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Haiku Northwest 35th Anniversary Anthology
Haiku Northwest 35th Anniversary Anthology
Haiku Northwest celebrates its 35th anniversary with Glimmering Hour, an anthology of 202 haiku and senryu by 79 contributors, including a memorial section featuring 11 deceased members, introduced by Michael Dylan Welch. Connie Hutchison provides an essay on Francine Porad, Haiku Northwest’s founder, and Sheila Sondik enhances all the poems with numerous sumi paintings on crinkled paper. This anthology focuses on the decade of 2014 to 2024, building on our 25th anniversary anthology, No Longer Strangers, published in 2014.
Connie Hutchison, C.R. Manley, Susan Roberts, R. J. Swanson, and Michael Dylan Welch served as editors. C.R. Manley did the layout/design and production. Please read below for more information about the book, including contents, sample poems, and other material, plus readings.
Haiku Northwest Press, 2024, 156 pages, 6x9 inches, ISBN 978-1-953092-07-6
How to Order
How to Order
To order a copy of Glimmering Hour at $20 plus shipping, please visit Amazon. Copies are sometimes available at monthly Haiku Northwest meetings and other events.
Contents
Contents
The following content is included in Glimmering Hour. Click to view selected content, including sample poems accessible through the “Haiku and Senryu” page.
Enlarging the Circle (introduction by Michael Dylan Welch), page 11
Haiku and Senryu, page 21
Haiku Northwest Poets: In Memoriam, page 93
Francine Porad: Living Through the Storm (essay by Connie Hutchison), page 109
About the Art (by Sheila Sondik), page 129
Haiku Northwest Officers and Directors, page 133
Haiku Northwest Publications, page 137
Publication Credits, page 141
Poets and Places (index), page 151
Readings
Readings
Haiku Northwest has held or will hold the following readings for Glimmering Hour. Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase at each reading.
October 26, 2024, 8:00 pm: Seabeck Haiku Getaway, Seabeck Conference Center, 13395 Seabeck Highway NW, in Seabeck, Washington, with 29 readers.
November 21, 2024, 6:00 pm: SoulFood Poetry Night, at SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington, with 17 readers. [reading cancelled due to storm and power outage]
January 16, 2025, 6:00 pm: SoulFood Poetry Night, at SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington, with 16 readers. Readers were Luke Brannon, Terran Campbell, Rick Clark, Bill Fay, John S Green, Connie Hutchison, Roy Kindelberger, C.R. Manley, Joan Perkins, Michelle Schaefer, Ann Spiers, Zach Street, Kathleen Tice, Richard Tice, David M. Tookey, and Michael Dylan Welch. See event report, with photos. [reading rescheduled from November 21, 2024]
February 13, 2025, 5:00 p.m. on Zoom, including a memorial reading of poems by members who have died (with PowerPoint). Join the Zoom meeting.
March 1, 2025, 6:15 pm: Poetry Is Everything reading at BookTree, 609 Market Street, Kirkland, Washington (preceded at 4:24 p.m. by a free “Haiku on Steroids” workshop led by Michael Dylan Welch). See event report, with photos.
Publicity and Commentary
Publicity and Commentary
The following links lead to publicity for Glimmering Hour.
“Briefly Noted” review by Paul Miller from Modern Haiku 56:1, Winter–Spring 2025
Review by Ce Rosenow from Frogpond 48:1, Winter 2025
Most of the readers for the Glimmering Hour reading at SoulFood Poetry Night in Redmond, Washington, on January 16, 2025.
Most of the readers for the Glimmering Hour reading at BookTree in Kirkland, Washington, on March 1, 2025.
Readers and attendees for the Glimmering Hour Zoom reading on February 13, 2025. Also attending were several relatives of poets included in our memorial reading of poems by Haiku Northwest members who died in the last ten years.
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