| Expected Presenters at HPR Conference 2007 as of Dec. 2006 |
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Jerry Ball is president and founder of Haiku Pacific Rim Conference.
Welcome remarks will be presented by him.
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Michael Dylan Welch is first vice president of the Haiku Society of America.
He is going to present a speech on "deja-ku"; poems that bear some relationship to other poems.
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Jerome J. Cushman is poet; bonsai, ikebana, and suiseki enthusiast; and
retired Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT in Rochester, New York. He will
discuss the impact of Haiku and Murakami Kijo on the Deaf Culture in America and Japan.
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Patricia J. Machmiller is poet, brush painter, and printmaker. She is the
authour of 'Blush of Winter Moon' and is one of the tanslators with Fay Aoyagi, of 'Kiyoko's Sky', 'the Haiku of Kiyoko Tokutomi'
She will talk on Tokutomi Kiyoshi and Kiyoko's Haiku World. http://www.patriciamachmiller.com/ |
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Amelia Fielden lives in a seaside village near Sydney, Australia.
She is one of the most accomplished translators of tanka in the English-speaking world. http://www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv2n5/tanka/Amelia_Fielden.html |
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Mariko Kitakubo is a Tokyo tanka writer and performance poet in Japan.
She will present a bi-lingual poetry-reading performance together with Amelia Fielden. http://www.kitakubo.com |
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Beverley George is President of the Australian Haiku Society http://www.haikuoz.org editor of Yellow Moon, a literary magazine for writers of haiku and other verse http://www.yellowmoon.info and the founder of Eucalypt;a tanka journal Australia's first journal devoted entirely to tanka http://www.eucalypt.info |
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Angelee Deodhar is a well-known haiku and haiga poet in India. She has translated a book on Shiki's Life and Haiku from English to Hindi recently. She is going to have a multimedia presentation called 'A walk with Shiki'. |
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Tei Matsushita Scott is a painter and poet in Virginia, U.S.A.
She is an avid student of English and Japanese and Spanish poetry, and paints in abstract formsto
express the emotions stated in these written words. She will present a fusion of poetry, painting and music. http://www.matsushita.com |
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Ikuyo Yoshimura is professor at Asahi University, Japan and was a
coordinator at the 2nd Haiku Pacific Rim Conference. She will talk on a Korean living in Japan,
using an autobiography by Haiku. http://www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv3n4/haiku/ikuyo_yoshimura.html |
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Katsushi Wada is professor at Osaka Seikei Colleage, Japan.
He will present a speech on a message from Shiki.
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Sagicho Aihara is the chairman of the Ehime Modern Haiku Association.
He will present a history of haiku in Ehime; Ippen Chishin, Kurita Chodo and Masaoka Shiki.
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Sosuke Kanda is a member of the Haiku Society of America & Kyoganoko Coterie.
He will talk about "Haiku Pacific Rim - how it was founded and its short history.
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Mikiya Murakami is a grand-son of Murakami Kijyo who was a
good friend of Masaoka Shiki. He will talk on Kijyo and Haiku.
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Visnja McMaster has written haiku since 1980.
She is editor, teacher, translator and judge at haiku competitions; she is also
a founder and the president of the Association of Croatian Haiku Poets. Her presentation is about
Haiku Cards: A Poetic Path to Reading Competence.
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