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May 18, 2024

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Memoir as Haiku

Date: May 18, 2024

Time: 11:00 am - 11:55 am

Location:

Location new: Adult Workshops Pavilion

Class Size: n/a

Audience: Adults & Teens

Description

Join this workshop, led by Nancy Arbuthnot, to learn about the classic Japanese haiku. You will leave with the poetic techniques of imagery, alliteration, assonance and consonance, and be able to create vignettes of significant life moments.

Nancy Arbuthnot

Short Biography of Nancy Arbuthnot

Teacher (currently, memoir and poetry, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop; formerly, literature and creative writing at the US Naval Academy); artist (w exhibits at the Hill Center, Iona and Dumbarton galleries, all in DC, and upcoming at Hood College in Frederick); and published poet (books include “Spirit Hovering” & “Blue Rhapsodies”). Artist in residence at Catoctin Mountain Park, 2021.

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