Haiku Holiday 2014

Confab before the conference begins: Lenard D. Moore, David Lanoue, and Kate MacQueen.

John Stevenson.

Stan Sieceloff and Curtis Dunlap shoot the breeze.

Johnye Strickland, our good friend from the Razorback wing of the NCHS.

The serene L. Teresa Church.

Long-time NCHS member, MaXine Carey Harker.

Lenard, Kate, and yours truly (Dave Russo).

Our host for the last 35 years, Jean Earnhardt. "Enjoy the woods but watch for ticks and bears."

Emcee Lenard.

We started the day with a reading from Learning to See the Truth, an anthology of haiku by the North Carolina Haiku Society.

Richard Straw, writer of haiku and haibun, reads a poem from the anthology.

Learned discussion at Haiku Holiday.

Susan Nelson, mother of strong women, shows us the illustration that goes with the haiku about her grandmother from Mayodan, North Carolina.

Jean and David working on a story from John's exercise.

Haiku movie star.

Three presidents of the Haiku Society of America gave their ninjas the slip for this photo in Kate's garden: John, Lenard, and David.

Johnye and Curtis.