 22230 N.E. 28th Place 18036 49th Place NE 3720 N. Woodbridge Drive 115 Conifer Lane Sammamish, WA 98074-6408 Lake Forest Park, WA 98155- Decatur, IL 62526-1117 Walnut Creek, CA 94598 [email protected] 4314 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Questions or concerns? The executive committee and the regional coordinators welcome your feedback and suggestions. If you want to get more involved in the Haiku Society of America or have ideas for how we might better pursue our mission of promoting the writing and appreciation of haiku in English, please let us know.

Regional Coordinators

Northeast: Southeast: California: Alaska: Wanda Cook Terri L. French Naia Billie Wilson PO Box 314 1901 W. Tupelo Dr. , SE P.O. Box 891984 1170 Fritz Cove Rd. Hadley, MA 01035 Huntsville, AL 35803 Temecula, CA 92589-1984 Juneau, AK 99801-8501 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Northeast Metro: Midwest: Washington: Hawaii/Pacific: Rita Gray Charlotte Digregorio Katharine Hawkinson Position open 785 West End Ave., #12C PO Box 25 9228 15th Ave., SW, Unit C New York, NY 10025-5454 Winnetka, IL 60093 Seattle, WA 98106 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Mid Atlantic: Plains and Mountains: Oregon: Ellen Compton Patricia Nolan an’ya 5425 Connecticut Ave. NW, 3355 Apogee View PO Box 3627 Apt. 217 Colorado Springs, CO La Pine, OR 97739-0088 Washington DC 20015-2764 80906-4047 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

South: Southwest: Johnye Strickland James M. Applegate 12 Willow Oak Loop 601 Fulkerson Dr. Maumelle, AR 72113 Roswell, NM 88203-4127 [email protected] [email protected]

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Got News?

February 1 deadline for the next issue

Please submit news for Ripples to your regional coordinator (see p. 27) or directly to Adrienne Christian via e-mail at [email protected] by February 1, 2013 for inclusion in the next issue of Ripples. Meet- ing the submission deadline will help ensure your news makes it into the next issue.

What to send

Let us know what is happening in haiku in your area. What workshops, programs, readings, or performances have taken place? Do you have a new haiku publication you would like to publicize? Let us know! Photos are also welcome. Please identify the subject and let us know who should get credit for taking the picture.

What not to send

Poems that were not the subject of a workshop or discussion. Please do not send a poem by everyone who attended a meeting. If you would like to see more of your poems in print, please submit to our world-class journal Frogpond (see the previous page for Frogpond editor Francine Banwarth’s contact information).

Thank you for your help in making Ripples a useful source of information for all HSA members!

—Susan Antolin