Haiku Course at the Cobscook Community Learning Center


  • July 01, 2014

The Cobscook Community Learning Center is offering a four-week course, “Reading and Writing Haiku,”  taught by award-winning haiku poet Catherine J.S. Lee of Eastport on Tuesdays, July 8 - 29, 9:30am -12:30pm. With haiku practice comes an increased appreciation for nature; for the beautiful impermanence of things, which the Japanese call “wabi sabi;” and for karumi, which Basho described as “the beauty of ordinary things spoken of in a simple way.”

 

Poets will learn to observe nature with the haiku mind; to write haiku using the conventions of contemporary English language haiku: short/long/short structure, juxtaposition, seasonal references, and concrete imagery; and to read haiku with an eye to the “aha!” moment by studying the work of contemporary haiku poets as well as the masters Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Chiyo-Ni. The class will also explore other forms related to haiku, including tanka (a five-line form), haibun (prose poems plus haiku), and haiga (image plus haiku).

 

Instructor Catherine J.S. Lee lives, writes, teaches, and gardens in Eastport, Maine. After many years as a published writer of short fiction, she began writing haiku in 2007. Her haiku have been published in print and online haiku journals in twelve countries and five languages, and have won many awards. She is also a published haiga artist. All That Remains, her haiku collection, won the 2010 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition. Lee is a member of the Haiku Society of America, Haiku Canada, and Haiku Oz, the Australian Haiku Society.

 

The class will be held at the CCLC, 10 Commissary Point Rd. in Trescott. For more information, or to register for the course, please call the CCLC: 733-2233, email valerie@thecclc.org, or visit our website: http://www.cclc.me/articles/55-531/reading-and-writing-haiku/3.

 

 

 

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Valerie Lawson

10 Commissary Point Rd
Trescott  ME  04652 

207-733-2233 321 
em.clcc@eirelav
www.cclc.me