New Orleans Haiku Society: Haiku North America Conference

The Haiku North America Conference will be held in Winston/Salem, North Carolina on August 15-19, 2007. Check out more information http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/

What is Haiku?

Haiku is a short, concrete poem of Japanese origin. Haiku in English usually appears as an unrhymed three-line verse. Its use of intense, fragmentary imagery and its stress on rhythm and sound place it in the poetry side of the language spectrum. Though it can be presented on the page in three lines, a haiku structurally consists of two parts with a pause in between. Its power as poetry derives from juxtaposition of the two images and the sense of surprise or revelation that the second image produces. - David Lanoue

Welcome!

Founded in 2002 by Johnette Downing and David Lanoue, the New Orleans Haiku Society meets the third Monday of each month at the Milton Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA. from 6:00-7:45 p.m. to share and discuss haiku. We enjoy sushi dinner after our meetings and regularly host haiku walks (haiku writing events in various locations), guest speakers, haiku readings and parties. The meetings are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring haiku to the meeting to share. Haiku poets of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.

We have published a little book of haiku recounting our experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina. The book is titled Katrina-ku, storm poems; $7.00 plus postage. Please contact Johnette at johnettemusic@aol.com for orders.

For more information about our group, contact the cofounders David Lanoue at david1gerard@hotmail.com or Johnette Downing at johnettemusic@aol.com.

New Orleans Haiku Society

Monday, August 6, 2007

Haiku North America Conference

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What is Haiku?

Haiku Walk

Followers

NOHS at 5th Year Anniversary Party

Welcome!

Katrina-ku Reading

Links

Katrina-ku, storm poems