Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com
When: TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2023 AT 7 PM – 8 PM EDT
Cost: Free | Advance registration by July 23 is required to receive the Zoom link and attend.
This highly interactive virtual session will feature Natasha Akery’s new book of haiku, in [the name], and other haiku. Akery has published her work on social media for years, and also uses haiku in her classrooms as a teaching tool. Aided by fellow poet Miho Kinnas, Akery will discuss various topics on haiku and welcome questions from the audience. Both poets will also be reading from their work. This free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom.
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This free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participants after registering.
About our authors:
Natasha Akery is a language arts teacher and poet from Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies, specializing in biblical literature and esoteric traditions. For three years, she was an editor and a writer for 1:1000, an online literary journal that published flash fiction paired with photographs.
She now devotes her writing practice to haiku with themes of heritage, motherhood, and spirituality. You can find her poems on Instagram (@writethreelines), on Ello (@writethreelines) and in I Am a Furious Wish: Anthology of Lowcountry Poets, Vol. 1 published by Free Verse Press. Her first chapbook, in [the name], is a collection of haiku inspired by the desert and biblical stories. It is available through Bottlecap Press.
One of the founding instructors for Camp Conroy: Build A Book summer camp, Miho Kinnas is a Japanese poet and translator. The author of two poetry collections, Today, Fish Only and Move Over, Bird (Math Paper Press), she holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong.
Her book reviews, essays, translations, and poems in journals and anthologies in Asia and the U.S, including Best American Poetry 2023, Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press), Tokyo Poetry Magazine, The Petigru Review (2023 Pushcart Nomination), andThe Belletrist Magazine (2019 Pushcart Nomination). She teaches haiku/tanka-based poetry workshops locally and virtually. We Eclipse Into the Other Side (Pinyon Publishing), written with E. Ethelbert Miller, is forthcoming.
