Meeting Summary for April 23, 2015

Post date: May 09, 2015 6:41:21 AM

On April 23, 2015, members of Haiku Northwest met in the Stadler Meeting Room at Third Place Commons in Lake Forest Park, Washington. In attendance were Dianne Garcia, Derek Lyons, Tanya McDonald, Michelle Schaefer, Stan Vanek, Vincenne Waxwood, Michael Dylan Welch, and Laurie Zaleski. After announcements, Michelle gave a brief presentation on Jack Kerouac’s haiku and his idea that haiku should be free of “all poetic trickery.” We then looked through copies of haiku journals to find examples of haiku that we felt used some form of trickery and discussed our findings. Following a short break, we shared our own haiku and offered comments to each other. The meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm.