Cradle 4

I know I’m going to see a lot of you in Mineral Point in a few weeks for the Cradle of American Haiku 4-slash-3rd Quarterly Meeting of the Haiku Society of America. I’m hoping I can persuade a few more of you to come by tempting you with the program. Check it out, and if you’re interested, contact the one and only Gayle Bull, proprietor of The Foundry Books and haiku host extraordinaire.

I’m excited to be giving a workshop on haibun, because four years ago at Cradle 2 I took a workshop with Roberta Beary (now the haibun editor at Modern Haiku) that was my first real introduction to haibun. I’ve been semi-obsessed ever since. I have a few ideas that I think will be fun. Bring something to write with, like a purple crayon, and a bendy mind.

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SCHEDULE: CRADLE OF AMERICAN HAIKU FESTIVAL 4
JULY 25-27, 2014

FRIDAY, JULY 25
2:00 Registration at THE FOUNDRY BOOKS
Set up and begin selling poets books
Coffee, tea or iced tea on the porch
5:30 Opening reception at THE FOUNDRY BOOKS

7:30 READING HAIKU OF HONORED GUESTS
(Lee Gurga, Randy Brooks and Charlie Trumbull)
Copies of their haiku will be distributed and we will take turns reading them.

9:00 OPEN READING

SATURDAY, JULY 26
Breakfast on your own.
Farmer’s Market, Water Tower Park

9:00 PHOTOGRAPIC HAIGA
Presented by Aubrie Cox
While photographic haiga follows many of the same principles as traditional haiga, today’s technology often makes it easier for poets to attempt haiga through contemporary mediums. This presentation will explore not only the fundamentals of haiga, but also address key principles poets and artists should keep in mind when composing and creating photographic and digital haiga, such as typefaces, color, negative space, arrangement, and image editing programs. Attendees will have the chance to apply what they learn in the presentation with a hands-on activity.

9:00 “Polishing Your Haiku to be The Best for Publication,
Presented by Charlotte Digregorio
This workshop for beginning and intermediate haikuists will give you everything you need to write your poems with a critical eye and publish them successfully. There will be a general presentation on the content and style of haiku/senryu, analysis and discussion of excellent examples of it, followed by the nuts and bolts of submitting poems that will catch the editor’s eye. Handouts provided.

10:30 Brooks Books: CELEBRATING FOUR DECADES OF HAIKU
Presented by Randy and Shirley Brooks
Randy & Shirley Brooks, co-editors and publishers of Brooks Books (formerly High/Coo Press) will be sharing their experience of publishing haiku over the last four decades. In this presentation, they will share the experiments, shifts, and long-lasting traditions established through their publishing efforts and how that history corresponds with broader trends in the English-language haiku community.

10:30 ONLY CONNECT: USING HAIKU AS A LAUNCHING PAD FOR HAIBUN
Presented by Melissa Allen
In this workshop, we’ll spend some time talking about the relationship between prose and haiku in haibun, and then try a couple of exercises to build, or begin to build, a haibun from an already existing haiku. You can bring a haiku or two of your own, or I’ll provide some of mine for your linking pleasure.

12:00– 1:00 LUNCH ON YOU OWN

1:00 Between Bashô and Ban’ya (Bypassing Barthes): A New Brand of Haiku
Presented by Charlie Trumbull
In recent years a new style of haiku is being used by some of the leading English-language haikuists, They are clearly grounded in the Japanese- and
English-language traditions, yet bear resemblances to the “gendai” styleof haiku that is much in fashion these days. We will examine the evolutionof this innovative style of haiku and present a number of examples forcritique and discussion.

1:00 JUN FUJITA: THE FIRST TANKA POET PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES
Presented by Marjorie Buettner
“Ten words of prose, once set down, do the duty of only ten words. They are frozen to the piece of paper. But two words of poetry, with their suggestive power, can create a mood or paint a picture that in prose would require perhaps five hundred words to effect.” Jun Fujita

This presentation will try to glimpse into Fujita’s world beyond the surface revealing a true renaissance man. This Power point presentation will show photographs of Jun Fujita’s cabin which I visited in 2007 and some of his art which was donated to the Chicago Institute of Art in 1963.

2:30 Newku for Old? Haiku 21 and Haiku 2014 as Guides to the Experimental and the Traditional in Haiku (with an extended digression into Disjunctive Dragonfly).
Presented by Lee Gurga

2:30 KUKAI
Presented by Randy Brooks and Aubrie Cox
Kukai is a playful competition in which anonymous haiku are read and appreciated—with favorites being selected by participants. In this session we will experience two approaches: (1) a “seashell”matching contest tournaments starting with 8 pairs of haiku and ending with a grand champion, and (2) traditional kukai with anonymous haiku being discussed and voted on as favorites in the competition. Participants will receive haiku book prizes from the competition coordinators.
Note: to participate as haiku writers in these kukai, please send your haiku to Randy or Aubrie by July 18, 2014. The traditional kukai is open topic and open style of haiku. The matching contest will pair haiku related to summer in the Midwest—the heat, summer foods or drinks, etc. Please DO NOT submit haiku that will not be anonymous through workshops, blogs, readings or previous publication. Part of the fun of kukai is hearing how participants love a haiku even though they have no idea who wrote it. Only after an anonymous haiku has been loved by readers do we ask who wrote it.
4:00 ORAL INTREPRETATION OF HAIKU
Presented by Jerome Cushman
4:00 TEACHING HAIKU
Presented by Randy Brooks and Aubrie Cox
This presentation is designed for those who may not have experience teaching, but would be interested in non-academic based instruction. With education outreach being a recent push within the haiku community, we will be discussing how poets can create and conduct quality workshops on haiku and related forms for various age groups.
5:30 HSA Meeting
6:30 Dinner at Historic Walker House
7:30 Panel Discussion
Presented by our honored guests: Randy Brooks, Lee Gurga and Charlie Trumbull
8:30 Critique Session with panel.
Attendees may submit haiku on Friday during registration on 3X5 cards.
9:30 Open Reading