Archive Haiku Holiday:
April 28, 2012

• Overview
• Contact
• Presenters
• Our Hosts
• Directions to Bolin Brook Farm
• Schedule

Overview

We celebrated our 33rd annual Haiku Holiday on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Experienced haiku teachers and poets conducted workshops, talks and walks. The event was open to anyone with an interest in haiku, beginner or advanced. This year we celebrated the release of The Stone House, an anthology of haiku inspired by Bolin Brook Farm. Please see the following link for pictures of the book and ordering information: The Stone House.

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. Our Archives page has schedules from those events.

If you are going to participate in a workshop, bring previously written, unpublished haiku—or you can dash one off after the ginko (haiku walk).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.
• Check the weather and dress accordingly. Haiku Holiday is held rain or shine.

Bring One Favorite Haiku on a 3 x 5 Card

Please consider bringing one favorite haiku on a 3 x 5 card. The haiku should be by someone other than yourself. Be sure to include the poet's name on the card, if you know it. The haiku can be on any subject. We'll post these cards around Jean's house for people to read during the day. Here are some photos of haiku from last year: Haiku Holiday 2011: Haiku.

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 about the meeting.

Presenters

Lenard D. Moore, the Executive Chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society, was Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Eastern North Carolina from 2007 to 2009. He is a past President of the Haiku Society of America: 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 a panel discussion and a workshop. As of January 2012, Lenard has been writing haiku for 30 years. 

L. Teresa Church is an independent scholar and archival consultant. Her interests include the documentation of local African American community history and exhibit installations. She also serves as archivist and membership chairperson for the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective. Her writings have appeared in a variety of publications, including Simply Haiku, Frogpond, and The Heron’s Nest.

Adrienne Christian earned her BA in English from the University of Michigan, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Oregon. Her poems have been featured in Falling Star, Alimentum, The Ante Review, The Barrier Islands Review, and many others. She was also recently accepted into the Cave Canem family of black poets. Mrs. Christian works as an Integrated Writing Specialist at Bennett College for Women. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband.

Dave Russo's haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, and other journals. He is included in the New Resonance 5 anthology from Red Moon Press. Dave organizes events for the North Carolina Haiku Society and is on the board of directors for The Haiku Foundation. He will participate in a panel discussion and will lead a workshop.

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 Bolin Brook Farm, an old farmstead that has been in Jean's family for 12 generations.

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 Google Map.

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, 2012

Updated: April 24, 2012

All schedules are tentative, of course, due to weather, whims, and twists of fate.