a day ...
of creativity & sharing among haiku poets, artists & musicians amidst the old apple trees, herb gardens and frog ponds here at Wild Graces in Deerfield, New Hampshire ... a stone's throw from the Pawtuckaway Mountains and the Great Brook Trail, one of our favorite beaver & wild mushroom hiking trails.
Masters & newbies are welcome to participate in our workshops & share their haibun, tanka, senryu & haiku during the open mic. Bring your books, broadsides, brushwork, haiga & cds to swap, sell or share. Brunch provided.
WG12
WG12
Saturday
August 23rd 2025
9am - 5pm
Annual
Haiku
Gathering
at
Wild
Graces
The Owls Roost
Deerfield, New Hampshire
off the grid on Adam's Hill
behind Wild Graces
our closest airport with hotels, suites & rental cars
40 minutes from Wild Graces
The Yurt & Guest Suite at Echo Hill Farm
Deerfield, New Hampshire
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Meadow Farm Bed & Breakfast
Northwood, NH 603-942-8619
Doug & Janet Briggs, Inn Keepers
the poet's tent
find us at
111 Nottingham Road
Deerfield, New Hampshire
Sumi-e painting by Jan Zaremba, 1st Annual
Haiku Gathering at Wild Graces, 2014
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WG9 2022
WG10 2023
WG8 2021
Nearby Accomodations ...
Michael Dudley
Michael Dudley (www.michaeljdudley.com) was born in Toronto, Canada, and reared in Scarborough, Ontario. For 35 years he lived and worked in rural Southwestern Ontario. He is the father of three, currently lives in "Maple City" Chatham, Ontario, and, after last year's Covid-19 absence, is delighted to return to Wild Graces.
Haiku has been Michael's poetry of choice for nearly five decades, and he celebrates the form as an important literary bridge of inclusion that unites people and peoples around the world. In March of 2023 he became International Coordinator for the Haiku of Society of America.
He is the author of numerous collections and has an especial interest in creative collaborations, including compositional co-creation and synergistic performance that harmonizes haiku with other modes of expression and connection.
His reading, titled "junctions/junctures," will travel through time and place while exploring the experiences that continue to inspire his haiku journey.
Mary Stevens
Mary Stevens lives at the foot of the Catskills in New York's lovely Hudson Valley, where she has drawn much inspiration for her haiku collection, enough light (2023). She won first place in the Harold G. Henderson Memorial Awards (2020), second place in the Peggy Willis Lyles Awards (2020), and the Best of Issue Frogpond Award (Autumn 2022), and was featured poet on Cornell University's Mann Library Daily Haiku Page in December 2020. She judged the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2025) and the Peggy Willis Lyles Awards competition (2024), and co-judged with John Stevenson the Nicholas Virgilio Haiku Contest (2013). She presented on wabi sabi at haiku North America in Schenectady, NY (2015), and gave a reading of her haiku at Wild Graces (2024). Her poems have appeared in several Red Moon Press anthologies and Snapshot Press Calendar Competitions, as well as in A New Resonance 12, The Wonder Code, and Write Like Issa. She is a member of the Broadmoor haiku Collective and the Route 9 Haiku Group. She is a book indexer for her freelance indexing business, Look Within Indexing.
"Your Day as Creative Inspiration: A 5-Minute Diary Practice"
In this workshop, we will explore Lynda Barry's "5-Minute Diary" approach to culling the day's activities, events, and impressions. The brevity of this style of journaling supports a natural transition to writing in haiku's spare form, and we will use what we discover as creative inspiration for composing haiku.
Toji Kaido Perlman
Toji Kaido Perlman has studied the shakuhachi for over twenty years and earned his Jyun Shihan (assistant master) in 2016. In December 2024, he was granted Shihan (Master) in the Mujuan Dojo of Kyoto. He regularly travels to Japan to study & perform with his teacher Yodo Kurahashi II. Toji maintains a small dojo in Portland, Maine where he teaches shakuhachi.
Toji will open our 12th Annual Haiku Gathering with a few zen pieces known as Honkyoku.
Tom Sacramona, Mary Stevens, Jeff Hoagland
vincent tripi
David M Carrol
Robin White, vincent tripi
Stanford M Forrester
Tom Clausen
Terri L French
Scott Billington, Johnette Downing
Raymond French
Ian Marshall
Judson Evans
Don Wentworth
Scott Mason
Kathabella Wilson
Pamela A Babusci
Guthrie
Yu Chang, Hilary Tann
Tom Clausen, John Stevenson
Edward J Rielly
Jeannie Martin
Rick Wilson
Kristen Lindquist
Kristen Lindquist lives in her hometown of Camden and on Monhegan Island, Maine. Her haiku e-chapbook It Always Comes Back won the 2020 Snapshot Press eChapbook Award; her forthcoming haibun e-chapbook What We Tell Each Other won in 2023. Her haiku collection Island (2023) was awarded a second-place HSA Merit Book Award. She is the co-editor of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal and serves as judge for the Ito En Art of Haiku Contest. Currently the Haiku Society of America's regional coordinator for New England, she has written a daily haiku blog since 2009. For many years she also wrote an award-winning natural history column. An avid birder, she occasionally works as a birding guide/naturalist.
Her love of birds has led her to appreciate and study other flying things, such as butterflies and dragonflies. Her workshop "Akitsu" will feature a haiku reading/natural history presentation on dragonflies, followed by a ginko in which we will seek inspiration from the amazing insects themselves.
Mary Stevens
Michael Ketchek
Evelyn Lang, Tom Clausen, vincent tripi
Jeff Hoagland
Kathabella Wilson
Tom Sacramona
Harry Hudson ~ snow on water
James Schlett
Alexis Rotella
Laurie D Morrissey
Junko Fujiwara
Peter Newton
Elizabeth Reian Bennett
Carly Siegel Thorp
Judson K Evans
Ben Gaa
Barrie Levine
Scott Billington
Stuart Bartow & Tom Sacramona
Michael Ketchek & Jay Friedman
Jeannie Martin & vincent tripi
Shawn Blair
Brad Bennett
Kat Notarnicola
Stanford M Forrester & Tom Sacramona
Pat Davis, Hilary Tann, Yu Chung
Barbara Ungar
Jamie Low
R D King
Kristen Lindquist, Mary Stevens, Hannah Mahoney
Kristen Lindquist, Jeff Hoagland, Jeannie Martin
Kevin Reams
Harry Hudson
Bruce Iverson
To keep it intimate, there is a 50-person limit
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