Tuesday, August 6th, 2024, 5:00PM-7:00PM

Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. SOLD OUT.

Haiku is the art of friction and surprise, especially when it is used to cap a Haibun, that mix of prose and haiku invented by the 17th Century Japanese poet Basho. In this generative workshop, we will begin by talking about surprise in poems, with an assist from sample poems, and look at how the classical Haiku poets created it. Then, we will move into some poetry play designed to loosen us up and bring more surprise to the poems we write. My hope is that participants will come away refreshed and interested in generating new poems of any kind with zest. The workshop will end with a round of Japanese Renga, collaborative poetry play of the classical haiku poets.