Nearby Accommodations
Meadow Farm Bed & Breakfast
Northwood, NH 693-942-8619
Doug & Janet Briggs, Inn Keepers
Pawtuckaway State Park & Campground
Nottingham, NH www.nhstateparks.com/paw.html
Meredith Inn
Janet Carpenter, Inn Keeper
Meredith, NH 603-279-0000
Sumi-e painting by Jan Zaremba, 1st Annual Haiku Gathering at Wild Graces, 2014
… An intimate day
111 Nottingham Rd, Deerfield, New Hampshire
Location ...
Michael Ketchek
Alexis Rotella
Haiku Workshop
Vincent Tripi
Bruce Iverson
Tom Clausen
Kevin Reams on Native American Flute
John Terninko
Pamela A Babusci, editor of Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka
Flutewalker
Evelyn Lang / Tom Clausen / Vincent Tripi
David M Carroll
author of Year of the Turtle
Ian Marshall
Robin White with Vincent Tripi
Pat Davis with David M Carroll
Bruce Iverson with Hannah Mahoney
Workshop with Stanford M Forrester, editor of bottle rockets. Also pictured Tom Sacramona, Elizabeth Reian Bennett, Judith Hishakawa, Bill Deegan, Alexis & Rob Rotella, Jeannie Martin, Hannah Mahoney & others.
Flutewalker's handmade Native American Flutes
Stanford M Forrester, editor of Bottle Rockets
David L Young & Susan Lang
Jamie Lowe in full kimono,
playing the Japanese shamisen
Brad Bennett, author of a drop of pond
Ian Marshall, author of Walden by Haiku
is the Education Director at the Watershed Center in Pennington, NJ. As a naturalist, he is most at home within arm's length of a stream or river; foraging in the forest; wandering the darkness of night; or communing with little creatures. Jeff began his haiku journey ten years ago, noting the shared viewpoint of the naturalist & the haiku poet. He practices haiku as an antidote to a busy life and to stay connected to the "real" world. Jeff's haiku have appeared in a wide range of journals & anthologies and he was a featured poet in New Resonance 7- Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. Jeff returns to lead another presentation / workshop on biodiversity & interconnectedness.
Stanford M Forrester
Elizabeth Reian Bennett
Shakuhachi Master
our closest airport with hotels, suites & rental cars
40 minutes from Wild Graces
Directions from points south ...
Take Interstate 93 North into New Hampshire ...
Take Exit 7 onto 101 East toward Portsmouth / Seacoast
for 6.4 miles ...
Take Exit 3 Candia / Deerfield
Bear right onto Rt 43 for 1.5 miles ...
Turn left to stay on Rt 43 for 5.2 miles …
you will pass the Deerfield Fairgrounds ...
Turn left onto 107/43 for 2.7 miles ...
Bear right onto Nottingham Road.
Bear right at the Deerfield Parade.
Continue for 1.3 miles until you see the sign & flag
at Wild Graces.
Owl's Roost & Leavitt Hill Farm
two accommodations right here in Deerfield, NH www.airbnb.com
Saturday, September 7th, 2019
6th Annual Haiku Gathering
at Wild Graces
Stuart Bartow, author of Quaking Marsh
Jay Friedenberg, Associate Editor, Frogpond
Jane Kelly, falconer, wildlife rehabilitator & Guthrie, a barn owl, from On The Wing, under our big tent
Kath Abela Wilson
Jeannie Martin, author A Circle of Breath
Rick Wilson on the Shakuhachi
Jeff Hoagland
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BEN MOELLER-GAA
is "your friendly neighborhood haiku poet" from St. Louis, Missouri. He is a Pushcart nominee and the author of the 2018 Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018) , a full length collection of haiku and senryu, as well as three chapbooks, Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018), Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (poor metaphor 2014) and the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies around the globe. He has a degree in Creative Writing from Knox College, works as a senior IT Functional Analyst for MilliporeSigma, and enjoys travel, music, art and other worldly meanderings with his wife Jessica and their rascal of a cat, Anastasia.
JS GRAUSTEIN
is an ecologist by training, a poet by practice, and a publisher by accident. She is co-author of Water Ways with NEA Fellow William O'Daly, and is the calligrapher of numerous haiku collections. Her most recent calligraphy project Wishbones by Ben Moeller-Gaa, was shortlisted for The Touchstone Distinquished Book Awards 2018. She runs Folded Word, a Meredith-based micropress of poetry and short prose. She also serves the Poetry Society of New Hampshire as the lead editor, designer, and typographer of its journal, The Poets' Touchstone. To learn more please visit
DON WENTWORTH
is a Pittsburgh-based poet whose work reflects his interest in the revelatory nature of brief haiku-like moments in everyday life. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Akitsu Quarterly, bottle rockets, frogpond, and Rolling Stone, as well as a number of anthologies. He is the author of four full-length poetry collections, the lastest a tan-renga sequence co-authored with the British poet, Joy McCall, entitled Touching the Now (Skylark Press). New collections of haiku (Lasceux Editions) and ghazals (Low Ghost Press) are forthcoming. For 30 years, he edited the small press magazine, Lilliput Review, which focused on brief poetry, 10 lines or less.
of creativity & sharing among haiku poets, artists & musicians amidst the old apple trees, herb gardens & frog ponds here in Deerfield, New Hampshire, a stone's throw from the volcanic ring dike, canoe launch & hiking trails of Pawtuckaway.
Masters & newbies are welcome to participate in our workshops & share their haibun, tanka, senryu, cherita & haiku during the open mic. Bring your books, broadsides, brushwork & haiga to swap, sell or share.
Refreshments & brunch will be provided compliments of your hosts, Robin White & Marshall Hatch.
Come share the day with us ...
Our 7th Annual Haiku Gathering will be held on Saturday, September 5th, 2020.
Don Wentworth, editor Lilliput Review
Yu Chang & Hillary Tann
Tom Clausen & John Stevenson
Ben Moeller-Gaa, author of Wishbones
Stuart Bartow
Attendees included Marshall Hatch, Stuart Bartow, Kristen Lindquist, Mary Forrester, Suzanne Niedzielska, Ben Moeller-Gaa, Jessi Graustein,
Rise Daniels, Hannah Mahoney, Hillary Tann, Stan Forrester, Laurie Morrissey, John Stevenson, Ron Scully, Yu Chang, Brad Bennett,
Tom Clausen, Alan Bridges, Michael Ketchek, Jeff Hoagland, Tom Sacramona, Don Wentworth, Laurie Anderson, John Terninko,
Edward J Rielly … Not pictured but also a part of our day, Pat Davis, Mary Stevens, Rob Boyce, Jeanne Rielly, Candi Chamberlain & Robin White
Michael Ketchek, editor of Frogpond
Kristen Lindquist
Tom Sacramona
Kath Abela Wilson
