About the Course
Do you like writing poetry? If so, this series of three workshops is for you to learn how to write in two poetic forms, the Haiku and the Sonnet. In the first workshop, we’ll do some basic exercises to find the words and share them so we can get to know one another and what we like to write about. In the second workshop, we’ll focus on writing haiku by observing closely the natural world in its season, finding the words for it, and express our feelings about it. For the third workshop, we will look at the sonnet – in particular, spiritual sonnets – to see how we can express spiritual thoughts and feelings in a tightly constructed framework of lines, meter and rhyme.
Your registration fee includes access to the recording of these three classes in the event you are not able to attend in-person, or for your review.
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Your Instructor
Sally Ito, B.F.A., M.A.
Sally Ito, B.F.A. (Creative Writing), M.A. (English) is a writer and translator who lives in Winnipeg, Treaty One Treaty, ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Dakota and Dene people and the homeland of the Métis Nation. She is a creative writing instructor at Canadian Mennonite University. Sally is the author of four books of poetry, Frogs in the Rain Barrel (1996), Season of Mercy (1999), Alert to Glory (2011), and Heart’s Hydrography (2022). She has also published a collection of short stories called Floating Shore in 1998 and is perhaps best known for her 2018 memoir The Emperor’s Orphans about the 4,000 Japanese Canadians who were repatriated to Japan during World War II. You can learn more about Sally by visiting these websites: https://www.cmu.ca/about/faculty/574 and https://writersunion.ca/member/sally-ito