Michael Dylan Welch, reading at the De Gruttola's

Haiku North America conferences have been held every two years since 1991, when Michael Dylan Welch cofounded and helped to organize the first HNA. Michael continues to serve on the HNA advisory board, which works with local haiku groups to organize and promote each conference.

Michael is a widely-published haiku poet; the owner of Press Here press; the cofounder of the American Haiku Archives, and the president and founder of the Tanka Society of America. He is also the editor of Tundra, a journal of the short poem. For details about any of these, sent email to Michael at welchm@aol.com.