Archive: Haiku Holiday
Saturday April 25, 2009
Overview
Come celebrate the 30th annual Haiku Holiday with the North Carolina
Haiku Society on Saturday, April 25, 2009. 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unpublished haiku—or you can dash one off after the ginko (haiku walk).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.
Contact
The main contact for this meeting is Dave Russo. See the Contact Us page for my contact information. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about the meeting.
Presenters
We are finalizing the details about our main presenters. Here is what we know so far.
Lenard D. Moore, Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Eastern North Carolina, is the Executive Chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society and the President of the Haiku Society of America. He is the first Southerner and the first African American to be elected as President of the HSA. Lenard is the founder of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective (CAAWC). His latest collection of poems is A Temple Looming (WordTech Editions: 2008). Lenard will lead one of the haiku workshops in the afternoon.
Robert Moyer lives in Winston-Salem, NC, where he was local host for Haiku North America 2007. He has had work published in a number of journals, such as frogpond, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, and Sketchbook. He has been included in a number of anthologies, most recently the ten-year Acorn anthology. An article about his teaching haiku to elementary school children, "Looking for the Moment: Haiku, Theater and Play," was featured in the March 2009 Haiku Society of America Newsletter. The article arose from a project conducted at the Arts-Based Elementary School, in which grades 2-5 will write haiku to be commented upon by NCHS members and then collected into a book. Students read selected poems from this project at the December 2008 Haiku Society of America meeting in Winston-Salem. Bob and NCHS member Rich Krawiec will be featured in cycle 7 of Daily Haiku starting in May. Bob will lead Write Before Your Eyes: an experience in haiku composition.
Dave Russo organizes the monthly meetings of the North Carolina Haiku Society. His haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, and other journals. He is included in the latest New Resonance anthology from Red Moon Press. Russo is the web administrator for the North Carolina Haiku Society, The Haiku Foundation, the NCHS, and Red Moon Press. He will lead one of haiku workshops in the afternoon.
Our Host
Jean Earnhardt 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 lives 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 25, 2009
All schedules are tentative, of course, due to weather, whims, and twists of fate. We are finalizing the details about our schedule. Here is what we know so far.
| 8:45: 9:25 AM |
Registration, coffee, tea and pastry |
| 9:30 to 9:45 |
Looking Back on 30 Years of Haiku Holiday. Opening remarks by Jean Earnhardt and Lenard D. Moore. |
| 9:45 to 9:50 |
Remembrance of Ruby Shackleford, NCHS member. |
| 9:50 to 10:00 |
Readings from In The Night Shallows, a new haiku collection by Rebecca Ball Rust, founder of the North Carolina Haiku Society. Available from Rosenberry Books. |
| 10:00 to 10:15 |
Open reading by North Carolina Haiku Society members. NCHS members will read 3-5 haiku they've written. |
| 10:15 to 10:45 |
Write Before Your Eyes: an experience in haiku composition led by Bob Moyer. |
10:45 to 12 noon |
Self-guided ginko (haiku walk) and Other Activities.
Some of us will follow the usual trail for the ginko as we have done in the past.
Visit our book display, featuring Rosenberry Books.
We have surprise project related to In The Night Shallows by Rebecca Ball Rust that we'd like you to see.
Take the opportunity to talk with NCHS members about haiku. |
| 12 noon to 1:00 |
Lunch
Please bring a bag lunch. Drinks will be provided. |
| 1:05 to 1:25 |
Echoes: Haiku Readings & Discussion
As we read haiku in books and magazines, we often encounter poets whose work is especially interesting or enjoyable. A number of NCHS members will read haiku and make a few remarks that we hope will spark discussion with the audience. At the end we might take a quick few minutes for anyone in the audience to briefly describe a book of haiku that they’ve read that they’d like others to know about. |
| 1:25 to 3:30 |
Haiku workshops led by Lenard D. Moore and Dave Russo.
You can workshop a haiku that
you wrote today, or you can bring previously-written haiku to discuss. |
| Around 3:30 |
Meeting adjourns |
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