Akita International Haiku Network
Gray clouds trail across the sky. In the pale winter sun a flock of geese (Ben Grafström–Akita, Japan)
On June 1, 2010, we received an e-mail from Richard Stevenson in Canada, whose subject is Haikai Submission to Akita International Haiku Network site. He says in his e-mail: Greetings from Southern Alberta! Thought I'd send along a few things. ( A bio note is included at the end): Bio Note Richard Stevenson lives … Continue reading Haiku by Richard Stevenson in Canada
On May 20, 2010, I received a comment on our website from Narayanan Raghunathan. He says in his comment as follows: Dear Hiruta-San: I humbly request you to visit our site http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/ Please translate Haiku which you like into Japanese. Please post your Haiku and translation on our site: It will surely get translated … Continue reading Haiku by Narayanan Raghunathan in India (1)
On May 18,2010, I received a comment on haiku by Roberta Beary for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival from Michael Dylan Welch as follows. Nice to see these translations of Roberta's poems from the book! Michael Since then we have been exchanging e-mails. First of all, I would like to introduce … Continue reading Haiku and the Japanese Garden by Michael Dylan Welch
On May 20, 2010, we received a comment on ‘Haiku by Aju Mukhopadhyay for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010’ from Kala Ramesh in India. She said in her comment as follows: Hi Thorfinn Tait, I would like to share my published work with you. I do write haiku, tanka, haibun, senryu and renku. I … Continue reading Haiku by Kala Ramesh in India
Nobuko Johnson in Washington, USA, loves cherry blossoms and haiku. In March, 2010, she made a haiku trip to Kumamoto（熊本）, Kyushu, Japan and enjoyed the cherry blossom-viewing there. Nobuko Johnson kindly contributed haiku she wrote during her visit there. Some haiku are about the cherry blossoms in full boom shown in the following photo, … Continue reading Haiku by Nobuko Johnson
Gabi Greve, a haiku friend of mine, in Okayama(岡山), Japan, kindly contributed her travelogue for the posting on May 23, on the last day of Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010. She loves haiku trips around Asia, writing travelogues as shown below. one day in sunshine one day in pouring rain . . . travelling … Continue reading Haiku by Gabi Greve for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (12)
Tsutomu Nimure, a tanka poet, in Akita, Japan, kindly contributed his tanka in celebration of the 1st anniversary of the opening of the Akita International Haiku Network. He introduces himself as follows: Tsutomu Nimure’s way of TANKA As a college student, I had a Japanese class, which dealt Manyoushu. The teacher of … Continue reading Tanka by Tsutomu Nimure for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (11)
On April 10,2010, I received an e-mail from Brian Birdsell (McSherry). He says in his mail as follows: Hidenori - I received your email from a friend of mine in Akita. I currently live in Morioka and have lived here for the past 6 years. I teach English at a private high school. I … Continue reading Haiku by Brian McSherry for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (10)
On Aril 25,2010, I received a comment from Teddy Wojnicki in Taiwan. Dear Hiruta-San: I'm a Californian living/haikuing in Taiwan. I've just spotted your site /thx to haijinx/. Impressive! Loads and loads of love here. Thanks from all. I'd like to participate in yr International Spring Festival. Plz, send some info my way. Thx, … Continue reading Haiku by Teddy Wojnicki for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (9)
On April 20, 2010, Aju Mukhopadhyay, a poet and author, in Pondicherry, India, sent us a comment on the posting ‘International Haiku Spring Festival 2010 ( Akita, Northern Honshu, Japan)’. He said in his comment as follows: This is a very nice site which ably shows many areas of Japanese short verse culture. I … Continue reading Haiku by Aju Mukhopadhyay for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 (8)
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