Join the St. Louis Writers Guild from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, September 16, 2023, for a free LIVE workshop with poet Ben Gaa on haiku poetry.
Our presenter, Ben Gaa, will join us LIVE, in-person at The Lodge Des Peres, 1050 Des Peres Rd., St. Louis, MO, 63131. The event will also livestream via Zoom. To attend the meeting online, follow the event link from the St. Louis Writers Guild website.
Please note that September 16 is the third Saturday in September, not our usual meeting week.
Beyond 5/7/5: The Haiku Moment
Missouri is in a haiku moment thanks to Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner’s Haiku Project 2023. Learn how to join in the fun at the September St. Louis Writers Guild workshop. We will be taking a look at Contemporary English Language Haiku. We will look at form, function, and the mindset behind reading and writing in this form.
Ben Gaa is your Friendly Neighborhood Haiku Poet and host of Haiku Talk on YouTube. He’s the author of two full-length collections of haiku and senryu, One Breath (Spartan Press 2020), and the Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018), as well as four chapbooks, the High/Coo award winner One Note Moon (Brooks Books 2023), Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018), Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (Poor Metaphor Design 2014) and the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). With over 1000 haiku and senryu published in journals and anthologies around the globe, he enjoys both giving and attending poetry readings and workshops and being part of the literary conversation.