Zuihitsu with Kimiko Hahn
Wheeeee! I have been accepted for an 8-week workshop with Kimiko Hahn on Japanese poetic forms such as the haiku and zuihitsu. Cave Canem offers it free for African and Asian American poets. Hahn's bio from the website: Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Toxic Flora , forthcoming from W. W. Norton in May 2010; The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Artist's Daughter (2002); Mosquito and Ant (1999); Volatile (1998); and The Unbearable Heart (1995), which received an American Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. She is a Distinguished Professor in the English Department at Queens College/CUNY. About her own work and its place in Asian American writing, she has sa...