Oregon

Oregon Region

Oregon has been an independent HSA region since 2008, but has a prominent haiku history that stretches back many decades. It began with one of the earliest English-language haiku organizations, the Western World Haiku Society, founded by Lorraine Ellis Harr in 1972. She also published the haiku journal Dragonfly from 1972 to 1984.

For the last thirty years, several local haiku writing groups have operated at various times around the state, and during the last two decades, we have organized numerous haiku meetings and events, including the Basho Bash, Haiku Summit, Haiku North America (1997), regional HSA meetings, and several national quarterly HSA meetings. When paired with Washington State as part of the Haiku Northwest group (before becoming its own HSA region), Oregon also contributed frequently to Northwest regional haiku anthologies.

Currently, the Oregon region has two active groups. The Eugene Haiku Group was founded in 2009 by Harriot West, and meets monthly in the Willamette Valley area to share information and haiku resources, to read and analyze haiku, and to workshop new poems. The Bend Haiku Group, founded in 2010 by an’ya, meets biennially in spring and autumn in the Central Oregon area, with similar goals as the Eugene group.

In addition to these meetings, we hold regional HSA meetings twice a year in spring and autumn at the Tired Dog Ranch facility, a ranch in Westfir, Oregon. The highlights of these meetings (weather permitting), are the outdoor hay-baled pavilion meeting area, the yurt where lunch is served, and paths for haiku walks. Overnight accommodations are available and all guests are welcome. Please contact the current Oregon regional coordinator for more information.

—an’ya

Regional Links

Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant
http://antantantantant.wordpress.com/

Basho’s Narrow Road
http://www.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/

Moonset
http://www.moonset.us

Mountains and Rivers Press
http://www.mountainsandriverspress.org

Roadrunner
http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net

Lorraine Ellis Harr
http://americanhaikuarchives.org/curators/LorraineEllisHarr.html

Oregon State Poetry Association
http://www.oregonpoets.org

Join the HSA

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/join.htm

Regional Coordinator

an'ya
POB 3627
La Pine, OR 97739-0088

<haikubyanya@gmail.com>

an’ya is published worldwide as a haiku poet. She is formerly the editor of Haiga Online and a coordinator of the World Haiku Club Beginners Group. an’ya’s books are published by Rosenberry Books and her free seasonal booklets are available from her directly.

polarized sky
the mixed melodies
of twilight birds

spiderweb silk
suddenly i’ve become
a puppeteer

birth – death
this stretch of beach
between

Photo from the yurt at our May Oregon regional meeting held at Tired Dog Ranch in Westfir, Oregon. The two women holding the HSA cake, are left of the cake, Corle Hull, and to the right is Frances Jones.