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Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) was an American academic, art historian and Japanologist.He was a Columbia University professor for twenty years. From 1948 through 1952, he was the President of the Japan Society in New York, [1] and in 1968 he cofounded the Haiku Society of America.
William J. Higginson (December 17, 1938 – October 11, 2008) was an American poet, translator and author most notable for his work with haiku and renku, born in New York City.
Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Midtown Manhattan. [3] It is part of the town of Eastchester . The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km 2 ) of land in its entirety, approximately 20% of the town of Eastchester.
Lawrence Park Historic District is architecturally, historically, and culturally significant. William Van Duzer Lawrence, Lawrence Park's developer, personally oversaw the design and construction of the first homes in Lawrence Park and encouraged well-known artists and writers to make Lawrence Park their home, including artists Otto Henry Bacher, Hobart Nichols, and William Thomas Smedley, and ...
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The Haiku Society of America was founded in 1968 by Harold G. Henderson and Leroy Kanterman in New York City, and was the first formal organization dedicated to haiku outside of Japan. [4] Twenty-one charter members attended its first meeting. [2] Bringing together poets study, discuss, and write haiku, [4] the organization's stated goals were to:
Haiku (俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [1] that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; [2] and a kigo, or seasonal reference.
His collection Un dia (1919) [6] contains 38 ‘synthetic poems’ and has been described as “the first book of original haiku written by a poet outside Japan”. [7] It was followed by a collection of calligrams , Li-Po y otros poemas (1920), [ 8 ] and in 1922 by El jarro de flores , containing a further 68 haiku. [ 9 ]