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 […]
Tag archives: workshops
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 […]
Gwynn Scheltema, with Some Prompting
Sometimes poetry needs a constraint for an excuse to get in shape. Tomorrow at 6:45-7:45 Gwynn Scheltema will be faciliating the Tree Seed Series Workshop on playing with constraints. Gwynn was a founding editor for Lichen, Arts & Letters Preview. Her fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. She is […]
Ottawa Public Library Poetry Workshops
Writers are hosting poetry workshops at branches of the Ottawa Public Library: Monty Reid on March 2nd, Peter Richardson on April 6th, Sandra Ridley, April 13th David O’Meara on April 20th, and Stephen Brockwell on April 27th. Workshops are free. One needs to do early registration and get poems in ahead of time. More info […]
Here and There Poetry Tidbits
A beautiful short film from Australian revolving around Yeats is called Bat Eyes My contribution to Poet Secrets is up at Canadian Poetries Monty Reid is leading a workshop at Ottawa Public Library in March. It’s free and you can get your poems in ahead of time. I’ve joined GoodReads and 49thShelf (Now what?) I […]