We will be offering a another free haiku workshop next month in New Jersey. Our last workshop celebrated the start of summer and this next one will focus on autumn.
The autumn haiku workshop with Ken Ronkowitz is on both reading and writing haiku, that best known (and misunderstood?) form of Japanese verse. It will be held Saturday, October 8, 2011.
Though many Westerners associate haiku with early lessons on writing poetry as a child, the form dates back more than 300 years and is considered very serious poetry in the East.
Haiku consists of non-rhyming verses that frequently use nature and seasonal themes that aim to evoke vivid mental pictures and stir strong emotions in readers.
It is a form that has connections to other mediums of expression, aesthetics and Zen culture
. In the workshop, we will read and discuss the history of haiku, how it is composed in English and then compose and share our own haiku.
Our host location for this workshop is the Ringwood Public Library (New Jersey).
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