Aug 16 2014
Simple Elegance: Nature Poetry and Japanese Forms

Simple Elegance: Nature Poetry and Japanese Forms

at The Writer's Center

In this five-week course, you’ll spend the first four weeks at The Writer’s Center writing and refining poems about nature. We’ll focus on the Japanese haiku, tanka, and katuata. We’ll study and practice the challenges and simplicity of short poems by reading these forms by masters (Basho, Issa, Buson, Wright) as well as some free verse poems by modern masters of brevity like Williams, Ryan, Creeley, Clifton, and Dickinson. By the final session, students will have revised one poem ready for printing. The fifth session of workshop will meet at Pyramid Atlantic. Presented by Lauren Emeritz & Melanie Figg.

Admission Info

$300

Phone: 301-654-8664

Dates & Times

2014/08/16 - 2014/08/16

Additional time info:

5-week course.

Location Info

The Writer's Center

4508 Walsh St., Chevy Chase, MD 20815