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update<\/em><\/strong> (Sept. 16, 2007): Breaking news from the HSA Annual Meetin<\/em>g: The Executive Committee voted on its slate of candidates to hold Association positions in 2008. It’s a great group of haiku poets and advocates, with North Carolina’s Lenard D. Moore at the top of the slate, for HSA President. f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guest Tom Painting<\/a> is nominated for 1st Vice President, and Paul Miller (a\/k\/a paul m<\/a>) to continue as Treasurer.<\/p>\n

\"SwedeGeorge\" <\/font> Of special interest to all haiku poets, “our very own” George Swede<\/a> has been nominated by the Committee to replace John Stevenson as editor of Frogpond<\/em>, HSA’s journal. George’s inspired haiku and senryu have enhanced too many f\/k\/a<\/em> postings to even try to count them. As a professor in Toronto (he’s recently and blissfully retired), George was an expert on the psychology of creativity. Two oft-repeated favorites of mine:<\/p>\n

at the height<\/font><\/font><\/span>
\nof the argument the old couple<\/font>
\n<\/font>pour each other tea<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The beetle I righted
\nflies straight into
\na cobweb<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I had a great time yesterday at the Meeting and related meals. A highlight was meeting Sarah Painting, a delightful young lady, who was the only 9-year-old to read original poems at the evening session, and who also inspired the following poem <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font>several years ago <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font>by her dad, Tom:<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

winter hike
\nthe baby\u2019s breath
\nwarms my neck<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I bet she was the star of this favorite of mine, too (but she won’t make that mistake again):<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

the toddler
\nruns to third base
\nfirst<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

N<\/strong><\/em>o long-winded punditry from the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang this weekend (I promise). At most, I’ll be posting rushed out-of-town quickies from Rochester, New York — the city where I was born, but which I deserted for the likes of Washington, D.C. and Schenectady, NY, over the past four decades. There are two good reasons for me to be in my old hometown this weekend: first, is to celebrate my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary (see yesterday’s post<\/a>); and the second is to attend the 3rd Quarter\/annual meeting<\/a> of the Haiku Society of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The City of Rochester<\/a>‘s official website currently boasts of studies that have named the city “Best for Quality of Life” (metro areas of one million or more) and “6th Best Place to Live” in America. But, the HSA meeting is not being held there in order to take advantage of its amenities, nor because our Canadian haijin friend can merely take the (aborted) Toronto-Rochester fast ferry<\/a> across Lake Ontario to get to Lilac City. We’re going to Rochester because the good folk in the newly-organized Rochester Area Haiku Group<\/a> — poets like Jerome Cushman, Michael Ketchek and Deanna Thiefenthal — said they were willing to do the hard work it takes to put on such a meeting (despite<\/em> the inherent danger of haiku wars<\/a> that accompanies the gathering of strong-willed artists and genre ideologues).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"HSALogo\" <\/font><\/span><\/span> .. I’m looking forward to meeting lots of haiku poets who I have admired from afar the past few years, including some of our f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guests<\/a> who I haven’t met yet, like Rochester’s own Tom Painting. Seeing Pamela Miller Ness again will be a treat, and Tom Clausen, too, plus my bocce<\/a> and burritos buddy, John Stevenson, and hopefully many more.<\/p>\n

“Just Fell Off the Haiga Truck<\/strong><\/em><\/a>” (Sept. 14, 2007) To celebrate my attendance at the 2007 HSA Annual Meeting, I’ve mocked up a little two-sided, one-page, trifold brochure called “Just Fell Off the Haiga Truck<\/em>.” It is filled with haiku and senryu that I originally wrote for haiga created using my brother Arthur’s photography (and occasionally Mama G’s). The hope is that the poems will stand up on their own, as haiga poetry should. The brochure can be printed out if you click on the link above. It contains thumbnail images and hyperlinks to more than a dozen haiga.<\/p>\n

haiku party . . .
\nI’ll cut
\nand you choose<\/p>\n

……………………………. dagosan – similar haiga at MagnaPoetsJf <\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My car should have pulled away from the curb here in Schenectady at least an hour ago, so I won’t be able to discuss the law-news quickies I had intended to share with you. Maybe I will catch my breath by Sunday evening and practice some breathless punditry. For now, let me merely say:<\/p>\n