Haiku Workshop

Haiku Workshop

Adult Online Workshop | This class is completed

open to all levels

3/25/2017 (one day)

9:30 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat

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$75.00

$67.50

Discover how haiku can reveal the radiance of your most ordinary moments. A haiku can be described as a short poem that records "the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature.” As decades have past and the field of translation has taken on new approaches and methodologies, we have learned that haiku should not be looked upon as a form—strictly syllable count, but more importantly as a group of aesthetic principles that allows us to see the world in a special way.
Poet, publisher, and printmaker Stanford M. Forrester will share many aspects of writing haiku and participants will learn how to integrate haiku into both their own art and spiritual practices. Visual artists will utilize the benefits of distilling and capturing moments with an economy of words in their work. Everyone is welcome—no experience is needed—just bring a pen, some paper, and yourself.
A workshop packet (of handouts and other materials) will be available on site for purchase. $17.00 paid to the facilitator.

Stanford M. Forrester is a past president of the Haiku Society of America as well as the editor of bottle rockets: a collection of short verse, which boasts its 18th year in print. Stanford has had poems published in many journals and anthologies worldwide. He perhaps is most proud of his haiku being included in Haiku edited by Peter Washington in the Everyman’s Pocket Poetry Series published by Knopf, American Zen: A Gathering of Poets published by Bottomdog Press, and Haiku in English: The First 100 years published by Norton with an introduction by Billy Collins. In 2004 he took first seat in the 57th Annual Basho Anthology Contest in Ueno, Japan and in 2012, one of his haiku won second place in the International Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku Contest. That same year he was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently one of his poems was featured in Japan on the NHK TV show Haiku Masters. Stanford has done a number of workshops at Kripalu, the Zen Mountain Monastery, Wesleyan University, The Japan Society in NYC, The United Nations School, and a number of other places. Stanford is a resident of Windsor. and makes his living as a working poet, editor, publisher, and letterpress printer focusing on the art of the book.