​Virtual. The workshop aims to deepen our understanding of poetry, focusing on haiku and tanka. We will discover the ways to apply it to all other writings we do. In the six weeks, you will be introduced to haiku and tanka and different Japanese poetic styles such as senryu, haibun, zuihitsu, haiga, or photo haiku and renku (linked poems.) We will write every week with a focus on different elements of what makes haiku, including syllables, season words, structure and cutting words, images, and haikai aesthetics (wabi, sabi, shihori, karumi.) In other words, we will consider and use haiku as an expandable nucleus or the condensed universe of poetry. Class size limited is to 8.

Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Miho Kinnas is a translator, writer, and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections Today, Fish Only and Move Over, Bird, both by Math Paper Press and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias by Free Verse Press. The poem, Three Shrimp Boats on The Horizon, was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. Also in 2023, a book of poetry collaborated with E. Ethelbert Miller, We Eclipse into the Other Side, was published by Pinyon Publishing. In addition, a rengay written with Lenard D. Moore appears in Tandem, Vol 2, No 2 and her translation in Tokyo Poetry Journal Vol 12. She writes literary essays and book reviews for journals including E-Markings, American Book Review and Literary Shanghai Alluvium. Her interview and reading recorded on Grace Cavalieri’s radio/podcast show The Poem and the Poet will have been installed at a permanent location on the moon as a part of Lunar Codex program. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. She is also an instructor at Writers.com, Camp Conroy, and Life-Long Learning of Hilton Head.​