Haibun - Prose and Haiku
Instructor: Susan Campion (sgalletti)Includes a free two month upgraded membership! Details
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Duration: Four Weeks
Class Size: 7 Students
Seats Left: 6
Assignments will include readings, analysis of well written haibun, and visitations to various haibun journals and sites. It will be important that students commit to the assignments prior to each class session. A basic understanding of the techniques of writing haiku will be helpful as we will delve more deeply into this poetry form. Likewise, a basic understanding of the elements of flash fiction as a prose technique will assist the student's understanding of how to write haibun well.
Because of the nature of the haibun poetic form, this class will also review basic poetry technique, such as alliteration, metaphor, imagery, and rhyme.
It is tentatively planned that classes will occur on the weekends to accommodate various time zones. The instructor will work with students to identify the best day and time for all.
Week 1: An understanding of the poetic form of haiku. What is it? What is it not? Why is it so misunderstood? What are the essential elements of a well written haiku? What is the function of a haiku in a haibun? Readings and writing in the haiku form.
Week 2: The elements of a haibun. What is the relationship of the haiku and prose in a haibun? What does "terse" prose look like? What are the various poetic devices that are used in haibun prose, e.g., metaphor, imagery, alliteration, consonance, assonance, subtle rhyme. What are the various types of haibun and what differentiates one from the other? Readings and beginning writing of prose in the haibun form.
Week 3: How does a writer compose an abbreviated syntax to convey a stream of sensory impressions by "showing" as opposed to "telling"?
Week 4: Analyze each other's haibun. Questions and answers. Summarize learnings. Discuss next steps, including opportunities for publication of haibun constructed in class.
Instructor: Susan Campion
About The Instructor:
Susan Galletti Campion has been published in multiple education journals and books as well as several poetry anthologies. She was the Editor of Schools in the Middle magazine for five years, as the Associate Executive Director of the largest professional organization of middle and high school principals in the world (NASSP). In that capacity, she also provided professional development to principals in over 34 states and understands and appreciates constructivist teaching, facilitation, and the positives of creating a learning community. Susan holds a Doctorate degree from the University of Washington and majored in English at San Diego State University. Susan facilitated the creation of the ground-breaking book of senryu, kyoka and haiga entitled Pieces of Her Mind, working with women writers from around the world. She is a recognized poet on FanStory and received the trophy as the Top 5 Poet in 2010.