The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce the creation of
WHCfrench. This follows WHC's other bi-lingual fora:
Spanish/English, German/English, Japanese/English, Russian/English,
Italian/English, Dutch/English and Portuguese/English. WHC
encourages different languages and cultures in addition to English.
Haiku in French is a distinct and growing part of the world haiku
movement supported by the beauty of the language and is a welcome
addition to the poetic theatre of WHC.
As of August 12, 2005, WHCfrench will be led by three moderators:
Daniel Py (France), Gilles Fabre (Ireland), Richard Vallance
(Canada), and supported by leading French-language haiku poets
including Andre Duhaime and Serge Tome.
The aims of WHCfrench are summarised in the description of the forum
written in French (Serge Tome) and in English:
WHCfrench est un forum bilingue français/anglais consacré au haïku
du World Haiku Club et a été conçu pour l'étude, le plaisir de lire
et le partage du haïku en français, non seulement pour les
francophones de par le monde mais aussi pour ceux qui souhaitent
étudier et découvrir le
plaisir du haïku en français quelque soit leur connaissance de cette
langue. WHCfrench vise aussi à fournir un pont à double sens entre
le monde du haïku francophone et la communauté haïku internationale.
Comme WHCfrench est bilingue, il est demandé aux membres de poster
leurs poèmes et/ou commentaires accompagnés d'une traduction
anglaise.
Je vous prie de diffuser cette nouvelle afin de recruter des membres
pour le WHCfrench.
WHCfrench is a bi-lingual French/English haiku forum of the World
Haiku Club and designed for the study, enjoyment and sharing of
haiku in French, not only among native-speakers of French across the
world, but also all those who wish to study and enjoy haiku in
French whatever the stage of their knowledge of French. WHCfrench
also aims at providing a two-way bridge between the world of French
haiku and the rest of the world haiku community.
As WHCfrench is bi-lingual, members are requested to post their
poems and/or comments with English tranlations.
Please spread the word and get more people to become members of
WHCfrench.
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