Transformations: Haiku from Japan to the U.S. . . . and Back Again?

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Harvest Moon and Raven Bean with Haiku, Sakai Hoitsu Yale University Art Gallery.

Transformations: Haiku from Japan to the U.S. . . . and Back Again?

Instructor: 
Abigail Friedman
When: 
June 20, 2015
Time: 
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Place: 
Education Studios
Fee: 
$15 Society members, $20 non-members (after Museum admission), Advance online tickets are no longer available. but drop-ins will be available at the door.

This talk will focus on how this traditional Japanese art form has been understood – and misunderstood – as it made its way from Japan to America, and how haiku is being written today. Join us for a discussion with this award-winning haiku poet and author as she shares her perspective on the transformation of haiku from one culture to another.

Abigail Friedman is an award-winning haiku poet and former U.S. diplomat who lived in Japan for eight years. She began composing Haiku in 2001 as the only non-Japanese member of a haiku group in Japan. Her books include The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan, and her recently published book, I Wait for the Moon: 100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda(Stone Bridge Press). Her haiku, haibun, and writings on haiku have been featured in publications in many countries.

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