My best of 25 years of haiku and tanka never got officially launched thanks to Covid this spring but I have a box of copies. They are an oversized shape so cost a bit more to ship but for $15 it can be yours, all in. If you want a sample of the style, here’s […]
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Cento and Self-Expression
A cento is a poem form where you also don’t use any of your own words. You have stacks of books that get passed around and perhaps on a 5 minute or 15 minute timer you grab and transcribe on your page. The object is to pull what stands out verbatim and move to the […]
Tree Seed Workshops: Overview
Often when a feature reader comes from out of town to present at the Tree Reading Series they remark something along the lines of: that was a fantastic open mic. Usually you have to suffer through those but I got something out of each reader. Back in 2009 Rod Pederson was the director at Tree […]
Using Your Voice
In case you read here not Humanyms as well, I talked there about making your voice about John Koensgen‘s voice workshop as part of the Tree Seed Workshops. He will be giving another workshop April 9 on stage presence. It will also be held at Club SAW, part of the SAW Gallery at 67 Nicholas […]
Haiku Workshop
when: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 1:00pm until 3:00pm where: Camellia House, Ottawa RSVP for details to info@camelliateas.net Join talented bilingual haiku and tanka poet, Ottawa’s Mike Montreuil for a workshop to enrich and expand your understanding of the traditional art of Japanese Haiku. Well beyond the ‘5-7-5’ syllable-counting vision of haiku, Mike will build on […]