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Poetry Fest Workshop: Three Japanese Forms: Then, and Now, and Yet to Come
A two hour workshop going over the history of three ancient Japanese forms, the haiku, the tanka, and the haibun, and how they have evolved over the last thousand years. Students will read works by the masters and then write prompt driven poems of their own!
Special Notes
- Participants will need to bring paper and writing utensils. This class is free-of-charge, however if you need to drop it, please call (804-353-0094) or email (frontdesk@visarts.org) the front desk ASAP so that we may open up a slot to the waitlist. You will not be charged a drop fee.
About the Instructor
Emily Okamoto-Green
Emily Okamoto-Green is a half-Japanese essayist, poet, and animal lover. Originally from Shizuoka-ken, Japan's green tea capital, her family relocated to Richmond, VA in 1998. A 2018 Graduate of George Mason University’s Honors and English Honors College, she graduated from GMU again in 2021 with her MFA in Poetry. Her accolades include the Virginia Downs Poetry Award, the Joseph Lohman III Poetry Prize, The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center 2020 fellowship, YesPoetry Magazine’s Poet of the Month, and inaugural winner of the Berkey Essay Contest. Her life highlights include Arthur Sze once saying her poem had a sense of wonder, bowing on stage at Carnegie Hall as a teenaged poet, and any time a cat or dog has come up to her without her first initiating the interaction. Emily tries to spend as much time as possible with her feet in the Atlantic or dreaming of them in the Pacific once more. She currently serves as the Writer in Residence for the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
Instagram: @emi.dori
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