Help us celebrate our forty-fourth annual Haiku Holiday–a small gathering in Chapel Hill that features talks, walks, and conversations about haiku. All are welcome!
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2024
Time: 8:45 AM to no later than 3:30 PM EST
Location: Bolin Brook Farm, 600 Bolin Brook Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516. Here are some photos from Haiku Holiday in 2018.
RSVP: Please use our Contact form to ask questions and let us know that you’re coming.
Our Host
Jean Earnhardt retired in 1995 after 20 years as a hospital PR/marketing director. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Carolina in 1952 and a Masters in Liberal Studies from Duke forty years later. While raising two sons she sold freelance features and photographs to newspapers and tried her hand at short stories and poetry. She lives on Bolin Brook Farm, an old farmstead that has been in Jean’s family for 12 generations.
Schedule
Check the weather and dress accordingly. Haiku Holiday is held rain or shine.
Please bring your own lunch.
Haiku Holiday will start at 8:45 in the morning and will go no later than 3:30 that afternoon. All schedules are tentative, of course, due to weather, whims, and twists of fate.
8:45 to 9:25 AM
Registration, coffee, tea and pastry.
9:30 to 9:45
Opening remarks by our host, Jean Earnhardt and our Executive Chairman, Lenard D. Moore.
Haiku Greeting. Willing volunteers in the audience will be encouraged to read one haiku as a kind of greeting. The haiku could be yours or someone else’s.
9:45 to 10:45
Featured Presenter. Greg Kiser of Greg Kiser Photography will lead us through an interactive presentation called Self-Awareness Through Photography. Come prepared to interact with Greg and your fellow poets.
I first encountered Greg through his meticulous blog posts, like this one, where he describes how he analyzes a scene and takes photos. I’m especially fond of his pictures of old cars, like this print I have on the wall in my office.
I’ve taken several photography classes with Greg. He shot the cover and other photos for a book that I edited, The Coach Gaither Story. He’s a thoughtful craftsman and an inspiring teacher. His tagline is “Fine art landscape photography with a Wabi Sabi style.” He’s our kind of guy 😉
10:45 to 11:00
Break.
11:00 to 12 noon
Basho’s Knapsack. In this session, anyone can share 3-5 minutes of haiku-related news, questions, projects, book launches, or anything else of interest to our group. Matt Snyder will present an idea for a new feature that should be of interest to NCHS members. Alexis Rotella can’t be with us, but I’ll read from Milkweed, her new collection of selected haiku and and senryu,
“Alexis Rotella is uniformly considered to be one of the major haiku poets of the 20th century. Milkweed, her 41st collection, reveals that her talent continues undiminished into the 21st.”
–George Swede, Editor of Global Haiku
12 Noon to 1:00
Lunch. Please bring your own lunch.
1:00 to 2:30 or 3:00
Haiku workshop led by Lenard D. “Moonshot” Moore. You can workshop a haiku that you wrote today, or you can bring previously-written work to discuss.
Alternatively, you might wander the grounds on a self-guided ginko (haiku walk).
No later than 3:30
Meeting adjourns.
