Haiku-Gathering

n intimate day of creativity & sharing among haiku poets, artists & musicians amidst the old apple trees, herb gardens & frog ponds here in Deerfield, New Hampshire.

Masters & newbies are welcome to participate in our workshops & share your haibun, tanka, senyru, cherita & haiku during the open mic. Bring your books, broadsides, cards, cds & haiga to swap, sell or share.

Refreshments & lunch, including sautéed 'shrooms & homebrew will be provided compliments of your hosts, Robin White & Marshall Hatch.

There is no registration or fee. Donations welcome.

Nearby Accommodations

Meadow Farm Bed & Breakfast

Northwood, NH 693-942-8619

Doug & Janet Briggs, Inn Keepers

www.airbnb.com/s/wild-orchard-guest-farm

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

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Michael Ketchek

Alexis Rotella

Haiku Workshop

Vincent Tripi

Bruce Iverson

Tom Clausen

Kevin Reams

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

Kath Abela Wilson

travels the world with her husband Rick Wilson, a Caltech mathematician and collector and player of world flutes. She created and leads Poets on Site since 2007, a multi media performance group in Pasadena. They host visiting poets, artists, performances and workshops in their home, in gardens and galleries. She is the author of Driftwood Monster & The Owl Still Asking: Tanka for Troubled Times. Her work has appeared in numerous journals & anthologies.

Ian Marshall, author of Walden by Haiku

Rick Wilson

is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Caltech in Pasadena. He is a collector & player of historical world flutes. Known for his original thinking and good humor, he improvises at poetry readings in performances with his wife, Kath Abela, and at all Poets on Site performances. He has been an invited speaker & player at musical conferences and a plenary speaker at mathematics conferences worldwide.

Stuart Bartow

teaches writing & literature at SUNY Adirondack. His latest book of poems Einstein's Lawn, is published by Dos Madres Press and was co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing 2016 Poetry Award. He is also the author of Teaching Trout to Talk: the Zen of Small Stream Fly Fishing, a book of lyric essays, and his first collection of haiku, Quaking Marsh, published by Red Moon Press. He chairs the Battenkill Conservancy, an environmental group working along the Vermont - New York state border. He will share selections from Quaking Marsh.

Jeff Hoagland

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 by Red Moon Press. He will offer a workshop on Insects & Haiku.

Jane Kelly

is a federally & state licensed rehabilitator, educator & falconer from On The Wing in Epping, New Hampshire. She will join us under the old apple trees and bring along a few of her feathered friends ~ two long admired haiku subjects ~ the owl & the crow.