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English-language Haiku Workshops
English-language Haiku workshops are planned as part of the 11th Annual AKI MATSURI. Six (6) workshops will be offered by Michael Dylan Welch (Haiku Northwest). The workshop space is limited, so pre-registration is highly recommended. To pre-register, please contact Michael Dylan Welch by e-mail (WelchM@aol.com). or call him at 206-240-0871.

Workshop Location: BCC's main campus, L-Bldg (L120) [campus map]


A) "Haiku: It's Bigger Than You Think."

General presentation about haiku, free and open to the public.
  • September 6 (Saturday) from 1:00 to 1:45 p.m.
    September 7 (Sunday) from 12 noon to 12:45 p.m.

  • Pre-registration: Free


B) "A Family Introduction to Writing Haiku"

Workshop for families. Learn about kigo (season words), kireji (cutting words), shasei (objective imagery), and more. Write haiku focusing on your five senses, and make a small booklet to contain your haiku. Includes handouts, plus writing exercises for adults and children.
  • September 6 (Saturday) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
    September 7 (Sunday) from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

  • Pre-registration: $15 per family


C) "A Moment's Notice: Learn to Write Haiku"

Workshop for adults. Includes copious handouts, writing exercises, and hands-on discussion of participants' haiku. Learn about kigo (season words), kireji (cutting words), shasei (objective imagery), while focusing on developing a sensitivity to the sensory "moment" that each haiku celebrates.
  • September 6 (Saturday) from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
    September 7 (Sunday) from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

  • Pre-registration: $20 per adult


Haiku Northwest

Haiku Northwest celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2008. Founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, we are a regional group of the Haiku Society of America (www.hsa-haiku.org) and our members include both beginning and widely published haiku poets, translators, and theorists. In 2000, Haiku Northwest won the first place Merit Book Award for our anthology, To Find the Words.

We meet monthly, usually in Bellevue, to share and discuss English-language haiku, senryu, and related poetry (including haibun, haiga, tanka, and sometimes renku). Our members pay close attention to the primary strategies of haiku, such as including a season word (kigo) and an equivalent to a cutting word (kireji) in poems that use primarily objective sensory imagery.

Our activities this year have included featured readers at our meetings, a haiku performance with music at Folklife, facilitating a very popular haiku contest for the Washington Poets Association, hosting a national quarterly meeting of the Haiku Society of America at Seattle's Hugo House and a Haiku Day at Seattle's Japanese Garden, a haiku performance on KSER radio, special meetings and workshops, and other events. On the weekend of October 10 to 12, 2008, we will also be holding a haiku retreat in Seabeck, Washington. Everyone is welcome to our meetings and other events (nearly always free).

For more information, please see our Web site at http://hometown.aol.com/WelchM/Haiku-Northwest.html (which includes an online anthology of haiku by our members), or contact Michael Dylan Welch at WelchM@aol.com or 206-240-0871




 
 
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