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Greetings!
This Bulletin offers information about a broad variety of activities and resources that are available not only to members of Haiku Society of America, but often the general public as well. Feel free to forward the Bulletin to anyone you know who might enjoy taking advantage of our opportunities or becoming members of the Society!
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Fall Quarterly Meeting-
A Full Schedule of Fun
Fort Worth Haiku Society Hosts the Haiku Society of America's Fall Quarterly Meeting Sept. 14 - 16, 2012 at Benbrook Library, Benbrook, Texas. The webpage has all the information you will need for this event. View the full web page here.
The Schedule is as follows-
Friday Night: Welcome to Texas
Noon - 1 Registration at the Benbrook Library
1:00 - 1:25 - Welcome by Cliff Roberts
1:30 - 2:00 - Mike Baldwin - PST 2011 Edwin M. Eakon Memorial Book Publishing Award book signing & short reading
2:05 - 3:00 - TBA
3:15 - 3:45 - Scott Wiggerman
3:45 - 5:00 - Scott Wiggerman and Friends - Texas Poetry Calendar reading.
Adjourn for Meal at Cracker Barrel
(optional event, pay your own way): Do your own thing
9:00 - Late Night Poetry Reading at Hotel
Saturday: Welcome to the Haiku Society of America
Benbrook Library
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome by Cliff Roberts
9:15 - 9:45 - HSA President Ce Rosenow's 30 Minutes to Membership 2013 HSA Ballot
9:45 - 10:15 - Haiga The Art of Haiku program by Kawazu
10:15 - 10:45 - Ce Rosenow
10:45 - 11:45 - Johnye Strickland
11:45 - 1:15 - Catered Lunch $10/Person or on your own
All entries must be in by 12 noon for the contest. Contest will be judged during lunch and winner's announced at the evening meal.
1:15 - 1:45 - Dr. Susan Delphine Delaney -- Liminality Of The
Haiku Moment
1:50- 2:20 - Jim Applegate --Sci Fi-ku
2:25 - 3:10 - Dr. Bonnie Frederick
3:15- 3:45 - Brenda Roberts - Healing Therapy of Poetry:Haiku
3:45- 4:00 - Break, shopping at Book Table
4:00 - 5:00 - Haiku Workshop
5:00 - Adjourn for Supper
(optional event, pay your own way):Winner's of Contest announced
Do Your Own Thing
9:00PM - Late Night Haiku Reading at the Best Western Hotel
Sunday, September 16, 2012
8:00 am early morning poetry reading at hotel
9: 00 meeting at the Japanese Gardens for ginko
11:00 Brunch at The Garden's Restaurant (pay your own way)
Anyone remaining in town longer and wishes to: we may tour the Cowgirl Museum. Its the only one like it in the country.
Hope to see some photos in the next issue of Ripples!
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Seabeck Haiku Getaway
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Haiku, haiku, and more haiku . . . and maybe a wee bit of socializing! Join the Haiku Northwest group on the weekend of October 11-14, 2012 (Thursday through Sunday), at the Seabeck Conference Center by the water on Washington State's Kitsap Peninsula. Our featured speaker will be Paul Miller, current treasurer for the Haiku Society of America, and incoming editor for Modern Haiku magazine. Please click here for more information about this event.
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Katharine Hawkinson HSA Bulletin Editor Haiku Society of America Comments or concerns about your membership? Please contact the HSA officers - click here | |
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Contests
Some contests are ending very soon! Get to the HSA website to see which contests are closing soon! Click here.
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Haiku Poets of the Garden State will hold a reading on Sunday, November 11, 2012 at the Library of the Chathams, 214 Main St., Chatham, NJ 07928 from 2:30-4:30 P.M.
The library's phone number is 973-635-0603.
Thank you.
Diane Lynch
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Fourth Quarterly Meeting
The 4th Quarterly Meeting: December 15-16, 2012. Taking place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Click this link for more information about the meeting they are planning! | |
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If you have not had a chance to check out the ".haiku" column at the HSA webpage, please do so! Gene Myers shares tools and tips available to haiku poets. Click here for the archives. | |
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Membership in the Haiku Society of America includes a year's subscription to the society's journal, Frogpond (three issues yearly). In addition, members receive the newsletter, Ripples (three issues yearly), the annual information sheet, and an annual address/email list of HSA members.
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A reminder to everyone to please visit the new HSA Facebook page. Click the "like" button there and share news, poems and discussion! | |
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