Haiku Society of America - Mountains Region

Haiku Society of America Region

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Mountains Region

This region includes Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming.

The Mountains Region of the HSA consists of five states, with the largest concentration of members residing in Colorado. The size and rural nature of the region, along with its relatively small membership numbers, make it difficult for haiku poets to sustain in-person groups that can meet on a regular basis. However, the region currently sponsors a monthly in-person workshop in the Denver area that also functions in a hybrid form with members logging in via Zoom from all over the vast region. Additionally, a number of Mountains Region members have distinguished themselves on their own within the HSA and the greater haiku community as editors as well as poets, with much of their haiku and haiku-related work being published in many of the leading haiku journals. Mountains Region members stay up to date with the HSA and the haiku community through a quarterly newsletter, and many have made meaningful and productive contacts with other haiku poets outside the region.

If you are interested in knowing more about us, or learning about the opportunities available to you in the region, please contact the Mountains Regional Coordinator at the email address listed elsewhere on this page.

Regional Links

M F Drummy Profile at Poets & Writers Directory
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/m_f_drummy

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HSA Regions

Regional Coordinator

CurtisCurtis Kupferschmid

<curtkup@gmail.com>

Short Bio:

Curtis Kupferschmid has been writing poetry since his youth. His first chapbook, Sparks & Threads, was published in 2015. He discovered haiku in an anthology at a local bookshop, and since then his poems have appeared in Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Ribbons, Failed Haiku, First Frost, The Wee Sparrow Haiku Nook, and others.

Besides poetry, his other writing explores the centrality of listening to the teaching of writing. His current project uses relational-cultural theory to argue that mutually empathetic relationships based in presence and tenderness are the heart of learning in the classroom and beyond. He is professor of English at Western Nevada College and lives and writes in Reno, Nevada.

He’s interested in any suggestions from fellow mountain regions poets so please reach out with your thoughts!

          New Year's Day
          the dog selects
          her old toy

                    leaves
                    where the water was
                    summer’s end

          new apartment
          not enough room
          to unpack the distance

                    waiting room
                    little by little
                    just me

Former Mountains Coordinators

Pat Nolan, 2012-2013
Chad Robinson, 2011-2014
Steve Tabb, 2016 - 2019
Gary Schroeder, 2019 - 2020
Jackie Maugh Robinson, 2021-2023
M F Drummy, 2024-2025

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