South Region
This region includes Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
HSA SOUTH REGION REPORT - June 28, 2010
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
We invite everyone near and far to join us in Hot Springs for the 14th annual HSA South Regional Conference November 5-6, 2010 in the conference room at the Hot Springs Airport. For info contact <hkilby@hotmail.com> or telephone 501-767-6096. There is no registration fee. The program chairperson is Celia Stuart Powles of Tulsa, OK. The room is whisper perfect so haiku poets feel right at home. There is always a White Elephant gift exchange so please bring a $10 gift. It is a brilliant idea of Dr. Susan Delphine Delaney of Plano, TX.
—Howard Lee Kilby
Memphis, Tennessee
The Memphis Botanic Garden maintains a large and beautiful Japanese garden and holds festivals and events related to Japanese life. The Japanese literature department at the University of Memphis and the MBG sponsored two sessions of haiku. When I walked into the first meeting a minute or two late, the head of the Department at the University was reading my haiku. I saw her at a reception recently and we talked again about starting a group. A number of people had seemed interested.
—Christine Spindel
News from the North Louisiana Haiku Society
The North Louisiana Haiku Society now meets every other month for critique of haiku and haiku-related work.
Marian M. Poe won first place in the May 2010 "Haiku Lines" contest, which was sponsored by Howard Lee Kilby and the Ouachita Life newspaper in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
glowing
the little girl’s face
fireflies
Marian M. Poe
Naissance, a chapbook publisher in Pennsylvania, has published The Inside Scoop by Carlos Colón. The book covers nearly 40 years and includes a selection of haiku, concrete poetry, structured verse and free verse. It is 60 pages long, costs $10 (postpaid in the Continental USA), and is available from the Naissance website: <http://chapbookpublisher.com/shop.html>.
Colón has also self-published a third book of concrete linked poetry written with Raffael de Gruttola. This newest book is entitled Autumn Leaves: A Twelve-Tone Concrete Renku and is available for $6.00 (postpaid) from:
Carlos Colón
185 Lynn Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71105-3523
NEW ORLEANS HAIKU SOCIETY
In April, the NOHS hosted two events: 1) a French Quarter renku party for visiting guest haiku poet Chibi from Georgia, and 2) a Mississippi River Ferry haiku walk/ride. In May, NOHS had a birthday party to honor Issa and the tenth anniversary of the "Haiku of Kobayashi Issa" web site. This summer, we are compiling oil spill haiku from members for a Crude Haiku book. Proceeds from the book will benefit oil spill animal rescue and recovery.
—Johnette Downing
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
Dr. JQ Zheng of Mississippi State University at Itta Bene has an update on Haiku Page: Haiku Page 2010 is out in May 2010. It publishes a small group of haiku poets with 19 student haiga. Haiku Page decided to go online because it can no longer afford the print copy. Interested people can visit the online version at <http://www.yazooriverpress.com/journals/hp/Haiku_Page_3.pdf>
—Jianqing Zheng
Regional Links
New Orleans Haiku Society
http://neworleanshaikusociety.blogspot.com/
Join the HSA
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/join.htm
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Regional Coordinator
photo by Celia Stuart-Powles
Howard Lee Kilby
P.O. Box 1260
Hot Springs, AR 71902-1260
<hkilby@hotmail.com>
Howard Lee Kilby joined the HSA in 1993, served as HSA secretary from 1999 to 2002, and as South regional coordinator in 1997 and 1998, and again since 2003. He attended the 1999 and 2001 Haiku North America conferences, and also attended the 2006 Haiku Canada weekend. He helps to organize the South Region Conference in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas over the first weekend of November when pink sansanqua are in bloom and sugar maples are their most brilliant.
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