Coast Chapter Presents

Haiku Targets Beyond 5-7-5 with Michael Dylan Welch

This meeting is online only.

What do you shoot for when you write haiku? How can its strategies help your longer poetry or fiction? This presentation by Michael Dylan Welch explores the targets to aim for and why 5-7-5 is not necessarily one of them, at the Willamette Writers Coast Chapter January 20 meeting from 2-3:30 pm on Zoom. Please register online at www.willamettewriters.org for the link. Learn why 5-7-5 is an urban myth for writing haiku in English, and why other techniques (not “rules”) are more important for writing brief poems of personal experience. The presentation will dive into seasonal reference and two-part juxta-positional structure and discuss how they can help improve your other writing. Writing exercises and optional sharing/feedback will be part of the program.

Zoom Link

Register for the meeting here. On the day of the meeting, a Zoom link will be sent to your email.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIudO2qqzksEtYN2NVx1v82YErVrZB6BbEo

About Michael Dylan Welch

Michael Dylan Welch likes to be surprised by empathy and gratitude in haiku, has been active with haiku for more than 40 years, and joined the Haiku society of America in 1987. He founded his press, Press Here, in 1989 and is currently co-editing First Frost. Michael co-founded the Haiku North America Conference in 1991 and the American Haiku Archives in 1996, and National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com) in 2010. Michael has won first place in the Henderson, Brady, Drevniok, and Tokutomi haiku contests. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of publications, including three Norton Anthologies. His website, devoted mostly to haiku, is www.graceguts.com.

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Wellness

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See you there!