News / Current
N E W S – 2022
2022 Application Period for
YTHS Yuki Teikei Dojin Now Open
The committee to review applications for Yuki Teikei Dojin will be accepting applications through August 15, 2022. Your application should include three parts:
- Part I: Record of Achievement in Haiku. Please include the number of years you have been a member of Yuki Teikei.
- Part II: 50 haiku.
- Part III: Declaration of Services to YTHS.
Here is a link to the details of becoming a YTHS Dojin.
Please send your application by email to:
- Phillip Kennedy patriciajmachmiller@msn.com
- Patricia Machmiller patriciajmachmiller@msn.com
- Emiko Miyashita emikomiyashita@gmail.com
- Hiroyuke Murakami homeland575@gmail.com
- Christine Stern clstern@mac.com
Send your application with Parts I, II, and III in one MS Word or PDF file as an attachment to your email. Be sure your name is on all the pages of the file. In the body of the email please include your contact information—name, email, snail mail address, and phone number.
Announcement of New YTHS Dojin
It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of these eminent writers as Yuki Teikei Dojin in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society:
Phillip Kennedy
Emiko Miyashita
Hiroyuki Murakami
We are grateful to have these scholars and practitioners of English-language haiku in our midst and for the contributions to the Society that they have made.
| Carolyn Fitz President |
Patricia J. Machmiller Chair, Dojin’s Committee |
News / Archive
N E W S – 2020
2020 Haiku Retreat Details
Detailed program and registration information has been posted here.
Registration is full; waiting list only.
N E W S – 2018
Meet Dyana Basist, Yuki Teikei’s Haiku Greeter
In the spirit of it taking a village, Yuki Teikei has many people who contribute to our continued success. New this year is Yuki Teikei Greeter, Dyana Basist. Dyana welcomes and talks to newcomers at meetings, but she would also like your help. If you know any haiku enthusiasts (or haiku “curious”) who may be interested in YTHS, please consider sending their email, home address, or phone number to Dyana at openmesa@sbcglobal.net (Subject Line: YT Greeter). She would then reach out and, if appropriate, send a packet of haiku tip cards, newsletters, and/or haiku brochures to their home address. Let’s spread our love for haiku.
N E W S – 2017
Okayama – San Jose Friendship Anniversary
On Friday, April 21, 2017 over one hundred special guests from the City of Okayama, Japan, including the mayor and council members visited Kelley Park’s Japanese Friendship Garden. The visit was to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the San Jose – Okayama sister city relationship. The Friendship Garden is a living symbol of that special bond.
On their arrival the guests were given a bilingual haiku brochure themed to the garden. The brochure was developed by Roger Abe, Betty Arnold and Patricia Machmiller, haiku translations by Mariko Kitakubo, and finished and printed by the City of San Jose, PRNS marketing team and Kelley Park. Poets contributing to the fifteen haiku in the brochure: Kyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi, Dyana Basist, Patricia Machmiller, Alison Woolpert, Eleanor Carolan, Judith Schallberger, Mimi Ahern, Patrick Gallagher, Marcia Behar, Betty Arnold, Roger Abe and Joan Zimmerman.
From all accounts the haiku were well received! Among the guests was Midori Teramoto of the Kibi no Haiku Group. This project was conceived as a thank you to the park from the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society for many years of use of the garden and the Teahouse, as well as a commemorative gift.
Yuki Teikei and the American Haiku Archives
Two podcasts featuring Yuki Teikei contributions to the Haiku Archives at the California State Library are now available. Both podcasts were recorded on April 13, 2017 at the California State Library, and can be found at this link. One recording features Gary Gay, one of the founders of the Haiku Archives, speaking with Patricia Machmiller of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and Gene Larsen of the California State Library staff.
In the second recording, members of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose, Patricia Machmiller, Alison Woolpert and Carole Steele—discuss their work with the American Haiku Archives, housed at the California State Library. They, together with Patrick Gallagher of the Society, read from the letters and haiku of Kiyoshi and Kiyoto Tokutomi, founders of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and they read a selection of haiku from Cherry Blossom Light, an anthology of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, published in 2016. This podcast was recorded on April 13, 2017 at the California State Library.
N E W S – 2015
The 40th Anniversary of YTHS
The year 2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (YTHS). There were many celebrations and events honoring this occasion. Patricia Machmiler created a one-page calendar of the special events, beautifully illustrated with one of her pen-and-ink drawings. Here is a link to it.
One of our https://yths.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Yuki-Teikei-Celebrates-40-Years-flyer.pdfmembers, June Hymas, undertook the authoring of a pictorial daily blog to celebrate each day of 2015 in pictures and poetry of YTHS. A link to her blog is here.
N E W S – 2012
Cherry Blossom Stamp
Ki no Tomonori (c.850–c.904)
the light filling the air
is so mild this spring day
only the cherry blossoms
keep falling in haste—
why is that so?
If you’re in the United States, rush to your post office to buy some of these stamps!” The stamps may be purchased online.
