Meeting in the Blue Room, Pacific Asia Museum, Saturday August 21, 2010

While our wonderful moderator, Deborah P Kolodji was on her way to San Francisco to be one of the four honored readers at "Two Autumns" reading, Billie Dee was here from San Diego to host the meeting and lead the anonymous haiku workshop. Many interesting discussions extended throughout the meeting on topics of kigo, Japanese language elements, Southern California seasons, characteristics of haiku composition, historical and contemporary, haiku books for study and more. We each read a new haiku to begin the session, or one favorite from our books. Conversation on haiku and Billie's interesting views and questions followed, while we sipped jasmine tea and shared snacks. After ripening figs was suggested as a local summer kigo, one of our members walked in with figs from her own tree! After a break we contributed and continued with an anonymous haiku workshop. Genie wrote the haiku on the whiteboard, and Lynn timed the discussion, which was very animated and helpful. By extending the end-time we finished discussions on all the haiku and more! We were all thinking of Debbie and her reading, happy that she was honored in this way, and looking forward to our next meeting and our anthology reading September 26.

an island of egrets... the 2010 SCHSG Anthology is going to press!

Dear Haiku Friends,

I am very pleased to announce that an island of egrets... the 2010 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology is complete and ready to go to the printer. From our first beautiful hand-made 2001 edition with eight founding haijin, we have grown to a volume of 65 poets. Our new book will be perfect-bound with a full-color heavy-stock cover, featuring 267 poems, including a fine selection of regional Spanish Language haiku with English translations. This collection emphasizes our unique climate and geography, our rich cultural diversity, and embraces the broad range of experience of our contributing haijin. I think you will be very pleased with the superb quality of work in this, our 10th Anniversary Edition!

The Anthologies will be available at our annual reading and celebration at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles, Pasadena, CA, on Sunday, Sept. 26th at 2 p.m. There will be another reading in San Diego at The Ink Spot, the downtown gallery loft of San Diego Writers, Ink, located at 710 13th Street, San Diego, CA, on Saturday, October 9th at 2 p.m. Please mark your calendars. For those of you who have paid for postage, the books will be mailed Monday, Sept 27th.

Here is our roster of poets:

Michael Angerman, Ashley Baldon, Jerry Ball, Marcia Behar, Tom Bilicke, Paty Blake, Darrell Byrd, Peggy Castro, Elizabeth Cazessus, Marcyn Del Clements, Phyllis Collins, Joan E. Day, Billie Dee, D'ellen, James Robert Dunn, Pauli Dutton, Kimberly Esser, Hadia Farfan, Linda Galloway, Olga Garcia, Claudia Barreda Gaxiola, Victor P. Gendrano, John Gentry, Risa R. Goldberg, Anita Guenin, William Hart, Margaret Hehman-Smith, Una Nichols Hynum, Gloria Jaguden, Oleg Kagan, Patricia Kelly, Karen Kenyon, Deborah P. Kolodji, Sean Kolodji, Daniel E. Lambert, Elva Lauter, Stephanie Leuer, Greg Longenecker, Eve Luckring, Ed Lukstein, Janis Lukstein, Frances Ruhlen McConnel, Seretta Martin, Juan Martinez, Carrie Moniz, Liz Myers-Chamberlin, Naia, Genie Nakano, Ruth Nolan, Victor Ortiz, Brosnan Rhodes, Susan Rogers, Thomas Spann, Melissa Spurr, Stevie Strang, Karen Stromberg, Judith Terzi, G. Murray Thomas, Maja Trochimczyk, Megan Webster, Elizabeth Yahn Williams, Kathabela Wilson, James Won, Wendy Wright, An Xiao

For those of you who have not yet ordered copies, please be aware that there will no second printing. This full-size poetry book would ordinarily retail for $15, but is available to contributors at the generously discounted pre-publication price of $8 for the first copy, $6 for each copy thereafter. They make wonderful holiday and thank-you gifts. To order your copies, or to add to your current order, please make your check out to SCHSG and mail before August 20th to:

Haiku Anthology
PO Box 620457
San Diego, CA 92162

Be sure to add postage of $2.75 for the first book, plus $0.85 for each additional copy if you will not be picking up your book(s) at one of our readings. If there are any questions, please contact me before August 20th at haikuanthology@gmail.com.

Congratulations to all of us on our 10th Anniversary Edition!

Billie Dee, editor
2010 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology

July 17, 2010- David Lanoue and Luce Pelletier

Luce Pelletier and David Lanoue, July 2010

On Saturday, July 10, 2010, the Southern California Haiku Study Group hosted two special guests for a wonderful afternoon of haiku. Almost 40 people were in attendance, including Fay Aoyagi, who flew down from San Francisco for the day. The Pacific Asia Museum generously allowed us to move our meeting from the Blue Room to the larger auditorium to accommodate the extra interest.

Deborah P Kolodji welcomed attendees and launched a haiku read-around. Other participants in the order they participated were Eve Luckring, Maurie Garnholz, Phyllis Collins, Janis Lukstein, Naia, Josette, Genie Nakano, Fay Aoyagi, David Lanoue, Luce Pelletier, Billie Dee, Joan Day, Helen Graziano, John Bassell, Greg Longnecker, Marcia Behar, Elva Lauter, William Hart, Kimberly Esser, Peggy Castro, Kathabela Wilson, D'Ellen, G. Murray Thomas, Lynn Allgood, James Won, Maja Trochimczyk, Taoli Ambika-Talwar, Stevie Strang and Victor P. Gendrano.

Naia introduced Luce Pelletier, a bilingual poet from St. Basile-le-Grand, Quebec, Canada, who read in French and English. In honor of the heatwave we were experiencing, she read us some snow haiku from Quebec.

Next was Dr. David G. Lanoue, a translator of Japanese haiku, a teacher of English and World Literature at Xavier University in New Orleans, and a writer of haiku and "haiku novels." David presented "Reading the New Haiku 2: Further Examples," a continuation of his workshop at Haiku North America in Ottawa, where he presented translations of contemporary world haiku poets for discussion. We discussed poems by Ami Tanaka, Umberto Senegal, and Fay Aoyagi.

Afterwards, Deborah P Kolodji hosted a gathering in her home that was attended by over 20 of the workshop participants, continuing the haiku discussion late into the evening.

April 17, 2010 - William Hart, Billie Dee

Billie Dee, William Hart, Deborah P Kolodji
Pacific Asia Museum

For the past decade the Southern California Haiku Study Group has been holding a monthly kukai workshop. Although we're a "haiku study group," this format didn't allow us much time for actual study.

So, we are going to try out an alternative schedule to try for the rest of 2010. We are still going to hold kukai meetings but will rotate between three different types of meetings:

1. Kukai Workshop
2. Anonymous Haiku Workshop
3. Program and Featured Reader

In March, we tried our first anonymous haiku workshop, which allowed us a chance to discuss what was working and what was not working in various haiku-in-progress.

For our April meeting last Saturday, William Hart was our featured reader and he read from his four published chapbooks of haiku.

This was followed by an excellent program presented by Billie Dee, "Spinning the Classics: Exploring the North American haiku canon." Billie offered five examples of contemporary English language haiku, all from the first edition of Cor van den Heuvel's "The Haiku Anthology." We had a wonderful discussion of each haiku, analyzing each of them in depth.

Upcoming:

April 24, 2010 - 9:00 am. "Hike-ku" at Fish Canyon. Meet in the Vulcan Material Company parking lot (take the 210 east from Pasadena to Mt Olive, turn right on Huntington Dr, turn left on Encanto Parkway and follow it until it ends in the company parking lot).

May 15, 2010 - 2:00 p.m. - Kukai Workshop Meeting - Pacific Asia Museum
May 15, 2010 - Haiku Anthology Deadline
June 19, 2010 - 2:00 p.m. - Anonymous Haiku Workshop Meeting - Pacific Asia Museum
July 17, 2010 - 2:00 p.m. - David Lanoue, Luce Pelletier, Pacific Asia Museum

March 20, 2010 - Anonymous Haiku Workshop

On Saturday, March 20th, inspired by the workshop led by Michael Dylan Welch during the HSA Meeting weekend, the Southern California Haiku Study Group held an Anonymous Haiku Workshop in lieu of our normal meeting format. The Blue Room of the Pacific Asia Museum was full - twenty-one poets participated!

The meeting started with a read-around of recent haiku. Participants who had not brought a haiku to read were encouraged to select one from one of the books/journals scattered on the table:

The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel
Selected Haiku by Nichaolas A. Virgilio
March 2009 issue of Acorn
Water Lines by Carolyn Hall
where the wind turns, the 2009 Red Moon Anthology by Red Moon Press
Haiku Volume 2, Spring by R.H. Blyth

In addition, Michael L. Evans was visiting from the state of Washington and was able to attend. Michael prepared a trifold to read from. He presented it as a gift to all who attended.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

• Open to all Southern California residents.
• Submit up to 20 haiku/senryu, and/or 3 haibun for consideration. The editor reserves the right to select or reject submitted materials for publication.
• Previously published poems are welcome if accompanied by publication credits.
• We invite you to review our Southern California Season Word List, although non-regional and traditional kigo are welcome as well.
• The Anthology will be a perfect-bound book with a glossy full-color cover.
• Submissions should be accompanied by a check for $8.00 for the first copy of the anthology, made payable to SCHSG. Additional advance copies may be purchased for $6.00 per copy.
• Submitters may pick up their copies or have them mailed. Those who want their anthologies mailed will be asked to reimburse S&H expenses of $2.75 for the first copy, plus $0.85 for each additional copy.
• Submissions must be postmarked on or before May 15, 2010.

Please mail your submissions and check (payable to SCHSG) to:

Haiku Anthology
c/o Billie Dee
P O Box 620457
San Diego, CA 92162-0457

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at haikuanthology(at)gmail(dot)com

I look forward to hearing from you.

Billie Dee, editor
2010 SCHSG Anthology

HSA Quarterly Meeting - February 19-21, 2010

Haiku Society of America Quarterly Meeting in Pasadena, California
Hosted by the Southern California Haiku Study Group

Organizers:
Deborah P. Kolodji – dkolodji (at) aol (dot) com
Naia – naia01 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Note: If you are planning to attend any of the dinners, the lunch on Saturday, the Salon, or the ginko on Sunday, it is important to RSVP to Debbie or Naia at the above e-mail addresses.

The Friday evening performance/open mic and the Saturday day events at the museum are open to drop-ins.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, February 19, 2010

5:30 p.m. - No-host Dinner at “Burger Continental”
535 S. Lake Avenue, Pasadena
http://burgercontinentalpasadena.com/home.html
7:30 p.m. - Urban Haiku Reading, Spoken Word Artist Reading, followed by Open Mic at Ten Thousand Villages
567 S. Lake Avenue, Pasadena
http://www.pasadenavillages.com/7:30 p.m. - Reception
7:45 p.m. - Urban Haiku Multimedia Reading
Readers: Victor Ortiz, Michael Dylan Welch, Naia, Deborah P Kolodji
Musicians: Chris Wesley (guitar), Kathabela Wilson (percussion)
Photos: Photos by Deborah P Kolodji, Naia, Michael Dylan Welch, and Rebecca Lowry
(who did the West Hollywood haiku sign installation)
8:15 p.m. - Basho Meets Spoken Word - Eric Morago. Eric Morago, a spoken word artist, will incorporate the haiku of Basho into one of his spoken word narrative routines.8:30 p.m. - Open Haiku Mic (Haiku or Haibun only, please)


Saturday, February 20, 2010 – DAY EVENTS at the Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena
http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – HSA Executive Meeting: Blue Room, Pacific Asia Museum - (HSA Officers only)
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Poets-on-Site-style reading - haiku/haibun written to artwork on display
11:30 a.m. – No-host Lunch at “Sitar Indian Cuisine”
618 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena http://www.sitarindiancuisine.com/contactus.php
Then Return to Pacific Asia Museum, Auditorium
1:00 p.m. – Welcome, Introductions, Haiku Read-around (everyone - 1 haiku per person)
1:30 p.m. – Haiku Society of America President’s Message – Ce Rosenow
2:00 p.m. – “Round Holes and Square Pegs: Translating Classical Japanese Haiku into English” by Dr. Thomas Rimer, followed by questions and answers
3:00 p.m. – break
3:15 p.m. – “Moving with Haiku” by Genie Nakano
4:00 p.m. – Susan Antolin reading from her book, “Artichoke Season”
4:15 p.m. – “Editing Haiku” – A Presentation by Michael Dylan Welch
5:00 p.m. – Haiku Read-around (everyone)
5:30 p.m. – Closing, Thank You’s, Book Sales, Browsing

6:30 p.m. – No-host Dinner at “McCormick’s and Schmick’s”
111 North Los Robles, Pasadena
http://www.mccormickandschmicks.com/Locations/southern-california-los-angeles/pasadena-california/LosRobles.aspx


Saturday, February 20, 2010 – EVENING EVENTS in a Private Home

8:00 p.m. – Dessert and Haiku Salon at the home of Kathabela and Rick Wilson
Address will be given to those planning to attend.
8:15 p.m. – Musical Performance by Rick Wilson (flutes) and Kathabela Wilson (percussion)
8:30 p.m. – Ce Rosenow reading from her new book, “Pacific”
8:45 p.m. – Musical Performance by Rick Wilson (flutes) and Kathabela Wilson (percussion)
9:00 p.m. – Anonymous Haiku Workshop – facilitated by Michael Dylan Welch


Sunday, February 21, 2010
GOLD LINE GINKO
9:30 a.m. - Meet at Del Mar Gold Line Station, 230 S. Raymond St, Pasadena.
Park in the parking structure on Raymond. The rate is $2 a day for Gold Line Patrons (with proof of ridership). Gold Line tickets are $1.25 per ride, or $5.00 for a day pass. There is also a discounted rate for seniors. There is a nice breakfast place at this location - La Grande Orange which starts serving breakfast at 7:00 am. The latest train I'd like to catch is the 10:03 train, but hopefully we can all gather and get our tickets and be ready to board one of the earlier trains, so we can meet up with other SCHSG members at Union Station.
10:00 a.m. - Meeting time at Union Station for SCHSG members who want to meet us.
If the Pasadena Gold Line passengers catch the later train, we'll be there around 10:20, but please plan on us arriving earlier. Plan on meeting in the main hall of Union Station. Keep your eyes open for haiku opportunities.
10:30 a.m. - Walk to Olvera Street. Pay attention to the sounds, the smells, in addition to what you see.
11:30 a.m. - Meet in Circular Plaza for Olvera Street Haiku sharing.
Walk down Main Street, over the 101 freeway, past City Hall, then left on 1st Street to Little Tokyo.

12:00 Noon- No-host Lunch in Little Tokyo
Walk around Little Tokyo, with more haiku sharing in the plaza by the JACC.

1:30 p.m. -2:00 p.m. - Catch Gold Line at Little Tokyo/Arts District to return.