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Organized English-language haiku activity in Washington State first took place mostly in Bellingham, with Edna Purviance’s leadership of her Haiku Appreciation Club in the late 1970s. Edna published several books, mostly notably Aware by Betty Drevniok, who was a cofounder in 1977 of Haiku Canada.
