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About Haiku Poets of Northern California HPNC was formed in 1989 to further the writing, study, and appreciation of haiku and related genres of poetry written in English, which now include senryu, renku, rengay, tanka, and haibun. We hold meetings, sponsor readings, and publish haiku books with our own imprint, Two Autumns Press. Though most of our members live in the San Francisco and Northern California area, membership is open to anyone with an interest in haiku. HPNC's members include both new and established writers, many of whom have had their work published in journals and anthologies throughout the world. We also welcome beginners. HPNC publishes a quarterly newsletter, as well as Mariposa, a twice-yearly journal of haiku and related poetry, and also publishes occasional anthologies of haiku and senryu by members. We also hold annual contests for haiku, senryu, tanka, and rengay. You can see some of the recent Haiku Competition winners at the bottom of this page. |
HPNC holds four quarterly meeting each year, usually at Fort Mason in San Francisco ( click here for directions to our meeting location ). We usually hold our meetings on the third Sunday of every third month, starting in January. These meetings usually consist of a featured reader, a featured presentation or workshop related to haiku, rounds of open readings of haiku and tanka, news and announcements, socialization and refreshments, and book tables for the sale and purchase of HPNC and other books (bring your own publications if you have some to sell). Everyone is welcome at no charge. You are invited to read your poems if you wish, and to participate in discussions and workshop activities, or to just listen. Whether you're new to haiku or a seasoned writer, you'll find something to benefit you at HPNC's quarterly meetings. In addition to those meetings HPNC also sponsors a special event featuring four of its members who present haiku at the annual Two Autumns Series at Fort Mason. For this year, HPNC's main events are listed below. January 11, 2009: This date is for HPNC's annual planning meeting. We will meet at 1:00 p.m. at the Roundtable Pizza Restaurant (1503 Northpoint St., behind the Marina Safeway) to plan the agenda for 2009. All members are invited to come and make suggestions for the coming year: featured readers, featured programs, Two Autumns readers and your wish list for HPNC. Plan to stick around for pizza and yakking after we have concluded the business part of our meeting. January 18, 2009: HPNC's regular quarterly meeting will be held in Building C, Room 235 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. John Thompson and Gary Gay will be the featured readers and there will be discussion regarding the Rengay form as well as a round of reading. March 1st, Sunday, 2009: There will be a special meeting at Fort Mason, Building C, Room 235 at 1:00 p.m. George Swede and Anita Krumins, the editor and assistant editor of Frogpond (the journal of the Haiku Society of America) will be visiting the Bay Area and are eager to meet with fellow haiku poets. George and Anita have offered to do a Q & A regarding the editing, layout, design and production of Frogpond. In addition, George (a highly respected and widely published haiku poet) will give a reading of some of his latest work. They will have just returned from New Zealand and will be happy to fill us in on the goings-on among New Zealand haiku poets. We hope you can all be there. April 11, 2009, Saturday. Japanese Poetry & Music at the Redwood Coast Whale and Jazz Festival at 7:30pm in Gualala, on the northern Sonoma County coast. HPNC Members Renée Owen will perform her haibun to Brian Foster's shakuhachi flute & Linda Galloway will translate Mariko Kitakubo's Japanese tanka performance. Other performances include Don McLeod, dancing an original butoh theatre piece to Jane Reichold's translations of Basho's haiku and musicians Shirley Muramoto on the koto and Karl Young on the shakuhachi. For more information see the following site: http://www.gualalaarts.org/ , or to see the complete program of the event, go to http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com/2009/03/gualala-arts-2009-whale-jazz-festival.html. May 3rd, 2009, Sunday: The 4th Annual Moon Viewing Party, for details please contact Susan Antolin May 9th, 2009, Saturday, from 1:30 to 4:30, HPNC members Roger Abe, Ebba Story, Rich Krivcher and Linda Galloway read at the San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden Tea House, 1490 Senter Road, San Jose. See the Yuki Teikei web site: http://www.youngleaves.org July 19th, 2009, Sunday: HPNC's regular quarterly meeting will be held in Building C, Room 235 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. The featured reader will be Renee Owen, accompanied by her husband Brian Foster, on shakuhachi flute. September 13th, 2009, Sunday: This is the 20th anniversary of HPNC's premier annual event, the Two Autumns Reading. This year our readers will be Gary Gay, Carolyn Hall, David Grayson and Michael Dylan Welch. Please do join us in celebrating poetry and its presentation at the longest running Haiku Reading series in North America.
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To Join HPNC To join HPNC, you may use our membership application form. Membership dues are $15.00 per year and entitle you to four quarterly newsletters plus two issues of Mariposa. All events are free to both members and nonmembers, but we do pass the hat to help defray rental costs at each meeting (such contributions are welcome but entirely optional). Then again, you could come to our next meeting or event with a check or money order payable in U.S. funds to "HPNC " (but you're welcome to attend without joining if you wish). Please note that HPNC is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization. Your contributions are encouraged. Join us today! |
President: Garry
Gay Vice President: David
Grayson Treasurer: Paul
Miller: Membership Secretary:
Carolyn
Hall, Recording Secretary:
Paul
Williams Hospitality Chair: Michael Sheffield
Newsletter Editor:
Susan
Antolin Mariposa Editor: Ebba
Storey Book Sales: Renee
Owen Web page: Dan
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......David Grayson .....Chimes Award winner, 2007 |
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Additional Resources The Central Valley Haiku Club invites HPNC members to their website. The link is here: http://www.valleyhaiku.org/ For information about the Haiku Society of America, please visit http://www.hsa-haiku.org/ For information about the Yuki Teikei Society, which also meets in the San Francisco Bay Area, please visit www.youngleaves.org. For links to other haiku sites, please visit the Open Directory site for haiku and related forms at www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Haiku_and_Related_Forms/, For information about the Haiku
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