Learn to Haiku at South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton

July 15, 2011 - PRLog -- On Sunday, July 17th at 10AM, George Held, a widely published poet, will teach the philosophy and practice of the haiku, a concise Japanese verse form that focuses on an instant in nature. The South Fork Natural History Museum and its outdoor surroundings offer many opportunities for a "haiku" moment when the writer has an insight into a natural object that can be expressed in about 12 to 17 syllables. Only a pen or pencil and a small notepad are needed. The workshop is open to the public, for adults and youngsters, 16 and older.

Held was recently awarded an honorable mention for the "Off the Coast" poetry competition, "Times Are Tough; Talk Is Cheap" Haiku Contest. The contest was a inspired by a poet who gave a five-minute introduction to a haiku.

Here's Held's entry: "Five minute intro — / much ado / for one haiku."

Reservations for the haiku workshop are required. Please call the museum at 631.537.9735. Members of the South Fork Natural History Museum are admitted free. Non-members are charged $7 which includes a visit to the museum on the day of the program.

South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike, P.O. Box 455, Bridgehampton, NY 11932. For more info visit http://www.sofo.org.

About George Held:

A five-time Pushcart nominee, George Held has published poems in two dozen anthologies and in journals such as "New York Quarterly," "House Organ," and "Connotation," short fiction in "Confrontation," "Home Planet News," and "Pennsylvania Literary Journal," satires at "Infauxtainment" (http://infauxtainment.com/) and book reviews in "Notre Dame Review," "Bloomsbury Review," and "American Book Review." Among his fifteen titles are "Phased" (Poets Wear Prada, 2008) and "After Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets" (Červená Barva Press, 2011).

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