Archive: Haiku Holiday
April 29, 2006
Overview
Come celebrate the 27th annual Haiku Holiday with the North Carolina
Haiku Society on Saturday April 29, 2006. 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 Farmthanks
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unpublished haikuor you can dash one off after the ginko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 two very well-known haiku poets
as our guest presenters: Ellen Compton and Roberta Beary.
Ellen Compton will lead one of the haiku workshops in
the afternoon. Ellen, a freelance writer, is one of the founding members
of towpath, a haiku group with poets in Maryland, Virginia, and
Washington D.C. She is a former editor for the Red Moon Anthology,
a highly-respected haiku anthology produced annually by Red
Moon Press. 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 Grand Prize of the 10th
International Kusamakura Haiku Competition, the highlight of which
was a trip to Kumamoto, Japan. She will give a talk about her experiences
on the trip. (See the article A Rewarding
Trip to Japan in the newsletter for the Women's National Book Association.)
Roberta will also lead a haibun workshop as well. (For more about haibun,
see the entry for the haibun workshop in the
schedule below.)
Roberta's work appeared in A New Resonance 2, an anthology of
emerging voices in haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts (2001),
Winchester: Red
Moon Press. She is one of 10 haiku poets featured in the Shiki
online discussion list's tenth anniversary haiku anthology, which
will be published in 2006. Roberta says that she is currently concentrating
on haibun (haiku with prose). Some of her haibun will appear in the forthcoming
Red Moon Anthology. She is a member of towpath, Haiku
Ireland, Haiku International,
and the Haiku Society of America.
Roberta was born in New York City and has lived in Europe and Asia. She
began writing haiku in Tokyo where she lived between 1990 and 1995. She
is a lawyer in Washington, D.C.
NCHS member Curtis Dunlap will lead a second haiku workshop
in the afternoon. Curtis lives near the confluence of the Mayo and Dan
rivers in a small NC town called Mayodan. He and his wife, Jane, have
three children and one beagle. He enjoys playing guitar, reading and writing
various forms of poetry and telling "home-grown" stories to
his children. Curtis has been published in Frogpond, Haiga
Online, The Heron's Nest
and Modern Haiku. His personal
haiku and related forms web site is called 'haikai from tobacco road'
located at http://www.tobaccoroadpoet.com.
Curtis and Dave Russo recently started the NCHS
Blog.
Lenard D. Moore, the Executive Chairman
of the North Carolina Haiku Society, will assist Curtis. Lenard has been
writing and publishing haiku for 24 years. His poetry have appeared in
more than 40 anthologies, including The Haiku Anthology (Norton,
1999). He is the author of Forever Home (St. Andrews College
Press, 1992).
In 2003, Red Moon Press published Gathering at the Crossroads,
a collaborative chapbook of Lenard's haiku about the Million Man March
and Eugene B. Redmond's photographs. Lenard is a three-time recipient
of the Haiku Museum
of Tokyo Award (2003, 1994 and 1983). He won the Poet
of the Year Award given by The Heron's Nest, for haiku written in
2004.
Lenard was recently given the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award
for his contribution to the fine arts of North Carolina. He won the award
for his poetry and for his tireless mentoring of other writers. The Sam
Ragan award was created in 1981 to honor Samuel Talmadge Ragan, North
Carolina’s first Secretary for Cultural Resources. It is presented
annually to one or more persons for outstanding contributions to the fine
arts of North Carolina over an extended period—including, but above
and beyond—the recipient’s own primary commitment.
Lenard teaches English, world literature and humanities
at Shaw University and Mount Olive College. This year, Lenard will be
coming to his 24th consecutive Haiku Holiday: one each year since 1983.
Rich Krawiec will lead a reading from the
Taboo
Haiku anthology (2005. Avisson Press: Greensboro). An accompished
novelist, short story writer, and free verse poet, Rich felt that the
tone and subject matter of contemporary haiku were being artificially
limited. So, he assembled an international anthology of haiku that address
themes that are usually considered to be taboo in traditional haiku, such
as sex, politics, and obscenity. We realize that taboo haiku are not everyone's
cup of tea, so the reading will be held on the porch of the farmhouse
at Bolin Brook Farm. See the NCHS
blog entry about Taboo Haiku.)
Jonny Colley will play guitar as Dave and
Lenard read from Wild Again, Nina Wicker's collection of haiku.
Jonny has been performing in bands and as a solo acoustic singer/songwriter
now for over twenty-five years. He teaches Compensatory Education at Rockingham
Community College in Wentworth, NC.
NCHS webmaster Dave Russo will lead a third
haiku workshop, if we find that two workshops are not enough. Dave has
been writing haiku for about 10 years and has published in various haiku
journals. He organizes the monthly workshops for the North Carolina Haiku
Society. If you come to Dave's workshop, you can get an idea of what our
monthly workshops are like. Dave, Lenard D. Moore and Bob Moyer are the
local organizers for Haiku North America 2007.
Books by NCHS Members
We are pleased to feature two books by our members: Wild
Again, Selected Haiku of Nina Wicker and Taboo
Haiku, edited by Richard Krawiec.
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 29, 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 |
Talk by Roberta Beary about her recent
trip to Japan as the Grand Prize winner of the 10th International
Kusamakura Haiku Competition. |
10: 25 to 12 noon |
Self-guided ginko (haiku walk) or Taboo
Haiku reading or . . .
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).
Rich Krawiec will lead a reading from the the
Taboo
Haiku anthology (2005. Avisson Press: Greensboro). Please note
that taboo haiku address themes that are usually considered to be
taboo in traditional haiku, such as sex, politics, and obscenity.
Since these elements are a staple of today's popular culture, these
poems are unlikely to shock many people. However, we realize that
taboo haiku are not everyone's cup of tea, so this reading will
be held on the porch of the farmhouse at Bolin Brook Farm. |
12 noon to 1:00 |
Lunch
Please bring a bag lunch. Drinks will be provided. |
1:05 - 1:20 |
Dave Russo and Lenard
D. Moore read from Wild
Again, Selected Haiku of Nina Wicker, accompanied by Jonny
Colley on guitar. |
1:20 to 3:20 |
Haiku workshops led by Ellen Compton, Curtis
Dunlap, and perhaps Dave Russo (if we have enough people
for three workshops). You can workshop a haiku that
you wrote today, or you can bring previously-written haiku to discuss. |
3:30 to 4:30 |
Haibun workshop
led by Roberta Beary.
Haibun is the combination of haiku with prose. For more about haibun,
see the following links:
Narratives
of the Heart: Haibun (article by Bruce Ross in The World Haiku
Review)
sunday
dinner (haibun by Roberta Beary in Modern Haiku)
visiting
day (haibun by Roberta Beary in Contemporary Haibun Online) |
4::30 |
Meeting adjourns |
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