|
WHC Retrospective Events
Archives 1/01 -Present
WHC Haiku
Magazine: "World Haiku Review"
Announcement
of plans for WHC's online world-wide haiku magazine
Epilogue
to World Haiku Festival 2000 & Advent of JAPAN 2001
Press Release of the Epilogue to World
Haiku Festival 2000 & Advent
of Japan 2001, 19-21 May 2001, London.
WHC Simultaneous World-wide
Ginko-Kukai on WHChaikuforum
May the Month of
Celebrations!
The
World Haiku Club is pleased to announce the designation of May
as the "Month of Celebrations for WHC". Various
exciting plans are
lined up for the May celebrations.
See the World Haiku
Review (current and past issues) for other reports.
Archives 12/99 - 12/00
A Retrospective
of the World Haiku Open Forum (haikuforum)
between 12/99 and 12/00
The World Haiku Club
(Est. 1998), flagshipped by the World Haiku Festival 2000,
instituted the World Haiku Open Forum, popularly known as
haikuforum, a
discussion mailing list on YahooGroups.com. The forum is moderated by Susumu
Takiguchi, Chairman of the World Haiku Club (World Haiku Festival 2000). Today,
the flagship list is WHChaikuforumworkshop.
Through these pages, you can take
a retrospective tour of our activities and growth. A wealth of haiku and related
verse may be accessed through haikuforum's YahooGroups archives. Here you'll
find informative links from archives, highlighting the various kukai, the Kansho
Column, Debating Chamber, Sijo Seminar and Renku Seminar. These may be useful in
your studies.
Please
click on hyperlinked titles and subtitles to find retrospective pages within
WHC's Official Website for each category.
World Haiku Open Forum Begins
The World Haiku Open Forum began
opened to the public on December 8, 1999. Word went out to haiku lovers
throughout the internet and haiku communities.
1-1-00 Official Launch of World Haiku Club Open Forum
The World Haiku Open Forum was
officially launched on New Year's Eve 1999. It's quick growth and active
participation led to learning seminars, discussion and debate forums, and kukai.
As early as March 2000, the popularity of the discussion list began to hint at a
need for expansion!
Hatsu-Kukai
(New Year Haiku Contest) 1999-2000
The New Years Hatsu-Kukai drew 342
haiku from 60 international haijin. Three winners and four honorable mentions
were selected soley by Jim Kacian, editor of the journal, Frogpond. Susumu
Takiguchi selected "editor's favorites" and four World Haiku Forum
participants served as "guest selectors," who selected their own
personal favorites. All the winning and selected haiku and commentaries may be
enjoyed on the Hatsu-Kukai 2000 pages, herein.
WHC/WHF Haikuforum Renku Seminar 2000
Presented by Paul McNeil
Linking of haiku is a natural and
pleasurable activity with haiku mailing list groups. Almost as soon as the forum
had opened, participants began to compose free-renku (contemporary versions of
renga which are loosely structured and often spontaneous). Interest and
discussion among members led to the seminar, Traditional
Renku in English, led by member Paul MacNeil.
WHC Sijo Seminar 2000
Presented by Larry Gross & assited by
Elizabeth St Jacques
Member interest in the classic
Korean poetry genre, sijo, prompted a four-month long Sijo Seminar. Dr. Larry
Gross led the seminar and was joined by Elizabeth St Jacques, who assisted in
the c & c of participants' sijo offerings. Larry and Elizabeth are in the
forefront of the Western sijo movement.
WHC
Haru (Spring Haiku Contest) Kukai
177 haiku were submitted to the
Haru Kukai from participants around the world. Michael Dylon Welch, editor of
Tundra, judged and selected the winning entries.
Judge: Michael Dylan Welch
Winners: (1) Gary Steinberg (2) Paul Miller (3) DeVar Dahl
Honorable Mention: John Bird, an'ya Petrovic ', John Crook, Gary
Barnes (soji), DeVar Dahl & Izak Bouwer
WHC Kansho (Appreciation) Column 2000
Presented by Susumu Takiguchi & James
Karkoski
This active "discussion column" was
designed to take up one specific haiku at a time and examine it in depth.
Voluntary comments, and discussion could take place concerning a haiku poem
written by participants, or by classical or modern masters. Debate included why
and how a particular haiku is good or bad or indifferent (mostly good) from all
angles, including the technique of translation. You can link to review the
archived Kansho Column discussions including selections of haiku by Chiyo-jo
(1703 - 1775), James Hackett, Nick Virgilio and Basho
WHC Debating Chamber 2000
Hosted by Susumu Takiguchi
The Debating Chamber on haikuforum
provided lively presentation of differing viewpoints on a variety of haiku
related subjects. A subject was introduced by the host, or one which had arisen
in spontaneous discussion on haikuforum would be furthered in the form of debate
through the chamber's function. due to its popularity, it was moved, along with
the Kansho Column, to the new WHCacadamia mailing list, instituted January
1, 2001.
WHC/WHF Haiga Gallery 2000
Maintained by Debi Bender
Members' haiga, photographic
images, art and interactive haiku. The World Haiku Open Forum includes artists
and photographers as well as poets. The visual arts, haiku and other Asian genre
poetry naturally combine with visual images. Some members created contemporary
haiga for the gallery. All members were invited to participate in the gallery
which was made interactive; haiku could be written by members to accompany the
graphics. (Today, WHChaikumultimedia
replaces the Haiga Gallery, and the World
Haiku Review publishes its column as well as an e-Cards
Gallery.)
Various Group Projects 2000
Free Renku
From haikuforum's very inception,
spontaneous free-renku have been constructed among interested members of The
World Haiku Open Forum, from two players to an unlimited number of participants.
WHC
Tanabata Starburst Hybrengay, "So Many Stars"
a forked rengay designed by Debi Bender and participated in by 10 haikuforum
members
WHC
WHF2000 Haiku Kukai & Essay Contest
Flagship festival contest; London/Oxford
Conference 2000
WHC WHF2000 World Haiku Anthology
An anthology is in the works for
the WHC World Haiku Festival anthology of haiku, submitted by participants in
the World Haiku Open Forum
1-1-00 Restructure of World Haiku Open Forum: Institution of
new WHC
Mailing List Discussion Groups & Updated Website
- WHC World Haiku Open Forum
[haikuforum]
- WHC Junior forum
- WHC Acadamia
- WHC Essays
- WHC Schools
- WHC Senryu
- WHC Charmed Circle
- WHC Website Renovation:
Susumu Takiguchi, Ray Rasmussen, & Debi
Bender
WHC 2000 - 2001 New Year's Kukai Events
Simultaneous contests hosted by
WHC were participated in over the winter holidays:
WHC New
Year's Eve & New Year's Day Kukai
Judged by Susumu Takiguchi,
haikuforum members and non-members submitted as many haiku as they'd wish over
New Year's Eve & New Year's Day. Over 600 entries were received.
Double Photo-Haiku 2000 - 2001 Winter Kukai
Hosted by Mitsugu Abe (sponsored by WHC),
Photo-Haiku ran a double contest simultaneously with the Double Kukai and
haikumania Haibun Kukai.
Photo Judges: Bob Talbot, Louis Gottardi,
Mitsugu Abe
Haiku Judge: Susumu Takiguchi
Haikumania New Year's Eve Haibun Kukai
Hosted and judged by Paul Conneally (sponsored
by WHC) 12-22-00, a haibun contest ran simultaneously with the Double
Kukai, and Photo-Haiku contests.
Links compiled and edited by Debi
Bender
|
