Join Billy Collins, Natalie Goldberg, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi, Roshi Joan Halifax, Dorotea Mendoza, MH Rubin, and Lorraine A. Padden and experience the full range of haiku. Be prepared to write haiku yourself and share your work with others.
With winter at our back and the edge of spring revealing itself, we come together to explore The Way of Haiku: haiku as a practice, haiku as a teaching on the truth of impermanence, haiku as a precious vehicle guiding our attention to the present moment, haiku as a way to be time, haiku as awakening, and haiku as play. Our sessions will explore our experience of writing haiku. We will also open ourselves to the great haiku writers from the past and the present. And we will experience haiku as a gateway into the deep natural rhythms of life, death, awakening, and the great beauty and play of becoming and disappearing. We will relax, not compete, but be at ease for our time together, as we step out of the vortex of our speedy lives and meet the intimacy of connectedness that haiku can open for us. Writer Natalie Goldberg loves haiku and will share the writing and understanding of them. Sensei Kaz Tanahashi will bring us his special translations of haiku of the great masters. Roshi Joan will offer haiku from her own collection and also of women haiku poets. And special guests; Dorotea Mendoza, fiction writer, who will show us how short-short stories mirror the mind of haiku. Photographer MH Rubin will show how haiku is infused into the greatest picture taking, poet and US Poet Laureate (2001-2003), Billy Collins, joins this renowned faculty and will share his haiku and much more. Award winning haiku poet and author Lorraine A Padden will open a dialogue on how short form poetry can be an inspirational force for compassionate social action.
They will join us throughout our time to share their perspectives on haiku and its gifts to the modern world. Whether you have written haiku your whole life or are totally new to this wonderful practice, join us. In the Way of Haiku, we are all beginners, and we all need to play more!
Covid Policy
Upaya’s Covid Policy depends on the conditions of the moment. Please note that if there is a surge, we will change the policy.
Upaya is grateful to welcome a small number of guests for our onsite programs. We realize many wish to be here. Yet, because of our Covid policy and the delay in our building project, we must limit our numbers. If you wish to participate in an onsite program, please carefully review our Covid policy as well as our Cancellation policy.
As well, we advise early registration and your commitment to full participation in the retreat or program you will be part of.
We recommend that everyone get trip insurance in the event that we must cancel – we would refund fees paid to Upaya, but not other expenses. Please complete the COVID questionnaire which you may fill out here. Please see our In Person COVID Protocol here. If there are specific instructions for your program, that will be in your enrollment notice.
NOTE: Every person attending programs, residing, or sitting zazen at Upaya must be fully vaccinated and boosted within the last 6 months before arrival. We are strongly recommending the bivalent booster.
We are so grateful that Billy, Natalie, Sensei Kaz, Roshi Joan, Dorotea, Rubin, and Lorraine are enthusiastic to do this program online. At Upaya, we are deeply committed to serving you responsibly and with great care.
Maximum Participants: 17
Tuition (Members): $405.00
Tuition (Non-Members): $450.00
For more information or help with technical questions, please email us at onlineprograms@upaya.org or call 505-986-8518 ext. 111.