You may have read in this blog about several of Loras's talented haiku writers and scholars.
This National Poetry Month, the Loras College Library is pleased to announce that we have acquired two collections from local haiku poets and are joining them with the Roseliep Collection to form a new Haiku Collection. This collection will focus on the works of local and Loras affiliated haikuists to highlight these areas influence on this artform.
Loras College has a strong claim to consider itself an early hub of haiku in English. Father Raymond Roseliep, English professor at Loras College from 1946 to 1966 and a poet of some renown, began to write and publish in the haiku form in the 1960s. When Roseliep passed away in 1983, he left his physical collections to the Loras College Library, and the library director also acts as his literary executor. Read more about Father Raymond Roseliep.
Roseliep's influence among his friends and students at Loras College means that Dubuque is a hub of several subsequent talented haikuists. We have recently added significant haiku material from Bill Pauly's collection. Bill was a student of Roseliep's at Loras, and went on to write and publish award-winning haiku, and teach haiku at Loras to the next generation of writers. We are also making accessible a donation of material from haikuist Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg, who was a friend and accolyte of Father Raymond. We considered that together these items could be the seed of a strong foundational collection of haiku material.
The Haiku Collection is separate from but related to the Roseliep Collection and the Loras College faculty publications collection. The goal of the new collection is to highlight the important contributions that members of the Dubuque community have made to the advancement of Haiku in the US.
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