HAIKU NORTH AMERICA 1991—LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA
The inaugural Haiku North America conference, a biennial series of meetings of haiku poets and scholars, convened August 23–25, 1991, at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. The conference was organized by Garry Gay, Michael Dylan Welch, Jerry Ball, David Wright, Christopher Herold, and Paul O. Williams. The keynote address was given by prominent American haiku specialist William J. Higginson.