New
Appointment Director of World Haiku Festival in Holland
The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce a new appointment of Mr. Milivoj
Objedovic as Director of World Haiku Festival in Holland with immediate effect.
This position will terminate at the end of the Festival.
Milivoj is a well-known figure in the international haiku community not only as
a haiku poet but also as Editor Eastern Europe of the popular and well-respected
international haiku magazine, Woodpecker. Through the magazine, Milivoj has
helped its founding editor, Willem Lofvers, in disseminating haiku across the
world and contributing to the development of haiku literature world-wide.
Though
sadly Woodpecker published its farewell issue last autumn, its admirable
influence and friendly spirit will continue to reverberate by the efforts of its
many readers and contributors in all parts of the world and by those who worked
so hard to get this magazine going, including Milivoj. At the same time, with
his colleagues in
Holland, Milivoj has contributed to the development of haiku in the country and
helped to raise its profile in the world context.
World Haiku Festival in Holland will take place in Leeuwarden, Provincie
Friesland in north-eastern Holland from 12 to 14 September 2003. Milivoj is
directly responsible for organising this Festival and in addition to the twenty
performing participants, wishes to welcome as many haiku poets as possible from
around the world. I hope you will join me in paying tribute to his hard work for
the benefit of haiku and of those of us who love the genre.
Kengin,
Susumu
