Workshop on Writing Responsive Tanka
On Saturday, April 5th, 2014, YTHS is pleased to offer its third one-day Tanka Workshop, at a location in the Monterey Bay area (Monterey Dunes). Joan Zimmerman and Patricia J. Machmiller will introduce some ways to write responsive tanka by writing a tanka in response to one written by someone else.
Phillip Kennedy will be our specially featured speaker; he will lead us into the literature through his presentation: “Traditional waka techniques (and what we can learn from them) Part 1: Makurakotoba.”
The workshop will include exercises that let you build on your skills. It will be supplemented by an optional small-group session for each participant.
Attendees are invited (but not required) to bring three of their own unpublished tanka for workshop exercises.
You will have opportunities to learn a lot and to write, read, and receive comments on your poems.
Suggested workshop donation (a fund-raiser for YTHS): $60.
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