Constanta National Haiku Conference

Romania, September 1994

An album of photographs by James and Patricia Hackett

Conference organizers (L): Ion Codrescu, (R) Michaela Codrescu

with James W. Hackett, (center) in Constanta, Romania.

Presenters and participants in front of the Constanta Cultural Center:

Contanta: Terrace of "Restaurant Cazino" on the Black Sea.
Foreground, L-R: Patricia Hackett, friend of Catherine Mair (NZ),
poets James W. Hackett and Catherine Mair (NZ) far right:

A group of poets near Sinaia on a post-conference trip thru western Romania:
L-R: Jean Antonini (Fr), Sam Canarrozi Yada (Fr), Ion Codrescu (Rom),
Magda Smets (Bel), Michaela Codrescu (Rom), Florina Dobrescu (Rom), Patricia Hackett (USA), Marcel Smets (Bel). (Photo by JWH)

Poets in front of King Carol's Summer Palace in western Romania:
L-R: (David Cobb (UK), Sam Cannarozzi (Fr), Ion Codrescu (Rom), Catherine Mair (NZ), Michaela Codrescu (Rom), Helen (NZ), Magda Smets (Bel), Kinuko Jambor (Jap) (front), Marcel Smets (Bel) (rear), Richard Jambor (Jap) (rear), Colin Blundell (UK), Patricia Hackett (USA), Florina Dobrescu (Rom). (Photo by JWH)

Another view of the summer residence of King Carol the First (b.1865)
near Sinaia, Romania

A village in the mountainous area of Transylvania.