for
9/2 (in class)
haiku
reading: reading and sharing resonse to haiku from MAYFLY magazine. how does a haiku work from a reader's perspective?
for
9/9 (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)
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 9/16 (emails due midnight 9/14)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #2 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ and haiku in response to it
reading: The Haiku Anthology, introduction and authors A-G (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites you find)
workshop response assignment: write variations or spin-offs from Haiku to Edit 1 a ¶ response to 1 favorite from the Haiku to Edit 1 (with or without edits) and email them to me
writing haiku: write five new haiku "on the spot" capturing perceptions from various locations and times. try to follow the concept of tenet 2 "Everything exists according to its own nature." by capturing moments of perception AND trying to avoid your own INSTANT judgements, values, attitudes. write haiku of noticing things in their own natures. email your new haiku to me by Wednesday midnight
extra credit: write some hurricane Katrina haiku and send them to me
for 9/23 (emails due midnight 9/21)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #3 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 new 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. 23
for 9/30 (email due midnight 9/28)
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 4). 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 next 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 10/7 (email due midnight 10/5)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #5 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
editing response assignment: read the haiku from haiku to edit 2 and write a ¶ response to your favorite 2 haiku from haiku to edit 2 and email them to me. also submit variations and edit suggestions for any of these (at least 3)
GINKO writing haiku: there is no class Friday, so I would like you to meet with your haiku buddy or other friends for a Ginko sometime over the weekend. Share memories of past autumns, and go for a walk to enjoy the autumn weekend. Write haiku on your walk. You could do this during our Friday class time, going to Fairview Park. Have fun writing haiku together, then email me the results of your Ginko by Monday, October 10.
Can you write haiku where the BIG thing is something alive and vibrant in nature and the small thing is you or the human or the man-made?
for 10/14 (email due midnight 10/12)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #6 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading response assignment: The Haiku Anthology, authors S-T (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites).
WRITE three or four haiku in response or as spin-offs to favorites by any authors you've read in The Haiku Anthology or Mayfly magazine.
workshop response assignment: write a ¶ response to your favorite 2 haiku from the second kukai and email them to me. This kukai will be posted on line by midnight October 10 (I will send you an email reminder about the kukai haiku to you)
for 10/28 (next Friday is fall break) - next email due October 26
extra credit: go to the Japan House open house (free tea ceremony & haiku talk) October 22
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenets #7 & 8 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting from each chapter and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
writing haiku: email 10 new haiku attempts by Wednesday midnight OCTOBER 26. Try at least 5 each for the two following prompts: 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 11/4 (email due midnight 11/2)
reading response assignment: homecoming haiku kukai 3 (will be sent to you by email and posted on the web site by Monday noon). select all of your favorites and write a response to two favorites
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #9 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
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 . . .
writing haiku: email 5-10 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 2 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 we haven't read yet). 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
or
two lines in the water . . .
not a word between
father and son
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 11/11 (email due midnight 11/9)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #10 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it. this is the sabi one!
writing haiku: email 5-6 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 9 to Dr. Brooks and your haiku buddy on perceptions of being alone but not necessarily sad. aloneness. alone in the sense of on your own. everything is up to you. it's your call
reading response assignment: The Haiku Anthology, authors U-Z (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
for 11/18 (email due midnight 11/16)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #11 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it.
writing haiku: email 5-6 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 9 to Dr. Brooks and your haiku buddy on perceptions of being absorbed, totally focused into the moment. haiku that show you or someone else totally immersed into what they are doing. Nothing else matters. Their whole being is drawn up into where they are what they are doing.
reading response assignment: haiku kukai 4 and the Matching Pairs Kukai (will be sent to you by email and posted on the web site by November 14, Monday noon). This will be a matching contest kukai. select all of your favorites for each pair and write a response to two most intersting pairs anywhere within the matching contest
for 12/2 (NO CLASS Friday after Thanksgiving so email is due midnight 11/30)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #12 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it.
reading response assignment: School's Out, (write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
writing haiku: email 10 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 30 to Dr. Brooks and your haiku buddy on perceptions of things that are more human, more significant, more valued because they are broken, used, worn, not new. the emotional resonance of things that have been around and been used for years. how they fit the human hand better. they make us feel at home in the world UNLIKE the new, stiff, plastic shrink-wrapped things.
rengay writing for Thanksgiving week: write 2 rengay (one with family or friends) and (one with an email partner from this class or previous haiku students) follow the principle of no more than three links being ninjô or ninjô-nashi verses in a row. Download the handout on How To Rengay.rtf
for 12/9 - final kukai
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #14, choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
bring: your signature haiku bookmark gift for exchange (12)
writing haiku: email 5 new haiku attempts by Wednesday December 7 to Dr. Brooks
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 a title and 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 midnight December 14.
for 12/14 - haiku roundtable reading, 2pm • Fireplace room, RTUC
reading response assignment: haiku final kukai 5 write about 2 favorites
bring: your haiku collection including an introduction, a title, and optional reader's introduction
bring: your haiku submission (5 haiku on a page with your name & address in upper left hand corner, in an envelope, with an Self Addressed Envelope inside). Please include two stamps in the envelope, but do not stick the on the envelope in case I submit your work to foreign countries. Leave the outside envelope 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 for possible magazines to submit to.
bring: friends to the reading. extra credit for every friend you bring!