Senryu, featuring Lynn S Harlin

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm  -  Register on Eventbrite

Senryū: Haiku’s Witty Relative. Written in Japanese, both are seventeen syllables and unrhymed. The difference is that the subject of the haiku is nature, while the subject of a senryu is human nature. The haiku customarily pivots with a sudden awareness, while the senryu is more of a snapshot. The scholar Makoto Ueda, said the Senryu poet “keenly studies various aspects of the human condition and reports his findings in a humorous way.”

Come learn a little history of this form and write as many Senryu as time permits.

Lynn Skapyak Harlin’s first published poem, “War Waste,” appeared in Time, (December 7, 1970). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and in three chap books, Press One for More Options, Real Women Drive Trucks (1997), and Age Changes (2017) and in two collections Twists and Turns (2019) and All Shapes and Sizes (2022).