Southeast

Southeast Region

This region includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and the United States Virgin Islands.

The Southeast region welcomes all poets as it seeks to build haiku-related activities throughout its territory. Past activities have included a haiku weekend in the late 1990s linking “Haiku and Music,” which invited poets (working with musicians) to put their own lines to music, and to hear their haiku sung. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the annual Sakura Festival has been promoting haiku through an annual contest since 1991. In Key West, Florida, the Robert Frost Poetry Festival has featured haiku poets for many years, and also has an annual haiku contest. The Pinecone haiku group has also engaged poets in the northern part of our region since 1999, and has an active Yahoo group (or contact Nora Wood for more information). More recently, the Alabama State Poetry Society has begun to include haiku in its yearly contests. HSA members in our region have only occasionally been able to get together, but we encourage interaction by e-mail. We hope you will want to contribute to our online regional anthology. For more information about haiku activity in the region, please contact the Southeast regional coordinator.

—Peter Meister

Regional Links

Alabama State Poetry Society
http://alabamapoets.org/

Key West Robert Frost Poetry Festival
http://www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.com/index.htm

Lingering Sunlight: Southeast Regional Anthology
http://newinfo.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/fll/german/
haiku_HSA_southeast.html

Paraverse (Robin D. Gill's haiku translation site)
http://paraverse.org/
 
Pinecone Haiku Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pinecone/

River Song Haiku Society
http://site.riversonghaiku.org/

Sakura Festival Haiku Contest
Http://Sakura.Ua.Edu/Sakurahome.Html

Regional News

Peggy Willis Lyles (1939-2010)

time out
the setting sun
takes center field

     Modern Haiku 38:1

The author of this baseball haiku died in Tucker, Georgia on September 3, 2010. A former English professor, she was a founding member of Pinecone, the North Georgia Haiku Society, and a leading voice in American haiku for the past three decades. She was born in Summerville, South Carolina on September 17, 1939. Here’s a review of her To Hear the Rain:

<http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/brooksbooks/selectedlyles.html>

including a generous selection of poems from that volume.

Join the HSA

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

Regional Coordinator

Terri L. French
1901 W. Tupelo Dr. SE
Huntsville, AL 35803
 
<terri.l.french@gmail.com>
 
Terri L. French was born and raised in Michigan. She and her husband make their home in Huntsville, Alabama. They have four children and three cats. She has a degree in journalism and is a Licensed Massage Therapist. Terri began writing poetry as a child and took a serious interest in haiku about five years ago. Her book of haiku, A Ladybug on my Words, illustrated by her son Logan, was self-published in 2011. Terri, her husband Ray, Curtis Dunlap, and Susan Nelson Myers penned the first “renray” (a linked collaborative poem), which appeared in the September 2011 edition of Notes from the Gean. Her haiku, senryu, haibun, haiga, and tanka have appeared in various journals, including Frogpond, Daily Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Prune Juice, Paper Wasp, Moonbathing, South by Southeast, and Modern Haiku.

he brings flowers
the same shade—
bruises
 
 
               harvest moon
               butter puddling
               in the acorn squash
 
 
reflecting pool
trying to see past
what she’s not

 

Former Regional Coordinators

Peter Meister, 2010-2011

Regional Archives

2010-2011 Southeast Region Archive