June 2021 Meeting

Post date: Jun 23, 2021 2:9:22 AM

Haiku Northwest held its monthly meeting on Thursday, June 10, 2021, welcoming (via Zoom) Jill Andrews, David Berger, Terran Campbell, Theresa Cancro, Shirley Ferris, Ida Freilinger, Dianne Garcia, John S. Green, Alan Harvey, Connie Hutchison, Emily Kane, Jill Lee, Curtis Manley, Tanya McDonald, Geoff Pope, Bob Redmond, Susan Roberts, Michelle Schaefer, Elliott Simons, Ann Spiers, Carmen Sterba, Angela Terry, Kathleen Tice, Richard Tice, and Kim Weers. Curtis Manley hosted the meeting, which began with a reading from poets in Vashon Island’s 22-year-old haiku gathering, “Mondays at Three,” reading from their second anthology, Portage, which they published in 2020. Readers were Jill Andrews, Shirley Ferris, Dianne Garcia, and Ann Spiers, representing all the poets in the book. The haiku was distinguished by the spirit of the island, located in the Puget Sound. The print run included just enough for the poets and a few for their extended circle and is now out of print . . . but you can enjoy a few of the book’s poems here:

Six sea kayaks sleep

spooned together,

waiting for summer

—Kaj Wyn Berry

small craft warning

a light chop

in the birdbath

—Michael Feinstein

Me, prone—

after a geoduck,

hand in another world.

—Helen Russell