Archive: Haiku Holiday
April 28, 2007
Overview
Come celebrate the 28th annual Haiku Holiday with the North Carolina
Haiku Society on Saturday April 28, 2007. 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.
Our first Haiku Holiday took place 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. Our Galleries section has a few
pictures from past Haiku Holidays.
If you are going to participate in a workshop, bring previously written,
unpublished haiku—or you can dash one off after the ginko (haiku walk). 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. Please
bring a bag lunch.
Presenters
We are very pleased to have Ellen Compton and Roberta Beary back again this year as our guest presenters.
Ellen Compton is a freelance writer and is one of the founding members
of towpath, a haiku group with poets in Maryland, Virginia, and
Washington D.C. Ellen's haiku won first prize in the 2006 Harold G. Henderson competition that is sponsored by the Haiku Society of America. She and Roberta were co-editors of fish in love, the 2006 membership anthology for the Haiku Society of America. Ellen was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and has lived
in New Orleans, Louisiana; in Caracas, Venezuela; in Troy, New York; and
on a mountain top in western New Jersey. She now lives in Washington D.C.
See Ellen's
profile on the Millikin University Haiku Writer Profile site.
Roberta Beary recently won the the Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition. Her senryu won first prize in the 2006 Gerald Brady competition that is sponsored by the Haiku Society of America. She is one of 10 haiku poets featured in the Shiki
online discussion list's tenth anniversary haiku anthology, to be published in 2007. She is a member of towpath, Haiku
Ireland, Haiku International,
and the Haiku Society of America.
Last year, Roberta gave a talk about her experiences after winning the Grand Prize of the 10th
International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, the highlight of which
was a trip to Kumamoto, Japan. Her talk made such an impression that NCHS member, Tom Heffernan, entered the contest and won the Grand Prize this year. And NCHS member Curtis Dunlap won a third prize. See our blog entries about this: Winning Haiku, Speech, & More, and Curtis Dunlap Wins 3rd Prize in the 11th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition.
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 which has been in Jean's family for 12 generations. Bolin Brook
has hosted the Haiku Holiday since its inception in 1980.
Directions 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.
Schedule for Haiku Holiday on Saturday
April 28, 2006
| 9:00 AM |
Greetings from our host, Jean Earnhardt. Registration, coffee, tea and pastry |
| 9:30 |
Opening remarks by Jean and by Dave Russo. |
| 9:40 to 9:50 |
Lenard D. Moore introduces our
guest presenters, Ellen Compton and Roberta Beary.
Ellen and Roberta read a selection of their haiku. |
| 9:50 to 10:25 |
Where Do Our Haiku Come From? A talk and discussion led by Ellen Compton.
James Hackett advises us to "Write about nature just as it is . . . be true to life." Shiki calls for shasei, or sketch from life. But is that what we really do? Do memory and imagination have a role in haiku composition? If so, to what extent?
In a recent article poet Paul Miller suggests that some of the strongest haiku might well be, at least in some part, what others might call "fictitious." I hope you will join me as we share and explore our own writing experiences. |
10: 25 to 12 noon |
Self-guided ginko (haiku walk)
Some of us will follow the usual trail for the ginko, as we have
done in the past. You are welcome to join us. You could also wander
on your own near or far; or simply sit around the house and chat.
For more about ginkos, see Ginkos (haiku walks). |
| 12 noon to 1:00 |
Lunch
Please bring a bag lunch. Drinks will be provided. |
| 1:05 - 1:30 |
The Healing Power of Haiku, a talk and discussion led by Roberta Beary.
I have been writing haiku for more than 15 years. Ten years ago, I began to write about my own experiences.
Some were from my distant past:
piano practice
in the room above me
my father shouting
Some were from my recent past:
funeral home
here too
she straightens his tie
And some were from the here and now:
blackout
my son speaks a secret
i always knew
Writing these haiku has helped me understand and accept important parts of my past. I am not a psychologist, but I do believe in the power of haiku to heal. I hope that you will listen to some other haiku I have written and then share some of your own with the rest of us. |
| 1:35 to 3:35 |
Haiku workshops led by Ellen Compton and Roberta Beary
You can workshop a haiku that
you wrote today, or you can bring previously-written haiku to discuss. |
| Around 3:45 |
Meeting adjourns |
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