Help us celebrate our forty-fifth annual Haiku Holiday–a small gathering in Chapel Hill that features talks, walks, and conversations about haiku. All are welcome!
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 8:45 AM to no later than 3:30 PM
Location: Bolin Brook Farm, 600 Bolin Brook Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516.
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 due to weather, whims, and twists of fate.
8:45 to 9:25 AM | Socializing
Coffee, tea, and pastry available.
9:30 to 9:45 | Opening Remarks & Haiku Greeting
Jean Earnhardt and our Executive Chairman, Lenard D. Moore, will give opening remarks. 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.
NCHS members: Consider reading a favorite haiku by Cor van den Heuvel.
9:45 to 10:45 | First Featured Presenter
Donna Beaver will give a presentation on Alaska Native Haiku Prose and Short Poetry. Here’s Donna with Kala Ramesh at Haiku North America 2019, in Winston Salem.
10:45 to 11:00 | Short Break
Break until the next session.
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.
12 Noon to 1:00 | Lunch and Self-Guided Ginko
Please bring your own lunch and relax until the next session. Or wander the grounds on a self-guided ginko (haiku walk).
1:00 to 2:00 (or whenever) | Second Featured Presenter
Alan Pizzarelli will read a selection of his haiku prose poetry and also pay tribute to Cor van den Heuvel and the Early Haiku Movement in New York City. Here’s Al reading at Haiku North America 2019.
2:00 or so to 3:30 (if time permits) | Haiku Workshop
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.
No later than 3:30
Meeting adjourns.
