Saturday March 1st @ BookTree 4:24 pm Writing Workshop - Haiku on Steroids led by Michael Dylan Welch
Special Glimmering Hour Anthology Reading at 6:15 pm
followed by a limited open mic

Don't miss this very special gathering and celebration of Haiku Northwest's Glimmering Hour featuring the work of 79 contributors. Copies will be available at BookTree and several of those featured will be reading and in attendance!

More Info: Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Haiku Northwest’s Glimmering Hour, is an anthology of 202 haiku and senryu by 79 contributors, including a memorial section featuring 11 deceased members, introduced by Michael Dylan Welch. Connie Hutchison provides an essay on Francine Porad, Haiku Northwest’s founder, and Sheila Sondik enhances all the poems with numerous sumi paintings on crinkled paper. This anthology focuses on the decade of 2014 to 2024, building on our 25th anniversary anthology, No Longer Strangers, published in 2014.

BIO

Michael Dylan Welch is passionate about poetry, especially haiku, which he has been writing since 1976 and teaching since about 1990, including being an adjunct poetry professor for the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA program in writing. He has won first place in numerous poetry contests, and has had his haiku, senryu, tanka, and longer poetry published in at least twenty-two languages in hundreds of journals and anthologies. He is former Redmond Poet Laureate, current President of The Redmond Association of Spoken word; Host and curator of the Soulfood Poetry Night and much much more.

In 2008 and 2009 he was regional coordinator for the HSA's Washington State region, Haiku Northwest, and in 2008 he cofounded Haiku Northwest's annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway with Alice Frampton.

first star—
a seashell held
to my baby's ear

spring breeze—

the pull of her hand

as we near the pet store

warm winter evening—

the chairs askew

after the poetry reading