Haiku and other Japanese poetic forms @Claremont

Haiku, senryu, and renga are forms of Japanese poetry. They can help a writer pay attention to every moment. These poems are short but they contain more than it appears. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome. Joyce E. Young has been called a “writer’s midwife." She knows how to help writers achieve confidence, skill and awareness. Young writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Her poetry collection How it Happens (Black Lawrence Press) was nominated for a California Book Award. Her poems have appeared online and in anthologies, including West Trestle Review, The Bloom, WORDPEACE, riverbabble, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color, and the San Francisco Public Library Poem of the Day.