Upcoming Towpath meetings include a gingko walk planned for the National Arboretum on November 8th, and a regularly scheduled virtual meeting on November 14th. Contact Matt Snyder with interest in joining (snyder.matt@gmail.com).
Announcements
Roberta Beary’s haiku received an Award for Excellence in the 37th ITO EN Haiku Contest, one of nine selected by the judges out of 26,062 haiku in English. Additionaly, Roberta read their haibun, After Making Love in Our Watergate Co-op with River View at the last literary salon for Capital Love (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2026) at DC Studio Theater’s KBird, along with haibun from her recent collection Crazy Bitches.
On October 24th, poets of the Towpath Haiku Society poets gave a virtual reading to Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2026, at the invitation of Michael Dylan Welch. On behalf of Towpath, member Sean Felix attended in person, served as MC, and presented a gift of 70 copies of a recent Towpath anthology. Robert Forsythe adroitly organized the reading, coordinating attendees, a printed handout, the reading agenda, and more. The handout and a sampling of works from the reading are available under
