Monthly Meeting Announcements

Thirty Years of Technical Writing [presentation: trends and one man's career in technical writing, copywriting, in-house documentation, multimedia]

Presenter: Larry Brouhard

Directory Update 2003 [call for changes, additions]

Hundredth SWET Newsletter [call for contributions]

Map to January Meeting Site and subsequent party

Monthly Meeting Reports

Getting Haiku (HA) [appreciating and creating the Japanese poems]

Speakers: Masako Takahashi, poet and illustrator; Holly Ueda, translator and poet

Haiku on the Spot [haiku written at haiku lecture by attendees, with comments by lecturers]

Haiku poetasters: Naomi Otani, Yumi Nishikawa, Hugh Ashton, Fred Uleman, John Gribble, David Paget, Sam Tanahashi

Cid Corman Poetry Reading in Kyoto (RS)

Poetry in Kansai [poetry reading]

Reader: Cid Corman, poet, essayist, translator

Threads on SWET-L (HU) [viruses, virus protection, recommended Web sites and Web pages]

Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [ethical problems: 'ware-ware nihonjin' mentality; inadequate handling by previous native-English checker]

Interview

Life Outside the Kanto-Kansai Areas (CR)

Interviewed: Chris Ryal, writer and editor, of Fukuoka, Kyushu

Book Fair Report

Bookworms Anonymous Meet (HU)

Report from the Steering Committee [call for ideas and participation in newsletter, events, etc.]