Archive: Haiku Holiday
April 24, 2004

Come celebrate Haiku Holiday with the North Carolina Haiku Society on Saturday, April 24, 2004. Experienced haiku teachers and poets will conduct workshops, talks and walks. The event is open to anyone with an interest in haiku, beginner or advanced. See Photos from Haiku Holiday 2002.

Our first Haiku Holiday was celebrated at Bolin Brook Farm near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the United States of America on January 26, 1980. Since then, all of our annual meetings have been held at Bolin Brook Farm—thanks to our gracious host and member since the beginning, Jean Earnhardt.

If you are going to participate in a workshop, and you want to get the most out of the experience, bring previously written, unpublished haiku. Membership in the North Carolina Haiku Society is encouraged but not required. There is no membership or registration fee, but small donations will be gratefully accepted at the workshop, and we usually pass the hat to help defray the expenses of our guest presenters as well.

Please bring a bag lunch.

Our Guest Presenter

Our guest presenter is Paul MacNeil, award-winning haiku poet, renku poet (renku is a form of renga), and an associate editor of The Heron's Nest, one of the best literary journals for haiku in English. Paul will give a talk that is tentatively called Poets and Journals: The Care And Feeding Of Your Haiku Editor. Paul will also host a haiku workshop. I invite you to Google the words "Paul MacNeil haiku" and see what you find. See also these MacNeil-related links:

• Essays from World Haiku Review: Polemics in Haiku – a short essay; Some Philosophy And Personal Notes On Haiku.
• Paul's collaborations with other poets in the HSA Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competition.
• Renku Seminar and other work about renku on the World Haiku Club Website.
• Two haiku comedians at Haiku North America 2001 in Boston.

Our NCHS Presenter

Lenard D. Moore, the executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society, will also host a haiku workshop. Lenard has been writing and publishing haiku for 22 years. His haiku have appeared in more than 30 anthologies, including The Haiku Anthology (Norton, 1999). He is the author of Forever Home (St. Andrews College Press, 1992). Red Moon Press recently published Gathering at the Crossroads, a chapbook of Lenard's haiku about the Million Man March. Lenard won a Museum of Haiku Literature Award in 1983, 1994, and 2003. He taught his "jazzku" workshops at the Haiku North America 2003 Conference, the Haiku Society of America National Meeting in June 2002, as well as at colleges and universities around the country.

This year, Lenard will be coming to his 22nd consecutive Haiku Holiday: one each year since 1983.

Our Hosts

Jean and John Earnhardt . . . Jean retired in 1995 after 20 years as a hospital PR/marketing director. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Carolina in 1952 and a Masters in Liberal Studies from Duke forty years later. While raising two sons she sold freelance features and photographs to newspapers and tried her hand at short stories and poetry. She and her husband John, also a UNC graduate, live on an old farmstead that has been in Jean's family for 12 generations. Bolin Brook has hosted the Haiku Holiday since its inception in 1980.

How to Get to Bolin Brook Farm

Bolin Brook Farm is a beautiful place, but you may need a little help in finding it. Here is Jean's address and contact information:

Jean Earnhardt
600 Bolin Brook Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-929-4884
jjearn@bellsouth.net

Click this link to see a map to Bolin Brook Farm.

Click this link to see a photo of the sign you'll see on the side of the road: Photos from Haiku Holiday 2002.

Tentative Schedule for Saturday, April 24, 2004

Spring rain and twists of fate sometimes alter the schedule.