May 2021 Meeting

Post date: Jun 04, 2021 3:58:53 AM

Haiku Northwest held its monthly meeting on Thursday, May 13, 2021, welcoming (via Zoom) folks from Massachusetts to California, from Wilmington, Delaware to the Pacific Northwest, and multiple folks from Canada. Attendees (at least 34) included Judith Munira Avinger, David Berger, Terran Campbell, Theresa Cancro, Terry Ann Carter, Gary Evans, Peter Fischer, Ida Freilinger, Dianne Garcia, John S Green, Alan Harvey, Connie Hutchison, Lynne Jambor, Emily Kanee, Annette Makino, Curtis Manley, Elaine Mannon, Tanya McDonald, Helen Ogden, Jacqueline Pearce, Bob Redmond, Michelle Schaefer, Elliot Simons, Maggie Smith, Sheila Sondik, Carmen Sterba, Ron Swanson, Angela Terry, Kathleen Tice, Richard Tice, Kim Weers, Michael Dylan Welch, Garry Wilson, and Kathabela Wilson. We enjoyed a couple of breakout-room sessions before the featured presentation by Jacquie Pearce, talking about her new haiku anthology, Last Train Home (Pondhawk Press, 2021) Jacquie shared her family history with trains (her grandfather drove a diesel engine; she and her brother also took a train trip across Canada for 30 days). She described travels in Japan and other experiences with trains, pairing selected haiku with her amazing photos, also reading haiku and tanka from Carmen Sterba, Michael Dylan Welch, Lynne Jambor, Gary Evans, Johnny Baranski, Adjei Agyei-Baah, and others. We wrapped up our meeting with more breakout sessions, this time for writing and sharing train haiku, and did some sharing and critiquing in the big group too. It was a fun, enriching meeting moderated by Gary Evans.