Harter and Higginson's Events Archive
— Summer 2007 —
This summer saw us at two haiku conferences, leading an adult poetry workshop in Madison, NJ, and Penny giving a reading at her alma mater, Douglass College of Rutgers, the State University of NJ. (Note that the items below were written before these events occurred. To see our current events, click here.) To review some of our other past events, including past listings and some extensive scrapbooks of major book tours and poetry travels, check out the index to our events archive.
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Click on the image above for the PTNJ web site and a full listing of their summer 2007 courses.
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Six Sessions, Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday,
7–8:30 pm, July 10–12, 17–19, 2007
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey
Madison
The Creative Arts Academy Presents
The Poetry Shop
with Penny Harter & William J. Higginson
This two-week workshop for beginning and experienced poets focuses on writing and sharing. Sharpen existing poems and write new work in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. Gentle affirmation and careful, specific suggestions for improvement lead to success for students. At the end of the course, participants will have an opportunity to read their poems for family and friends at an informal poetry café.
Call Jackie Bruchman, PTNJ Education Office Manager, at 973-514-1787, ext. 21, for registration information. For more information about the workshop, e-mail Penny or Bill. |
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Leeds House
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
The Leeds House conference center at Carleton University will host this year's Haiku Canada Conference. Click the image to view the Carleton University web site.
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Friday, May 18 – Sunday, May 20
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Haiku Canada Conference 2007
Penny and Bill will be attending this annual conference organized by Haiku Canada for the first time in nearly two decades. As well as participating in conference events, we will be reading in the Members Reading, and selling our books in the conference book room.
Conference information may be found on the Haiku Canada web site, at http://www.haikucanada.org/. The conference is organized by Terry Ann Carter, tacarter-at-rogers-dot-com.
NEWS! See Bill's extensive photo-essay review of this year's conference on his web site, at http://haikai.home.att.net/haiku/haikucanada07. |
Click on the image above for the Haiku North America conference web site.
Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Click on the image for the hotel's web site.
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Thursday, August 16 – Sunday August 19
Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Haiku North America Presents
Lectures and Workshops by
Penny Harter and William J. Higginson
Penny will lead "Stories from Haiku—Haiku from Stories," helping participants discover the stories implied or known behind classic haiku, and invite participants to write haiku based on passages from published articles and stories.
Bill will join nature photographer Michael Lustbader in a slide talk based on their collaboration in Butterfly Dreams: The Seasons through Haiku. The talk will include Michael's images from the e-book along with Bill's accompanying translations of Japanese haiku.
Bill and Penny will also conduct "The Gibbous Moon Renku Session," a workshop in writing Japanese-style collaborative poems.
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The Douglass College Center
Douglass College
Rutgers, the State University
New Brunswick, NJ
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Saturday, June 2, 2007, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
NJC Lounge, Douglass College Center
Douglass College, New Brunswick
Douglass College Reunion Presents
Penny Harter, Alumna & Poet
Penny will be reading from a number of her published books, and from her forthcoming collection, The Night Marsh. (See sample poems from Penny's most recent collection, Along River Road, and many of her other books on this web site.) Three other Douglass allumnae authors will participate in this event, which includes time for questions from the audience..
The Alumnae Authors' Corner is coordinated by Susan Marchand. |
| New items are added several times each season, so stop by again in a week or two to see what else Penny and Bill are up to. |
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