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2007 Seattle Poetry Festival Workshop: Haiku: Myths & Realities
Instructor Michael Dylan Welch leads the group through a theoretical introduction to haiku: its history and aesthetics, including the myths and realities of the genre. Students will write haiku and participate in group discussion and critique.
Max. number participants: 15
Michael Dylan Welch is editor and publisher of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem, vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and all-round haiku advocate. He has won first place in and judged numerous international haiku contests. Welch has published thousands of his haiku in more than a dozen languages. He is a board member of the Washington Poets Association, founder of the Poets in the Park conference, co-founder/director of the Haiku North America conference, co-founder of the American Haiku Archives, and haiku editor for the brand new Haiku Journey, a computer game from Hot Lava Games / NStorm, distributed by Mumbo Jumbo.
Admission for the Seattle Poetry Festival is required in addition to your workshop ticket.
The Seattle Poetry Festival Opening Night Party and the Seattle Poetry Slam 2007 Grand Slam are seperately ticketed events:
2007 Seattle Poetry Festival
2007 Seattle Poetry Slam Opening Night Party
Seattle Poetry Slam's 2007 Grand Slam
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Additional workshops are available; their titles are listed below. Follow these links for full course descriptions and to secure your tickets today!
Bookbinding for Kids
Haiku: Myths & Realities
Using the Language of Science
Bookbinding for Adults
Poetry Revision Workshop
How to Make the Act of Writing One Big Collaboration
Poetry & the Visual Arts
Sound Poetry
Collaboration
The Seattle Poetry Festival is supported by a grant under the Civic Partners program by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.
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LocationRichard Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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