A Hundred Gourds 4:4

September 2015

A Hundred Gourds

Three my photos of round-table discussions during 

The 2nd Haiku Conference 

at the Manggha Japanese Museum of Art in Kraków

May 15-17, 2015

Max Verhart and Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda

Ralf Broeker, Iliyana Stoyanova, Robert Kania

Margaret Chula, Roberta Beary, Lidia Rozmus

The Asahi Shimbun

Aasahi

my haiku about The 2nd Haiku Conference in Kraków 

with David McMurray's preface:

"Irena Szewczyk penned her poem while listening to presentations and readings given by haikuists from 13 countries at the Manggha Japanese Museum og Art in Kraków, Poland. A professor of Slavic languages and a respected contemporary poet, Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980"

haiku conference

she starts to understand

Milosz's language

conférence de haïku

elle commence à comprendre

la langue de Milosz

konferencja haiku

zaczynam rozumieć

język Miłosza

haiku-konferencia

kezdem érteni

Milosz nyelvét

The 2nd International Haiku Conference was held on May 15-17, 2015 

in the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manngha, in Kraków.

The participants of the Conference came to Kraków from Poland 

and different countries, e.g. Japan, Germany, Bulgaria, USA, Sweden, The Nederlands, Lithuania, UK and more.

The Conference was convened in conjunction with the fourth edition of The Miłosz Festival and was dedicated to Miłosz and his work with haiku as well as to haiku generally in Poland and Europe. 

There were numerous interesting presentations and round-table discussions about traditional and modern haiku, haibun and haiga during the Conference.

Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) is a Polish national treasure. He was poet, writer, and translator and awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. He also wrote haiku and translated from English into Polish haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa.

Robert Kania & Irena Iris Szewczyk at the Manngha

The Wawel Cathedral and Gardens

Kraków Hackney Cab

The Wawel Castle in Kraków