Meeting Summary for November 13, 2014

Post date: Nov 14, 2014 11:28:10 PM

Eleven people braved the chilly weather to attend the November 13, 2014 Haiku Northwest meeting at the Bellevue Regional Library in Bellevue, Washington. A few folks came early to help prepare our new Haiku Northwest T-shirts for mailing. After announcements, we held elections for 2015 officers. Everyone on the ballot was elected unanimously. Haiku Northwest officers for 2015 are as follows:

President: Angela Terry

Vice President: Michelle Schaefer

Secretary: Tanya McDonald

Treasurer: Dianne Garcia

Webmaster: Michael Dylan Welch

Following the election, Angie gave us a writing exercise. She passed around brochures for paint colors and encouraged us to write haiku using the names (or inspiration from the names) of the paint chip colors. When we shared a few of the haiku we had composed, it was fun to guess what the color names were, which included swamp water, avalanche, and fountain sprite. Next, we passed around our haiku sheets and went around the room critiquing poems until the meeting concluded just before 9:00 o’clock.

Haiku Northwest had no meeting in October, due to the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, and will not have a December meeting. We will meet next on January 22, 2015 in the Stadler Meeting Room at Third Place Commons in Lake Forest Park, Washington.