Summer’s Rose – Known By Naming – Haiku in the Garden
What do these people all have in common: Jeanne Lajoie, Margaret Merril, Helmet Schmidt, Yves Piaget, Marilyn Monroe, and Amy Grant? They are all names of roses inside our gated rose garden! The naming tradition began when breeder Charles Perkins first named his hybrid after his daughter, Dorothy, in 1901.
Just how often is a backstory reflected by a naming? This summer, in our seasonal haiku offering, we will showcase the aspect of storytelling. Our creative imaginations will invite us to go “Nearly Wild” and “Spice So Nice” for “Love & Peace” and “Sheer Magic”! These and many more roses await our answer to what beckons from their storied names. What if mere words were all we needed to relive the heart of a fragrant rose?
Let’s liven up and tell the tale! Join us in this haiku afternoon! We will be sure to ‘stop and smell the roses’ as we stroll, take notes, and share the practice championed by Walter Hagen, appealing to our own place in time.
We will introduce story aspects by stretching our haiku into tankas. Our special guest, Jean Gordon Kocienda, will be facilitating. Jean is a skilled tanka writer currently writing about one of Japan’s most famous poets.
Enjoy this sample:
In my bath – Submerged like some graceful lily
At the bottom of a spring,
How beautiful
This body of twenty summers. — Akiko Yosano
Your guide, poet Jayne McPherson, hopes to cultivate a deep appreciation for how gardens in nature contribute to well-being. Writing is rewarding, but haiku writing is the toast of a soiree!
This free workshop has a minimum of 2 participants and a maximum of 32. This soiree is offered to all ages, and children under 14 may sign up with an adult. Please bring pen and paper or your preferred writing supplies.
Our guest speaker, Jean Gordon Kocienda, is finishing up Girl in a Box, a historical novel about poet Yosano Akiko (1878–1942). She has translated hundreds of Akiko’s tanka. She lives happily with her husband and two cats, Miso and Wasabi, in Mill Valley.
Date
- Aug 09 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Questions? email info@maringarden.org or call 415-455-5260

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