The Second Ｗorld Ｈaiku Ａssociation Ｃonference Album

The second Ｗorld Ｈaiku Ａssociation conference was held at Tenri-city in Japan. About 100 haiku poets participated in the conference. Poets from 17 countries spent three days full of the stimulus of literature.

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WHA Directors

           Speech 1 Carmen Sterba
Instructor at Bunkyo University; USA & Japan

 Speech 2             Ludmila Balabanova
Assistant Professor at Technical University of Sofia; Bulgaria


Speech 3 Philip Rowland
Lecturer at Tamagawa University; UK & Japan

           Speech 4 Kenichi Yamamoto
Professor at Gifu City Women’s College; Japan

 Speech 5  Zinovy Vayman
Member of Circle of Russian Haiku Poets, Member of Boston Haiku Society; Russia & USA


Symposium

Chairman
Kan’ichi Abe (Japan)

Panelists
Martin Berner (President, German Haiku Society; Germany)
Sayumi Kamakura (Editor of international haiku journal “Ginyu”; Japan)
David Lanoue (Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana; USA)
Alain Kervern (Director, WHA; Instructor at West Brittany University; France)
Angelee Deodhar (India)


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