2012 Member News & Announcements
HSA Executive Committee Announcement • February 2, 2012
Haiku Society of America is pleased to announce that Francine Banwarth will become the next editor of Frogpond, the official serial publication of the Haiku Society of America.
Francine Banwarth lives in Dubuque, Iowa, and began studying and writing haiku in 1988. She has been a member of the HSA since 1989 and served as HSA second vice president from 2008-2011. She is cofounder of Haiku Dubuque and has guided haiku workshops and helped organize haiku meetings in Dubuque and at The Foundry Books in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. She has also served on the board of Modern Haiku since 2010. During the last 20 years her haiku and senryu have won awards in a variety of contests and her haiku, senryu, rengay, and haibun have been published in journals, anthologies, and chapbooks, including The River Knows the Way, published by Haiku Dubuque.
Francine writes:
"I am honored and humbled to have been offered the editorship ofFrogpond. The decision to accept was not easy and made only after careful deliberation and long talks with Ce Rosenow, George Swede, my family, my running partner, and myself. I will strive to serve with the same passion and excellence as our former editors, George Swede and Anita Krumins, as well as those who served before them. I am grateful for this opportunity and I thank the HSA executive committee members for their confidence in me. I know that this editorship will 'take a village,' and I look forward to working with George and Anita during the transition and to tapping the many talents of the members of the HSA."
Charlotte Digregorio <c-books@hotmail.com> • February 2, 2012
Haiku Society of America members will meet to share and critique participants’ poems, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 11 at Winnetka Public Library, 768 Oak St., Winnetka. Free and open to the public, pre-registration is required. Those who don’t have haiku to share may attend to listen and learn.
Haiku is short meditative poetry that originated in Japan in the 1600s. It is gaining popularity worldwide in many languages. Often three lines, it has 17 syllables or less, and captures the moment with usually a reference to nature or seasons.
HSA’s Midwest Region holds five meetings a year in the north suburbs that include speakers, readings, retreats, and festivals. It will hold its 2012 Haikufest from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, April 28 at Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St., Skokie. More details to follow. To pre-register for the February meeting, contact Charlotte Digregorio, Midwest Regional Coordinator, 847-881-2664.
Dick-Laurence Stacey-Whyte <the4shades@gmail.com> • January 31, 2012
After a several month hiatus, Haiku News will be returning in January. For those unfamiliar with us, Haiku News is a journal dedicated to highlighting social and political events through the lens of haiku, senryu, and tanka. The mission of our journal is not only to feature quality writing, but to also demonstrate the
effectiveness of these genres in addressing world news and sparking conversations that will hopefully
become the basis of action.
<http://www.wayfarergallery.net/haikunews>
Among the changes at Haiku News are a new email address and publishing schedule. Beginning
January 15th, we will begin accepting new submissions. Poets should email their haiku, senryu,
and tanka to <the4shades@gmail.com>. We will be publishing a new issue every Monday packed
with poems and news. — The Haiku News Staff
Ce Rosenow <rosenowce@gmail.com> • January 16, 2012
The American Literature Association’s 23rd annual conference will meet at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in Embarcadero Center on May 24- 27, 2012 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). The deadline for all proposals is January 30, 2012. For further information, please consult the ALA website at <http://www.americanliterature.org> or contact the conference director, Professor Alfred Bendixen of Texas A & M University at <abendixen@tamu.edu> with specific questions.
Katharine Grubb <captainkat@me.com> • January 7, 2012
The first quarterly meeting will be on Sunday, February 12 from 1:15-4:15 p.m. at the Broadview Branch of the Seattle Public Library. We will have an optional Ginko at 10:30 at Carkeek Park and optional dinner, 5:00 TBD. All of the information can be found on the event's web page:
http://hsaseattle2012.eventbrite.com
2011 Member News & Announcements
an'ya <haikubyanya@gmail.com> • December 19, 2011
At long last, we are pleased to announce that the 2011 HSA Members' Anthology entitled "in pine shade" is scheduled for production via another publishing company than the one we started out with (long story.) Unfortunately we lost time with the original publisher before changing over to BookMasters a week ago. Now all is well and we are on the docket for the end of December, although it won't be actually mailed out until shortly after the holidays. Thanks to everyone for their patience and we hope you enjoy seeing your work "in pine shade"
love ya, an'ya & Very respctfully, PeterB, editors
2011 Henderson Awards for Haiku
First Place
Navajo moon
the coyote call
not a coyote
Garry Gay
Second Place
deleting words
from the eulogy
falling leaves
Mark Smith
Third Place
calla lily
the sound of a ladder
lengthening
Cherie Hunter Day
Honorable Mentions (unranked)
tasting the well
in the water—
summer stars
Marjorie Buettner
Mother’s Day
the expiration date
on wildflower seeds
Carolyn Hall
northern lights . . .
the scratchy play
of seventy-eights
Michele L. Harvey
a recurring escape from my father’s dream
Christopher Patchel
the big dipper
no matter where I stand
mountain sky
Michelle Schaefer
summer passing
the yard flamingo’s
rusty legs
Michelle Schaefer
glint of sunlight:
the respirator carries on
alone
Charles Trumbull
Judges: Jim Kacian & Billie Wilson
Gerald Brady Memorial Awards for Senryu, 2011
First Place
undressing the summer wind turns color
Ernest J. Berry
Second Place
Father's Day--
a potato
without a face
Susan Marie La Valle
Third Place
stirring my coffee
every which way
flamenco
Sheila K. Barksdale
Honorable Mentions (unranked)
a watermelon smile drips off the end of my elbows
Bett Angel-Stawarz
Trick-or-Treat
a sailboat's name
reflects in the sea
Alan S. Bridges
Martin Luther King Day
I readjust
my rear-view mirror
Carolyn Hall
Judges: Eve Luckring & Chad Lee Robinson
HAIKU SOCIETY OF AMERICA, FIRST ANNUAL HAIBUN CONTEST - 2011
First Prize
Some Things That Are Left
It comes down to the tea in the bottom of my cup, an old silver spoon, the way light falls into honey. This is old age, the privilege of life stretched thin and transparent. I crave the sweetness of cream and the bitter joy of a cut orange. I notice the streaks of rust on the bottom edge of my iron skillet. I find them beautiful and have no inclination to remove them. I prefer wool against a chill and can gaze for long periods at knitted stitches. Memories, once held desperately close, are now wisps of fading paper flying from my open hand. I greet wildflowers as dear ones, Joe Pye, Ironweed, Mullein and bow to Queen Anne in her lace. Another summer passing, another autumn presaged in the curled edges of leaves.
late roses
spill onto my table
a shameless fragrance
Lynn McLure
Second Prize
The Great Migration
Black as night they rise in a fury, the quiet cracked open by their sharp caws, by the rustle and flapping of hundreds of wings, the air above the cotton fields flowing in a stream behind their dark bodies, their great migration.
crow feathers
the canyon fills
with echo
dirt stained fingers
knead silver starlight
a picker’s tunes
Renée Owen
Third Prize
Abandoned Houses
My dreams are abandoned houses which let the gold of afternoon light filter in through open windows. There you will find birds nesting in the open rafters and raccoons in the walls. A pump well in the back yard has dried up long ago becoming a prop now for wild flowers and the swing on the front porch is pushed by wind alone. If you are tired, you can rest your body in a field of sunflowers, and watch their faces follow the sun. There you can breathe deeply and shed the dust of your days, breathing in, too, the scent of a distant lake—you can almost see the bubbles rise up where the fish feed. . .
gate ajar—
a vine of morning glories
twining around itself
Marjorie Buettner
First Honorable Mention
Mother
First the ashes and four sprigs of orchids, then a stream of champagne, then the empty bottle. While leaning over the three foot deep round hole his reading glasses fall in.
grimacing
the small boy tap dances to
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
Priscilla Van Valkenburg
Second Honorable Mention
After the Visit
Summer fields in the distance, the hay cut and left to dry brown and stalky. A dry breeze pushes the wind chimes and leaves turn their backsides seeking rain. The sheep keep to the shade, grazing and resting. Even the crows are quiet. I have tidied up after a week of grown children who leave a familiar wreckage when they exit. Sheets turn in the dryer and a second load of towels is in the wash. I have remade the beds with clean linen, emptied the dishwasher one more time. Now I sit tired in my porch rocker staring at pond, sheep and fields.
tiny blue butterfly
on the potted basil
resting
Lynn McLure
Third Honorable Mention
Crossing a Small Stream
gathering branch wood and pine needles old friends
Silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains slowly fade as evening cools into slate gray darkness. We’ve finished the bonfire dinner served on picnic tables across from the main lodge. Now, the sound of an accordion draws us to rustic wooden stairs. Some of my classmates are wearing cowboy boots, but we’re all wearing cowboy hats. We climb in silence through the thinning air and towards the music.
8:00 pm the once wild mustangs run to pasture
Tish Davis
Fourth Honorable Mention
Cronk
At the Nature Center I’m staring through the bars at the rescued raven. Nearby, handicapped eagles and owls hunch solemnly on their perches. But Cronk, with a mischievous gleam in his eyes, pokes his formidable beak right through the bars and tilts his head from side to side. Then he turns his back to us, stretches his neck up and over backwards until he is looking at us upside down.
is it half full
or half empty—
the waiting room
Priscilla Van Valkenburgh
Haibun Contest Judges: Penny Harter and Scott Mason
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