2009 Haiku Festival

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It is time to gather your Haiku for the 7th Annual ukiaHaiku Festival.
Check out the web at ukiahaiku.org

The Seventh Annual
ukiaHaiku Festival

An afternoon devoted to the Haiku form of poetry

Sunday, April 26, 2009
2 pm to 4 pm at the City Conference Center
200 School Street in Ukiah, California

Keynote speaker: Theresa Whitehill

Submissions are must be in or postmarked by
Friday, March 13th

Oh no, not today
triskadecaphobia
under the covers


Very BAD haiku, but when else can one use that word

April is National Poetry Month

Willits Library National Poetry Month HAIKU of the Day April 26, 2008

REMINDER!!!! – 6^th Annual ukiaHaiku Festival Sunday, April 27 2-4 PM, Conference Center, dedicated this year to the memory of Ukiah Librarian, Dori Anderson

Keynote Speaker: Donna Kerr, Willits Librarian

CLASSICAL HAIKU MASTERS

Snow has melted

how happy they look –

the faces of stars

Issa

Autumn begins –

ocean and fields

all one green

Basho

Winter sun –

frozen on horseback

is my shadow

Buson

MODERN HAIKU

The Golden Gate

creaks

With sunset rust – Jack Kerouac

From across the lake,

Past the black winter trees,

Faint sounds of a flute. – Richard Wright

time out

the setting sun

takes center field – Peggy Lyles