Lenard D. Moore, the executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society, received one of our state’s highest honors for literary achievement. He was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame on October 6, 2024, at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines.
Here’s an article about the ceremony from PineStraw magazine: Five for the Hall of Fame.
Lenard’s citation says, in part: “Moore has published in over thirty genres. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has been widely anthologized. A master of Japanese poetic forms, Moore is one of a handful of African American poets who regularly publishes haiku, tanka, senryu, renga, renku, rengay, tanrenga, and haibun.” — Literary Hall of Fame citation
“The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame was established under the leadership of Poet Laureate and Southern Pines newspaper editor Sam Ragan in 1993 by a Joint Resolution of the North Carolina House and Senate, and was funded with a grant for literary programming to the Network from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.” — About the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
This year’s Hall of Fame inductees include authors Joseph Bathanti, Anna Julia Cooper, Kaye Gibbons, Lenard D. Moore, and Ron Rash.
Congratulations, Lenard!
