The Basics of Haiku-season words

Shin Tao Haiku Retreat presents an installment of The Basics of Haiku, wherein we examine many of the key components to writing haiku in English.
This week we will be taking a look at Season Words. Please join us in the courtyard of the Library of Haiku for a discussion on the importance of the seasonal element in the history of haiku, and how you can use it to better your own poems. Friday, March 20, 7.30 pm, slt. Come help us explore the world through haiku.

-- DanteOsaka

Insects haiku contest

Shin Tao Haiku Retreat is accepting entries for its current haiku contest on a theme of flying insects. If you have any haiku about butterflies, wasps, flies, bees, beetles, mosquitos, moths or any other flying bug you can think of, send them to us! There will be prizes for the winners, and all poets will also be eligible to have their entries accepted for our flying insect display which will debut in SL on April 18.

Deadline for the contest is midnight, SLT, April 4. Poets may enter as many times as they like. Haiga may also be entered, which will not influence the chance to win in the contest, but will likely increase the chance to be selected to appear in the display.

The flying insect display will be a featured part of our Sakura Blossom festival to be held on the weekend of April 18.

All poets are welcome to participate. Send submissions on a notecard with your name, or as an object with Modify and Copy rights, to DanteOsaka Deschanel, Pomona Writer, or Sunnie Beaumont. Contact any of them for further information.

--DanteOsaka