[Stephen Collington]

Okay, here we go!

Welcome to our Haiku Master Class with Lee Gurga. Use this thread to post poems and questions which you would like Lee to consider during his stay with us as Distinguished Guest.

Of poems, Lee has said "the more the merrier," since he likes to look at a body of work when considering a poet's strengths and weaknesses vis-à-vis haiku. (Naturally, he may not be able to discuss every single poem!) That said, it might be best to limit our selections to ten or so haiku per person at first, so that the thread doesn't become too crowded and so that Lee will have time to look at everyone's contributions. If things slow down, you can always post another batch later.

We will be keeping the "Haiku Open Mic" thread open as well, and people are welcome to continue the discussion there. Please feel free to copy poems and questions from that thread into this one. The idea of this thread is simply to give Lee a clean blackboard to teach from, so that he doesn't have to sort through all of the posts on the Open Mic to find material to discuss. Naturally, Lee may look in on the Open Mic as well (I believe he's been quietly watching it, in fact) and respond to questions there as he sees fit. But if you want to be sure that Lee sees a particular poem or question, this is the best place to post them; this is now officially Lee's classroom!

Let the discussion begin.

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p.s. Edited back to add a ROBOTS tag to keep Google & Co. from snooping. This is now an archiving-free zone, so post away!



[This message has been edited by Stephen Collington (edited October 15, 2008).]