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Deeper into the Seasons: Four Haiku Workshops
Noted haiku poet and artist Patricia Macmiller is leading four day-long haiku workshops in 2009, one workshop in each season. These workshops are for haiku writers who wish to deepen their haiku practice and gain insight into how the kigo, the seasonal reference, enhances the haiku. The workshop process is designed help participants delve into their experiences of the season and reveal unconscious associations. The workshop process starts with a discussion of relevant local kigo. Through group discussion the participants examine how these often-hidden associations can help us communicate the haiku experience in our writing. Walks and writing sessions both in the morning and the afternoon supplement the discussions. Finally there are discussions based on the new writing.
Participants have reported that the first three workshops were greatly rewarding. The remaining workshop will be on the following date.
Autumn: Sunday, November 8, 2009
They will be held at the Machmiller beach house on Monterey Bay near Moss Landing, beginning at 9:30 am and ending at 4:30 pm with a one-hour lunch break. Participants should plan to bring a bag lunch. Please no peanuts or peanut content in the lunches. Beverages will be provided.
The cost will be $60 per workshop. These workshops are part of the fund-raising activities of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society to pay for the publishing of Autumn Loneliness: The Letters of Kiyoko and Kiyoshi Tokutomi, July-December, 1967. All of the proceeds of the workshops will go toward the book.
If you are interested in attending any of these sessions, please contact Patricia at patriciajmachmiller@msn.com.