On Saturday, Oct. 24, Peter Harris, a professor at Colby College, will offer a poetry workshop, “Haiku and You,” at Treetop Zen Center in Oakland.

Attendees will look at different types of haiku from Japan and America, discuss the formal aspects, take haiku hikes, and try writing their own haiku.

Lunch will be served.

For more information, please call 207-465-7536 or email muisensi@earthlink.net.

Schedule

10:00 to 10:30 — What’s haiku?

10:30 to 11:15 — Looking at nature in haiku

11:15 to 11:30 — Break

11:30 to 12:15 — Looking At Nature and then Writing nature Haiku

12:15 to 1:00 — Lunch

1:00 to 1:30 — Remarks about Senryu—[haiku about people]

1:30 to 2:15 — Writing Senryu

2:15 to 2:30 — Break

2:30 to 3:20 — Renga Collaborative

3:20 to 3:40 — Roundup

Fee: $30, lunch included.