ONLINE Come Create Workshop Day: Exploring Traditional Japanese Poetry & Art, Wednesday August 12

ONLINE Come Create! Workshop Day
Exploring Traditional Japanese Poetry & Art
Wednesday August 12, 1:30 – 8 PM

The Come Create! Workshop Day is offered by Portsmouth Poet Laureate Tammi Truax. Learn traditional Japanese poetry and art forms from local writers and artists. This program is co-sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program, as part of a project of building a bridge to Japan. Come to one or all four events on the day! Open to adults and kids ages 10+.

Registration required. The link to connect via Zoom will be sent by email the day before the workshop.

1:30 - 3:30 Introduction / Haiku and Senryu
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Learn about the Bridge to Japan project. Read, discuss and write Haiku and Senryu forms of poetry. With educator Misako Moore.

4:00 - 5:00 Haibun and Tanka
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Read, discuss and write Haibun and Tanka forms of poetry. With poet Mimi White.

5:30 - 6:30 Visual Art Presentations
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See demonstrations of two traditional Japanese visual art forms. Discuss poetry broadsides.

7:00 - 8:00 Renga / Wrap-Up
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Read, discuss and write Renga form of poetry. Wrap up the day. With poet Mark DeCarteret.

Tammi J. Truax is the 12th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth. Her poet laureate project is “Poetry as a Bridge.” She is a teacher, editor and prize-winning author and poet. In 2008, with New Hampshire poet Kyle Potvin, Tammi founded the non-profit The Prickly Pear Poetry Project to share the healing power of poetry for people whose lives have been impacted by cancer. She is the editor of The Poet’s Tale and Lady Wentworth by Henry W. Longfellow, and the author of Broken Buckets and For to See the Elephant. She works daily for the Portsmouth School librarian, and is on-call with the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail as a guide and the NH Humanities Council as a facilitator of the Connections literacy program. To learn more about Tammi, visit tammitruax.com.

The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program is dedicated to building community through poetry by appointing and supporting an outstanding local poet as Poet Laureate for the city, sponsoring events that feature area poets and authors from outside the New Hampshire Seacoast, and encouraging a love of poetry among people of all ages. Established in 1997 by local arts organizers and writers, the program brings people together to celebrate the written word and the talents of local and visiting artists.