2024

July 20, 2024

Join Terry Ann Carter, Coutu Radmore, Marco Fraticelli and Philomene Kocher for a matsuri; a poetry festival from lyric to haiku. These four poets will be reading from their latest books, followed by haiku readings with invited poets.
Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Central Branch , 130 Johnson Street, Meeting Room #2
Kingston, Ontario
1:30 - 3:30 pm

May 19

Honourable Mention in the Marianne Bluger Book Award for Dear Elsa. Announced at the Haiku Canada Weekend held at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

April 25

Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre and Pointe-Claire Senior Centre (Pointe-Claire, Quebec). In honour of outstanding excellence in community service and literature.

2023

May 20

Book launch of Dérive (catkin press, 2023) – the French translation of Drifting
Presentation: The difficulties of translating poetry from English to French.
Presenters: Marco Fraticelli & translator Bertrand Cyr
Haiku Canada Weekend 2023
Montreal, Québec

Book launch of the chapbook Changing Demographics by Philomene Kocher & Marco Fraticelli
Open Readings/Lecture au choix, hosted by Sandra St-Laurent and Carole Daoust
Haiku Canada Weekend 2023
Montreal, Québec

May 19

Performance of Dear Elsa by Marco Fraticelli & Terry Ann Carter
The main characters of Dear Elsa – Leo and Elsa – were brought to life in a performance that featured excerpts from the book.
Haiku Canada Weekend 2023
Montreal, Québec

May 15

Book launch of Dear Elsa, with other authors from Red Deer Press
Hosted by Red Deer Press editor Beverley Brenna.
Event recording may be accessed at this link, see May 15 item with required password)
Online

2022

December 10

Virtual presentation to the solstice haiku group
Title: Haibun: presentation and reading
Whitehorse, Yukon

March 12

Virtual presentation to the solstice haiku group
Title: septenga: writing linked verse
Presenters: Marco Fraticelli & Philomene Kocher
Whitehorse, Yukon

2021

July

Invited Judge, the Haiku Juniors (17 years or younger) category of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition 2021. The winning haiku & judge’s comments are available here.

In March 2021, this blog post on the New Zealand Poetry Society’s website gave some guidelines to youth writing haiku: “Haiku Tips from Marco Fraticelli” is available here.

June 6

Virtual presentation for the British Haiku Society (BHS) Spring Gathering: Haibun: The Gateway to Haiku.

May

Invited Judge, 2021 Betty Drevniok Award Contest, Haiku Canada.
The winning haiku & judge’s comments are available here.

2019

October 23

Haiku Reading
Haiku Arbutus Study Group
Victoria, British Columbia

October 22

An Evening with Marco Fraticelli
Historic Joy Kogawa House
Vancouver, British Columbia

“Fraticelli will examine the intricacies of writing from another person’s point of view that is grounded in historical research. He will explain why haibun was his form of choice for these two projects, and address the juxtaposition of fiction and non-fiction in his writing.” — Event announcement may be found on the Historic Joy Kogawa House website at this link.

March 30

Haiku reading and workshop
Embassy of Japan
Ottawa, Ontario

In collaboration with Kado Ottawa, the Embassy of Japan hosted a haiku reading and workshop given by Marco Fraticelli, a haiku poet residing in Montreal. He is an executive member of Haiku Canada and his poetry has won awards in Canada, the United States, and Japan. More about this event may be found on the Embassy website at this link.

2018

May 20

Facilitated an anonymous haiku workshop
Haiku Canada Weekend 2018
Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec

Marco was the first to introduce “anonymous workshops” at the annual Haiku Canada conferences, as a way for poets to collaboratively edit haiku while learning the craft. This is one of the most popular conference events, and a boon to novice poets who can learn more technique in an hour than they may from many years of solo study.

2015

October 15

Performance by Marco Fraticelli & Terry Ann Carter
Haiku North America Conference
Union College, 807 Union Street
Schenectady, New York, USA

“Marco performed a series of letters (imagined) from the perspective of Chiyo-ni, interspersed with his singing of a variety of popular songs and accompanying himself on electric piano whilst Terry Ann Carter, in Kabuki-style make-up, mimed and danced, holding up Chiyo-ni’s haiku on signs for the audience to read. The audience was captivated by the performance and gave both poets a standing ovation. It was exceptional and truly memorable.” — Jennifer Sutherland, A Hundred Gourds 5:2 March 2016, available here.

2014

May 3

Book launch of Drifting
Kingston Frontenac Public Library
Kingston, Ontario