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.
Please contact the current Oregon regional coordinator for more information.
Regional Links
HSA Oregon
http://hsaoregon.wordpress.com/
HSA Oregon Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/hsaoregon/
Margaret Chula & Katsura Press
http://margaretchula.com/
Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant
http://antantantantant.wordpress.com/
Mountains and Rivers Press
http://www.mountainsandriverspress.org
Roadrunner
http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net
Lorraine Ellis Harr
http://americanhaikuarchives.org/curators/LorraineEllisHarr.html
Oregon Poetry Association, (OPA)
http://www.oregonpoets.org
Join the HSA
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/join.htm
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Regional Coordinator
Cara Holman
3045 NW Bauer Woods Dr.
Portland, OR 97229
<cara.holman@gmail.com>
A life-long avid reader and writer, Cara began publishing personal essays and poetry in 2007, and rediscovered haiku in 2010. She also writes senryu, tanka, rengay, and haibun. Her writings have been published widely online and in print journals, and she blogs at Prose Posies.
lingering awhile
under the awning
the scent of roses
morning meditation
an empty boat rocks
with the waves
frost-tipped blossoms
not how I thought
it would happen
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