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| Annual Retreats: | For more than twenty years the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society has held an annual long-weekend haiku retreat at Asilomar Conference Center. Asilomar is located in a beautiful natural setting on the temperate Pacific shore. There is always great opportunity for poetry-engendering experience with coastal forest and dune vegetation, shore birds and other creatures, notable architecture, as well as the historical and literary heritage of the Monterey Peninsula. A registration form giving detail of our 2007 retreat at Asilomar is available in these pages. The next retreat will be at the same beautiful location, Friday September 7th through Monday September 10th. |
| Contests: | The Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Contest for yuki teikei haiku is held annually. The contest is open to all who follow the guidelines. Please submit for the 2007 contest as detailed herein. For an example of the contest requirements, winning poems, and judge's comments see the results of the 2000 Contest. |
| Journal: | The Society's study-work journal Geppo (Monthly, in Japanese) is published six times a year. For each issue a member may submit three haiku, which are published anonymously. A member may vote for commendable haiku from the latest issue. In the next issue the voting results are tallied and the top ten poems republished together with each author's name. Two dojin (haiku experts, in Japanese) select commendable poems and provide comments of appreciation and possible improvement. Each issue of Geppo presents a "Kigo Challenge" in which a season word is presented and described, together with examples of its use in haiku. Members may submit a poem using the season word for publication in the next issue. The journal also provides news and announcements of activities of the Society. |
| Publications: | In 2000 the Society published the notable Young Leaves: An Old Way Of Seeing New; Writings on Haiku in English, a book serving as the 25th Anniversary Special Edition of the Haiku Journal. Other of the Society's publications through their long history of writing traditional haiku in English are also available. Please click here to see a listing of publications. |
| Anthology: | The Society publishes an annual anthology of members' poems. |
| Celebrations: | Each year the Society observes traditional Japanese haiku celebrations including a spring event, Tanabata, and moon-viewing. The Society often provides a presence at local ethnic-Japanese festivals. In addition the Society also has a holiday party in December featuring the exchange of haiku cards and haiga. |
| Web presence: | For several years the Society has maintained a presence on the world wide web. Links to selected haiku and haiku-related websites are provided. |
| Special projects: |
The San Francisco Bay Regional Haiku Season Word Project |