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Haiku: It's More Than 5-7-5

This Japanese form of poetry is entering the mainstream. Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz left his job by posting a haiku on Twitter. Around the U.S., literary magazines are creating haiku pages, newspapers are holding haiku contests, companies are putting haiku in their ads, and haiku-slams are being held.

In this two-part workshop, we will discuss haiku, examining classic haiku, such as those from Basho, and more modern haiku, such as those from Alan Ginsberg and Jim Kacian. We will look at the elements of haiku, and the differences and similarities between classic and contemporary haiku. We will write classical and contemporary haiku in class. Students will have the opportunity to share their haiku with the class.

Two Saturdays, 10:30am-12:30pm

October 2 and October 9, 2010

Cost: $60 ($54, members)

Instructor: Deborah Finkelstein, Poet
BIO

Deborah Finkelstein received The Aurorean’s “Creative Writing Student Outstanding Haiku Award” 2008, and was a featured "Poet of the Day" for a week at the Shreveport Memorial Library Electronic Poetry Board, Shreveport, LA and online at the The Electronic Poetry Network in 2009. Her haiku have been published in the anthology While the Light Holds; the literary magazines The Nor' Easter, Moonset, South by Southeast, Ambrosia, Bear Creek Haiku, Magnapoets (Canada), Gin'yu (Japan), FreeXpresSion (Australia), Haiku Novine (Serbia), Taj Mahal (India), Valley Micropress (New Zealand) and a fine line (New Zealand), and the web journals 3 Lights Gallery "Way Back Home Exhibit" and the Asahi Haikuist Network (on the website of The Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune, Japan). Her haiku will also be part of the upcoming anthology The Sound of Poets Cooking and the new website Berry Blue Haiku. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and a BA in English and theater from Rutgers University. Deborah has lectured on or taught haiku at Cambridge Adult Education, the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos "Writing and Reading Day," and Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education, Santa Fe, NM. She has also published tanka, free verse poetry, short stories, journalism, and plays.

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