January 16, 2025

Haiku Northwest celebrates its 35th anniversary with the publication of Glimmering Hour, available on Amazon. The book focuses on 2014 to 2024, with 158 haiku and senryu by 68 members, plus eleven poets in a memorial section with an additional 44 poems. Sheila Sondik’s sumi paintings on crinkled paper augment the poems. Michael Dylan Welch introduces the book and an essay by Connie Hutchison commemorates Francine Porad, Haiku Northwest’s founder. This anthology affirms the group’s glimmering history. For more information about Haiku Northwest, please visit https://www.haikunorthwest.org/.

Scheduled readers include Luke Brannon, Terran Campbell, Rick Clark, Bill Fay, John S Green, Connie Hutchison, Roy Kindelberger, Curtis Manley, Joan Perkins, Michelle Schaefer, Ann Spiers, Zach Street, Kathleen Tice, Richard Tice, David M. Tookey, and Michael Dylan Welch.