Haiku Anthology reading in San Diego

The Southern California Haiku Study Group presents a reading of their 2010 haiku anthology, an island of erets, this Saturday, October 9th at 2 p.m. at The Ink Spot, 710 13th Street, Suite 210, San Diego, CA. A no-host dinner will follow (more details at the bottom of this announcement).

Edited by Billie Dee, the anthology is a 124-page perfect-bound volume of work by 65 haiku poets throughout Southern California, including a number of San Diego writers. Of particular note is a bilingual Spanish-English selection of haiku by well-known border-region authors.

This collection emphasizes our unique climate and geography, our rich cultural diversity, and embraces the broad range of experience of our contributing poets.

Books will be available for sale at the reading.

NO-HOST DINNER AFTER READING for those who would like to join us. Reservation is currently for 25 people at Sole Luna Cafe at 702 Ash Street, Ste E (corner of 7th and Ash). We can carpool there.
LINK: http://solelunacafe.com/

LINK: The Ink Spot (directions): http://www.sandiegowriters.org/about_where.htm
LINK: about the reading: http://sandiegowriters.org/programs_readings_haikusandiego.htm
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Just Arrived! an island of egrets...

I've just received the shipment of our new book: an island of egrets . . . the 2010 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology. They are beautiful! The Anthologies will be available at our annual reading and celebration this coming weekend:

Sunday, Sept. 26th at 2 p.m.
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles
Pasadena, CA 91101

There will be another reading in San Diego

Saturday, October 9th at 2 p.m.
The Ink Spot, the downtown loft of San Diego Writers, Ink
710 13th Street,
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, October 9th at 2 p.m.

Please mark your calendars!

For those of you who have paid for postage, the books will be mailed Monday, Sept 27th.


If you would like to order copies and will not be able to attend one of the readings, the price is $9.95 each, plus shipping. Your book will be mailed in a sturdy crush-resistant book-box. Here's a cost schedule:

 1 book: $9.95 + $3.35 shipping......... $13.30 total
 2 .........................4.20.........................24.10                        
 3..........................5.05.........................34.90
 4..........................5.90.........................45.70
 5..........................6.75.........................56.50
 6..........................7.60.........................67.30
 7..........................8.45.........................78.10
 8..........................9.30.........................88.90
 9                        10.15.........................99.70
10                       11.00.......................110.50 

Please send a check made out to SCHSG to:

Haiku Anthology
P O Box 620457
San Diego, CA 92162
I look forward to seeing you at one of the readings. If you have any questions, please contact me at
haikuanthology@gmail.com

Billie Dee, Editor

an island of egrets... the 2010 SCHSG Anthology is going to press!

Dear Haiku Friends,

I am very pleased to announce that an island of egrets... the 2010 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology is complete and ready to go to the printer. From our first beautiful hand-made 2001 edition with eight founding haijin, we have grown to a volume of 65 poets. Our new book will be perfect-bound with a full-color heavy-stock cover, featuring 267 poems, including a fine selection of regional Spanish Language haiku with English translations. This collection emphasizes our unique climate and geography, our rich cultural diversity, and embraces the broad range of experience of our contributing haijin. I think you will be very pleased with the superb quality of work in this, our 10th Anniversary Edition!

The Anthologies will be available at our annual reading and celebration at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles, Pasadena, CA, on Sunday, Sept. 26th at 2 p.m. There will be another reading in San Diego at The Ink Spot, the downtown gallery loft of San Diego Writers, Ink, located at 710 13th Street, San Diego, CA, on Saturday, October 9th at 2 p.m. Please mark your calendars. For those of you who have paid for postage, the books will be mailed Monday, Sept 27th.

Here is our roster of poets:

Michael Angerman, Ashley Baldon, Jerry Ball, Marcia Behar, Tom Bilicke, Paty Blake, Darrell Byrd, Peggy Castro, Elizabeth Cazessus, Marcyn Del Clements, Phyllis Collins, Joan E. Day, Billie Dee, D'ellen, James Robert Dunn, Pauli Dutton, Kimberly Esser, Hadia Farfan, Linda Galloway, Olga Garcia, Claudia Barreda Gaxiola, Victor P. Gendrano, John Gentry, Risa R. Goldberg, Anita Guenin, William Hart, Margaret Hehman-Smith, Una Nichols Hynum, Gloria Jaguden, Oleg Kagan, Patricia Kelly, Karen Kenyon, Deborah P. Kolodji, Sean Kolodji, Daniel E. Lambert, Elva Lauter, Stephanie Leuer, Greg Longenecker, Eve Luckring, Ed Lukstein, Janis Lukstein, Frances Ruhlen McConnel, Seretta Martin, Juan Martinez, Carrie Moniz, Liz Myers-Chamberlin, Naia, Genie Nakano, Ruth Nolan, Victor Ortiz, Brosnan Rhodes, Susan Rogers, Thomas Spann, Melissa Spurr, Stevie Strang, Karen Stromberg, Judith Terzi, G. Murray Thomas, Maja Trochimczyk, Megan Webster, Elizabeth Yahn Williams, Kathabela Wilson, James Won, Wendy Wright, An Xiao

For those of you who have not yet ordered copies, please be aware that there will no second printing. This full-size poetry book would ordinarily retail for $15, but is available to contributors at a generously discounted pre-publication price. They make wonderful holiday and thank-you gifts. To order your copies, or to add to your current order, please contact me before August 20th at haikuanthology@gmail.com.

Congratulations to all of us on our 10th Anniversary Edition!

Billie Dee, editor
2010 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology

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