| Oregon Haiku & Tanka Society |
| M a r g a r e t C h u l a |
| Margaret Chula�known as Maggie to her friends�is a poet, teacher, performer, and editor of Katsura Press. Her five collections of poetry include Grinding my ink and Shadow Lines (with Rich Youmans), which received Haiku Society of America Book Awards. From 1980-1992, she lived in Kyoto, Japan, where she taught Creative Writing at Doshisha Women's College and studied ikebana, woodblock printing, and zazen. Margaret now lives in Portland, where she gives workshops for arts organizations, universities, and Zen centers. She has also produced multimedia performances with photographers, dancers, and musicians that have been presented at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Portland Art Museum, the Portland Japanese Garden, and internationally in Canada, Poland, and Japan. Her work has been supported by grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Oregon Literary Arts. |
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| Margaret Chula a Featured Speaker at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival On September 2, 2005, Margaret Chula spoke on the topic, "Women Haiku and Tanka Poets." This was a dramatic presentation of sacred and sensual poetry from tenth-century Japan to the present day. Beginning with tanka, the precursor to haiku, Chula took the audience through the centuries with poetry, music, and costumes. She featured the poems of Izumi, Shikibu, Yosano Akiko, Suzuki Masajo, and her own haiku from her Kyoto years. She also read poems from here new collection The Smell of Rust. |
| Books and CDs by Margaret Chula The Smell of Rust, Katsura Press, haiku; cover photograph by John Hall, 2003, $14.95. Click here for a review of The Smell of Rust. Always Filling, Always Full, White Pine Press, tanka, illustrated by Jef Gunn, 2001, $14.00. Click here for a review of Always Filling, Always Full. Grinding my ink, CD, with Ken Ulansey on woodwinds, 2001. Shadow Lines, Katsura Press, linked haibun with Rich Youmans, illustrated by Michael Hofmann, Winner of the Haiku Society of America's 2000 National Merit Book Award. Haiga, haiku with sumi-e cards with brush drawings by Lidia Rozmus, 1997. This Moment, Katsura Press, hand-sewn book of haiku on the tea ceremony, 1995, $10.00. Grinding my ink, Katsura Press, Winner of the Haiku Society of America's 1994 National Merit Book Award, 1993, $14.95. For information about the availability of these books and CDs, and their current prices, contact the Katsura Press, P.O. Box 275, Lake Oswego, OR 97034. |
| Click here for samples of Margaret's haiku and tanka. |
| Upcoming Lectures and Poetry Readings by Margaret Chula Click here for details. |