Our haiku group had its summer meeting June 27 with an exchange of haiku.
The summer broadsheet had haiku from Ottawa members of the Kado.
Grant listens as Michael Montreuil reads haibun from his newly launched chapbook “Last Away Tournament”, put out by Bondi Studios.
Here Claudia listens in the circle as Sheila took her turn sharing summer haiku.
Luce and Mike shared their Rengoum (renga pantoum hybrid). and have a laugh during the release of broadsheet “How Close the Moon”. The broadsheet includes TA Carter’s Lucy Maude Montgomery Prize haiku.
Guy and Margot later at the picnic table where food and fellowship was shared as well as plans for the Haiku North America Conference. It is starting August 5th at the National Library and Archives in Ottawa. (The schedule is now up.).
At the end of the time Luce took down the scroll.
In other haiku news…Old Pond is a haiku comic strip by Jessica Tremblay and there’s a blog for Haiku North America to watch develop.
Haiku Chronicles is a podcast designed to provide a better understanding of the art of Haiku and related forms such as senryu, renku, tanka, haibun and haiga. Poets Alan Pizzarelli and Donna Beaver discuss the origins and poetic principles of these forms in English. (It’s now at episode 3, 50 minutes in all.)
Here’s a picture of the temple Basho wrote about and a handful of stones has some short poems.