Penny HarterPoet, Author, Workshop Leader, Editor, Teacher
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Early Summer 2004 in New Jersey |
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Penny Harter and Bill Higginson
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Wednesday, May 5, 2004, New Providence Middle School, New Providence
Poets-in-Residence Penny Harter, William J. Higginson
Penny and Bill spent the day conducting poem-writing workshops for students throughout
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 Women's Resource Center 57 New England Ave. Summit (Image copyright © 2003 Women's Resource Center)
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Monday, June 7, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Women's Resource Center, Summit
Poems of People, Time, and Place: Penny Harter and William J. HigginsonFrom
the life of a painter in 19th century Utica, New York, to fashionable
downtown Tokyo last month, Penny and Bill shared their poems of
nature and family—and particularly significant females in their
lives—written as they've roved New England, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and
across the world to Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, and
several places in Japan. Part of the popular ongoing poetry series at
the Women's Resource Center organized by Sondra Gash. Sale and signing
of the authors' books followed.
The WRC was located at 57 New England Ave., Summit, a white house just
off Springfield Avenue behind Christ Church (and has since moved into
the church itself). For more information, call the WRC at 908-273-7253. |
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California and Colorado —The Summer 2004 Western Tour— |
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 San Francisco from the northern California coast, with the blue Pacific shining in the sun. Click for larger image. (WJH photo.) |
Friday, June 25, 2004, 7 p.m., Welcome Dinner and Reading, Sight & Insight Art Center, Mill Valley, California
"Haiku, Kigo, Sabi: What Does It Mean?"Open Reading with Featured Readers Penny Harter and William J. HigginsonBoth
poets read poems on nature and family themes, including some
haiku, as part of an open reading following a pot-luck supper. Call
Sight & Insight at 415-388-4331 or visit their web site at http://www.sightandinsight.org/ for information on their coming events. |
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 Participants concentrate on writing their poems during Penny and Bill's workshop at Book Passage, Corte Madera. (WJH photo.) |
Saturday, June 26, 2004, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
"Clear Water: Write and Revise Haiku and Nature Poems" A Workshop with Penny and BillA day-long workshop for all writers, focusing on writing nature poems and haiku. For more information on classes and workshops at both their Corte Madera and San Francisco stores, call Book Passage at 415-927-0960 or visit their web site by clicking on their logo or this link: http://www.bookpassage.com/ |
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 Setting up before theKinokuniya reading. Yes, the seats were filled, and then some—thanks to some special people in the Bay Area! Click for larger image. (WJH photo.)
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Sunday, June 27, 2004, 2 p.m., Kinokuniya Book Store, San Francisco, California
Reading and Book Signing: Penny Harter and William J. HigginsonThe couple read a wide range of poems from their published books and work-in-progress, including poems based in their recent decade in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a haiku sequence on one experience of the recent Western wildfires. The Kinokuniya Book Store is at 1581 Webster Street, San Francisco; call 415-567-7625 for further information.
Buy Japanese books online at Kinokuniya.
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 Golden Gate Bridge with Fog (Public domain image from Broderbund's Print Shop Pro Publisher 15, modified by William J. Higginson © 2004) Visit Broderbund's Web site. |
Sunday,
June 27, 2004, Haiku Poets of Northern California Quarterly Meeting,
Nichibei Kai, 1759 Sutter, San Francisco, California.A Conversation with Penny Harter and William J. Higginson
This event followed the Kinokuniya reading, above. Rather than give a formal talk, Penny and Bill answered questions
about their life and work as poets and their involvement with Japan and
haiku during an informal session at the HPNC meeting, which was open to
the public. See the HPNC Web site for details of coming events. |
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 View of the stacks at the American Haiku Archive, California State Library. Books are at far end, in blue binders; magazines in the middle; gray boxes at near end contain correspondence and other papers. Click for larger image. (WJH Photo.) |
Side Trip, Monday-Tuesday, July 28-29, 2004, Bill and Penny visit the American Haiku Archive in the California State Library, Sacramento. Bill was the Honorary Curator of the American Haiku Archive for 2003-2004, and wanted to view the collection. (He had assisted Elizabeth Searle Lamb, the archive's first major donor, to organize and appraise her materials before they were sent from Santa Fe.) We were escorted through the stacks and the accessioning area of the archive by Garry Gay, chair of the archive's advisory committee, and librarian Colleen Ward. Later, we did some research using materials in the collection. Click this link for more information on the American Haiku Archive and online catalogue search facilities. |
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 Elizabeth and Penny talk in the patio during a visit to her home on Acequia Madre, Santa Fe. Click for larger image. (WJH photo.) |
July 1-6, 2004, Penny and Bill visit friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and write together. Through the kind hospitality of Marian Olson and Ed Barth, Penny and Bill visited and worked with a number of their writer friends in Santa Fe for most of a week before going on to Denver and Golden, Colorado for more events on their tour. Marian, Ed, and Elizabeth Searle Lamb joined us in writing a 12-stanza renku, a Japanese-style of collaborative linked poem. (A link to this poem is coming soon!) |
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 Penny and Bill ready to read at Tattered Cover, Denver. Click for larger image. (WJH photo.) |
Thursday, July 8, 7:30 p.m.. 2004, Tattered Cover Bookstore–LoDo, Denver A Rocky Mountain Land Series Event "Natural Words: Haiku and Longer Poems" with Penny Harter and William J. Higginson—Reading and Book SigningPenny and Bill read from published works and works-in-progress, including poems based in their recent decade in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a haiku sequence on one experience of the Western wildfires. The event was held at the store's LoDo location, 1628 16th Street, 16th & Wynkoop in lower downtown Denver. Check out the Tattered Cover web site at: http://www.tatteredcover.com/. |
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 A house sparrow preens beside Clear Creek, Golden, Colorado. Click for larger image. (WJH photo.)  |
Sunday, July 11, 2004, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., American Mountaineering Center, Golden, Colorado Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Land Library and the Colorado Mountain Club "Clear Water: Write and Revise Nature Poems and Haiku" A Workshop with Penny and BillA day-long workshop for all writers, focusing on writing nature poems and haiku in the Rocky Mountain environment. A baker's dozen of us fanned out along the banks of Clear Creek near downtown Golden, and brought back images in words that we worked into poems that afternoon. Click on the logo at left for the web site of the Colorado Mountain Club. |
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Notice: All images on this page are copyright © 2004 William J. Higginson or are the property of their respective institutions. All rights are reserved.) |
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