for
9/1 (in class)
haiku
reading: reading and sharing resonse to haiku from MAYFLY magazine. how does a haiku work from a reader's perspective?
for
9/8 (email your haiku and reading responses to me by midnight Wednesday 9/6)
reading:
Zen Art, introduction &
tenet #1
(write a ¶ response to one favorite haiiku or painting)
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "Haiku: The Poetry of Seasons" pages 1-12
(write a ¶ response to one favorite haiiku)
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 9/15 (emails due midnight 9/13)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #2
(choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ and a haiku in response to it)
reading: Lull Before Dark by Caroline Gourlay
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites you find)
haiku editing assignment: write variations or edited versions of 3 haiku from Haiku to Edit 1
workshop response assignment: write ¶ responses to 2 favorites from the Kukai 1 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 pre-judgements, values, attitudes. write haiku of noticing things in their own natures. email your new haiku to me by Wednesday midnight
for 9/22 (emails due midnight 9/20)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #3
(choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ and haiku in response to it)
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "The Art of Haiku" pages 13-32
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
workshop response assignment: write a ¶ response to your favorite 2 haiku from the second kukai and email them to me (I will email the kukai haiku to you)
writing haiku: email five new haiku attempts to Dr. Brooks
for 9/29 (email due midnight 9/27)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #4 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "The Art of Haiku" pages 33-54
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
writing haiku 1: send me a haiku you want the class to help edit
writing haiku 2: write five or more new haiku attempts and email them to Dr. Brooks and your haiku buddy. Focus 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 10/6 (email due midnight 10/4)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #5 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "Senryu & Craft of Haiku" pages 55-84
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
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 2)
kukai 3 will be coming to you by email soon. pick 10-12 favorites for our in class kukai. (this kukai will include the best from two weeks of writing)
writing haiku 1: 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? And give me some chilly autumn haiku or senryu.
for 10/13 (email due midnight 10/11)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #6 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "Craft of Haiku" pages 85-105
writing memory responses: write a long memory response (2-3 paragraphs ¶ responses) to 2 favorites from Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "Craft of Haiku" include author & page number.
THEN write several haiku in response to these two haiku. or as spin-offs to other favorites by any authors you've read in Haiku: A Poet's Guide or Mayfly magazine or Caroline Gourlay's book.
for 10/20 (email due midnight 10/18)
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
editing response assignment: write alternatives & edit one of the haibun from haibun to edit 1 including only 2-3 of the haiku (write a new haiku from the prose for your own collection)
kukai 4 will be coming to you by email link soon. pick 7-9 favorites for our in class kukai. write a & response to two favorites
writing haiku: email 10 new haiku attempts by Wednesday midnight OCTOBER 18. 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)
10/27 is FALL BREAK - enjoy your break.
No assignment (of course, if you run into some good haiku moments please write them down and send them to me). You do have haiku eyes now. Keep em open.
for 11/3 (email due midnight 11/1)
reading response assignment: homecoming haiku matching contest 1 (link will be sent to you by email by Monday noon, October 30). select all of your favorites and write a response to one favorite haiku from this contest.
also evaluate special places haiku matching contest 2 (link will be sent to you by email by Monday noon, October 30). select all of your favorites and write a response to one favorite haiku from this contest.
How do you do the matching contest process? CHECK OUT a matching contest from Spring 2006 to see an example of a completed matching contest, including commentary on favorite haiku in the contest:
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/haiku/courses/globalSpring2006/3matchingcontestWinter.html
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 . . .
reading response assignment: School's Out by Dr. Brooks
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
writing haiku: email 5-10 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 1 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 fifth 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 11/10 (email due midnight 11/8)
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!
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, "Revising Haiku" pages 106-118
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
editing haiku day: send me 1-2 haiku you would like the class to edit (these do not have to be new haiku, just ones you want feedback and alternative suggestions on)
writing haiku: email 5-6 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 8 to Dr. Brooks 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.
for 11/17 (email due midnight 11/15)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #11 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it.
reading: Haiku: A Poet's Guide, Haiku Poetics, pages 118-145
(write short ¶ responses to 3 favorites)
writing haiku: email 5-6 new haiku attempts by Wednesday November 15 to Dr. Brooks 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.
11/24 is THANKSGIVING BREAK
kukai for Thanksgiving week: share the Kukai 5 Thanksgiving kukai with friends and family from home and gather up their votes for favorites. you can bring back up to 5 votes per favorite haiku to class December 1.
for 12/1 (email is due midnight 11/29)
reading response assignment: Zen Art, tenet #12 choose 1 favorite haiku or painting and write a ¶ or a haiku in response to it.
email your votes for kukai for Thanksgiving week and write about 2 of your favorites from this kukai and write about 2 favorites from family & friends.
writing haiku: email at least 5 Thanksgiving haiku and at least 5 new haiku attempts (10 total) by Wednesday November 29 to Dr. Brooks 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.
for 12/8 - 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
writing haiku: email some new haiku attempts on ice storm or snow or winter cold by Wednesday December 6 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 10.
for 12/13 - haiku roundtable reading, 5:00-6:30pm • Pilling Chapel
bring: your haiku collection including an introduction, a title, and optional reader's introduction. email a copy of all the haiku in your final collection and your introduction(s)
bring: your signature haiku bookmark gift for exchange (14 copies)
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 or a dollar, 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