Haiku Inspiration
Five haiku poets of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective found inspiration in the exhibition Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection. On the evening of February 22, 2018, they read haiku poetry inside a gallery in response to works of art on view, and they also read from the new book of haiku poetry they co-authored, One Window’s Light (2017, Unicorn Press).
Members of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective include Gideon Young, whose poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku and Obsidian, among other publications; Sheila Smith McKoy, Ph.D., author and professor of English at Kennesaw State University; Lenard D. Moore, who received the Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award (1983, 1994 and 2003) and the North Carolina Award for Literature (2014); L. Teresa Church, Ph.D., whose work has appeared in Simply Haiku and The Heron’s Nest, among other publications; and Crystal Simone Smith, author and assistant professor of English at Elon University, managing editor of Backbone Press.