Haiku Society of America
Northeast Metro Spring Meeting

Saturday, March 22, 2014, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

Westbeth Home of the Arts, Community Room, 155 Bank Street
(Community Room is directly to the left when you enter at 155 Bank Street)

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Program:

We Are Not to Sing in the Car
Led by Carol Pearce-Worthington

Carol Pearce-Worthington has published widely within the sphere of modern American haiku and haibun, winning national and international awards for her work, which has appeared in print and online literary journals. An experienced watercolorist, she has also published and illustrated her short stories, novels, essays, and children’s books. She will be presenting her latest book, We Are Not to Sing in the Car, a collection of modern American haibun written between 2005 and 2013.

Intermission

Program:
The Sacred Lens

Led by Rita Gray

In a recent call for submissions, San Francisco-based haiku poet and psychologist Robert Epstein asked for poems to be included in an anthology he is compiling entitled The Sacred in Contemporary Haiku. It got me thinking. What is sacred? Are some poems more sacred than others? Let’s explore these questions and others by bringing in poems you’ve written that you feel embody the sacred.

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As usual, bring in a favorite haiku for our initial read-aloud.

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Upcoming HSA Northeast Metro Meeting Dates (all to take place from 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Westbeth Community Room)

Summer 2014: June 7, 2014

Autumn 2014: September 27, 2014

For lmore info:
Rita Gray
ritagray58@gmail.com

Carol Hebald’s story “The Feminist Who Hated Her Sisters has been accepted at Antioch Review, and her poem “Seaside Twilight by Poetry Quarterly.

Ms Hebald has recently been nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize.

For more info about Carol Heblad and her work, click here: Carol Hebald

Sasha Maslov for the NY Times

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/realestate/a-kinship-with-westbeth.html?referrer

Rabbi Menahem Mendel (1787-1859) of Kotzk, Poland, a wise and strong-willed Hassidic master, was known as a stern and demanding spiritual leader whose mantra was truth and the suppression of ego.

miriam chaikin is the noted author of many books. More info here.

The book is published by Arcade Books, and will be coming out in March 2014.

Beverly Brodsky

For five decades Art In Embassies has played a leading role in U.S. public diplomacy through a focused mission of vital cross-cultural dialogue through the visual arts. It was first created by MOMA and President John F. Kennedy who formalized it in 1963 at the U.S. Department of State.

“It is a fulcrum of America’s global leadership as we work for freedom, human rights, and peace around the world.”
U.S. Secretary of State, John Forbes Kerry

The above shows one of the two Beverly Brodsky paintings that were selected for installation at the American Embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for a period of two to three years and will be open for public viewing as a cross-cultural exchange beginning at the end of January 2014.