a day ...
of creativity & sharing among haiku poets, artists & musicians amidst the old apple trees, herb gardens and frog ponds here at Wild Graces in Deerfield, New Hampshire ... a stone's throw from the Pawtuckaway Mountains and the Great Brook Trail, one of our favorite beaver & wild mushroom hiking trails.
Masters & newbies are welcome to participate in our workshops & share their haibun, tanka, senryu & haiku during the open mic. Bring your books, broadsides, brushwork, haiga & cds to swap, sell or share.
WG12
WG12
Saturday
August 23rd 2025
9am - 5pm
Annual
Haiku
Gathering
at
Wild
Graces
The Owls Roost
Deerfield, New Hampshire
off the grid on Adam's Hill
behind Wild Graces
our closest airport with hotels, suites & rental cars
40 minutes from Wild Graces
The Yurt & Guest Suite at Echo Hill Farm
Deerfield, New Hampshire
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Meadow Farm Bed & Breakfast
Northwood, NH 603-942-8619
Doug & Janet Briggs, Inn Keepers
the poet's tent
find us at
111 Nottingham Road
Deerfield, New Hampshire
Sumi-e painting by Jan Zaremba, 1st Annual
Haiku Gathering at Wild Graces, 2014
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WG9 2022
Registration for WG12 opens April 1st, 2025
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WG8 2021
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Michael Dudley
Michael Dudley (www.michaeljdudley.com) was born in Toronto, Canada, and reared in Scarborough, Ontario. For 35 years he lived and worked in rural Southwestern Ontario. He is the father of three, currently lives in "Maple City" Chatham, Ontario, and, after last year's Covid-19 absence, is delighted to return to Wild Graces.
Haiku has been Michael's poetry of choice for nearly five decades, and he celebrates the form as an important literary bridge of inclusion that unites people and peoples around the world. In March of 2023 he became International Coordinator for the Haiku of Society of America.
He is the author of numerous collections and has an especial interest in creative collaborations, including compositional co-creation and synergistic performance that harmonizes haiku with other modes of expression and connection.
His reading, titled "junctions/junctures," will travel through time and place while exploring the experiences that continue to inspire his haiku journey.
Mary Stevens
Mary Stevens lives at the foot of the Catskills in New York's lovely Hudson Valley, where she has drawn much inspiration for her haiku collection, enough light (2023). She won first place in the Harold G. Henderson Memorial Awards (2020), second place in the Peggy Willis Lyles Awards (2020), and the Best of Issue Frogpond Award (Autumn 2022), and was featured poet on Cornell University's Mann Library Daily Haiku Page in December 2020. She judged the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2025) and the Peggy Willis Lyles Awards competition (2024), and co-judged with John Stevenson the Nicholas Virgilio Haiku Contest (2013). She presented on wabi sabi at haiku North America in Schenectady, NY (2015), and gave a reading of her haiku at Wild Graces (2024). Her poems have appeared in several Red Moon Press anthologies and Snapshot Press Calendar Competitions, as well as in A New Resonance 12, The Wonder Code, and Write Like Issa. She is a member of the Broadmoor haiku Collective and the Route 9 Haiku Group. She is a book indexer for her freelance indexing business, Look Within Indexing.
"Your Day as Creative Inspiration: A 5-Minute Diary Practice"
In this workshop, we will explore Linda Barry's "5-Minute Diary" approach to culling the day's activities, events, and impressions. The brevity of this style of journaling supports a natural transition to writing in haiku's spare form, and we will use what we discover as creative inspiration for composing haiku.
