2025 Appearances

• 1 January 2025: Haiku of the Day on the Haiku Foundation website.

• 5 January 2025: Speaking at the annual meeting of the Western Washington Poets Network at BookTree, 609 Market Street, Kirkland, Washington, at 5:00 p.m., followed by an open-mic reading at 8:00 p.m. My talk is about statistics related to the first year of the WWPN website, which I started when cofounding the organization in October of 2023. See my website report.

• Every two weeks in 2025 (starting 10 January): Serving as 2025 guest haiku editor for Pulse—Voices from the Heart of Medicine, with selected healthcare-themed poems appearing every other Friday throughout 2025. See the Staff page.

• 16 January 2025: Reading at SoulFood Poetry Night in celebration of the Haiku Northwest 35th anniversary anthology, Glimmering Hour (available on Amazon), 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way in Redmond, Washington. $5.00 admission fee. [rescheduled from 21 November 2024]

• 31 January 2025: Submission period ends for First Frost, the haiku journal I coedit with Eric Burke, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, and Dale Wisely.

• February 2025: Coordinating the fifteenth annual National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) and providing daily writing prompts on the NaHaiWriMo page on Facebook, with more than 4,000 followers. Please join us in writing at least one haiku a day in the month of February—the shortest month of the year for the shortest genre of poetry!

• 1 February 2025: Submission deadline for the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Bloodroot Haiku Award, which I’m judging (previously called the Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award, which I judged in 2015). Results announced in April on the society website, and to appear later in the year in the society’s annual journal, Pinesong. See submission guidelines. See my selections and commentary at “2025 Bloodroot Haiku Award.”

• 3 February 2025: Speaking to Michael Dudley’s haiku mentoring group, via Zoom (private event). 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

• 8 February 2025: Overview of National Haiku Writing Month (see NaHaiWriMo on Facebook) for a free quarterly meeting of Haiku Northwest, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Bellevue Library, 1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, Washington, including a discussion on the pros and cons of writing prompts.

• 28 February 2025: Submission deadline for the Iowa Poetry Association’s 80th annual Lyrical Iowa contest, which includes a haiku category that I’m judging. See submission guidelines and judges’ bios.

• 1 March 2025: Free “Haiku on Steroids” workshop at BookTree, 609 Market Street, Kirkland, Washington, at 4:24 p.m., followed by a reading at 6:15 p.m. from Glimmering Hour (available on Amazon), Haiku Northwest’s 35th anniversary anthology (plus an open-mic reading).

• 27 March 2025: Featured poet, with Nick Satnik, at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. 6:30 p.m. Free.     +     +     +

• 30 March 2025: “Haiku Targets” workshop at Black Dog Arts Café, 8062 Railroad Ave SE, Snoqualmie, Washington. Free, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

• 6 April 2025: ONLINE. Tanka Society of America 25th Anniversary Celebration featuring my presentation (as TSA founder) on this history and achievements of the society, a presentation by Kazuaki Wakui on the Sanford Goldstein Museum in Japan, a Goldstein memorial reading, and an anonymous tanka workshop, among other presentations and announcements. Free on Zoom, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. See detailed schedule and Zoom link.

• 10 April 2025: ONLINE. “Haiku Targets” workshop for “Poetic Possibilities,” a week-long writing intensive sponsored by the Federation of BC [British Columbia] Writers, tailored for those writing longer poetry and fiction. Click to register. One fee of CDN$95 (or CDN$65 for earlybird member pricing) covers all events (two or three per day) from April 7 to 11, 2025. My session is from 2:00 to 3:00+ p.m. on 10 April.

• 13 April 2025: ONLINE. “e-motion” PowerPoint haiku sequence (with my photographs) and “How to Haiga” presentation for the San Diego Haiku Group in San Diego, California. 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

• 14 April 2025: “Forest Bathing and the Art of Haiku” presentation for Alpha Delta Kappa teachers of the Bellevue School District, Ardmore Elementary School, Bellevue, Washington. 4:00 p.m. (private event). ADK is an international honorary organization for women educators.

• 17 April 2025: For International Haiku Poetry Day, SoulFood Poetry Night features Michael Dylan Welch and Curtis Manley reading haiku, free, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (including an open mic) at SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington.

• 27 May 2025: ONLINE. Free “Haiku Targets” workshop for Bellevue, Washington’s 2025 Japan Fair, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Please register here.

• 31 May 2025: Guest tanka editor for Solitary Daisy #53.

• 9 June 2025: Submission deadline for Bellevue, Washington’s fifth annual Japan Fair community haiku contest that I’m judging. Read submission instructions and enter your haiku here. Free to enter. Winners announced on 12 July 2025 during the Japan Fair at Meydenbauer Center, 11100 NE 6th Street in Bellevue, Washington.

• 12 June 2025: ONLINE. Introducing and celebrating the extensive new Brussels Sprout pages on the Haiku Northwest website, as part of the monthly Haiku Northwest Zoom meeting, 7:00 p.m. Includes readings of all Editors’ Choice Award winners from 23 issues of this historic haiku magazine edited by Francine Porad in the Seattle area from 1988 to 1995.

• 15 June 2025: ONLINE. “Our Endless and Proper Work: Learning Attention from Mary Oliver” presentation for the Federation of BC [British Columbia] Writers. 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., for federation members. CANCELLED; WILL BE RESCHEDULED.

• 20 June 2025: “Cabinet of Curiosities” free public art giveaway, featuring 80 of my haiku weathergrams and 20 “Miniature Poems” laminations. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 1st and Pike Street Park (by Pike Place Market) in Seattle, Washington. Other artists include Milagro del Arte, Ilene Lagraba, Hannah Pickard, Berenice Yz, Maria Zamora, as well as Angie Hinojos, who organized this event.

• 21 June 2025: “Cabinet of Curiosities” free public art giveaway, featuring 80 of my haiku weathergrams and 20 “Miniature Poems” laminations. Part of the “Longest Day” celebration, from 2:30 to 9:30 p.m. at King Street Station Plaza in Seattle, Washington. Other artists include Milagro del Arte, Ilene Lagraba, Hannah Pickard, Berenice Yz, Maria Zamora, as well as Angie Hinojos, who organized this event. See performance schedule.       +

• 23 June 2025: My “Step Quota” haibun featured on the Rattle website, with an audio recording.

• 12–13 July 2025: Annual Japan Fair at Meydenbauer Center, 11100 NE 6th Street in Bellevue, Washington. Free. Includes a display of “Twenty-four Shikishi,” featuring my translations with Emiko Miyashita. I’ll be announcing the 2025 haiku contest winners at 12:15 p.m. on the main stage on Saturday, 12 July.

• 18 July 2025: ONLINE. Guest speaker, on the subject of “What Makes Haiku Work,” for Café Haiku’s Haikai Potluck Zoom meeting, hosted by Rohini Gupta and Brijesh Raj in Mumbai, India.

• 31 July 2025: Submission period ends for First Frost, the haiku journal I coedit with Eric Burke, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, and Dale Wisely.

• 6, 13, 20, 27 August 2025: Featured “Tanka Take Home” poet on the Triveni Haikai India website, with 13 individual tanka, a tanka prose piece in recognition of September 11, and extensive answers to interview questions. See links for 6 August, 13 August, 20 August, and 27 August. See “‘Tanka Take Home’ Featured Poet.”

• 16 August 2025: ONLINE. Presentations on “Menashe and Porchia: Amen to Life, and Poems About Nothing” for the Southern California Haiku Study Group, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., free on Zoom. The first presentation is on the “concise” poetry of New York poet Samuel Menashe and its affinities with haiku, the second on the haiku-related aphorisms of Argentine poet Antonio Porchia.

• 28 August 2025: Reading to celebrate the Haiku Northwest 35th anniversary anthology, Glimmering Hour (available on Amazon), at Words and Wine, J. Bookwalter Tasting Studio, 14810 NE 145th Street, Suite C, in Woodinville, Washington. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free.       +

• 1 September 2025: Featured poet in Tsuri-dōrō #29, September/October 2025. These poems also appear on my Tsuri-dōrō page.

• 1 September 2025: Submission deadline for the seventh annual Morioka International Haiku Contest in Morioka, Japan, which I’m cojudging with Toshio Kimura (submissions open 26 May). The award ceremony will be held at Morioka Gekijo (Main Hall) in Morioka on 16 November. See the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 results and commentary, with Japanese translations.

• 5–6 September 2025: Judging a free haiku contest each night at the Seattle Japanese Garden Moon Viewing Festival (tickets available for Friday, September 5 and Saturday, September 6; also see the Events and Calendar pages), 6:30 p.m. ($35 admission fee). See the garden website.

• 12 September 2025: “Instant Haiku” booth at Radiate! A Community Arts and Music Festival at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, sponsored by Path with Art. 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Free! Please click to RSVP. This event also includes an exhibition that will include a set of my photographs, “Blur,” from 12 September to 2 November 2025.

• 14 September 2025: ONLINE. “Finding the Sky” PowerPoint presentation on Zoom on the subject of space in haiku, for India’s 2025 Triveni Utsav Haiku Festival, with the announcement of the 2025 Triveni Haiku Awards that I cojudged with Ashish Narain. 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. PST [7:30 to 9:30 p.m. IST].

• 18 September 2025: Providing instant haiku as Captain Haiku as part of the Downtown Redmond Art Walk, in conjunction with the VALA Eastside art center and the Redmond Association of Spokenword. 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., free, at Redmond’s Downtown Park, followed by the usual monthly reading of SoulFood Poetry Night that I MC at 6:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month.

• 21 September 2025: Presenting “The Nature of Haiku” at the Yakima Grace Church, 1207 S 7th Avenue in Yakima, Washington. PowerPoint presentation, urban/nature haiku walk, and haiku sharing time. Free and open to the public, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. CANCELLED (to be rescheduled later).

• 24–28 September 2025: Haiku North America conference, for which I serve as a director, at the Holiday Inn in San Francisco, California. I’m giving opening welcome speeches, a closing speech, leading the conference anthology reading (with Chuck Brickley), introducing the Higginson lecture, and giving a presentation on “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: The Intimacy of Attention.” See the program and the registration page.

• 28 September 2025: Hosting the Tanka Sunday social gathering/salon, sponsored by the Tanka Society of America, at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, California.

• 1–31 October 2025: Haiku submission period for Pulse, for which I serve as haiku editor.

• 1 October 2025: Reading to celebrate the Haiku Northwest 35th anniversary anthology, Glimmering Hour (available on Amazon), at the Postmark Center for the Arts, 20 Auburn Avenue, Auburn, WA 98002, hosted by Auburn Avenue Poets. 6:00 p.m. sign-up, reading at 6:30 p.m. Free.

• 18 October 2025: Featured reader for the Tsuga Poetry Group, at Willard Art & Frame, 10101 Main Street in Bothell, Washington. Plus an open-mic reading. 7:00 p.m. Free.

• 23–26 October 2025: Directing Haiku Northwest’s eighteenth annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck, Washington. Our featured guest is Kristin Lindquist, and our theme is birds. My presentations, on Saturday, 25 October, are “Summer Musing: The First Haibun in English,” “Moonlight in Vermont: A Haiku Song,” and “Five Favorites: Kristen Lindquist.” See the website link for details, and please join us!

• 30 October 2025: Deadline for the 2025 Seven Hills Literary Contest and Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contest, for which I’m serving as haiku judge.

• 8 November 2025: Leading “Writing Collaboratively,” a discussion and exploration of haiku collaborations and sequences, including a tan-renga writing exercise, plus a discussion of renku, rengay, and related symbiotic writing, for a quarterly Haiku Northwest meeting at Woodmont Library, 26809 Pacific Highway South in Des Moines, Washington. Free, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m..

• 9 November 2025: ONLINE.  “Summer Musing: The First Haibun in English” and “Moonlight in Vermont: A Haiku Song” PowerPoint presentations for the San Diego Haiku Group in San Diego, California. 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

• 15 November 2025: ONLINE. “Finding the Sky” and “On the Art of Writing Haiku” PowerPoint presentations and discussions for the Komo Kulshan haiku group in Bellingham, Washington. 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.

• 16 November 2025: Award ceremony for the seventh annual Morioka International Haiku Contest at Morioka Gekijo (Main Hall) in Morioka, Japan, which I’m cojudging with Toshio Kimura. August 31 is the submission deadline. See the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 results and commentary, with Japanese translations.

• 22 November 2025: ONLINE. “Analyzing The Haiku Anthology” PowerPoint presentation for “On the Edge,” the 2025 Haiku Society of America virtual conference, 21–23 November 2025 (see complete schedule). My presentation is on Saturday, 22 November from 4:00 to 4:50 p.m.

2026

• 28 February 2026: Submission deadline for the Iowa Poetry Association’s 81st annual Lyrical Iowa contest, which includes a haiku category that I’m judging. See submission guidelines and judges’ bios.

• Every two weeks in 2026 (starting 9 January): Serving as 2026 guest haiku editor for Pulse—Voices from the Heart of Medicine, with selected healthcare-themed poems appearing every other Friday throughout 2026. See the Staff page.

• 31 January 2026: “Forest Bathing and the Art of Haiku” presentation at the Maple Valley Library, 21844 SE 248th Street in Maple Valley, Washington, followed by an optional outdoor nature walk (rain or shine) in the Lake Wilderness Arboretum. 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., free. For more information, please visit the KCLS event page.

• 31 January 2026: Submission period ends for First Frost, the haiku journal I coedit with Eric Burke, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, and Dale Wisely.

• February 2026: Coordinating the sixteenth annual National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) and providing daily writing prompts on the NaHaiWriMo page on Facebook, with more than 4,000 followers. Please join us in writing at least one haiku a day in the month of February—the shortest month of the year for the shortest genre of poetry!

• 31 July 2026: Submission period ends for First Frost, the haiku journal I coedit with Eric Burke, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, and Dale Wisely.

• 1–31 October 2026: Haiku submission period for Pulse, for which I serve as haiku editor.

• 22–25 October 2026: Directing Haiku Northwest’s nineteenth annual Seabeck Haiku Getaway at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck, Washington. Our featured guest is Susan Antolin, with a theme to be announced. See the website link for details to come, and please join us!