Coffee & Craft: Free Writing Workshops

Poets! Join us on Saturday, June 7, at 10 am at Baldwin & Co. for a FREE writing workshop led by BRAD RICHARD. Here's what he has in store for us at this session, titled “Follow the Brush: Writing Zuihitsu."

Many of us are familiar with Japanese poetic forms such as haiku, but most of us are less familiar with the Japanese literary mode or genre called zuihitsu. For Japanese readers and writers, it is a mode of essay-writing, one that is highly associative (although focused on a single theme or topic), subjective, and without a fixed formal structure. In recent years, American writers have explored its possibilities as a poetic mode that is a hybrid of prose and poetry, poem and essay. If these descriptions sound slippery--well, it's not an easy mode to describe! We'll spend some time looking at older and contemporary examples, along with some thoughts by Kimiko Hahn, the writer most responsible for introducing zuihitsu to American audiences. Along the way, we will also generate our own zuihitsu drafts. Please come with a notebook or other writing material and a mind ready to make quick associations and shift in and out of different kinds of thinking. Whether you end up turning what you generate into examples of zuihitsu, I hope you will end up with material that you can use for a variety of purposes and, perhaps most of all, with some fresh ways of thinking about writing and genre.

This is a FREE writing workshop, but please register beforehand here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqYV4VeZHNULrdNhkQz5iIQQF1I0veOdfF8nn19WJeYP7xDA/viewform

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