for
9/3 (in class)
haiku
reading: reading and sharing resonse to haiku from MAYFLY magazine. how does a haiku work from a reader's perspective?
for
9/10 (email your haiku and reading responses to me by midnight Wednesday)
reading:
Zen Art, introduction &
tenet #1 (write a ¶
response to one favorite haiiku or painting)
reading: The Haiku Anthology, introduction and authors A-G (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
haiku
writing: write
five haiku attempts in response to associations and memories from
haiku you read this week in MAYFLY and/or from tenet #1 in Zen Art.
for 9/17
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #2 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ and haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: The Haiku Anthology, authors H-M (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
workshop response assignment: write a ¶ response to your favorite 2 haiku from the first kukai and email them to me (I will email the kukai haiku to you)
writing haiku: email five haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses by Wednesday midnight (copy to Dr. Brooks) and bring your edit and variation suggestions to class on Sept. 17
for 9/24 - editing workshop day
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #3 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ OR a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: read haiku to edit 1 and write responses to 3 haiku and write variations or edit ideas for at least 5 haiku (email your responses and edit suggestions to me for the edited versions)
writing haiku: email (or meet in person) five new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight (copy to Dr. Brooks)
for 10/1 - sabi
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #4 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: The Haiku Anthology, authors N-R (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
writing haiku: email five or more new haiku attempts to Dr. Brooks and your haiku buddy on autumn memories including at least one or two on SABI contented aloneness (like from tenet 3). Invoke your sensory imagination and provide a context of place in each haiku! Where are you and why are you there? And what do you feel there (from your senses)?
The third kukai is going to emphasize solitary peacefulness—think of times and places where you were all alone but contented to be there, to take in the beauty of that moment, to have that quiet time of just being there with no worries, not a care to the world.
for 10/8 - kukai 2
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #5 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: select your favorite 5-8 haiku from kukai 2 and write a ¶ response to your favorite 2 haiku from kukai 2 and email them to me (I will email the kukai haiku to you or get them from the web site). Our special guest kukai judge for Kukai 2 is Brock Peoples, MU'03.
extra credit (NOT REQUIRED): share the kukai 2 haiku with friends or family and bring their favorite 3-4 haiku. you can add their votes to yours if you email me a paragraph about why they liked it
writing haiku: email (or meet in person to discuss) five new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight (copy to Dr. Brooks). Buddies--give your haiku buddy at least 2 variations of a couple of their attempts. Can you write a haiku where the BIG thing is something in nature and the small thing is you or the human?
for 10/22 - kukai 3
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenets #6 & 7 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting from either chapter and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: select your favorite 10 haiku from kukai 3 and write a ¶ response to your favorite 3 haiku from kukai 3 and email them to me.
extra credit (NOT REQUIRED): share the kukai 3 haiku with friends or family and bring their favorite 3-4 haiku. you can add up to 5 haiku proxy votes to yours
writing haiku: email 5-10 new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight OCTOBER 20 (copy to Dr. Brooks).I would like for you to try two approaches to haiku over the next two weeks—(1) going back to or remembering places of HIGH significance to you and capaturing the feeling of being there (this might involve a road trip or hike into the woods). And (2) haiku about homecoming (Millikin or high school or literally back home).
for
10/29 - workshop day (haiku to edit from kukai three comments)
reading
response assignment: Zen
Art, tenets #8 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting from either
chapter and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
edit
response assignment: write
variations and edit suggestions for any 3-5 of the haiku from kukai
3 comments for haiku that did not get more than 2 votes and email
your haiku edit variations to me. Do at least one haiku pair comparison
(like Emily) of your new version of haiku with another haiku from
kukai 3 or from any book.
writing
haiku: email
5-10 new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit
suggestions by Wednesday midnight OCTOBER 29 (copy to Dr. Brooks).I
would like for you to try zazen
meditation approach to writing haiku this week.
for 11/5 - no spectator haiku allowed! Maybe haiku doesn't place you in the center of the scene, but it also assumes you're there, somewhere, in some small way . . .
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #9 & 10, choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: The Haiku Anthology, authors S-Z (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites) write a variation or a response haiku to a favorite
writing haiku: email 5-10 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 3 to Dr. Brooks and your haiku buddy on perceptions of missing something (no sound, not seeing, not feeling) including at least one or two on YUGEN mysterious emptiness or sublime vastness (like from tenet 10). Invoke your sensory imagination and provide a context of place in each haiku even though it's about something NOT BEING THERE! Where are you and why are you there? And what do you feel there (from your senses)?
an example from my collection, School's Out:
dirt farmer's wife
at the screen door—
no tractor sound
The fourth kukai is going to emphasize noticing absence—think of times and places where you missed something or noticed something was gone or not there or out of place.
for 11/12 - matching contest
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #11, choose 1 favorite haiku or painting from either chapter and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: do the matching haiku contest One Matching Contest, reading and enjoying each haiku, then selecting one to move forward to the next level of matching contest (repeat at that level and so on until you get a top top champion. write a ¶ response to at least two pairs of haiku and write a ¶ response 1 one overall favorite haiku from One Matching Contest and email it to me.
writing haiku: email 5 new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight November 10 (copy to Dr. Brooks). hey class, you set the kukai topic—bronzeman or park benches.
for 11/19 - bronze man kukai 4
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #12, choose 1 favorite haiku or painting from either chapter and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: select your favorite 10 haiku from kukai 4 and write a ¶ response to your favorite 3 haiku from kukai 4 and email them to me.
writing haiku: email 5 new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight November 17 (copy to Dr. Brooks). No topic, just let the haiku emerge from your life--let them become instead of "making them".
for 12/3 (in class kukai 5 - Thanksgiving)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #13 & 14, choose 1 favorite haiku or painting from each chapter and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: select your favorite 10-20 haiku you've written this fall and print up copies to take home for Thanksgiving. share them with family and friends and have them pick out favorites they think you should include in your collection. write me an email about your family or friends' favorite picks
writing haiku: email 5 new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight December 1 (copy to Dr. Brooks). Thanksgiving haiku kukai in class Dec. 3.
for 12/10 - final class day Tea Ceremony road trip
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #15, choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: select your favorite haiku to go into your collection and share them with your reading buddy (or have your reading buddy help you select haiku to include in your collection) and write introduction for your own collection and a response to a favorite by your haiku buddy. email me the haiku in final edit form and your exchangeed introductions by December 12.
writing haiku: email 5 new haiku attempts to your haiku buddy for responses and edit suggestions by Wednesday midnight December 8 (copy to Dr. Brooks). Go for karumi "lightness of being" enjoying and celebrating being alive!
writing haiku & responses: your haiku collection selections and the 5 new haiku attempts will be the basis for our final kukai, which will be done by email only. The Final Kukai web site will be up Monday afternoon, December 13th. Send me your 10 favorite haiku and write a ¶ about one by midnight December 14th. Awards and winners will be given at the final reading.
If possible, write a haiku or two in response to the tea ceremony.
for 12/15 - haiku roundtable reading, Pilling Chapel
bring: your haiku collection including an introduction, a title, and optional reader's introduction
bring: your signature haiku bookmark gift for exchagne (20)
bring: your haiku submission (5 haiku on a page with your name & address in upper left hand corner, in an envelope, with an SASE inside). if you know the haiku magazine you want to submit to address the envelope to it otherwise leave it blank and I will send it to the magazine I think will most likely be interested in publishing your work. See the MU Haiku magazines page.
bring: friends to the reading
