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Meeting news (updated Aug 7th)

We will not be holding an autumn meeting as everyone is invited (and urged) to attend
Haiku North America (September 21 - 25), held this year in Port Townsend,
Washington (
on the Olympic Peninsula) More details below.  


Haiku North America

Save the date -- the Haiku North America conference is coming to the Pacific Northwest on September 21st- 25th, 2005. Plan now to come to this stimulating and informative celebration of haiku in Port Townsend, Washington. Haiku North America is a biennial conference devoted to haiku and related genres of poetry. The event was founded in 1991 in California, and two of its founders, Garry Gay and Michael Dylan Welch, continue as its directors.

HNA is independent of all haiku organizations, and seeks to be a gathering of the tribes, an event that welcomes all perspectives on haiku, all haiku groups, and all haiku poets whether they are members of a haiku group or not. The event has most often been held in the summer, and includes four days of presentations, papers, workshops, readings, and other activities of interest to beginning and experienced haiku poets alike, as well as scholars and translators. Past speakers have included William Higginson, James Hackett, Jane Hirshfield, Haruo Shirane, Hiroaki Sato, Sam Hamill, and many others representing the leading haiku writers, translators, critics, and scholars of English-language haiku. While its focus is on haiku in North America, the event welcomes participants from all over the world. Haiku North America conferences have taken place in the San Francisco area in 1991 and 1993, in Toronto in 1995, in Portland, Oregon, in 1997, in the Chicago area in 1999, in Boston in 2001, and New York City in 2003. As many as 150 to 200 people have attended, and the conference is a cornerstone event for all North American haiku poets. For 2005, the festivities will take place in Port Townsend, Washington, through Centrum at Fort Worden. The event is planned for early October of 2005, but the exact dates have not yet been set. More information will be offered as soon as it is available. For more information, please contact Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com.

Note: Haiku North America has no formal connection with the Haiku Society of America or any other organization. HNA is sometimes confused as being an HSA event, but this has never been the case.


Haiku Canada, 2006 (updated may 30th)
Annual General Meeting & Conference -
May 2006

The pacifi-kana haiku group is proud to announce that they will be hosting the Haiku Canada, 2006 Annual General Meeting and Conference on May 19, 20, 21, and 22, 2006 at U. B. C. 
 
Contact Alice Frampton at: framptona@telus.net for further information and CHECK-OUT the Haiku Canada Weekend 2006 section of this website.

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