The primary goal of this course is to read, write and publish haiku. As a pass/fail course, the secondary goal is to have fun sharing the creative process in a small workshop atmosphere. We will celebrate the diversity of voices and variety of experiences which will be evident in the student works.

For the Fall 2004 semester, students will gain an aesthetic understanding of Zen poetics underlying the haiku tradition and write original haiku from memory, imagination, direct observation, and meditation.

Each week we will have a traditions reading assignment, a short analysis assignment in response to readings, and a writing assignment.

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Haiku Writing Roundtable Authors

Assignments

Roundtable Kukai:

One (no comments) || One (comments)

Two (no comments) || Two (comments)

Three (no comments) || Three (comments)

Four (no comments) || Four (comments)

Five (no comments) || Five (comments)

Final Kukai || Final Kukai (comments)

Haiku Attempts to Edit:

One (not edited) || One (edited)

Matching Pairs Kukai:

One Matching Contest || Contest Results

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See some of our tea-ceremony
haiku in the final kukai.

	simple tea bowl a hundred hands cradled its warmth
		by Emily Evans