Joe Mckeon reads from his book, Oars Up.
This is from a Kaleidoscope reading, an HNA series devoted to recently-published books.
Lori A. Minor reads from her book, Inkblots Revealing My Story to the Therapist.
Alan Pizzarelli reads from his book, Mind Zaps.
Brad Bennett reads from his book, A Turn in the River.
Elaine Parker Adams reads from her book, Hurricane Harvey Lowku.
Holli Rainwater demonstrates qi·gong, which informed her book, The Curve of Her Arm.
Alexis Rotella reads from her book, Scratches on the Moon and Unsealing Our Secrets.
Bill Kenney reads from his book, Senior Admission.
Donna Beaver
The Ballad of East and West: Poets Donna Beaver and Kala Ramesh perform storytelling, poetry, and songs of their Indian cultures from North America and India.
Kala Ramesh
Richard Gilbert
Haiku Poem, Haiku Mind: Exploring Diversity and Life-Philosophy in Contemporary Haiku. Richard writes: "Since 2006, our Kon Nichi translation group has presented about a dozen contemporary Japanese haiku poets, culminating with A Haiku Life (2019), a book on Kaneko Tohta. Incorporating Kaneko’s idea of “stance,” a core concept, it is striking to see how deeply philosophical stances are made evident in haiku poetry, worldwide."
Tia Haynes recites from her book, Leftover Ribbon.
This is from another Kaleidoscope reading, an HNA series devoted to recently-published books.
David Lanoue, reads from his book, My Journal with Haiku Sprinkled In.
Erin Castaldi reads from her book, Eversong on the Great Egg.
David Oates reads from his book, The Deer’s Bandanna.
Lew Watts reads some of his haiku from A New Resonance II, an anthology from Red Moon Press.
Terri L. French reads from Keepers: A Book of Haibun.
Jim Kacian, reading from a recent book of haiku from Red Moon Press.
Jeff Hoagland with a sweep net outside the conference hotel.
Jeff led an early-morning session called Crawling with Insects, a walk outside to hunt for insects, a traditional haiku topic.
Jeff confers with Ruth Yarrow, who worked as a naturalist for many years.
Randy Brooks presenting The Adventures and Discoveries of Editing The Collected Haiku of Raymond Roseliep.
Randy writes: Roseliep was a prolific writer who published haiku in leading poetry journals of his day as well as in all contemporary haiku journals. His work transformed from 5-7-5 stanzas in longer poems, to haiku sequences, to fervent experimentations with all known approaches to haiku in English.
Lenard D. Moore, Crystal Simone Smith, Gideon Young, and L.Teresa Church read from One Window's Light, A Collection of Haiku.
Members of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective read and discussed their selected works from the first-ever multi-authored collection of haiku by African American poets. Another co-author, Sheila Smith McKoy, was there in spirit.
Michael Rehling during Son of Haiku: A Celebration of Senryu Poetry.
Michael teamed up with Alan Pizzarelli and Alexis Rotella, longtime champions of senryu, for this session.
Lee Gurga and Jim Kacian presented The Next Level.
Jim and Lee explore the issues of personal mastery, group service, and genre vision as a way to challenge you to up your game to the next level.
Makoto Nakanishi presents Haiku as a Tool for Community Building.
Makoto writes: "Making haiku and sharing haiku together can be an excellent communication tool to build community. To build an authentic community through haiku, you need to be able to hear from your readers detailed images and honest comments on your haiku. This presentation will explore how haiku sharing circle (kukai) will help build a better community."
Lenard D. Moore and the Matt Kendrick Trio perform Geography of Jazz.
Lenard reads from his latest book accompanied by the Matt Kendrick Trio. The first set was followed by an open-mic reading by attendees, also backed by the trio.
Al Pizzarelli
Lee Gurga
Fay Aoyagi reads with the trio.
Fay is president of the Haiku Society of America.
Bryan Rickert
Bob Ertman
Richard Krawiec
Marcyn Clements
