Tag: Myron Lysenko

Woodend Haiku Festival – April 2025

International Haiku Day is celebrated worldwide on April 17 each year. Local poet, Myron Lysenko, Victoria’s Regional Representative for the Australian Haiku Society, has organised haiku activities in Woodend throughout April, including a haiku contest, haiku readings, haiku workshops, pop-up haiku poets, and a haiku picnic. Lysenko is the convenor of the monthly spoken word event Chamber Poets, and is an avid promoter, practitioner and teacher of haiku. 

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne-based poet, Myron Lysenko.

the missile
lands in an armchair
russian invasion

visiting Ukraine
by day and night…
online news

Harvesters
in the war-torn wheat field
grains of truth

a flag flutters
in the sowed field
late spring snow

– Myron Lysenko

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Fringe Myrtles at Chamber Poets

Saturday 13th April, 2024, at Woodend, Victoria

In celebration of International Haiku Day, the FRINGE MYRTLES HAIKU GROUP will be the featured readers at CHAMBER POETS, a monthly spoken word event organised by Myron Lysenko since 2013. It takes place on the second Saturday of each month between 1pm- 4pm at the Woodend RSL (32 Anslow Street Woodend). The date for this haiku celebration/reading is 13th April. There will also be an OPEN SECTION and resident band BLACK FOREST SMOKE will perform haiku set to music. All welcome. Entry by donation $10/$5.

Fringe Myrtles Haiku Meeting, February 2021

The Fringe Myrtles welcomed the new year at our first meeting for 2021 held on the last day of February. It was hoped that the group could meet face-to-face for the first time in almost a year, but due to the recent, sudden and unexpected lockdown, we were once again forced indoors. Fingers-crossed, we can be in each other’s physical company soon.

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HAIKU HANGOUT AT THE IMMIGRATION MUSEUM

Time: 11am – 4pm, Saturday 1 February, 2020
Venue: Immigration Museum 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne

Bid farewell to the long-running exhibition, Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World with a day of multilingual poetry hosted by members of the Australian Haiku Society. A number of poets who attended the opening of the exhibition will be there for the occasion. Continue reading “HAIKU HANGOUT AT THE IMMIGRATION MUSEUM”